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However, as we gave ________(35) witchcraft prosecutions about three hundred years ago, we don’t like to have other people keeping on our discarded practices.’
‘Well, of course he was my guest, so I had to be outwardly polite to him, but he was tactless enough to rake up the incidents of the old quarrel, and from that moment we were scarcely on speaking ________ (36).
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What a Trick!
Lisa and I have been friends since the third grade. We both loved to ride our bikes and loved spending the holidays, weekends, and summers together.
One summer, we settled ________ (30) cleaning up her room. As soon as we started, Lisa’s mom called her for some help. Vacuuming was my favourite part of cleaning, so I decided to clean up every spot. When I bent over to suck up the dust under the dresser, I found a book with the word DIARY on it.
The book was bright pink and looked more like old scraps of paper than a diary.
Usually I would not snoop in private belongings, but when I picked it up from underneath the dresser I saw that the pages were messed up and I decided to put them back together. While doing so, I saw my name in a passage that really ________(31) my attention: ‘It made me cry when Papa told me we’re moving to Sri Lanka. He told me not to tell Nadine because it might break her heart. Well, I will just enjoy the last summer I have now.’Friends help me realize my good qualities. Even though I felt ________(32) over the situation, I decided not to spoil our friendship. At that point, I ________(33) a vow to give Lisa the best summer I could.
The next day, Lisa had complete control. I ________(34) her do things I even hated doing. We went to the boring museum. We watched her stupid brother, Line, do his band show. Finally, Lisa became ________(35) of what I was doing. ‘Why are you doing all this? It’s not my birthday or anything.’
‘Lisa, I know you’re moving to Sri Lanka. I’ve read your diary,’ I confessed.‘Are you talking about this?’ Lisa held up the same pink notepad I saw the previous day and started to laugh. ‘This notebook isn’t my diary. It was a novel I started on. I was making a story about you and me.’
I felt relieved but confused and I couldn’t ________ (36) but ask, ‘What about the title? It does say ‘DIARY’ on it?’
‘I put that there so no one would read it until I finished. Do you really think I would move to Sri Lanka and not tell you? Ha, that’s a laugh!’ Lisa exploded with unstoppable laughter.
One summer, we settled ________ (30) cleaning up her room
I saw my name in a passage that really ________(31) my attention: ‘It made me cry when Papa told me we’re moving to Sri Lanka.
Even though I felt ________(32) over the situation, I decided not to spoil our friendship.
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The Phoenix Legend
This magical, mythical bird has long been a part of legends, dating ________ (30) to ancient civilizations. In today’s culture, the phoenix’s legend is still going ________(31), with a major city in the United States named after the resurrecting beast and popular books and movies, including the phenomenally successful ‘Harry Potter’ series encompassing the bird into characters and plots.
Since the story has come ________(32) to us through the oral tradition, there is no single version of it. It varies from teller to teller — each adding something of their own and changing tiny aspects of it. ________(33), the main facts of the legend of the Phoenix remain intact, even though the myth has been adulterated.
According to the legend, the Phoenix is a supernatural creature that has an incredibly long ________(34), stretching to at least a thousand years. It cannot fall sick or get injured at any point in its lifetime. However, some believe that it does get affected by disease or drought, which leads it to prematurely enter the next phase of its life.
Once that time is over, the bird builds its own funeral pyre. The traditional story goes that the phoenix ignites himself, burns to ash, and then rises again from the ashes to live another thousand years. This triumph over adversity has caused the bird to become the ________(35) or symbol of many groups and organizations. Once the bird is born from ashes, the cycle begins anew.
Another version of the story is that before the fire consumes the bird, it lays an egg, which hatches a new phoenix. This phoenix will live to be a thousand years old before having an ________ (36) in the same method. There is no way of ascertaining which version of the story is true, but all of them express the same theme: the triumph over adversity.
This magical, mythical bird has long been a part of legends, dating ________ (30) to ancient civilizations.