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[001] son State University and the University of Maryland, _____ she later received a PhD in education. She received a
[002] particularly women's sports. You know the two cities _____ the league's TV ratings have been highest? Memphis a
[003] city has a WNBA team, but both cities are in states _____ women's basketball has a huge following. (The word i
[004] ene doesn't measure up to that of New York, which is _____ one must go to be successful. To begin, few theater t
[005] ee I went to a funeral two months ago in the village _____ I was born, and I passed the house of a girlfriend I
[006] ime. We started talking about my family and she knew _____ some of my cousins had moved to, so I traced them and
[007] ghosts: a Saxon prince has been seen near the ponds, _____ he drowned; and an outlaw rides through the cargo sh
[008] mates. I mean, I thought, was it one of these things _____ you suddenly multiplied one statistic by 500,000 and
[009] reeder need to change a variety? Answer - new genes. _____ do they come from? Answer - wild plants. That happe
[010] ng your own! Many cheap rooms are in cold basements, _____ the beds are too damp to sleep in. Not one room we sa
[011] VW magazine he called it 'Beetling'. Anyway, that's _____ we say the name came from. Presenter: And so the Beet
[012] er professionals. In one case, he went to a company _____ a professional programmer worked for six months and
[013] at the whole world knows. One is 10 Downing Street, _____ the Prime Minister lives. The other is Buckingham Pa
[014] don. It is two places, not one. It is a family home, _____ children play and grow up. It is also the place
[015] children play and grow up. It is also the place _____ presidents, kings, and politicians go to meet the Q
[016] ds, the Queen visits one of her many country homes, _____ she keeps expensive race- horses. She hires her own
[017] there are hundreds of tiny kiosks in the city centre _____ somebody is selling every Western product you can th
[018] in Prague are very friendly and will always tell you _____ you are and how to get
[019] you are and how to get _____ you want to go. People also call Prague 'Europe's S
[020] . Our first aim is to provide a basic education and, _____ needed, food, clothing, and medical care. Over the y
[021] f money to be earned. I: Tennis is one of the sports _____ youngsters can play against their elders with more t
[022] the kids thought was great. You could see the places _____ famous Disney movies were made, such as the cave in
[023] es were made, such as the cave in 'Sleeping Beauty' _____ the seven dwarves mined diamonds. There are also the
[024] ay minimum, up to 250 maximum - including the place _____ we stayed, of course. (You wouldn't believe how much
[025] bout her experience of living and working in England, _____ she has been for the past eleven years. Interviewer:
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[001] no emotion as the Circuit Court jury emerged shortly _____ 1 a. m. after nearly 10 hours of heated deliberation
[002] of candy - sometimes Skittles, sometimes Starburst - _____ drawing a gun and demanding cash from store cashiers
[003] practice to do so. Telephoning her mother for support _____ and after every road game, Cooper, 34, managed to be
[004] victory over the New York Mets. The game was played _____ the remnants of a crowd of 48,022, the second-largest
[005] e Burning Man festival in the desert; other customers _____ me have offered up massages, condoms, earplugs, pain
[006] ough sports, but never a serious illness. He gets up _____ six every morning. The secret of good health, accord
[007] s a banker. Neither of them had lived in a big city _____ . They now live back in England in a small village out
[008] er perfume. I loved it! Then I tried to wash it off _____ she came back. The smell wouldn't go away, no matter
[009] er officer, Michael McEnvoy, remembered the car from _____ the war and he thought it would be good for America
[010] And we gave them cauliflower-cheese the three times _____ that! B: They must be getting the idea that we don't
[011] ed it on, I was hooked. I'd never had a toy like this _____ '. He wasn't a beginner in computers for long. 'At fi
[012] years later, in 1938, it lost its independence again _____ World War Two. After the war, in 1948, the Communist
[013] lp us prevent a terrible crime. Help us stop trouble _____ it happens. 5 Women: If you are alone in the house
[014] d cancel milk and newspapers. Remind them again just _____ you leave. But NEVER leave a message for the milkman
[015] vive. In Africa and Asia, ten per cent of babies die _____ they are one year old. Average life expectancy is abo
[016] at they can lose their childhood, and they're adults _____ they're 16. But of course they're not adults at all.
[017] y Diana Spencer's credit card spendings in the period _____ the royal engagement. Though the magazine would not
[018] e to travel west on Concorde and arrive in New York _____ you leave London! You get there ahead of yourself.
[019] ry we were going to decided to have a war a few days _____ we were going there. I: Oh no! J: Mmm. So that was t
[020] up with the most intolerable circumstances for years _____ coming to the decision. I: Oh. After all your years
[021] aight through the little door? Do you look and check _____ you go? Or don't you want to go through at all? The
[022] morning and, from when I was seven, it was my job, _____ school, to run to the market with his breakfast. I u
[023] r my father died. My best memories are the two years _____ I married - all those dances and parties. I loved it
[024] a new one. Even so, I try to save any parts off it _____ I throw it away. I: And have you changed any of the t
[025] after that. Lucy: Yes, indeed - fourteen altogether _____ his death in 1964. His last book was The Man with t
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[001] ed out of NBA games? Or that the WNBA would draw more _____ in August than Major League Soccer and attract as man
[002] es I get angry with him. Sometimes I'm affectionate. _____ ask, 'Why can't you control him?' You control animals
[003] control him?' You control animals. You don't control _____ . You educate
[004] . You educate _____ ... No one is quite sure what to expect when the rev
[005] Man community, a temporary collective of thousands of _____ from around the world who have gathered to camp out a
[006] possible. By Saturday there may be more than 15,000 _____ here, in what was formerly the middle of nowhere but
[007] sting to consider what form of community thousands of _____ in the desert create,' Raspa says. 'This one places
[008] t the lounge is tiny. You couldn't get more than five _____ in it. L: Yes, I know, but the thing to do with this
[009] ging director of a textile company employing over 300 _____ , and I asked him how his life has changed since he'd
[010] I've started doing some community work, just driving _____ around who aren't mobile on their own, to help with
[011] bile on their own, to help with shopping and visiting _____ and going to hospital appointments and things like t
[012] 57 million items of luggage. Three-quarters of these _____ were not stopping in Britain, but making a connecti
[013] n into a city in its own right, employing 53 thousand _____ full time. Like all the great airports, it dates back
[014] lems as all big airports - too many planes, too many _____ , and too much crime. It is the centre- point of the
[015] heights. And of course everything is faster. And the _____ are much ruder. B: Which means of course that we're
[016] when there was a crime, it was horrendous. A lot of _____ in New York seem so angry - as if they're going to pu
[017] I don't think they believe me. What should I do? A: _____ of your age, especially boys, often tell false storie
[018] es, because that will make you feel more worried, and _____ will learn the truth sooner or later. Don't worry a
[019] irst Man: I'm awfully sorry to bother you. I'm sure _____ are always asking you this as you're always standing
[020] David Attenborough: In the Himalayas, for example, _____ cut down forests simply because there are an awful l
[021] own forests simply because there are an awful lot of _____ who need firewood to keep warm. And so they cut down
[022] then floods, so then the whole area is under water, _____ lose their farm land and
[023] lose their farm land and _____ drown. There is no pure water in the rivers to drink.
[024] endlessly. I: So cutting down trees in Nepal drowns _____ in Bangladesh. And in Africa the gathering of wood
[025] heart-breaking one, because how can you go to these _____ and say, 'You mustn't cut down that tree in order to
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[001] ugural season this afternoon with a championship game _____ in Texas between the Houston Comets and New York Libe
[002] cheaper to heat. I mean our gas bills would really go _____ . J: I suppose you're right. But the lounge is tiny.
[003] know, but the thing to do with this house is to knock _____ the wall between the living- room and the dining-roo
[004] do something about that soon, the ceiling will come _____ . It's been raining a lot recently. L: What about the
[005] een the cars or any other objects involved. 7) Note _____ anything unusual in the situation. Write this all
[006] anything unusual in the situation. Write this all _____ and put it in your wallet; do not leave it to your m
[007] not leave it to your memory. B) Allow anyone to take _____ your name and phone number who has a good reason fo
[008] ly landed. The boy was shown the door and he jumped _____ onto the grass field, and in less than five minutes
[009] dn't find that anywhere else. And the Ukrainians were _____ on 14th and 2nd, and the Spanish kept to Spanish Ha
[010] we've got another pair for you. *** Father: Turn _____ that wretched music, will you? Or better still, turn
[011] ? A: Hello. Hello - I can't hear you - could you turn _____ your television, please? B: Hello? Hello? I can't he
[012] o? Hello? I can't hear you. Just a minute - I'll turn _____ my television. *** Woman boss: I think we need an
[013] nborough: In the Himalayas, for example, people cut _____ forests simply because there are an awful lot of peo
[014] ople who need firewood to keep warm. And so they cut _____ huge hillsides, in a few years are stripped of thei
[015] r; the pattern is repeated endlessly. I: So cutting _____ trees in Nepal drowns people in Bangladesh. And in A
[016] an you go to these people and say, 'You mustn't cut _____ that tree in order to cook your food'? I: But is it
[017] they give us the oxygen that we breathe. And cutting _____ the rain forests kills the plants beneath the trees
[018] keep going through thick and thin; they never break _____ on the road. And they're economical: we only visit
[019] . And when the Queen folds up her napkin and puts it _____ on the table- cloth beside her plate, the meal is ov
[020] 956 the people tried to free themselves. They pulled _____ a statue of Stalin and fought the soldiers, but they
[021] d recently by a British magazine asking her to track _____ details of all Lady Diana Spencer's credit card spen
[022] til something goes wrong in your life-you get turned _____ for a job, a mortgage, you are refused a credit card
[023] about Jan Martin, a young woman film- maker turned _____ for a job after wrong information on a police comput
[024] that. She's a big reader, too: when she gets a book _____ from the shelf, she usually reads it all in one sitt
[025] warm sand on some wonderful beach!' And then I went _____ to see if the flight had been called and discovered
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[001] cident could develop into something more later.) You _____ ordinarily report to your insurance company fairly s
[002] ur mother is probably a very busy woman. I think you _____ cook for yourself. Baked potatoes are very easy! Ano
[003] , as a punishment, she says I can't dye it back. What _____ I do? A: I think you
[004] I do? A: I think you _____ dye your hair back to its original colour. Tell your
[005] ther girls my age have soft, fluffy, curly hair. What _____ I put on my hair to make it like theirs? Help! ***
[006] nd in France, but I don't think they believe me. What _____ I do? A: People of your age, especially boys, often
[007] e more if I help in the house, but I don't see why I _____ . Mum's at home all day, and its her job to look afte
[008] ve lots of friends - but not the type I'd like. What _____ I do? *** Q: BULLIES AT SCHOOL - Please help me,
[009] s and telephone number, but I don't know what to do. _____ I call her? I could send her some roses or chocolate
[010] 't decide which is better. If I send something, what _____ I write on the card? *** Q: PROBLEMS WITH LESSONS
[011] starting to think I must be stupid or something. Who _____ I talk to? I think my brain just isn't big enough to
[012] steal, but I don't want to look stupid, either. What _____ I do? A: Don't allow yourself to be influenced by the
[013] entire lives, have given none at all. For them, there _____ be a special law to make them do it. Unfortunately,
[014] some cabbage if the lettuce isn't nice. S: Maybe we _____ get some cauliflower too, just in case the shepher'
[015] He helps companies by suggesting which computers they _____ buy, and by writing individual programs for them. H
[016] sins to visit us and spend their money, but maybe it _____ be a bit more realistic. I mean, England isn't ALL l
[017] t all happens all over again. I: Do you think divorce _____ be made easier or more difficult, or in your opinion
[018] However, I personally think the grounds for divorce _____ be simplified. I think the only reason required for
[019] lified. I think the only reason required for divorce _____ be one year's separation. At the moment, as you pro
[020] the nature of their particular accident, the victim _____ be left alone. I: Yes, can we talk about road acciden
[021] nd the other thing... I: I'm sorry to interrupt. What _____ we do about burns, then? Dr C: Well, you need to de
[022] p, or slowly pour on iced water. I: I see. Dr C: This _____ be done for about ten minutes, and it stops the heat
[023] call a third degree burn, don't touch it; you really _____ get for this kind of burn expert help immediately. C
[024] inks. If the patient complains that he is thirsty, he _____ wash his mouth with water but not swallow. I: That'
[025] accident? Dr C: Yes. Three things. First of all you _____ check that the victims are breathing. I mean if they
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[001] defensive player, Teresa Weatherspoon. On this day, _____ as every other day the Comets are not on the road, Co
[002] on, tying the game by pulling Greg McMichael's pitch _____ inside the left field foul pole. Andre Agassi has
[003] u've done? HT: Yes, well I've taken up golf, which is _____ the right sport for an old man. Well, it's not reall
[004] ow? I mean I can see you're very brown. HT: Yes, I've _____ come back from visiting my son in Malaya. Oh yes, I'v
[005] myself busy. I've started doing some community work, _____ driving people around who aren't mobile on their own
[006] e direction and discipline that work gives you. So I _____ take each day as it comes. *** AT THE SCENE OF T
[007] or something. Who should I talk to? I think my brain _____ isn't big enough to hold very much. We have exams so
[008] me of them steal bigger things too, and sell them or _____ give them away. They keep telling me to go with them
[009] s, but I don't even need to shave. I bought a razor _____ in case, but nothing grows. The wait is killing me.
[010] ed with me! *** Q: EMBARRASSED BY MY SKIN - I am _____ at the age when I'm getting interested in girls, and
[011] y that I had when I was ten years old. I wear a bra _____ to be like my friends, but it's stuffed full of kleen
[012] yway, I said to him that I didn't think it was right _____ to give him the job like that without an interview an
[013] g. I think the baby's crying. Do you think you could _____ go up and see if she's all right? And perhaps give he
[014] milk? Husband Mmm, all right. *** Man: Could you _____ hold that nail while I hammer it into this wall? Wom
[015] e done! You hit my thumb with the hammer, you fool - _____ like last time we did this! *** Shoe salesman: Ye
[016] u change them? Salesman: Oh dear. I'm so sorry. I'll _____ see if we've got another pair for you. *** Father
[017] levision, please? B: Hello? Hello? I can't hear you. _____ a minute - I'll turn down my television. *** Woma
[018] te? Could you get me the file on sales in France? I _____ need to check on delivery arrangements. Oh, and Anit
[019] esert grow. DA: In parts of the Sudan, the desert in _____ 15 years has advanced sixty miles. In
[020] 15 years has advanced sixty miles. In _____ a few more years, more than half the country will tur
[021] it universally so bad? Or are some environmentalists _____ getting into a flap about isolated, extreme examples?
[022] r hour and not a sign of the hand of man beneath me, _____ this green carpet of trees. And I said to myself, I
[023] hat none of what he's said is exaggeration. It's not _____ a distant problem somewhere on the other side of the
[024] sheets. One bed had a broken leg, so the hotel had _____ put a chair under one corner of the bed as a support
[025] one I know. There's no one left to borrow from. So I _____ sit there in the evenings, lonely in my ugly room on
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[001] and lovely views from the bedrooms. J: It's quite a _____ way from the station, isn't it? lf we bought it, we'd
[002] er in spite of the fact that she's been gone quite a _____ time now. So uhm, I have to keep myself busy. I've
[003] in a small village outside London. Interviewer: How _____ did you live in the States? Bob: We were there for t
[004] n't get new clothes until I wear out these ones. How _____ does it take for clothes to wear out? What can I do
[005] It's terrible - she'll kill me if she finds out. How _____ until the smell will wear off? *** Q: YELLOW TEET
[006] ke my friends, but it's stuffed full of kleenex. How _____ until I start to look like a woman? *** Q: A boy at
[007] likes reading and gardening, and she still goes for _____ walks over the hills. She's a very active person. Eit
[008] to the next floor on a ladder! This is not safe. How _____ until I have a serious injury? And I hate having to
[009] nd I hate having to mix the heavy bread dough with a _____ stick, and reach into the hot ovens and touch hot o
[010] this before'. He wasn't a beginner in computers for _____ . 'At first I used other people's programs, but I soon
[011] in the rain, just to catch sight of her for a moment. _____ live the Queen! *** Budapest has a population of o
[012] , twisting streets of this old city, but not for very _____ - shopkeepers in Prague are very friendly and will al
[013] s; it cannot be cured by medical means, it is a life- _____ disability. Our aims are to educate the general public
[014] ps, and the animals on which many people depend died _____ ago. Refugees are pouring from the countryside into
[015] ships and containers would be borrowed. But in the _____ term they would reduce the losses of recent years. i
[016] better than other people. *** She's very plain. _____ straight hair, pinned up; high forehead, and prominen
[017] I: Yes. JS: So my advice to divorcees is this: Think _____ and hard about what went wrong with that marriage, a
[018] So, Terry. You've been in this country for quite a _____ time now. Terry: Mmm. I: What differences do you noti
[019] friend, it's a friend for life, but it takes a very _____ time. I'll tell you something that I think is very i
[020] s and I listened to Beatles and Rolling Stones LP's ( _____ -play records) almost every night. We didn't watch T
[021] ook like wild animals!' Both boys and girls had very _____ hair that was never neat or clean, and which they nev
[022] ousers or jeans, also called 'bell-bottom pants,' or _____ skirts, and often went around in bare feet. These jea
[023] ulture and so you should dress modestly in public - _____ sleeve shirts and blouses. If you want to see the Pyr
[024] you can actually sunbathe in the middle of the day as _____ as you're out of the wind. Try to get a room facing
[025] se melted in a pot, and you put pieces of bread on a _____ fork to get it out. It's very, very good. If the weat
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[001] ted loft. L: Oh I loved the bedrooms, particularly... _____ , all the bedrooms. They're all double bedrooms, and w
[002] space for your vegetables. So what do you think? J: _____ , I'm not so sure. I don't think it would be big enough
[003] life has changed since he'd retired. Harold Thomas: _____ , I've been retired now for nearly five years, so I've
[004] ive years, so I've had plenty of time to adapt to it. _____ , obviously my life has changed a lot. Now I have tim
[005] examples of the kind of things you've done? HT: Yes, _____ I've taken up golf, which is just the right sport fo
[006] golf, which is just the right sport for an old man. _____ , it's not really a sport at all, at least, not the w
[007] nt on a cruise to Egypt at Easter. That was lovely. _____ , you have to fill the time somehow. I: Do you find th
[008] after 35 years of being together, you really miss... _____ , I, I was so fond of her and I still really miss, her
[009] a day. Most shops don't open as early as in England, _____ they don't open until about uhm... 10 or 11 in the m
[010] now we're back in Britain. I: Oh, in what ways? B: _____ , pushing in the street. S: Oh, I don't! B: Fights abo
[011] es. I: But, are all Americans like that? S: Oh yes. _____ , all New Yorkers anyway. But not so much in other pl
[012] omfortable, unsafe. I: Did you make many friends? S: _____ , that's what's interesting, really. We made more fri
[013] d that nail while I hammer it into this wall? Woman: _____ , OK, but be careful... Man: Me be careful? I'm the
[014] rough used to wonder that, too. DA: I remember very _____ flying over the Amazonian jungle for hour after hour
[015] e rain forests kills the plants beneath the trees as _____ , plants which help us fight disease. Forty per cent
[016] applies. And if we lose those wild strains, we could _____ be devastated - I mean the field could be devastated
[017] oliday (who may be poor and earn little money), and a _____ - off tourist. Suggest a hotel for each of them. Warn
[018] you like to hear about my horrible job in a bakery? _____ , as you know, in a bakery we bake bread, cakes, biscu
[019] I am doing all this I am forced to look ridiculous as _____ , since I must keep my hair tied up in a hair-net hel
[020] ritain earn less that the minimum wage of 108 a week. _____ , I'm one of them and would like to hear other readers
[021] y comfortable, but they're totally reliable and very _____ -made. They just keep on going, no matter what the we
[022] heerful friend and we get along with each other very _____ . In rain, in snow, he'll get me there, and we chat a
[023] re, and we chat as we go along the roads together - ' _____ done,' I say, and 'Don't you worry about that big V
[024] e heard that the Volkswagen Beetle doesn't handle so _____ when there are curves in the road, that it can slide
[025] kinds of road conditions. P: How did it all start? M: _____ , 'Volkswagen' translated back into the German tongue
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[001] r Paramount, and those Lewis made there later on his _____ , often pop up on the AMC cable network. In the best of
[002] ust driving people around who aren't mobile on their _____ , to help with shopping and visiting people and going
[003] nother flight. Heathrow has grown into a city in its _____ right, employing 53 thousand people full time. Like
[004] , but it's not as mixed. Nationalities stay in their _____ _ areas; like there's the Ukrainian section, the Rus
[005] thirteen and my mother still won't allow me to buy my _____ perfume. She says the idea is ridiculous and, anyway,
[006] were no sheets on the beds and you had to bring your _____ ! Many cheap rooms are in cold basements, where the
[007] Beetles. Peter: My father travelled everywhere in his _____ VW. He used to come to my school to watch the cricke
[008] d, or punish them if they don't - it has to be their _____ choffice. We can only suggest, persuade, and remind.
[009] as twelve or thirteen dogs, and they sleep in their _____ bedroom near the Queen's bedroom. The dogs are small
[010] are small dogs called 'Corgies,' and each one has its _____ cushion to sleep on. Two people bring the Queen her
[011] here she keeps expensive race- horses. She hires her _____ jockeys to ride these horses in the Grand National a
[012] r gave me an idea of his training programme, and his _____ very simple way of avoiding trouble. R: Well I train
[013] . Of all the airlines, Air France and British Airways _____ the most. They each have seven of the planes at pre
[014] , sometimes I'll think, Why can't you sort out your _____ problems? about a particular client. Be honest with
[015] n any way. I: When you were at school, what were your _____ feelings about school? I wonder if what your childre
[016] ont of a typewriter. Journalist: You mean you do your _____ typing, yourself? Mr Williams: Oh yes - I never turn
[017] are crazy about that. Japanese boys all have their _____ baseballs, bats, and of course American baseball caps
[018] ing about them, because I do travel quite a bit in my _____ country as well as going abroad. In fact when I'm tr
[019] nybody to set off on a long trip at any age on their _____ . Mrs G: Most people of course are rather surprised,
[020] I feel at all nervous or if I'm in a camp site on my _____ , then I do lock myself in. I: Where would you say in
[021] ay in all your thousands of miles of travel on your _____ you've been happiest? Mrs G: In a way it's difficult
[022] re all vegetarian, so breakfast is eggs laid by our _____ hens, home-cooked tomatoes fried, vegetarian sausage
[023] tions. 'Next time, I'll go with my friends, not on my _____ !' he joked. Gary is making good progress in hospital
[024] even in his car. I was in the wrong and and it was my _____ fault entirely. I was guilty and had broken the law
[025] t, and driver education. All the money from Newman's _____ salad dressing, popcorn, and spaghetti sauce, now a