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obliged
approached
unwrapped
sacrificed
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romantic
private
attractive
married
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Satish's point of view was correct but his behavior with his father was quite impertinent.
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The palace was badly damaged by fire, but was eventually restored to its original splendor.
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The September 11th attacks in 2001 at the World Trade Center in New York were viewed as an example of man-made disasters.
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He is from such an unemotional family, he will never learn to unleash his feelings.
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"I don't see any good point in this movie because both the story and the soundtrack are terrible," said the woman.
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People believe that neither side wanted war.
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It is an undeniable fact that children watch too much TV.
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Once you have finished an article and identified its main ideas, it is necessary to reread it again.
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Neither of the girls have turned in the term papers to the instructor yet.
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Generally, Europe and Asia are regarded as being distinct continents, but they are simply vast geography divisions of the larger landmass known as Eurasia.
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Everyone was watching the little dog. They were greatly amused at it.
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She tried very hard to pass the driving test. She could hardly pass it.
Jane is talking to Billy about the meeting.
- Jane: "Is everybody happy with the decision?"
- Billy: "_____"
Bill and Bob are at a café.
- Bill: "How's the coffee here?"
- Bob: "_____."
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NEIGHBOURS INFLUENCE BUYING DECISIONS
However objective we believe ourselves to be, most of us do not judge a product solely on its merits, considering quality, value and style before making a decision. , we are easily influenced by the people around us. There is nothing wrong with this. It is probably a smarter way to make decisions than on only our own opinions. But it does make life hard for companies. Marketers have long understood groups of friends and relatives tend to buy the same products, but understanding the reasons has been tricky. Is it because they are so similar in how much money they make and what television ads they watch that they independently arrive at the same decision? Or do they copy one another, perhaps envy or perhaps because they have shared information about the products?
Research in Finland recently found overwhelming evidence that neighbours have a big influence on buying decisions. When one of a person's ten nearest neighbours bought a car, the that person would buy a car of the same brand during the next week and a half rose by 86 percent.
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Black Friday
The day after Thanksgiving is the start of the holiday shopping season. Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday, so the day after is a Friday. This day has come to be known as Black Friday. It has been the busiest shopping day of the year since 2005. Most stores offer great deals on Black Friday. They open their doors in the wee hours of the morning. They try to attract shoppers with big discounts.
Some items like TVs are much cheaper than usual. Stores may even lose money on these items. They hope that shoppers will buy gifts for other people while they are in the store. Black Friday is a great time to get good deals. The problem is that there are not enough low-priced items to go around. Each store may only have a few. These items are in high demand. People stand in long lines to get such great deals. They may line up hours before a store opens. They may be hoping to get a low price on a TV or laptop, but not everyone who wants one will get one. Some people leave disappointed.
The situation can be tense. Some Black Friday events have been violent. Large, eager crowds have trampled workers. Fights have broken out or people have been cutting in line. People have shot one another over parking spots. But most Black Friday events are safe and fun. Still, if you plan on going, expect large crowds and a bit of shoving.
So where does the name "Black Friday" come from? It was first used in Philadelphia in the 1950s. The police called this day Black Friday because of the heavy traffic it drew. In the 1960s, stores tried to rename the day "Big Friday.” It did not stick. The name "Black Friday" continued to spread across the country. It seems that it is here to stay.
Which statement is not mentioned about Black Friday?
Which best serves as the title for the passage?
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After the United States purchased Louisiana from France and made it their newest territory in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson called for an expedition to investigate the land the United States had bought for 15 million USD. Jefferson's secretary, Meriwether Lewis, a woodsman and a hunter from childhood, persuaded the president to let him lead this expedition. Lewis recruited Army officer William Clark to be his co-commander. The Lewis and Clark expedition led the two young explorers to discover a new natural wealth of variety and abundance about which they would return to tell the world.
When Lewis and Clark departed from St. Louis in 1804, they had twenty-nine in their party, including a few Frenchmen and several men from Kentucky who were well-known frontiersmen. Along the way, they picked up an interpreter named Toussant Charbonneau and his Native American wife, Sacajawea, the Shoshoni "Bird Woman" who aided them as guides and peacemakers and later became an American legend.
The expedition followed the Missouri River to its source, made a long portage overland through the Rocky Mountains, and descended the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean. On the journey, they encountered peaceful Otas, whom they befriended, and hostile Teton Sioux, who demanded tribute from all traders. They also met Shoshoni, who welcomed their little sister Sacajawea, who had been abducted as a child by the Mandans. They discovered a paradise full of giant buffalo herds and elk and antelope so innocent of human contact that they tamely approached the men.
The explorers also found a hell blighted by mosquitoes and winters harsher than anyone could reasonably hope to survive. They became desperately lost, then found their way again. Lewis and Clark kept detailed journals of the expedition, cataloging a dazzling array of new plants and animals, and even unearthing the bones of a forty-five-foot dinosaur.
When the party returned to St. Louis in 1806 after traveling almost 8,000 miles, they were eagerly greeted and grandly entertained. Their glowing descriptions of this vast new West provided a boon to the westward migration now becoming a permanent part of American life. The journals written by Lewis and lark are still widely read today.
The word "boon" in paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to _____.