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[
"Therefore",
"However",
"Yet"
] |
"You can do it," said my mother, " [MASK] , you won't get much business until lunch."
|
Besides
|
[
"of",
"on",
"about"
] |
"But I'll never remember the orders, and I'm no good [MASK] money.
|
with
|
[
"blame",
"fool",
"frighten"
] |
Please, Mom, don't [MASK] me."
|
make
|
[
"bar",
"day",
"answer"
] |
I thought my mother's [MASK] was a bad one, but I obeyed .
|
idea
|
[
"guessed",
"begged",
"admitted"
] |
I thought my mother's idea was a bad one, but I [MASK] .
|
obeyed
|
[
"angry",
"sad",
"ashamed"
] |
When I got to the bar the next day, I found my mother was [MASK] .
|
worried
|
[
"surprised",
"impolite",
"pleased"
] |
The line of people grew, and everybody seemed [MASK] , I was so nervous that my hands shook, and I broke a cup into pieces.
|
impatient
|
[
"damaged",
"destroyed",
"ruined"
] |
The line of people grew, and everybody seemed impatient , I was so nervous that my hands shook, and I [MASK] a cup into pieces.
|
broke
|
[
"scold",
"beat",
"save"
] |
Then my mother came to [MASK] me, and she also showed me how to make change .
|
help
|
[
"money",
"lunch",
"coffee"
] |
Then my mother came to help me, and she also showed me how to make [MASK] .
|
change
|
[
"two",
"four",
"five"
] |
If someone gave me $ 5 for something that cost $ 3.25, I handed over [MASK] quarters and a dollar and said, "75 cents makes four dollars, plus one dollar makes five."
|
three
|
[
"fairly",
"simply",
"conveniently"
] |
Things went more [MASK] after that.
|
smoothly
|
[
"discouraged",
"disturbed",
"distrusted"
] |
I was even a little [MASK] when the sun came out and dried up business.
|
disappointed
|
[
"thought",
"stated",
"announced"
] |
My mother said she was proud of me, and when she [MASK] that I work at the snack bar again next year, I did not even shrug.
|
suggested
|
[
"preparing",
"examining",
"describing"
] |
I was too busy [MASK] the restaurant I would open one day.
|
imagining
|
[
"present",
"past",
"immediate"
] |
While express mail represents efficiency and speed and is popular in China, there is another type of mail emerging as a new business-- " [MASK] mail".
|
future
|
[
"supplying",
"bringing",
"holding"
] |
Lin Xiaofan, a senior high school student in Hefei, instructs one of the companies [MASK] the service.
|
offering
|
[
"love",
"letter",
"money"
] |
"Offering this service makes people slow down and let them understand the meaning of [MASK] in
another way," said Zheng Zhimin, manager at a "future mail"
company in Hefei.
|
time
|
[
"championship",
"reflection",
"connection"
] |
Zheng thinks "future mail" letters are
"reminders of affection, [MASK] , and love."
|
friendship
|
[
"Parents",
"her",
"Mother"
] |
Feng Xiao, a youth who feels pressure despite some achievement in her career, decided to write a letter to [MASK] on her 25th birthday and have it delivered five years later on her 30th birthday through a "future mail".
|
herself
|
[
"25th",
"35th",
"20th"
] |
Feng Xiao, a youth who feels pressure despite some achievement in her career, decided to write a letter to herself on her 25th birthday and have it delivered five years later on her [MASK] birthday through a "future mail".
|
30th
|
[
"early",
"later",
"future"
] |
"I expressed my thoughts about my [MASK] life and my expectations for the future to encourage myself to face up to the challenges of my life with courage," Feng said.
|
current
|
[
"reach",
"look",
"search"
] |
"I expressed my thoughts about my current life and my expectations for the future to encourage myself to [MASK] up to the challenges of my life with courage," Feng said.
|
face
|
[
"name",
"age",
"figure"
] |
While "future mail" is gaining popularity, some are concerned about what happens if the postal [MASK] of
the receiver changes or if the company goes broke before
letters are delivered.
|
address
|
[
"buy",
"compete",
"bring"
] |
Zheng said customers are required to [MASK] an acceptance form and make an
assessment so they can be compensated if their letters or goods are lost or damaged.
|
complete
|
[
"words",
"contents",
"secrets"
] |
"I won't be too disappointed even if I
cannot receive my letters, because for me what is more important are the [MASK] when I write the letter," said Zhu Min, who works for a foreign
company in Shanghai.
|
feelings
|
[
"workers",
"managers",
"employees"
] |
Most of the business' [MASK] are
college students and young white-collar workers.
|
customers
|
[
"draw",
"expect",
"get"
] |
Most people [MASK] their
hopes and wishes in the letter so they can experience the
connection between the past and the present when they
receive the letter.
|
put
|
[
"predict",
"inspect",
"research"
] |
Most people put their
hopes and wishes in the letter so they can [MASK] the
connection between the past and the present when they
receive the letter.
|
experience
|
[
"so",
"although",
"for"
] |
Most people put their
hopes and wishes in the letter so they can experience the
connection between the past and the present [MASK] they
receive the letter.
|
when
|
[
"good",
"standard",
"great"
] |
Cocoa is a ten-year-old dog and I am a sixty-nine-year-old lady, so you can see we both qualify as [MASK] citizens.
|
senior
|
[
"tiring",
"hungry",
"bad"
] |
He is a [MASK] companion.
|
wonderful
|
[
"leave",
"cry",
"jump"
] |
He does many amusing things that make me [MASK] , and when that happens, he is so delighted that he just keeps it up.
|
laugh
|
[
"as",
"when",
"and"
] |
He does many amusing things that make me laugh , and when that happens, he is so delighted [MASK] he just keeps it up.
|
that
|
[
"then",
"though",
"as"
] |
I was sitting on the floor playing with him, [MASK] he started pawing and smelling at the right side of my chest .
|
when
|
[
"body",
"shoulder",
"arm"
] |
I was sitting on the floor playing with him, when he started pawing and smelling at the right side of my [MASK] .
|
chest
|
[
"right",
"good",
"unexpected"
] |
To Cocoa, one "no" is usually [MASK] , but not that day.
|
enough
|
[
"hurriedly",
"rudely",
"slowly"
] |
He stopped briefly, and then [MASK] ran toward me, throwing his entire weight at the right side of my chest.
|
suddenly
|
[
"surprise",
"trouble",
"danger"
] |
He crashed into me and I cried in [MASK] , falling down to the floor.
|
pain
|
[
"experiments",
"researches",
"papers"
] |
I went to my doctors, and after X-rays [MASK] and lab work were done, they told me I had cancer.
|
tests
|
[
"cancer",
"body",
"number"
] |
When cancer starts, a [MASK] of calcium builds.
|
wall
|
[
"watch",
"have",
"get"
] |
This made it possible for me to [MASK] the lump.
|
notice
|
[
"ran",
"kept",
"entered"
] |
I had a complete mastectomy and the cancer has not [MASK] to any other part of my body.
|
spread
|
[
"common",
"much",
"early"
] |
The doctors told me if the cancer had gone undetected even six more months, it would have been too [MASK] .
|
late
|
[
"ashamed",
"afraid",
"tired"
] |
Was Cocoa [MASK] of just what he was doing?
|
aware
|
[
"returning",
"skipping",
"wandering"
] |
When you're living a busy life, every minute must be accounted for, you feel like you must be checking something off the list, or [MASK] to the next destination, And no matter how you divide your attention there's never enough time in a day to catch up.
|
rushing
|
[
"lose",
"escape",
"avoid"
] |
When you're living a busy life, every minute must be accounted for, you feel like you must be checking something off the list, or rushing to the next destination, And no matter how you [MASK] your attention there's never enough time in a day to catch up.
|
divide
|
[
"neighbor",
"friend",
"sister"
] |
Six years ago I was lucky to have a stop-and-smell-the roses type of [MASK] .When I needed to be out, she was taking her time picking out a purse and a crown.
|
child
|
[
"continue",
"agree",
"decide"
] |
When I needed to have a quick lunch, she'd [MASK] to speak to the elderly woman who looked like her grandma.
|
stop
|
[
"Wherever",
"Although",
"Since"
] |
[MASK] my child caused me to deviate from my schedule, I thought to myself, "We don't have time for this."
|
Whenever
|
[
"money",
"space",
"permission"
] |
Whenever my child caused me to deviate from my schedule, I thought to myself, "We don't have [MASK] for this."
|
time
|
[
"happily",
"secretly",
"anxiously"
] |
As a result, the two words I most [MASK] spoke to her were; "Hurry up."
|
commonly
|
[
"game",
"job",
"business"
] |
I started my [MASK] with it. "
|
day
|
[
"enjoyed",
"began",
"spent"
] |
I [MASK] my day with it.
|
ended
|
[
"measure",
"reduce",
"reach"
] |
Although the words did little to [MASK] my child's speed, I said them anyway .
|
increase
|
[
"again",
"instead",
"otherwise"
] |
Although the words did little to increase my child's speed, I said them [MASK] .
|
anyway
|
[
"settled",
"started",
"broke"
] |
Then one day, things [MASK] .We'd just picked my older daughter up from kindergarten and were getting out of the car.
|
changed
|
[
"far",
"normally",
"quietly"
] |
Not going [MASK] enough, my older daughter said to her little sister, "You are so slow."
|
fast
|
[
"ourselves",
"them",
"her"
] |
When she crossed her arms and let out a sigh, I saw [MASK] it was a terrible sight.
|
myself
|
[
"worried",
"appreciated",
"supported"
] |
I was a mother who pushed and pressured and [MASK] a small who simply wanted to enjoy life.
|
hurried
|
[
"credit",
"good",
"justice"
] |
My eyes were opened; I saw the [MASK] my hurried existence was doing to my children.
|
damage
|
[
"hope",
"prefer",
"plan"
] |
I looked into my small child's eyes and said, "I [MASK] to be more patient from now on."
|
promise
|
[
"begged",
"adopted",
"fooled"
] |
I [MASK] her who was now smiling at her mother's promise.
|
hugged
|
[
"lifetime",
"minute",
"team"
] |
Living at a slower speed still takes a(n) [MASK] ,but my younger daughter is my living reminder of why I must keep trying.
|
effort
|
[
"for",
"to",
"among"
] |
I'm unfamiliar [MASK] the students, most of them trying to adapt themselves to their new environment.
|
with
|
[
"concentrate",
"adopt",
"devote"
] |
I'm unfamiliar with the students, most of them trying to [MASK] themselves to their new environment.
|
adapt
|
[
"offered",
"bothered",
"challenged"
] |
When Jennifer [MASK] me with a question on the second day, I was thankful for the chance to connect at least one name with a face.
|
approached
|
[
"prepared",
"disappointed",
"embarrassed"
] |
When Jennifer approached me with a question on the second day, I was [MASK] for the chance to connect at least one name with a face.
|
thankful
|
[
"so",
"or",
"and"
] |
Her writing wasn't perfect, [MASK] her effort was.
|
but
|
[
"receive",
"contact",
"give"
] |
She was excited to [MASK] , which made me enjoy teaching her.
|
learn
|
[
"argue",
"care",
"admit"
] |
I didn't [MASK] then how much she would also teach me.
|
realize
|
[
"beyond",
"to",
"with"
] |
She wasn't asking a question [MASK] a paper I'd returned.
|
about
|
[
"However",
"Therefore",
"Besides"
] |
[MASK] , she said quietly: "I didn't attend classes yesterday.
|
Instead
|
[
"shy",
"excited",
"delighted"
] |
I gave her a sideways look, [MASK] .
|
astonished
|
[
"impressed",
"supported",
"attracted"
] |
I'm fine now," she [MASK] me.
|
comforted
|
[
"expecting",
"producing",
"taking"
] |
Two nights later, her father called to tell me that Jennifer would be [MASK] a few classes.
|
missing
|
[
"better",
"sicker",
"heavier"
] |
Her condition grew [MASK] .
|
worse
|
[
"hardly",
"mainly",
"frequently"
] |
I was [MASK] frightened when I saw the pale, thin and weak girl who, only ten days earlier, had displayed life and warmth in my classroom.
|
truly
|
[
"success",
"school",
"attitude"
] |
A week later, Jennifer herself called me to tell me she was on the road to [MASK] .
|
recovery
|
[
"idea",
"influence",
"opinion"
] |
"I have no [MASK] that you'll be with us."
|
doubt
|
[
"shares",
"creates",
"exchanges"
] |
I remembered what her father had said in his first phone call: "school [MASK] everything to Jenny."
|
means
|
[
"crying",
"sobbing",
"shaking"
] |
Then five weeks later, I walked into my classroom to find Jenny in her seat, [MASK] She handed in all of her missed homework, completed with thought and excellence.
|
smiling
|
[
"late",
"soon",
"slowly"
] |
She was born in 1913 and left high school [MASK] to care for her sick grandmother and mother.
|
early
|
[
"kind",
"rich",
"old"
] |
She was born in 1913 and left high school early to care for her [MASK] grandmother and mother.
|
sick
|
[
"standing",
"put",
"singing"
] |
On Dec. 1,1955, Rosa Parks and three other black people were 43 [MASK] in the middle area of a bus 44 when a white person got on the bus and wanted a seat.
|
seated
|
[
"since",
"while",
"as"
] |
On Dec. 1,1955, Rosa Parks and three other black people were 43 seated in the middle area of a bus 44 [MASK] a white person got on the bus and wanted a seat.
|
when
|
[
"recommended",
"suggested",
"proposed"
] |
The bus driver [MASK] that all four black people leave their seats so the white person would not have to sit next to any of them.
|
demanded
|
[
"hesitated",
"decided",
"agreed"
] |
The three other blacks got up, but Rosa [MASK] , She was arrested.
|
refused
|
[
"warned",
"invited",
"reminded"
] |
Laws in the American South [MASK] black people to attend separate schools, live in separate areas of a city and sit m separate areas on a bus .
|
forced
|
[
"taxi",
"truck",
"ship"
] |
Laws in the American South forced black people to attend separate schools, live in separate areas of a city and sit m separate areas on a [MASK] .
|
bus
|
[
"outside",
"front",
"middle"
] |
Black people sat in the [MASK] 0fthebus.Both groups could sit in a middle area.
|
back
|
[
"Therefore",
"Besides",
"Otherwise"
] |
[MASK] , black people sitting in that part of the bus were expected to leave their seats if a white person wanted to sit there.
|
However
|
[
"pretended",
"disliked",
"stopped"
] |
However , black people sitting in that part of the bus were expected to leave their seats if a white person [MASK] to sit there.
|
wanted
|
[
"medical",
"fair",
"serious"
] |
Rosa Parks refused to leave her seat just because she was tired of accepting [MASK] treatment.
|
unequal
|
[
"blind",
"violent",
"extreme"
] |
This act of [MASK] disobedience started protests in Montgomery that continued for 381 days and led to legal changes in minority rights in the United States.
|
peaceful
|
[
"lesson",
"means",
"trial"
] |
She was the first American woman to be so honored,
Some people say that Rosa Parks' bravery serves as a(n) [MASK] of the power of small acts.
|
example
|
[
"love",
"sympathy",
"success"
] |
She sat down in order that the others might stand up and she opened the doors on the Long journey to [MASK] .
|
freedom
|
[
"ran",
"drove",
"jumped"
] |
Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of one of the country's greatest machines was actually born in a log cabin, [MASK] to high school on horse back and without benefit of university degree(indeed, at age 14), thought of the idea of electronic television.
|
rode
|
[
"sake",
"application",
"significance"
] |
Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of one of the country's greatest machines was actually born in a log cabin, rode to high school on horse back and without [MASK] of university degree(indeed, at age 14), thought of the idea of electronic television.
|
benefit
|
[
"lived",
"inherited",
"occupied"
] |
In 1906 Farnsworth was born in a community near Beaver City, Utah, [MASK] by his grandfather.
|
settled
|
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