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[001] d again so he could use both hands to try to pull  the  _____  up. Maximus was able to squeeze out from under  the ti     
[002] m. A moment  later she came back and said: 'Now I must  _____  your knee.'  'But you've already done it!' I said.  'O     
[003] d so were all the trees around Fat Boy.  Father said, ' _____  your faces and follow me.' But he  couldn't  move.  I      
[004] id.  'But look what I found,' Father said. He pulled a  _____  off a  tank of petrol. 'Some fool had left it in the m     
[005] d sold most of his clothes and wore a few old rags to   _____  his thin, broken body. He was not noticed among the  t     
[006] f pro  sports.    ... makes Jack want to appear on the  _____  of George  magazine  without his clothes on. Wait, may     
[007] ding a thick  smoke screen of wealth and possession to  _____  a multitude  of  crimes,' crimes that resulted in the      
[008]  those smudges and stains have  accumulated to  nearly  _____  the walls. With a rather fiendish grin, Ebner says:  '     
[009]   the klezmer humorist Mickey Katz, Byron poses on the  _____   holding a rubber chicken.    Finally, in 1997, Broadw     
[010] ng and I') and Ruben Blades  ('The Capeman'). CNN will  _____  the event.    Ask most writers what they like most abo     
[011] d get  for this kind  of burn expert help immediately.  _____  the burn very lightly  with  something clean like a sh     
[012] d  service from which people could opt-out for private  _____ . But  if  that was a long-term goal, he recognised - a     


	
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[001]  said. "He will name me as Emperor. And I  know what I  _____  do first. I                                                
[002]                                            do first. I  _____  organize some games. "I                                    
[003]                               organize some games. "I   _____  have a hot bath," said Lucilla.  The carriage stopped.     
[004] d his  father. "Father, congratulations,' he said.  "I  _____  kill a hundred animals to honor your success." "Let  t     
[005] out a doubt, that Commodus had killed his father.  "I   _____  only oer it once," said Commodus.  Maximus walked past     
[006] hat? 'Nearest. 'Dearest.'  'Close to.' I am Proximo. I  _____  be closer to you in the next  days than your own mothe     
[007]   boy smiled back. "I like you, Spaniard," he said. "I  _____   cheer  for you." Maximus was shocked. "They let you w     
[008] nd  said to her, 'Tell me, what you have planned, or I  _____  kill the  person you love the most. You will see me wa     
[009]  Say it!' He  pushed her away. 'Don't!' he said. 'Or I  _____  make love to  you  now, here, in the field!' She smile     
[010] Scarlett!  Does Miss Pittypat know that you -?' 'Oh, I  _____  die if you tell  Aunt Pitty!' said Scarlett, and began     
[011] was not a pleasant laugh.  'All right,' he said. 'What  _____  I bring you back from England?  A ring? What kind do y     
[012] I haven't  taken advantage of one of them before.'  'I  _____  lock my door every night!' said Scarlett.  'Why? If I      


	
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[001] tack.' He was right. I had forgotten it. It seemed to   _____  something for which I had suddenly grown too old.  I       
[002]  over the next few years whether they want a union to   _____  them. From a pocketbook perspective, workers  are  abs     
[003] o  a  Boston consulting firm, Work/Family Directions -  _____   "the  next wave of management thinking.  " ("In Searc     
[004] ingly, cases in  which employees believe their offices  _____  a hostile  work  environment because of some form of h     
[005] get  out of a possible 3 per game. So the two meetings  _____   a  potential 12 points out of the MetroStars' magic 2     
[006]  representatives of the unionist parties, who largely   _____  the Protestant majority, left open whether the two  si     
[007] , of course, I'd like to go  to the next Olympics and   _____  Great Britain, and of  course  I'd like to win a gold      
[008]  Interpretation: Now read about what the dream  images  _____  and try to  analyse your answers. The  HOUSE is  your      
[009] d  pay?  The people who believe in roads say that cars  _____  a  personal choffice to  travel when and where you wan     
[010] t  the solution may not be an absolute. 'He's going to  _____ ,  if  he is ever made Pope, a very sophisticated appro     
[011] ble to demand an inquest and  Wilfred Cooper agreed to  _____  Mapetla's family and  Biko. The main witness at the in     
[012] tack.' He was right. I had forgotten it. It seemed to   _____  something for which I had suddenly grown too old.  I       


	
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[001] t everyone  knew the real situation. The army held the  _____  power in  Rome, and the real ruler was whoever the arm     
[002]  a serious, religious man. He was  concerned  with the  _____  ideas of his time and was looking for a new  path that     
[003] rongly. He thought  that their ideas, especially their  _____  ideas, were very  simple. He stayed away from the loca     
[004] .  were growing more and more discontented. A serious   _____  event seemed to be just around the corner. Yury's  dre     
[005] asleep - were about Moscow,  about his work, about the  _____  situation and about Tonya  and Sasha.  Yury woke up fr     
[006] d done over  the last two years, and about the present  _____  situation.  They were both bolshevik supporters and be     
[007] t seemed that  there was something similar between the  _____  events and  the terrible weather.  A newsboy came runn     
[008] e excited  because it was so direct and honest. But no  _____  system  can stay pure, and now we . see things happeni     
[009]  for news ofVarykino but  only  got Liberius's aimless  _____  ideas. Yury lost patience and  stood up.  'Why are you     
[010] original positions. Komarovsky kept talking about the   _____  importance of Mongolia, and the possibility of a new       
[011]  been at school in Moscow. Both of these  men had been  _____  prisoners more than once in the time  between the Firs     
[012] r -democracies today the ordinary people  made all the  _____  decisions. At least forty times a year,  they came tog     


	
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[001] e  longer and he soon saw that they could all be happy  _____   and it was really quite a good plan. 'Perhaps in 'a y     
[002]  and thought it was terrible that  they would all live  _____  at Hartfield.  'It will not work. It is a shocking ide     
[003] house he met Harriet  again.'The family were going out  _____  that evening and  they asked Robert to join them. Duri     
[004] marry him,' he  said.  I hope they will. be very happy  _____ ,' said Emma with a  smile.  'Have you changed your min     
[005] k and Jane  again.  While the rest of the party talked  _____ , Frank said to  Emma,  'I am surprised you did not sus     
[006] d Marcus. He gave his arm to Maximus, and  they walked  _____  back across the battlefield.  All eyes followed the lo     
[007] s son he rode slowly away.  Commodus and Maximus stood  _____  and watched the  Emperor go, each thinking their own,      
[008]  "Still alive! The gods must love you!" they both said  _____ ,  laughing. Maximus moved through the tent, with Quint     
[009] t for an old man  and his daughter to look at the moon  _____ . Let us  pretend  that you are a loving daughter and I     
[010] a good father."  Lucilla  took his arm and they talked  _____  into the cold night air.  "This is a pleasant fiction,     
[011]  him.  "Don't call me that," he said. 'We have to talk  _____  now.  Very simply, just as men. Can we do that?"  "For     
[012] tell me," said Quintus.  They hurried to Marcus's kept  _____ . At the entrance, the  guards let them through without     


	
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[001] reat understanding of the diiculties of  growing up, a  _____  to which he returns in The Go-Between.  He also gives      
[002] ye to each other.  At Brandham Hall my knee became the  _____  of  conversation. I explained that Ted Burgess had bee     
[003] ugliness,  but I was not.  I tried to think of an easy  _____  of conversation. 'You aren't  working in the field tod     
[004] that love might ever cause unhappiness. It was a good   _____ , I thought, for a song or a poem. It was certainly not     
[005] it.' I had the idea that Ted was trying to  change the  _____ .  'Thank you,' I said; 'but you were going to tell me      
[006] as. in London then. But it was too late to  change the  _____ .  'Hugh told me,' I said. 'Hugh asked him to become a      
[007] as great confidence in him.' Mrs  Maudsley changed the  _____ . She said, 'It's time that Leo  cut the cake.' Someone     
[008] s had a very comfortable way of life  that was often a  _____  of wonder among the Greeks. They  had soft carpets on      
[009] to islands - metaphorical ones - when faced with  the   _____  of race. These concerns were vofficed within the white     
[010] olor as a complex combination of tonal layers is  the   _____  of Prudencio Irazabal's sandwiches of translucent  pai     
[011] .  And a country that knows little if anything about a  _____  that  walks, talks and smells like Inside the Beltway.     
[012]  Friday night, went 1 for 4 at the plate. And when the  _____   was  raised, Bonilla had to laugh.    For a team with     


	
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[001] nd  horses frightened the bird and it flew up into the  _____ . The  noise broke through the man's daydream and he ca     
[002] s keeping one eye on the line of  trees.  "Snow in the  _____ ," said Maximus. "I can smell it."  "Anything's better      
[003] rs rushed forth and met the first  line of Romans. The  _____  was filled with the sound of  screaming as more arrows     
[004]  on a hill  stood  and raised their swords high in die  _____  when they saw them  pass.  "They honor you, Caesar,' s     
[005] k his arm and they talked together into the cold night  _____ .  "This is a pleasant fiction, she said, smiling at hi     
[006] in time to see Maximus's sword as it  flew through the  _____  toward him and landed in his chest. He  fell to his de     
[007] "  They came because they had smelled the smoke in the  _____ .  Fire meant there was something to be found and taken     
[008] was not like anything that  Maximus had known. The hot  _____  made breathing diicult. He  did not care about breathi     
[009] undered past, Maximus saw a spear  flying  through the  _____ . It hit one of the gladiators in the neck and  killed      
[010] you agree, we promise to take  great  care of Leo. The  _____  here is dry and very good for children.  My husband an     
[011] Mrs Maudsley's voffice. It was like a breath  of  cold  _____  and it was blowing towards me.  'Did you leave your su     
[012] tack and then threw  myself down. The rush through the  _____  gave me a good  feeling. It was beautifully cool. I im     


	
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[001] the place as Proximo's School. It was not a place  to   _____  Latin, Greek, or mathematics. It was a school where  m     
[002] ximo never missed training for the new boys. He could   _____  so much about them.  The more experienced gladiators t     
[003] ror, as you did." "Then listen to me," said Proximo.  " _____  from me. I was not the best because I killed quickly.      
[004]   Then Rhett decided that the time had come for her to  _____  to  jump, and he built a low gate in the back garden.      
[005] is very beautiful.' This  was a new fact that I had to  _____ . It seemed that he had just  introduced me to her agai     
[006]  argued.  'And I don't think I will,' he said. 'You'll  _____  everything soon.'  'But if spooning is a nice thing...     
[007] 's?' I asked.  'Nothing is ever a lady's fault; you'll  _____  'that,' he replied.  These words had a great eect on m     
[008] ing that he  suggested.  'Why not?' he said. 'You must  _____  how to use a gun. This  one will hurt your hands a lit     
[009]   They held my hand. If I went inside the hut, I would  _____  its  secret, and it would                                  
[010]                              its  secret, and it would  _____  mine. I went in. It was hot and soft  and comfortable      
[011] as too old now to  believe in spells and magic. I must  _____  how to control my  imagination.  It had all started wh     
[012] ke that. They would lose  their  job. But I wouId soon  _____  how important Sofia was to the  th Street Law Center.      


	
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[001] . I looked  strange and unfashionable. I felt poor and  _____ , and my  face was red.  'I may look hot,' I said, 'but     
[002] promise,' I said.  'It's a bicycle.' Bicycles are very  _____  now, and most  children have one.  But in the year 190     
[003]  dress with care.'  'Why?' I asked.  'You mustn't look  _____ ,' he replied. 'But I won't say any  more because it's      
[004]  wanted to lie, but he said,  'Yes, sir.'  'kids' is a  _____  word for 'children' 'cop' is a                             
[005]                         word for 'children' 'cop' is a  _____   word for 'policeman'  'Well Mark, let's go and get th     
[006]  necessary. Uncle Kolya argued that for  centuries the  _____  people had lived diicult, impossible  lives. The great     
[007] pov.' 'He can't be,' cried Yury. 'What do you have  in  _____  with such a man?' 'I don't understand everything  he i     
[008] e been picked up in the street by the police, still  a  _____  practice in those days. She disappeared or died,  forg     
[009] om a great love or  from great ideas becomes rough and  _____ . Rome came  out of Greece and the Russian Revolution c     
[010] ng business was a possibility, but storms at sea were   _____  and fortunes were lost as often as they were made.  Fo     
[011]  himself, would rule  until the baby grew up.  But the  _____  soldiers wanted Arrhidaeus as their king, as  he was f     
[012] al in the  summer of  1985, Rembrandt's "Danae" was by  _____  consent one of  the most  beautiful of all European pa