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"You can do it," said my mother, " [MASK] , you won't get much business until lunch."

Besides

"But I'll never remember the orders, and I'm no good [MASK] money.

with

Please, Mom, don't [MASK] me."

make

I thought my mother's [MASK] was a bad one, but I obeyed .

idea

I thought my mother's idea was a bad one, but I [MASK] .

obeyed

When I got to the bar the next day, I found my mother was [MASK] .

worried

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

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

Then my mother came to [MASK] me, and she also showed me how to make change .

help

Then my mother came to help me, and she also showed me how to make [MASK] .

change

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

Things went more [MASK] after that.

smoothly

I was even a little [MASK] when the sun came out and dried up business.

disappointed

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

I was too busy [MASK] the restaurant I would open one day.

imagining

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

Lin Xiaofan, a senior high school student in Hefei, instructs one of the companies [MASK] the service.

offering

"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

Zheng thinks "future mail" letters are "reminders of affection, [MASK] , and love."

friendship

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

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

"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

"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

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

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

"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

Most of the business' [MASK] are college students and young white-collar workers.

customers

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

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

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

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

He is a [MASK] companion.

wonderful

He does many amusing things that make me [MASK] , and when that happens, he is so delighted that he just keeps it up.

laugh

He does many amusing things that make me laugh , and when that happens, he is so delighted [MASK] he just keeps it up.

that

I was sitting on the floor playing with him, [MASK] he started pawing and smelling at the right side of my chest .

when

I was sitting on the floor playing with him, when he started pawing and smelling at the right side of my [MASK] .

chest

To Cocoa, one "no" is usually [MASK] , but not that day.

enough

He stopped briefly, and then [MASK] ran toward me, throwing his entire weight at the right side of my chest.

suddenly

He crashed into me and I cried in [MASK] , falling down to the floor.

pain

I went to my doctors, and after X-rays [MASK] and lab work were done, they told me I had cancer.

tests

When cancer starts, a [MASK] of calcium builds.

wall

This made it possible for me to [MASK] the lump.

notice

I had a complete mastectomy and the cancer has not [MASK] to any other part of my body.

spread

The doctors told me if the cancer had gone undetected even six more months, it would have been too [MASK] .

late

Was Cocoa [MASK] of just what he was doing?

aware

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

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

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

When I needed to have a quick lunch, she'd [MASK] to speak to the elderly woman who looked like her grandma.

stop

[MASK] my child caused me to deviate from my schedule, I thought to myself, "We don't have time for this."

Whenever

Whenever my child caused me to deviate from my schedule, I thought to myself, "We don't have [MASK] for this."

time

As a result, the two words I most [MASK] spoke to her were; "Hurry up."

commonly

I started my [MASK] with it. "

day

I [MASK] my day with it.

ended

Although the words did little to [MASK] my child's speed, I said them anyway .

increase

Although the words did little to increase my child's speed, I said them [MASK] .

anyway

Then one day, things [MASK] .We'd just picked my older daughter up from kindergarten and were getting out of the car.

changed

Not going [MASK] enough, my older daughter said to her little sister, "You are so slow."

fast

When she crossed her arms and let out a sigh, I saw [MASK] it was a terrible sight.

myself

I was a mother who pushed and pressured and [MASK] a small who simply wanted to enjoy life.

hurried

My eyes were opened; I saw the [MASK] my hurried existence was doing to my children.

damage

I looked into my small child's eyes and said, "I [MASK] to be more patient from now on."

promise

I [MASK] her who was now smiling at her mother's promise.

hugged

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

I'm unfamiliar [MASK] the students, most of them trying to adapt themselves to their new environment.

with

I'm unfamiliar with the students, most of them trying to [MASK] themselves to their new environment.

adapt

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

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

Her writing wasn't perfect, [MASK] her effort was.

but

She was excited to [MASK] , which made me enjoy teaching her.

learn

I didn't [MASK] then how much she would also teach me.

realize

She wasn't asking a question [MASK] a paper I'd returned.

about

[MASK] , she said quietly: "I didn't attend classes yesterday.

Instead

I gave her a sideways look, [MASK] .

astonished

I'm fine now," she [MASK] me.

comforted

Two nights later, her father called to tell me that Jennifer would be [MASK] a few classes.

missing

Her condition grew [MASK] .

worse

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

A week later, Jennifer herself called me to tell me she was on the road to [MASK] .

recovery

"I have no [MASK] that you'll be with us."

doubt

I remembered what her father had said in his first phone call: "school [MASK] everything to Jenny."

means

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

She was born in 1913 and left high school [MASK] to care for her sick grandmother and mother.

early

She was born in 1913 and left high school early to care for her [MASK] grandmother and mother.

sick

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

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

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

The three other blacks got up, but Rosa [MASK] , She was arrested.

refused

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

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

Black people sat in the [MASK] 0fthebus.Both groups could sit in a middle area.

back

[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

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

Rosa Parks refused to leave her seat just because she was tired of accepting [MASK] treatment.

unequal

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

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

She sat down in order that the others might stand up and she opened the doors on the Long journey to [MASK] .

freedom

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

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

In 1906 Farnsworth was born in a community near Beaver City, Utah, [MASK] by his grandfather.

settled