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"consciously",
"strangely",
"critically"
]
| Although I knew that the book of my life wasn't done yet and that I had many pages left to go, I still couldn't control my burning desire to write the ending of it halfway through.Time and again, I would [MASK] jump ahead and try to solve every potential problem before it happened. | foolishly |
[
"otherwise",
"moreover",
"therefore"
]
| Life, [MASK] ,doesn't work like that.It loves to surprise us,and you never know what new problems, changes, or opportunities each new day will bring . | however |
[
"cheat",
"satisfy",
"frighten"
]
| Life, however ,doesn't work like that.It loves to [MASK] us,and you never know what new problems, changes, or opportunities each new day will bring . | surprise |
[
"make",
"take",
"award"
]
| Life, however ,doesn't work like that.It loves to surprise us,and you never know what new problems, changes, or opportunities each new day will [MASK] . | bring |
[
"present",
"memory",
"dream"
]
| Recently when I found myself living in the [MASK] again,I felt a voice that gently told me I needed to "live one day at a time". | future |
[
"cheered",
"cried",
"lost"
]
| When I heard those words, I [MASK] ,turned the book of my life back to the right page, and thanked God for today. | smiled |
[
"exciting",
"hopeful",
"favorite"
]
| When I heard those words, I smiled ,turned the book of my life back to the [MASK] page, and thanked God for today. | right |
[
"review",
"explain",
"translate"
]
| Each of us has to [MASK] the book of life line by line,moment by moment and trust that our story will be brought to its perfect end. | write |
[
"Surprisingly",
"However",
"Fortunately"
]
| [MASK] , they didn't know each other. | Undoubtedly |
[
"wonderful",
"dangerous",
"exciting"
]
| However, the journey was more [MASK] than they had expected, for they didn't know much about traveling. | exhausting |
[
"endangered",
"encouraged",
"embarrassed"
]
| Half-way between the two towns, at the top of a mountain, the two frogs [MASK] each other! | encountered |
[
"disagreement",
"competition",
"consideration"
]
| Soon they fell into [MASK] . | conversation |
[
"surprise",
"shortcoming",
"coincidence"
]
| "What a(n) [MASK] we are too small, " said the Osaka frog. | shame |
[
"doubt",
"wonder",
"show"
]
| "Otherwise, we could see both towns from here, and [MASK] if it is worth our going on." | tell |
[
"finished",
"imagined",
"prepared"
]
| "Oh, that is easily [MASK] ," replied the Kyoto frog. | managed |
[
"turning",
"settling",
"adapting"
]
| "We have only got to stand up on our hind legs, and hold on to each other so that we won't fall down, and then we can both look at the towns we are [MASK] to." | traveling |
[
"worried",
"disturbed",
"confused"
]
| This idea [MASK] the Osaka frog; he stood up and put his front paws on the shoulders of the other frog, who had risen also. | pleased |
[
"legs",
"head",
"nose"
]
| This idea pleased the Osaka frog; he stood up and put his front paws on the [MASK] of the other frog, who had risen also. | shoulders |
[
"wide",
"far",
"quickly"
]
| There they both stood, stretching themselves as [MASK] as they could. | high |
[
"adventurous",
"close",
"smart"
]
| The Kyoto frog turned his nose towards Osaka, and the Osaka frog, towards Kyoto, but the [MASK] frogs forgot that when they stood up, their eyes were in the backs of their heads, and that though their noses pointed to their destinations, yet their eyes looked at the places from which they had come. | foolish |
[
"because",
"since",
"if"
]
| The Kyoto frog turned his nose towards Osaka, and the Osaka frog, towards Kyoto, but the foolish frogs forgot that when they stood up, their eyes were in the backs of their heads, and that [MASK] their noses pointed to their destinations, yet their eyes looked at the places from which they had come. | though |
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"to",
"around",
"in"
]
| The Kyoto frog turned his nose towards Osaka, and the Osaka frog, towards Kyoto, but the foolish frogs forgot that when they stood up, their eyes were in the backs of their heads, and that though their noses pointed to their destinations, yet their eyes looked at the places [MASK] which they had come. | from |
[
"hardly",
"partly",
"mostly"
]
| "Kyoto is [MASK] like Osaka. | exactly |
[
"corner",
"part",
"spot"
]
| "If I had known that Osaka was only a [MASK] of Kyoto I should never have traveled all this way," exclaimed the frog from Kyoto. | copy |
[
"announced",
"hesitated",
"thought"
]
| "If I had known that Osaka was only a copy of Kyoto I should never have traveled all this way," [MASK] the frog from Kyoto. | exclaimed |
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"destinations",
"dreams",
"countries"
]
| Then they started off for their [MASK] again. | homes |
[
"heads",
"tools",
"knives"
]
| Shaping a child is like shaping clay -- you have to start from the beginning and work your way to the end with extreme caution but with gentle and loving [MASK] . | hands |
[
"test",
"grade",
"class"
]
| However, unlike clay, you don't get a second [MASK] with a child. | chance |
[
"But",
"Or",
"Although"
]
| [MASK] it's even more caution with care. | Thus |
[
"lost",
"weak",
"curl"
]
| Building a child's esteem is no small play; it makes your black hair [MASK] , steals away years of your life and still will not look done. | gray |
[
"interest",
"direct",
"order"
]
| Therefore you have to learn how to build self-esteem and [MASK] your child from the beginning. | encourage |
[
"lesson",
"mark",
"space"
]
| Small case could leave large [MASK] on your child's mind. | impact |
[
"laughed",
"pulled",
"drew"
]
| If another child [MASK] your kid, everyone laughed and you told your son to forget it, that's the first wrong step. | pushed |
[
"make",
"leave",
"move"
]
| If another child pushed your kid, everyone laughed and you told your son to [MASK] it, that's the first wrong step. | forget |
[
"turn",
"take",
"set"
]
| You have to teach your child to [MASK] up for himself. | stand |
[
"announce",
"manage",
"leave"
]
| Tell him to ask the child why he is hitting him or [MASK] to the nearest adult he can reach. | complain |
[
"caring",
"touching",
"breathing"
]
| Most of all before you speak to a child you have to be a [MASK] example. | living |
[
"different",
"meaningful",
"useless"
]
| If you go around laughing at people, your kids will do the [MASK] . | same |
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"hope",
"allow",
"persuade"
]
| If you are a coward yourself and do not stand up to situations, do not [MASK] your child not to follow you. | expect |
[
"homework",
"step",
"picture"
]
| Children are like monkeys--they copy every [MASK] , from how you eat to how you handle situations. | action |
[
"negative",
"objective",
"subjective"
]
| Small self-confident acts make a(n) [MASK] impact on your child. | positive |
[
"hope",
"expectation",
"opinion"
]
| Imagine if SpiderMan came down from the ceiling to save Yao Ming or Shaquille O'Neal every time they injured their ligaments on court.Though this [MASK] will have to remain a daydream,spider silk may really be able to cure their wounds ,scientists say. | idea |
[
"diseases",
"colds",
"patients"
]
| Imagine if SpiderMan came down from the ceiling to save Yao Ming or Shaquille O'Neal every time they injured their ligaments on court.Though this idea will have to remain a daydream,spider silk may really be able to cure their [MASK] ,scientists say. | wounds |
[
"manmade",
"valuable",
"chemical"
]
| Thought to be the strongest [MASK] fiber on the planet,spider silk could be used to rebuild injured ligaments.Randolph Lewis at the University of Wyoming in Laramine has been working on the idea. | natural |
[
"terrible",
"funny",
"unbelievable"
]
| Spider silk has interested scientists for centuries.A(n) [MASK] European folk story at least 2,000 years old tells of the possible medical value of spider webs.It said they could help in fighting infections,stopping bleeding and healing wounds. | ancient |
[
"care",
"research",
"examination"
]
| Spider silk has interested scientists for centuries.A(n) ancient European folk story at least 2,000 years old tells of the possible medical [MASK] of spider webs.It said they could help in fighting infections,stopping bleeding and healing wounds. | value |
[
"value",
"experience",
"sense"
]
| Researches have found no [MASK] so far that spider webs can kill germs.But studies on animals have shown that spider silk helps prevent the rejection of medical implants.So Lewis' lab and others are changing spider silk into fibers that they hope might be useful in medicine. | evidence |
[
"reduce",
"increase",
"produce"
]
| Researches have found no evidence so far that spider webs can kill germs.But studies on animals have shown that spider silk helps [MASK] the rejection of medical implants.So Lewis' lab and others are changing spider silk into fibers that they hope might be useful in medicine. | prevent |
[
"helpless",
"harmful",
"important"
]
| Researches have found no evidence so far that spider webs can kill germs.But studies on animals have shown that spider silk helps prevent the rejection of medical implants.So Lewis' lab and others are changing spider silk into fibers that they hope might be [MASK] in medicine. | useful |
[
"ruined",
"disabled",
"born"
]
| Researchers have found that spider webs could be used to rebuild ligaments [MASK] in one of the world's common knee injuries. | damaged |
[
"proving",
"helping",
"training"
]
| Scientists are also [MASK] spider silk to be used for stitching up wounds which will help them heal without scarring . | developing |
[
"farm",
"heaven",
"bushes"
]
| I went to the [MASK] to have one last talk with God. | woods |
[
"sense",
"response",
"explanation"
]
| "Can you give me one good [MASK] not to quit?" | reason |
[
"Even",
"Instead",
"Rather"
]
| [MASK] nothing came from the bamboo seed. | Yet |
[
"always",
"ever",
"often"
]
| And [MASK] , nothing came from the bamboo seed. | again |
[
"thin",
"weak",
"short"
]
| Then in the fifth year a [MASK] sprout emerged from the earth. | tiny |
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"largely",
"entirely",
"probably"
]
| Compared to the fern it was [MASK] small and insignificant. | seemingly |
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"raised",
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]
| But just 6 months later the bamboo [MASK] to over 100 feet tall. | rose |
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"fruits",
"leaves",
"seeds"
]
| It had spent the five years growing [MASK] . | roots |
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"which",
"where",
"how"
]
| Those roots made it strong and gave it [MASK] it needed to survive. | what |
[
"present",
"explore",
"offer"
]
| I wouldn't give any of my creations a challenge it could not [MASK] ." | handle |
[
"particularly",
"merely",
"obviously"
]
| "All this time you have been struggling, you have [MASK] been growing roots. | actually |
[
"Either",
"So",
"As"
]
| [MASK] will I ever quit on you. | Neither |
[
"furnish",
"associate",
"connect"
]
| Don't [MASK] yourself with others.The bamboo had a different purpose from the fern. | compare |
[
"recognition",
"credit",
"possibility"
]
| Don't compare yourself with others.The bamboo had a different [MASK] from the fern. | purpose |
[
"go",
"get",
"leave"
]
| Your time will [MASK] . | come |
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"required",
"requested",
"remarked"
]
| I [MASK] . | questioned |
[
"from",
"with",
"for"
]
| "Give me glory [MASK] rising as high as you can." | by |
[
"strengths",
"awards",
"ambitions"
]
| Bad days give you [MASK] . | experiences |
[
"smoothly",
"patiently",
"worriedly"
]
| But that day, I read it very [MASK] . I thought I must be tired. | slowly |
[
"radio",
"phone",
"typewriter"
]
| At the office, I sat down, turned on my [MASK] and found I couldn't read the message on the screen. | computer |
[
"friends",
"coaches",
"roommates"
]
| Eventually, worried [MASK] drove me to hospital. | colleagues |
[
"proves",
"explains",
"admits"
]
| There, confirmation came that I suffered from aphasia , a condition that [MASK] it's difficult or impossible to receive and produce language. | Means |
[
"discovery",
"ability",
"reason"
]
| I was back at home a week later, and my [MASK] was to get better and return to work in a couple of months. | goal |
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"teaching",
"describing",
"greeting"
]
| I started [MASK] a speech therapist three times a week, and was given homework to help rebuild my vocabulary and grammar. | Seeing |
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"receive",
"repeat",
"reunite"
]
| I started Seeing a speech therapist three times a week, and was given homework to help [MASK] my vocabulary and grammar. | rebuild |
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"easy",
"delightful",
"fast"
]
| After a month, my own speech became [MASK] --"Could you pass the salt?" | functional |
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"exciting",
"interesting",
"short"
]
| For 25 years, I was used to a(n) [MASK] day of meetings, and bringing three manuscripts home with me each night. | busy |
[
"afraid",
"anxious",
"right"
]
| I didn't feel [MASK] to say goodbye to my old self. | ready |
[
"preparing",
"focusing",
"asking"
]
| In the darkest months, I devoted myself to [MASK] . I would spend hours writing a description of something simple like a pencil. | trying |
[
"similar",
"strange",
"special"
]
| In the darkest months, I devoted myself to trying . I would spend hours writing a description of something [MASK] like a pencil. | simple |
[
"produce",
"recognize",
"arrange"
]
| I couldn't [MASK] novels or newspapers, so I tried reading poetry, and found the shorter lines easier to understand . | manage |
[
"create",
"write",
"believe"
]
| I couldn't manage novels or newspapers, so I tried reading poetry, and found the shorter lines easier to [MASK] . | understand |
[
"since",
"unless",
"when"
]
| My speech came back, and I learned how to read again, [MASK] much more slowly. | though |
[
"expected",
"advised",
"ordered"
]
| I spent more time with my family, and [MASK] myself to slow down. | allowed |
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"books",
"illness",
"doctors"
]
| Now, 10 years later, my relationship with my [MASK] is deeper than ever. | family |
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"decided",
"chosen",
"continued"
]
| We have [MASK] to be very patient with each other. | learned |
[
"sells",
"delivers",
"collects"
]
| I'm no longer a high-achieving publisher or someone who [MASK] 10 books a week. | reads |
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]
| In fact, he wanted to be a(n) church minister and was even sent to the Belgian [MASK] community of Borinage. | mining |
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"shared",
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"enjoyed"
]
| He discovered that the miners there [MASK] deplorable working conditions and poverty-level wages. | suffered |
[
"tried",
"managed",
"worked"
]
| Their families [MASK] simply to survive. | struggled |
[
"awarded",
"protected",
"provided"
]
| He felt concerned that the small amount of money he received from the church [MASK] him a moderate life-style, which, in contrast , seemed to him unfair. | allowed |
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"met"
]
| One cold February evening, while he watched the miners trudging home, he [MASK] an old man staggering toward him across the fields, wrapped in a burlap sack for warmth. | spotted |
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]
| One cold February evening, while he watched the miners trudging home, he spotted an old man staggering toward him across the fields, [MASK] in a burlap sack for warmth. | wrapped |
[
"brother",
"sister",
"father"
]
| He gave the old man a suit of clothes and gave his overcoat to a pregnant woman whose [MASK] had been killed in a cave-in. | husband |
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"toys",
"medicine",
"things"
]
| He lived on starvation rations and spent his money on [MASK] for the miners. | food |
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]
| When children in one family had fever, though [MASK] himself, he packed up his bed and took it to them. | feverish |
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"affected",
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"nearby"
]
| A (an) [MASK] family in the community offered him free room and board. | wealthy |
[
"accepted",
"praised",
"evaluated"
]
| Van Gogh [MASK] the offer, stating that it was the final temptation he must reject if he was to faithfully serve his community of poor miners. | refused |
[
"carefully",
"preparedly",
"regrettably"
]
| Van Gogh refused the offer, stating that it was the final temptation he must reject if he was to [MASK] serve his community of poor miners. | faithfully |
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