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{#blank#}1{#/blank#} It was raining heavily when he ________ home last night.
{#blank#}2{#/blank#} Mary wonders what she _________ as when she grows up.
{#blank#}3{#/blank#} — Amy, I called you yesterday evening, but nobody answered the phone.— Oh, I ________ a walk with my mother at that time.
{#blank#}4{#/blank#} —________ you ________ a letter to your mother recently?—Yes, I wrote one last Sunday.
{#blank#}5{#/blank#} We are told that sound ___________ through air at a speed of about 340 metres per second.

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    Read something at your right level. Read {#blank#}4{#/blank#} that you can more or less understand. If you need to stop every three words to use a dictionary, it's not {#blank#}5{#/blank#} for you.

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    Read what interests you. Choose a book or a magazine that you like. You can also read newspapers, for example, 21st Century. There is always {#blank#}10{#/blank#} in it.