Take for ____ (1) the student who is away from home at college or university: if he tends to wrap himself up more than the others, this is because he is probably feeling ____ (2). (Psychology of Clothes)
On a busy day you’ve got to dash from job to ____ (3), it’s all very hectic, but basically you’ve always got to have everything literally by the phone, be ready to leave at a moment’s notice. But there’s variety in it. Making TV ____ (4) has in fact now overtaken straightforward fashion as our favourite occupation. It’s more fun than photographic work, where one split second decides whether you look nice or not. In a TV commercial there’s some acting involved, and you have to keep it up for a while, which is more of a challenge. (Fashion Model)
Dress is very important and you should ____ (5) turn up in jeans and an old sweater if you’re after a job in an office or a place of work where you will be meeting people, dealing with clients and that sort of thing. Clean, smart clothes are the order of the day, and try to avoid stage ______ (6), like some nervous actor on the opening night of a new play. (Interviews)
Four men have been shot in the head in the last three weeks. The men were all transients and _____ (7) alone at the time of the killings. Please tell everyone in this chapel and those along the streets to come indoors at night to any of the missions or shelters. When they are full please tell the men to group together, not to be _____ (8) at night, but huddle for safety. The lives of the men may depend upon their following these instructions. (A New Victim in LA of a Killer of the Homeless)
Creative people like architects or fashion designers do a great deal of aimless doodling, whereas writers, on the other ___ (9), do very little because they have a way of expressing themselves in words. I think probably ____ (10) with disabilities are the best doodlers, because their normal outlets are blocked. (Graphology)
I live in London and I work in London, so what I do to keep fit is to certainly do quite a lot of _____ (11). I certainly walk upstairs a lot, but also I do a fair amount of cycling, and as I’m dashing round London I use the bike. I find it the fastest way to get around town and it’s really ____ (12) for keeping in shape. (How to Keep Fit)
The people who set off those bombs in Coeur d’Alene meant to rob the bank and ransack the armory. But when the ____ (13) went off, the law came down so fast and hard the perpetrators lost their nerve. They got caught. There were several others who were not in jail yet. Those bombs did _______ (14) scare Coeur d’Alene. After all this embarrassment, Coeur d’Alene would be the town that stands up to evil and wins. (Neo-Nazi)
And then we bade each ___ (15) good-bye and I was just going off when she called me back and said, “May I take your address, so that I can ____ (16) the two dollars?” which, I gave her and then I went off. I had sundry other things to do. I think I went to a book-shop, and I went to buy a scarf or a pair of gloves and all these things on my way home. (A Coincidence in New York)
Government officials say the charges are unfair, but they admit to having a credibility problem both at home and _______ (17). So Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid announced last summer that he would propose sweeping changes in election system. This morning his suggestions were presented to the Mexican Congress. Some of the proposals satisfy long standing demands of the opposition. The most important may be the introduction of the translucent ballot boxes so that official poll watchers can verify that no one has stuffed the _____ (18) beforehand. (Election in Mexico)
Today in China, in Nanjing, balloons, firecrackers and lion dancers mark the dedication of the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies. For the first time since World ___ (19) II, Chinese and American students will attend a graduate institution in China that is administered jointly by academic organizations that are worlds apart figuratively and literally. Cross-cultural encounters can be extremely enriching; cross-cultural __(20) can be utterly absurd. (A Center for Chinese and American Studies)
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