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[001] rtable something in  the air. A  cold finger seemed to  _____  us all. For that moment  we all felt that something od     
[002] is hand and caught the rope of the  alarm bell. At his  _____  the rats ran away, squeaking with  fear. They  disappe     
[003] 'Of course you  can!  You're well educated. No!  Don't  _____  the letter! The  fingerprints on it are important. The     
[004] to do, miss! You have no right to hurt me!' 'I  didn't  _____  you, you lying creature!' she cried angrily, and,  una     
[005]  Joseph. The old servant  came at once, but refused to  _____  the body.  'Ah, the devil's taken his soul! I warned h     
[006] p it - keep it,' said Judith violently. 'We will never  _____   Robert Poste's money. While you are here,  you are th     
[007] the old devil' to refer to  Amos. She replied,  with a  _____  of polite surprise, 'in am not quite sure what you  me     
[008] r a few moments there  was a silence they could almost  _____ . It  was broken by heavy  footsteps, and then the door     
[009] arried slowly through the crowd, hands  reached out to  _____  it.  When the procession reached the platform, the coi     
[010] till screaming, she  started  to rub her eyes.  'Don't  _____  your eyes!' Woods shouted, holding her  hands. 'Wendy,     
[011] nny began to get better. I couldn't kiss her, or  even  _____   her in her protective glass  cage, but we began to  t     
[012] n  heaven! I  admired and respected him, and under his  _____  my mind  was changing.  I was tempted to stop struggli     
[013]  in the gardens," I thought, 'and I could run to him,   _____   him! Surely that wouldn't hurt anybody?'  But when I      
[014] , or my  heart will  stop  my brain will burst! Let me  _____  you, or I  can't live!' I held his  wandering hand wit     
[015] e War office,' said the Inspector. 'You  were wrong to  _____  it, and you must leave it alone until the  War office      
[016] e to her. The baby smiled and put up one tiny  hand to  _____  her face as she sang:  Mummy's going to give you  Such     
[017]  there was a note for her.  Have a rest. I will get in  _____  with you soon. Blom.  She went to her room, had a show     
[018] er good money, and he felt the place needed a  woman's  _____  to make it better.  I talked about the oer with Andrea     
[019]  Normally Tom loved his mobile phone. He could be  in   _____  with the world at any time. If he was out of the offic     
[020] de her feel better.  She loved to be touched. Even the  _____  of her own hands  made her feel better, but someone el     


	
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[001] , first, the black man has to believe he has the same   _____   to be a doctor - a leader - as a white man.'  Woods n     
[002] Paul sat at one side, fascinated by Margot's business   _____ . All her dreaminess had left her. She sat at her desk,     
[003] d I have been, I  who  have always been so proud of my  _____  to judge people!  That pride has led me blindly into m     
[004] ack to Elizabeth. His confidence in his own  charm and  _____  to please annoyed Elizabeth very much, so  that when s     
[005] s not with Sandra any more. It seemed to take away my   _____  to think and act. And anyway, after what Andrea had  s     
[006] hat loud  whisper,  'while you were in bed. . .' 'This  _____  of the ant to hold on  to  something tightly in, this      
[007] der's world, death by poison was not  uncommon and the  _____  to know friend from enemy was  very useful.  Memnon wa     
[008]  theater building boom.  "This company really has the   _____   to grow pretty rapidly, and I think there could be a      
[009] asoning goes, is  more  than justified by the broker's  _____  to get a loan at a lower  interest rate than the custo     
[010] erpiece of Clinton's foreign  policy and a test of his  _____  to fashion a new brand of  American internationalism f     
[011] elf. At the center stands John: His ambitions  and his  _____  to negotiate and to satisfy diverse Redskins  stakehol     
[012]  Tony Phillips, a baseball player of some considerable  _____ ,  was arrested on a felony charge of possession of coc     
[013] apacity, the  number of new services far surpasses the  _____  to  accommodate  them. According to the National Cable     
[014] ed  to  take all applicants, regardless of educational  _____  or social  background? If a school accepts only those      
[015]  however,  their  most valuable asset is usually their  _____  to earn a living -  and this is what disability insura     
[016]  public policy think  tank. 'With sufficient ambition,  _____  and education,  individuals can still rise far and fas     
[017] t point was one of many Williams  won on  her athletic  _____  alone.    AS the last of his teammates left the dressi     
[018]  is known  in  the jargon as 'total data linkage'- the  _____ , by  pressing a  few buttons and waiting as little as      
[019]  a lot of street dance in the show,  acrobatic  street  _____  which the young performers could bring to it.'  Beside     
[020] ts can prepare a teacher for the  infinite  variety of  _____  levels, mother tongues, cultural foibles and  characte     


	
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[001] ll red eyes. Moore picked up a book and  pretended  to  _____  it. But the rat did not move. It showed its great  whi     
[002] wall by  the  fireplace. He got several books ready to  _____  at the  creature. Finally he lifted the rope of the al     
[003]  Moore stood with a third  book in  his hand, ready to  _____ , the rat squeaked and seemed  to be afraid. Moore thre     
[004] w  the Judge coming nearer with his noose. He saw him   _____  the noose towards him. Desperately Moore threw  himsel     
[005] ully at Mr Edgar's small figure. 'So, you're going to   _____  me out yourself, are you?' My master looked towards  t     
[006] ard on the  neck. While Heathcli  'So, you're going to  _____  me out yourself, are you?'  was getting his breath bac     
[007]  to see  anything of hers. I knew it  would be best to  _____  them out.' Alarm came into her voffice.  'But you  won     
[008] d you ask him to do it?'  'If you weren't preparing to  _____  out Jessie's things, Celia,' I  said, 'I would take th     
[009] gnized the thing in the boat's stern just  in  time to  _____  out a leg and  trip him. He fell down on  the sand. I      
[010] ut ten yards behind the running man. I was tempted  to  _____   my empty gun at his  head, but it was too  risky. A d     
[011] so that was another problem. And was it  quite fair to  _____   Elfine, all unprepared, into London's intellectual ci     
[012] How important it was to be  free and natural! Just to   _____  off your clothes if you felt like it! To give way to y     
[013] t Biko understood, he  nodded to the two detectives.  ' _____  him out,' he said. And the two detectives pulled  Biko     
[014] e who don't like him. But not the kind of enemy who'd   _____  acid  into his daughter's face.  That's something  die     
[015] wice, I'm  told. Do you think it was a  good action to  _____   acid into the face of a young woman?'  'I am not resp     
[016] ult to  believe and asked lots of  questions.  'Did he  _____  the acid just because he thought she was  doing someth     
[017] d that he really was mad. It had been his own idea to   _____  the  acid and no one else had  sent him. His attack  h     
[018]  to the  conversation and was very angry. He wanted to  _____   Cregar and the  others into the sea, but I  persuaded     
[019] ng her gently. Then the main driving  rockets began to  _____  out white flame. She suddenly went  faster, and before     
[020]  had gone bad,  and the Captain had no choffice but to  _____  it out of the  ship. The men would have risked food po     


	
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[001]  was going to live with friends in London. He saw his   _____ ,  and that evening he  strangled her. During the night     
[002] - this thing  wants to  communicate with me. Give it a  _____  to get to the  telephone. Stay away from the telephone     
[003] of a  prison. The  old man turned the key and I saw my  _____ . Quickly I  pushed past him into the house.  I looked      
[004] Inspector Morse. Charles also read about it, quite by   _____ . His wife  brought home a copy of  the newspaper, and      
[005] to be in  Jericho at the time of  both deaths.'  'Just  _____ . Have you interviewed the people who saw  Jackson in t     
[006] our company to  Abingdon, and Anne and I  met again by  _____ , and well, I started visiting her, usually  one  after     
[007] ewhere. "Dear"  somebody? It wasn't  "Charles" by any   _____ , was it?'  Mrs Purvis smiled happily through her tears     
[008] .  'One explanation is that everything just happens by  _____ .  Another is  that we ourselves make  things happen,       
[009] !' replied Morse crossly. 'Bloody rubbish! It's  just   _____ , all of it! Do you  know, Lewis, I feel like some  egg     
[010]  it meant the  audience was small,  and there was less  _____  of someone recognizing  Conrad. Then after that they r     
[011] d I knew there was a wicked wolf just waiting for the   _____  to attack them.  Catherine is ill  3    THE NEXT TIME      
[012] athcli came to Thrushcross Grange, he  met Isabella by  _____  in front of the house. I was watching  from the kitche     
[013] ant you to die of cold,' I replied.  'But it's my only  _____  of life!' she cried, jumping out of bed  and going to      
[014] nd every evening in the Grange garden,  until I find a  _____  to see Catherine. If I meet Edgar Linton  or his serva     
[015] how it to her until Mr Edgar was out of the  house. My  _____  came four days after my visit to Wuthering  Heights. A     
[016] ed how long he  would live. I thought he would have no  _____  of life if his  father Heathcli took him to live at Wu     
[017] e key to the room! Go away!' As there seemed to be no   _____  of persuading him to help her escape, I decided to  go     
[018] t, and I was bitterly sorry  that I had thrown away my  _____  of seeing that beauty every  day of my life. .  I did      
[019] ore with him. Once Colt was dead, there was  always a   _____  that Len would be  caught and sent to  prison for life     
[020]   your chief, and you can catch them before they get a  _____   to fight  back. They think they're  safe.'  'Are you      


	
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[001] rts don't seem to  bother  me anymore. While it may be  _____  to hail a taxicab in New  York City on a rainy day, LI     
[002] (Frank) Wolf is just back from another of his trips to  _____ ,  dangerous places. This time it was Tibet, which has      
[003] onformity, social and economic injustice. It is still   _____  to read these authors, or an inheritor of their  tradi     
[004] ze cone. And, even  when  the place is half-full, it's  _____  to hear over the annoying  background music-satellite-     
[005]  torture case that prompted  it, put Mr. Giuliani in a  _____  position. He had forcefully  condemned the brutal abus     
[006] m very worried because the lessons at school  are too   _____  for  me. I don't understand them, but the others in th     
[007]   late  because of the  traffic. B: All right. She's a  _____  person  to get hold of, isn't she?  What about lunch t     
[008] you can build a court case  upon.  Many  of us find it  _____  to know our true feelings, our emotions,  and  it can      
[009] true feelings, our emotions,  and  it can be even more  _____  to talk about them. As they  say, 'It's a thin  line b     
[010] : Do you think divorce should be  made  easier or more  _____ , or in your opinion is the  situation acceptable as it     
[011] ot to  do. But of course that's something we find very  _____ .  What  I wish most is that they would realize just ho     
[012] es to choose from, and  you  can visit places that are  _____  to get to by land. The Valley  of the  Kings at Luxor      
[013]  environment, then the environment will make  it  more  _____  for us, so that our life will not be as  comfortable.      
[014] exciting here, there's so much to  do and see. It was   _____  in the beginning, especially getting to know the  Unde     
[015] le  are generally very nice, but well, there  are some  _____   ones. They shout at you for walking on the garden, or     
[016] rney and get a meal in the  evening, life becomes very  _____  because  people gather  round  and want to know all ab     
[017] your  own you've been happiest? Mrs G: In a way  it's   _____  to say because each  country has something special  ab     
[018] nces in time when you  first went  out  there? K: Very  _____ , because at first I was hungry all the  time! I wanted     
[019]  religion, and culture. Is  this good or bad, easy or   _____  for these chiildren? Today  two people of mixed nation     
[020] h everybody  does at  least twice a week; in fact it's  _____  to  get tickets. Going  for walks; playing table-tenni     


	
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[001]  just the occasional light on a hill or the shape of a  _____ . In  the  carriage next door the young men were  singi     
[002] s had looked  out for  landmarks - a waterfall, an old  _____ , a small lake. He  thought these would help him to fin     
[003] iles of country  road, with the birds singing in every  _____ .  Dinner was my first big surprise. It was simple, but     
[004]   car park off Walton Street in Jericho. There's a big  _____  there  with a  big hole in it. Leave the money in the      
[005] d done. I  never  rang up Mr Richards, or went  to the  _____  to see if any  money had been left there. I'm really s     
[006] le knocking on the window. It must be the branch of a   _____ , I thought, and tried to sleep again. Outside I could      
[007]  was a terrible crash of thunder, and  the branch of a  _____  fell on to the roof. We were not hurt, but  Joseph imm     
[008]  animal, and hit his forehead several times against  a  _____ , until the wood was covered in blood. I knew I could n     
[009] ing reminds me of Catherine! In every cloud, in every   _____  I see her face! The whole world reminds me that she wa     
[010] hen in am eighteen. He sometimes climbs up the apple-   _____  outside my window and watches me  undressing... in hav     
[011]  a  moment.  He noticed two security policemen under a  _____  not far away.  They were obviously Biko's 'minders' an     
[012] h yard, untidy with long grass.  There  was a huge old  _____  in the centre whose long, green  branches  touched the     
[013] xcept for the wind blowing through the leaves  of  the  _____ .  Woods walked forwards, looking for someone. There wa     
[014]  Woods began to feel annoyed. Then  something near the  _____  caught his eye. A tall black figure  was  standing qui     
[015] three other men in that  room, too. Dilima ran for the  _____  in the middle of the yard  and quietly pulled himself      
[016] en came out, breathing heavily, and  stopped under the  _____ . The third man joined them, and  spoke  in Afrikaans,      
[017] ght, and in the  morning we  discovered that the great  _____  at the  bottom of the garden, which had stood for hund     
[018] g, and in the garden I passed the wreck of  the great   _____ . Then suddenly I saw him riding towards  me.  'You see     
[019] ky to him, as  we sat close together in the shade of a  _____ .  'Tell me, Jane, what happened to you when you so cru     
[020] s yours.'  He kissed me. 'I'm no better than the great  _____  hit by  lightning -  at Thornfield,' he said. 'I can't     


	
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[001] ,' she  said,  'the rotten old cat!' Then she began to  _____  on her clothes.  'Oh, I wish I could pay that woman! T     
[002] e walked so fast that she had to run, and she tried to  _____  the  bag out of his hand. He took no notice,  but cont     
[003]  there one  night on your own. I'd go there myself and  _____  the big alarm  bell  that's on the roof!'  Moore was g     
[004]  me in! Let  me in!' 'Who are you?' I asked, trying to  _____  my hand away. .  'Catherine Linton: it replied. 'I've      
[005] Get out of my sight, until we've finished eating! I'll  _____  that  long hair of yours if you don't obey me at once!     
[006] through the loose  earth to her coin, and was about to  _____  the lid o, when I felt  a warm breath on my face. She      
[007]  a silver bell.  'Read it correctly this time, or I'll  _____  your hair!'  'You must kiss me if I get it right.'  'Y     
[008] hquake... She would rush in  among  falling  walls and  _____  the children  out. Perhaps she  would go back for some     
[009] d being mugged, walk confidently! Keep  your head  up.  _____  your shoulders  back. Let your arms  swing, and don't      
[010] while I put a match  to the end of it. She took a long  _____  at it and blew the smoke  down  at her knees.  'That w     
[011]  head and Mapetla  pushed it on to Woods' grey hair.  ' _____  it all the way down at the back!' John shouted from  t     
[012] he first branch. As he  watched, he saw one of the men  _____  the telephone in Biko's  room from the wall and smash      
[013]  So  I came out immediately, as I did not want him  to  _____  me out.  'What do you want?' I asked him.  'Say, "What     
[014] d.  'I tied a rope round my waist so that my men could  _____  me  out through the door if there was any gas. I crawl     
[015] e should take about thirty minutes,  twenty seconds to  _____  over and straighten out. Then keep  her  steady on lin     
[016] f we can get a steel line on to her, we may be able to  _____   her in gently, like catching a big fish,' replied the     
[017]  nasty smile and pulled Monika up.  Monika let the man  _____  her towards him. When she was very  close to him she s     
[018] just put down the lobster pots. I'll go back later and  _____   them  up. I usually get a few and then sell them to t     
[019] and landed in a tree.  Maximus had no strength left to  _____  it out again. The battle  had ended. As he looked at t     
[020] at. Give  me my money back!" The slave-seller tried to  _____  his arm  away. I'll give you a special price today, be     


	
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[001] r tea, and remember,' he  added wisely, the longer the  _____ , the more time it takes.  I leave the details to you.      
[002] r. A finely developed figure, don't you think?'  First  _____ ,' announced Paul, under sixteen. Starter, Mr  Prenderg     
[003] e' there was  a loud bang. Oh dear! I'm sorry' but the  _____  had begun.  Little Line was sitting on the grass cryin     
[004] runk, and on only one whisky, too.'  So while the next  _____  was being run, Paul took Mr  Prendergast by the arm an     
[005] and strong. We must find a new home and make  sure our  _____  survives.  'Tomorrow the Globes will set out to search     
[006] wledge and add to it, there will be no  future for our  _____ .  'And if we are the only intelligent life in the univ     
[007]  universe, then  you  are responsible not only for our  _____ , but for all intelligent life  that may develop.  'Go      
[008] hat  promised so much? We are by far the most advanced  _____   there  has ever been, but we are terrified by the hor     
[009] b, too. But don't forget  that they were a very clever  _____  once. Long before we  arrived here, they'd stopped bot     
[010]  a day or two for me to become a  member  of the human  _____  again!'  'Mm,' said Stephen, not really listening. 'Wh     
[011] ders and strong arms. Mmm...  'Come on,' I said. 'I'll  _____  you to that jetty over there!' 'All  right,' he agreed     
[012]  I couldn't tell what he was thinking.  'Fancy another  _____ ?' I asked, and he smiled.  'What for? I'd only beat yo     
[013] an a thousand horses died in the battle or from their   _____  to catch Darius.  Alexander marched through rich farml     
[014] - metaphorical ones - when faced with  the  subject of  _____ . These concerns were vofficed within the white  clapbo     
[015] whether and how to hold a national conversation about   _____ .  The participants included Kathleen Cleaver, the form     
[016] autioned about the danger of reducing writers to their  _____ ,  gender or sexual orientation. Yet when it comes to s     
[017] l) Faubus who faced down the federal  government  over  _____  in 1957, defying an order to desegregate Little  Rock'     
[018] ng.' If the march was a museum piece, so too  was the   _____ -baiting politics that forced it. They marched on the d     
[019] ident Ron  Carey  seems the favorite in a rerun of the  _____  he won last year  against attorney James P. Hoffa, son     
[020] s of the year.    On the day before Jeff Gordon was to  _____  for the prize that  only  (Bill) Elliott has won, the      


	
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[001]  came first, marching and singing. The crowd  began to  _____  with them. A group of priests followed. Then  came the     
[002] isolation and anger have changed to friendship, let us  _____   together the Song of Africa, that Steve Biko loved as     
[003] he words?' the girl asked.  Woods nodded, and began to  _____  in English as he  worked  the words out in his head.       
[004] all friends here.'  Is that so?' said Chokey. Should I  _____  them a song?'  No, don't do that, darling. Have some t     
[005] d pass on messages to  each other, while pretending to  _____  the songs and say the  prayers.  The prisoners marched     
[006] to the local prison to visit the  criminals  there and  _____  songs to them. It opens the mind,' said  Stubbs, to se     
[007] light to hear.' 'Mr Rochester?  I didn't know he could  _____ .'  'Oh yes, he has a very fine voffice. And then she p     
[008] ing. Let's change the subject. Mr Rochester, will you   _____   with me?'  'With pleasure,' he answered, bowing, and      
[009] he show. If you're good, they give you a part. Do  you  _____ , Hu?' asked John.  Hu was excited. 'I love singing. I      
[010]  My job is to be musical director. I will train you to  _____  and, I  hope, to act the parts. Mrs Truman will be the     
[011] anising, publicity, tickets...' John knew he couldn't   _____  or act, but he loved painting and organising. He would     
[012]  and read the song through. It was easy. She loved to   _____ . When she was not busy, Hu's mother would teach her  t     
[013] hen she was not busy, Hu's mother would teach her  to   _____ . Hu's mother had studied opera before she  married. Wh     
[014] re she  married. When she was happy, Hu's mother would  _____  as  she did the housework. That was not very often.  T     
[015] . I...'  'Please,  Hu!' said Mrs Patel, laughing. 'You  _____  beaUtifully. And  American girls look just like you an     
[016] ent colours  and shapes and sizes and. . . and you can  _____  and you can  act.' 'My mother helped me learn to           
[017]       and you can  act.' 'My mother helped me learn to  _____ , she studied opera,'  Hu said.  'That explains it. And     
[018] he  prepared their supper. Sometimes Hu's mother would  _____   her favourite love songs from Anhui opera, and someti     
[019] of  the songs from 'The Wizard of Oz'. Hu was asked to  _____   some of the show's big hit songs and Hu gave her very     
[020] e. 'I thought your  performance was wonderful, Hu. You  _____  beautifully.  Have you had any training?' Hu introduce     


	
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[001] t lucky and escape. Eight  families come and see their  _____  because they're  interested in whether or not he's. al     
[002] strong and successful leader. His first teacher was a   _____  of Olympias -a man called Leonidas. Alexander  hated h     
[003] from his early  childhood. He was even thought to be a  _____  of Achilles,  through his mother, Olympias, and the ro     
[004] king. Although he had  royal blood, he was not a close  _____  of the Persian kings  that had ruled before him. He ha     
[005] o murder him. Callisthenes, who was a pupil and close   _____  of Aristotle and was writing the history of Alexanders     
[006] uture  without him.  Alexander died with no close male  _____  except his brother  Arrhidaeus, who had learning diicu     
[007] cials  finally released their estimates of winners and  _____  losers  under the terms of the tax bill the president      
[008] pired in part by the empathetic and sometimes  morally  _____  reaction from a variety of local officials, the  spin      
[009] mercial lines. This revenue stream will surely  grow,   _____  to the others, whatever happens to grant-maintained  s     
[010] t lucky and escape. Eight  families come and see their  _____  because they're  interested in whether or not he's. al     
[011] strong and successful leader. His first teacher was a   _____  of Olympias -a man called Leonidas. Alexander  hated h     
[012] from his early  childhood. He was even thought to be a  _____  of Achilles,  through his mother, Olympias, and the ro     
[013] king. Although he had  royal blood, he was not a close  _____  of the Persian kings  that had ruled before him. He ha     
[014] o murder him. Callisthenes, who was a pupil and close   _____  of Aristotle and was writing the history of Alexanders     
[015] uture  without him.  Alexander died with no close male  _____  except his brother  Arrhidaeus, who had learning diicu