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[
"cloudy",
"windy",
"sunny"
]
| Why wait for your roof to leak in the [MASK] season when you can fix it right away. | rainy |
[
"real",
"stable",
"quick"
]
| With [MASK] practice and training, you build up your body, your mind and your heart and gain the intuition and reaction of a (n) champion .The same thing is true in life. | constant |
[
"enemy",
"opponent",
"coach"
]
| With constant practice and training, you build up your body, your mind and your heart and gain the intuition and reaction of a (n) [MASK] .The same thing is true in life. | champion |
[
"check",
"prove",
"handle"
]
| Without training, you will not be able to [MASK] how your enemy will hit you. | predict |
[
"experience",
"performance",
"improvement"
]
| Keep in mind that training is born out of discipline and [MASK] . | confidence |
[
"before",
"unless",
"until"
]
| Even if you meet with some setbacks in your training process, [MASK] you keep at it and are confident, you will soon see results in your life and when problems come, you will be like the champion boxer who stands tall and fights until the final round is over and you're announced as the champion! | if |
[
"exchanges",
"setbacks",
"disadvantages"
]
| Even if you meet with some setbacks in your training process, if you keep at it and are confident, you will soon see [MASK] in your life and when problems come, you will be like the champion boxer who stands tall and fights until the final round is over and you're announced as the champion! | results |
[
"judge",
"swimmer",
"runner"
]
| Even if you meet with some setbacks in your training process, if you keep at it and are confident, you will soon see results in your life and when problems come, you will be like the champion [MASK] who stands tall and fights until the final round is over and you're announced as the champion! | boxer |
[
"claimed",
"called",
"elected"
]
| Even if you meet with some setbacks in your training process, if you keep at it and are confident, you will soon see results in your life and when problems come, you will be like the champion boxer who stands tall and fights until the final round is over and you're [MASK] as the champion! | announced |
[
"because",
"that",
"what"
]
| This is [MASK] the British government would like to increase the availability of nursery education and to improve teaching standards in nursery schools. | why |
[
"requirements",
"expectations",
"concepts"
]
| This is why the British government would like to increase the availability of nursery education and to improve teaching [MASK] in nursery schools. | standards |
[
"before",
"at",
"in"
]
| Education [MASK] the age of 16 is also important. | after |
[
"abilities",
"certificates",
"degrees"
]
| When young people leave school at 16 without [MASK] , it is very hard for them to find interesting and well-paid work. | qualifications |
[
"proportion",
"position",
"approval"
]
| One [MASK] to improve education is to pay good teachers more money. | proposal |
[
"to",
"of",
"from"
]
| But this idea is not popular [MASK] teachers because they do not like the idea that people who do the same job should get different rates of pay. | with |
[
"systems",
"access",
"standards"
]
| But this idea is not popular with teachers because they do not like the idea that people who do the same job should get different [MASK] of pay. | rates |
[
"opinion",
"recommendation",
"idea"
]
| Another proposal is to improve careers [MASK] to young people in school. | advice |
[
"closely",
"more",
"fully"
]
| In this way, they will [MASK] understand the opportunities that exist and the qualifications that are needed. | better |
[
"condition",
"education",
"economy"
]
| Family [MASK] remains important in influencing a young person's chances of improvement. | background |
[
"success",
"process",
"importance"
]
| Family background remains important in influencing a young person's [MASK] of improvement. | chances |
[
"improve",
"facilitate",
"stimulate"
]
| Families that [MASK] learning and help their children at school give their children a better chance of success. | encourage |
[
"question",
"fact",
"issue"
]
| But the [MASK] is that too many families do not understand the importance of education. | problem |
[
"indicate",
"interpret",
"overlook"
]
| But the problem is that too many families do not [MASK] the importance of education. | understand |
[
"adults",
"people",
"adolescents"
]
| Children in these families miss big opportunities to develop and grow as [MASK] . | individuals |
[
"dreams",
"ideals",
"hopes"
]
| It is not easy to find ways of helping families encourage their children to learn and to have [MASK] for success. | ambitions |
[
"learn",
"teach",
"give"
]
| Some people have suggested that parents should [MASK] lessons on how to be good parents. | attend |
[
"trouble",
"interrupt",
"disturb"
]
| They say that the government should not [MASK] in private family life. | interfere |
[
"enhance",
"develop",
"raise"
]
| Certainly, it is good to live in a society that allows people to [MASK] their position, but it is not so easy to put into practice. | improve |
[
"in",
"out",
"off"
]
| Certainly, it is good to live in a society that allows people to improve their position, but it is not so easy to put [MASK] practice. | into |
[
"associating",
"agreeing",
"identifying"
]
| By Christmas, my family was still [MASK] with the impossibility of "moving on." | struggling |
[
"informed",
"suspected",
"warned"
]
| Thinking of the holidays [MASK] us of the previous holiday season before Ben died. | reminded |
[
"common",
"typical",
"regular"
]
| Attempting a " [MASK] " Christmas in Vancouver seemed impossible, we decided to escape to California for our first Christmas without Ben. | normal |
[
"get",
"hurry",
"return"
]
| Attempting a " normal " Christmas in Vancouver seemed impossible, we decided to [MASK] to California for our first Christmas without Ben. | escape |
[
"drive",
"ride",
"walk"
]
| My parents and sister would drive there, and I would [MASK] from Ottawa to meet them. | fly |
[
"love",
"disappointment",
"home"
]
| Actually, I found it difficult to ignore my feelings of [MASK] and find any Christmas spirit. | loss |
[
"divided",
"separated",
"away"
]
| I just wanted to stay in Ottawa and avoid pretending the holidays were possible when my family was [MASK] .When I unwillingly began to pack, I couldn't find my passport. | incomplete |
[
"worthless",
"historical",
"useless"
]
| I searched a file of other [MASK] papers, my tiny apartment, and I checked everywhere -Nothing. | valuable |
[
"imagining",
"considering",
"retelling"
]
| Frustrated, I curled up in bed, [MASK] everything I'd said about wanting to stay in Ottawa . | regretting |
[
"kitchen",
"airport",
"classroom"
]
| While waiting, I searched the [MASK] again, no luck. | apartment |
[
"able",
"likely",
"sure"
]
| I was [MASK] to fly through Toronto that afternoon. | supposed |
[
"make",
"perform",
"develop"
]
| For the first time, I hoped for a storm big enough to [MASK] my travel plans and buy me enough time to get an emergency passport. | cancel |
[
"application",
"plan",
"promise"
]
| After four hours on hold, my [MASK] was granted. | wish |
[
"agreed",
"sent",
"invited"
]
| An agent promptly informed me the weather wasn't promising and [MASK] me to a Christmas Eve flight. | switched |
[
"sympathy",
"happy",
"anxious"
]
| I felt [MASK] for friends who supported me through hard times; for my loving and strong family. | grateful |
[
"save",
"give",
"change"
]
| I would often help do something for the neighbors to [MASK] a
little pocket money. | earn |
[
"turned",
"worked",
"looked"
]
| One day I [MASK] on
the door of an elderly woman and asked if she
needed me to clean the yard. | knocked |
[
"how",
"when",
"why"
]
| One day I knocked on
the door of an elderly woman and asked [MASK] she
needed me to clean the yard. | if |
[
"hospital",
"trouble",
"bed"
]
| She asked why I was not in [MASK] and I showed her my worn coat , which no
longer kept me warm. | school |
[
"bag",
"carpet",
"sofa"
]
| She asked why I was not in school and I showed her my worn [MASK] , which no
longer kept me warm. | coat |
[
"forced",
"refused",
"stopped"
]
| She [MASK] me to work in the yard. | allowed |
[
"punished",
"tested",
"praised"
]
| When I finished, she looked at me and said, "I suppose you want to be [MASK] now." | paid |
[
"boring",
"new",
"terrible"
]
| She then took out a jar (;) filled with dollar bills and said, "I'm glad you've done a [MASK] job today but that is not something you
should be doing again. | fine |
[
"keep",
"steal",
"make"
]
| I want you to [MASK] new clothes
and get back to school. | buy |
[
"forgive",
"welcome",
"serve"
]
| I also want you to come back to [MASK] me
with your report card and I will reward you when I
see you have worked hard and have some good marks . | visit |
[
"recognize",
"understand",
"protect"
]
| I also want you to come back to visit me
with your report card and I will [MASK] you when I
see you have worked hard and have some good marks . | reward |
[
"goals",
"stories",
"ideas"
]
| I also want you to come back to visit me
with your report card and I will reward you when I
see you have worked hard and have some good [MASK] . | marks |
[
"room",
"food",
"time"
]
| Now
reach out your little hands and take out as much [MASK] as
you can." | money |
[
"lost",
"borrowed",
"charged"
]
| I put my hands in the jar and [MASK] so much money that it was enough for me to
buy what I badly needed. | got |
[
"rare",
"simple",
"special"
]
| I put my hands in the jar and got so much money that it was [MASK] for me to
buy what I badly needed. | enough |
[
"discovered",
"knew",
"admitted"
]
| Later, I returned several times to see the woman and
she did just as she [MASK] . | promised |
[
"asked",
"required",
"wrote"
]
| She looked at my report card
and gave me a handful of dollars and some delicious food every time I [MASK] her that I had an "A". | showed |
[
"decision",
"prediction",
"mistake"
]
| I will never forget the huge [MASK] this wonderful
lady made over my life with her kindness . | difference |
[
"courage",
"honesty",
"happiness"
]
| I will never forget the huge difference this wonderful
lady made over my life with her [MASK] . | kindness |
[
"desk",
"couch",
"sofa"
]
| "Dad, Mr. Smith said I could be sitting in the chair soon, not just on the [MASK] !" | board |
[
"paying",
"blaming",
"accusing"
]
| "I expect Mr. Smith will start [MASK] me more for your hair then." | charging |
[
"book",
"shelf",
"catalogue"
]
| In the [MASK] Tom sees a little head sticking out of a long nylon cape. | mirror |
[
"discovers",
"returns",
"transforms"
]
| Occasionally he [MASK] glances at the barber as he works. | steals |
[
"lack",
"memory",
"expression"
]
| He smells a(n) [MASK] of smelly sweat and aftershave as the barber moves around him, combing and cutting. | mixture |
[
"helpless",
"fearless",
"thoughtless"
]
| Tom feels like he is in another world, [MASK] except for the sound of the barber's shoes rubbing on the plastic carpet and the click of his scissors. | noiseless |
[
"control",
"direction",
"effect"
]
| Tom feels like he is in another world, noiseless except for the sound of the barber's shoes rubbing on the plastic carpet and the [MASK] of his scissors. | click |
[
"immigration",
"opposition",
"assumption"
]
| In the [MASK] from the window he could see through the window, a few small clouds moved slowly through the frame, moving to the sound of the scissors' click. | reflection |
[
"rhyme",
"trail",
"pattern"
]
| In the reflection from the window he could see through the window, a few small clouds moved slowly through the frame, moving to the [MASK] of the scissors' click. | sound |
[
"covers",
"melts",
"explodes"
]
| Sleepily, his eyes dropping to the front of the cape where his hair [MASK] softly as snow and he imagines sitting in the chair just like the men and older boys, the special bench left leaning against the wall in the corner. | falls |
[
"considers",
"succeeds",
"approves"
]
| Sleepily, his eyes dropping to the front of the cape where his hair falls softly as snow and he [MASK] sitting in the chair just like the men and older boys, the special bench left leaning against the wall in the corner. | imagines |
[
"package",
"scissors",
"carpet"
]
| Sleepily, his eyes dropping to the front of the cape where his hair falls softly as snow and he imagines sitting in the chair just like the men and older boys, the special [MASK] left leaning against the wall in the corner. | bench |
[
"treated",
"compromised",
"entertained"
]
| When Mr. Smith has [MASK] , Tom hops down from the seat. | finished |
[
"red",
"black",
"white"
]
| Looking down he sees his own thick, [MASK] hair mixed among the browns, greys and blacks of the men who have sat in the chair before him. | blonde |
[
"punish",
"deliver",
"confirm"
]
| For a moment he wants to reach down and gather up the broken blonde hair, to [MASK] them from the others, but he does not have time. | separate |
[
"persuade",
"excuse",
"relax"
]
| "I tell you what, boy, let's get some fish and chips to take home, [MASK] your mum from cooking tea," says Tom's dad. | save |
[
"money",
"tip",
"fish"
]
| He is surprised to find, warming in his father's palm, a handful of his own [MASK] . | hair |
[
"left",
"went",
"returned"
]
| She [MASK] at lunchtime and we spent a tiring afternoon going round the Tower of London. | arrived |
[
"lost",
"took",
"wasted"
]
| She arrived at lunchtime and we [MASK] a tiring afternoon going round the Tower of London. | spent |
[
"But",
"So",
"And"
]
| [MASK] , by 5 o'clock I couldn't help noticing that she didn't seem as enthusiastic as she had been earlier . I asked if something was wrong and she said, "This is all very interesting but where is the fog and where are the men in bowler hats ? | However |
[
"looking",
"understanding",
"watching"
]
| However , by 5 o'clock I couldn't help [MASK] that she didn't seem as enthusiastic as she had been earlier . I asked if something was wrong and she said, "This is all very interesting but where is the fog and where are the men in bowler hats ? | noticing |
[
"later",
"recently",
"usual"
]
| However , by 5 o'clock I couldn't help noticing that she didn't seem as enthusiastic as she had been [MASK] . I asked if something was wrong and she said, "This is all very interesting but where is the fog and where are the men in bowler hats ? | earlier |
[
"all",
"everything",
"nothing"
]
| However , by 5 o'clock I couldn't help noticing that she didn't seem as enthusiastic as she had been earlier . I asked if [MASK] was wrong and she said, "This is all very interesting but where is the fog and where are the men in bowler hats ? | something |
[
"ticket",
"picture",
"uniform"
]
| However , by 5 o'clock I couldn't help noticing that she didn't seem as enthusiastic as she had been earlier . I asked if something was wrong and she said, "This is all very interesting but where is the [MASK] and where are the men in bowler hats ? | fog |
[
"wait",
"pull",
"back"
]
| Why did everyone [MASK] to get on the bus at the bus stop instead of making a queue? | push |
[
"similar",
"familiar",
"strange"
]
| It's very [MASK] from the books I've read about England." | different |
[
"notes",
"records",
"lists"
]
| Her [MASK] made me think. | comments |
[
"stop",
"stand",
"Wait"
]
| It's true that people don't [MASK] much any more: nowadays you often find that everyone just jumps on the bus. | queue |
[
"drink",
"book",
"bag"
]
| Also the idea of a man standing up and offering his [MASK] to a woman on a train or bus is unusual these days, although my father still does it! | seat |
[
"polite",
"different",
"common"
]
| Also the idea of a man standing up and offering his seat to a woman on a train or bus is [MASK] these days, although my father still does it! | unusual |
[
"air",
"weather",
"season"
]
| Speaking of the [MASK] : well, we all know that a hundred years ago there used to be fog all year round in London, but we no longer have much fog; nowadays we have pollution from all the cars! | pollution |
[
"autumn",
"spring",
"winter"
]
| Over the last few years in [MASK] London had been one of the hottest places in Europe, although we still get more than enough rain in the season. | summer |
[
"dress",
"jackets",
"shirts"
]
| Well, you can still see some city gentlemen in their smart [MASK] , but men hardly ever wear bowler hats. | suits |
[
"mend",
"prepare",
"buy"
]
| Well, you can still see some city gentlemen in their smart suits , but men hardly ever [MASK] bowler hats. | wear |
[
"remain",
"continue",
"turn"
]
| A few things don't [MASK] , though. | change |
[
"finish",
"stop",
"break"
]
| If you try to [MASK] a conversation with an English person on the underground in London, she or he will probably look at you as if you were mad! | start |
[
"and",
"so",
"until"
]
| I used to write my books, typing on a keyboard, [MASK] now I can no longer lift my hand. | but |
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