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Lesson1: …The most unusual car was a Benz which had only three {#blank#}1{#/blank#}.
Many of the cars broke {#blank#}2{#/blank#} on the course and some drivers spent more time under their cars than in them! A few cars, however, completed the race. The winning car reached {#blank#}3{#/blank#} speed of forty miles an hour—{#blank#}4{#/blank#} faster than any of its rivals.
Lesson2: ...Though she {#blank#}5{#/blank#} for a moment, she finally went in and asked to see a dress that was in the window. The assistant {#blank#}6{#/blank#} served her did not like the way she was dressed. Glancing at her scornfully, he told her that the dress {#blank#}7{#/blank#}. The woman walked out of the shop angrily and decided to punish the assistant next day. She returned the shop the following morning {#blank#}8{#/blank#} in a fur coat, with a handbag in one hand and a long umbrella in the other.
Not realizing who she was, the assistant was {#blank#}9{#/blank#} to serve her this time. {#blank#}10{#/blank#} great difficulty, he climbed into the shop window to get the dress. As soon as she saw it, the woman said she did not like it.