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How to use the Warm-Ups

The optional, photocopiable charts on the following pages are designed to be used as
a warm-up activity before students actually look at the unit in the Student's Book.

Students fill in missing words in the questions, and then write their own answers. Doing
this forces the students to think about the meaning of the questions before beginning
the listening activities in the unit. The Warm-Ups can be done in class, or they can be
assigned for homework. This activity can also be used as a review or a test.

The time it will take to complete the Warm-Ups will vary from unit to unit. Generally,
they should take 10–20 minutes to complete.

Procedure:

1. Make sure the students have their books closed so they cannot see the answers.
2. Photocopy and distribute the Warm-Up charts.
3. Have the students fill in the blanks with words from the box.
4. When finished, have the students open their books and check their answers.
5. Finally, have the students write their own answers to the questions.

Topic 1 Family (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ dad free live look married mom often


old parents sisters things where your

Questions My Answers

1 Do you have any brothers or ____________________ ?


Answers
2 How _________________ is/are your brother(s)/sister(s)?

3 How old are your ____________________ ?

4 __________________ are your parents from?

5 Are ____________________ parents strict?

Do you get along with your mom or


6 ____________________ better?

What do your mother and father


7 ____________________ like?

Do you look more like your ____________________ or


8
your dad?

What do your parents do in their ____________________


9 time?

What ___________________ do you do together with


10 your family?

How ___________________ do you see your aunts,


11 uncles, and cousins?

How old are your grandparents? Where do


12 they ____________________ ?

13 Do you want to live with your parents after


you get ____________________ ?

Topic 2 Food (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ can convenience did dinner ethnic favorite foods


hate kind of skip snack strangest what

Questions My Answers

1 What's one of your favorite ____________________ ?

Answers
2 What's a food you _________________ ?

3 What's your ____________________ fruit?

4 What's your favorite __________________ or dessert?

5 ____________________ you cook?

6 ____________________ can you make?

7 What ___________________ you have for breakfast today?

8 How often do you ____________________ breakfast?

9 What did you have for ____________________ last night?

What ___________________ toppings do you like on


10 your pizza?

How often do you buy food at a ______________________


11 store?

12 Do you like ____________________ food? What kinds?

13 What's the ___________________ thing you've ever eaten?



Topic 3 Time (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ birthday born date doing early go how


much old sleep in usually what you

Questions My Answers

1 How ____________________ are you?

Answers
2 When's your ____________________ ?

3 What year were you ____________________ in?

4 What's the __________________ today?

5 What time do you ______________________ get up?

6 ____________________ time do you eat breakfast?

7 What time do ___________________ usually eat dinner?

8 What time do you usually ___________________ to bed?

What were you ___________________ at 3 p.m. yesterday?


9 At 8 p.m.?

10 Are you usually ____________________ , on time, or late?

11 Do you usually ______________________ on Sundays?

How ____________________ time do you spend on the


12 phone each day?

13 ___________________ many watches do you own?



Topic 4 House & Home (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ do does important it like live long moved


near neighbors something think who

Questions My Answers

1 Where do you ____________________ ?


Answers
2 How __________________ have you lived there?

3 Do you ____________________ it? Why or why not?

4 __________________ do you live with?

______________________ you live in a house or an


5 apartment?

6 What's ____________________ like?

What's ______________________ you don't like about


7 your house?

8 What things in your bedroom are most


_______________________ to you?

9 What are your ______________________ like?

10 Is your home __________________ a train or bus station?

11 What __________________ your dream house look like?

12 How many times have you ___________________ before?

13 How much longer do you ___________________ you'll live


where you are now?

Topic 5 Music (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ are concerts dislike how instruments listen one


or recently spend watch when where

Questions My Answers
What kind of music do you usually ____________________
1 to?
Answers
2 Who's your favorite singer __________________ group?

Who did you like ____________________ you were in


3 junior high school?

4 What's __________________ of your favorite songs?

How much time do you ______________________ listening


5 to music?

6 ____________________ do you usually listen to music?

7 What kind of music do you ______________________ ?

_______________________ you a good singer? Do you


8
like karaoke?

9 About ______________________ many CDs do you own?

10 Have you bought any good CDs _____________________ ?

11 What are some ____________________ you've been to


before?

12 Can you play any musical ______________________ ?

13 What kind of music shows do you ___________________


on TV?

Topic 6 Transportation (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ does
much
during
on
experience
place two
get
use
have
your
how license

Questions My Answers

1 How do you ____________________ to school?

Answers
2 _________________ long does it take?

3 How ____________________ is the train/bus fare?

What do you usually do ____________________ the


4 train/bus?

5 Do you ever travel ____________________ rush hour?

What's a funny or strange _______________________ you've


6 had on the train/bus?

What are ____________________ things you dislike about


7 taking the train/bus?

Do you have a driver's ______________________ ? When


8
did you get it?

9 Do you ____________________ a car?

10 ___________________ your family have a car?

11 What's ___________________ favorite type of car?

12 Where's a good ___________________ to go for a drive?

13 Do you have a bicycle? How often do you


___________________ it?

Topic 7 Sports (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ are don't favorite go good at how in


play professional skiing sports think would

Questions My Answers

1 Do you ____________________ any sports?

Answers
2 What _________________ do you like to watch?

3 What's your ______________________ sport?

Which sports did you do __________________ junior


4 high school?

5 What's a sport you ____________________ like? Why?

6 Are you ______________________ sports?

____________________ you a member of any sports


7 team or club?

8 ____________________ often do you exercise?

How often do you go swimming? Where do you


9 ____________________ ?

10 Who's your favorite _______________________ athlete?

11 What do you ___________________ of sumo?

Would you rather go scuba diving in Guam or


12 ____________________ in Canada?

13 Which sports ____________________ you like to try?



Topic 8 Numbers (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ address country does far home how make


many month pay phone size temperature

Questions My Answers

1 What's your _____________________ ?


Answers
2 What's your _________________ number?

3 What's your shoe ____________________ ?

4 What's the population of your ____________________ ?

5 What's the _______________________ today?

6 ____________________ tall are you?

How tall is your dream date? How much


7 ____________________ s/he weigh?

8 How ____________________ can you swim?

9 How ____________________ students go to your school?

How many TV channels do you get at


10 ___________________ ?

How much do you usually ___________________ to get


11 your hair cut?

How much do you usually spend a ____________________


12 on transportation?

How much money do you think you'll __________________


13 at your first job?

Topic 9 Best Friends (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ best borrow different do interests is


known like live see what where you

Questions My Answers

1 Who's your ____________________ friend?

2 How long have you ___________________ each other?

3 How often do you ____________________ each other?

4 ____________________ did you first meet?

5 Where ____________________ s/he from?

6 Where does s/he ____________________ ?

7 What does s/he look ____________________ ?

8 What are his/her ________________________ ?

9 ____________________ is s/he like?

10 What do ___________________ have in common?

11 In what ways are you _________________________ ?

12 ___________________ you ever argue?

13 Would you let your friend ___________________ ¥100,000


if you had the money?

Topic 10 TV (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ a did do going how kinds of one


programs really station which your

Questions My Answers

1 ___________________ often do you watch TV?

What kind of ____________________ do you usually


2 watch?

3 What's one ____________________ your favorite shows?

Are there any __________________ of shows you don't


4 like?

5 ____________________ you like (name of show)?

Do you like cartoons? ____________________ ones do


6 you like?

7 Do you watch the news? Which ____________________ ?

Who's ____________________ of your favorite TV


8
personalities?

9 Who's ____________________ favorite comedian?

10 What's ___________________ commercial you like?

11 What TV show is _____________________ popular now?

12 What ___________________ you watch yesterday?

13 Are you ___________________ to watch TV tonight?



Topic 11 Work (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ child do dream enjoy future indoors like


mother part-time rather what what's wouldn't

Questions My Answers
Do you have a ____________________ job? What do
1 you do?

2 _________________ does your father do for a living?

3 Does your ____________________ work?

Do your brothers or sisters work? What


4 __________________ they do?

What kind of work do you want to do in the


5 ____________________ ?

What's a part-time job you'd ____________________ to


6 have? Why?

Do you think it's more important to make a lot


7 of money or to ____________________ your job?

8 What's a job that you ____________________ want to do?

When you were a ____________________ what did you


9 want to be?

Would you ___________________ be a taxi driver or a


10 police officer?

11 Would you rather work _________________ or outdoors?

____________________ a job that you would find really


12 boring?

13 What's your ____________________ job?



Topic 12 Vacation (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.
Answer about an interesting vacation you've had.

☞ any did how like most souvenirs take


there trip were what where with

Questions My Answers

1 Where ____________________ you go?

Answers
2 How long _________________ you there?

3 ____________________ did you get there?

4 How long did the trip __________________ ?

5 Who did you go ____________________ ?

6 What did you do ____________________ ?

7 ______________________ did you stay?

8 ____________________ kind of food did you eat?

9 What _______________________ did you buy?

10 How much did the ___________________ cost?

11 What was the weather ___________________ ?

12 What did you enjoy the ____________________ ?

13 Did you have ____________________ problems?



Topic 13 School (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ after are do homework interested in like skip


subject teacher usually what which you

Questions My Answers

1 What do you __________________ best about this school?

Answers
2 What don't _________________ like?

3 What's your favorite ______________________ ?

4 Who's your favorite ____________________ ?

5 Which subjects ____________________ you best at?

6 ______________________ subjects are difficult for you?

7 Do you ever ____________________ class? Why?

8 How much ________________________ do you do per day?

9 ________________________ you belong to any clubs?

10 What do you ___________________ do on the weekends?

___________________ do you usually do during summer


11 vacation?

What do you think you'll do ____________________ you


12 graduate?

Are you ________________________ studying abroad


13 someday?

Topic 14 Movies (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ best ever go have meet of or


rent there want what's which who's

Questions My Answers
Do you usually watch movies at home
1 ____________________ at the theater?
Answers
2 How often do you _________________ to the movies?

3 How often do you ____________________ videos?

4 What kind __________________ movies do you like?

5 ____________________ do you prefer, action or drama?

Are ____________________ any kinds of movies you


6 don't like?

______________________ one of your favorite actors or


7 actresses?

8 What's the ___________________ movie you've ever seen?

What's the funniest movie you've _____________________


9 seen?

10 __________________ the last movie you saw? Who's in it?

11 Which movie do you ___________________ to see?

_____________________ you ever seen the same movie


12 more than twice?

13 Which movie star would you most like to


______________________ ?

Topic 15 Money (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ card clothes ever gotten have how money


monthly parents saving spend spent won

Questions My Answers
How much money do you ____________________ with
1 you now?

2 Are you ___________________ money to buy something?

3 Do your ______________________ give you an allowance?

What have you ______________________ a lot of money


4 on lately?

5 What's your ______________________ phone bill normally?

____________________ much do you usually spend on


6 lunch?

How much do you usually ____________________ on


7 the weekends?

How much did the ____________________ you're wearing


8
cost?

9 Do you have a credit ____________________ ?

10 What's a "good buy" you've ___________________ before?

What would you do if you ___________________ the


11 ¥100,000,000 lottery?

12 Do you ___________________ gamble?

13 Do you ever give _____________________ to charities?



Topic 16 Restaurants (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ been cheap do eat expensive experience fast


have one out recommend usually where

Questions My Answers

1 How often do you ____________________ out?

2 _________________ do you usually go?

3 Who do you ______________________ go with?

4 How much __________________ you usually spend?

5 Do you ever eat ____________________ for lunch?

What restaurant near here do you


6 _______________________ ?

7 Have you ever ____________________ to Hard Rock Cafe?

What's ____________________ of your favorite


8
restaurants?

What's your favorite ____________________ food


9 restaurant?

Where's a good place to go for a really


10 ___________________ meal?

What's the most ______________________ restaurant


11 you've ever been to?

What kind of ethnic restaurants ____________________


12 you been to?

13 What's a funny _______________________ you've had at a


restaurant?

Topic 17 Animals (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ animals cartoon cats do have if interesting


kind name really thing think what

Questions My Answers

1 What's one of your favorite __________________________ ?

What are 3 animals you ___________________ are really


2 cute?

What stuffed animals ____________________ you have,


3 or did you use to have?

What ____________________ or movie do you like that


4 has animals in it?

What animals do you think are ____________________


5 grotesque or scary?

What kind of _______________________ wild animals have


6 you seen before?

7 ____________________ you ever ridden a horse?

8 Have you ever had a pet? What ____________________ ?

9 What is/was its ____________________ ?

What strange or unusual _____________________


10 does/did it do?

11 ___________________ kind of pet would you like to have?

12 Do you like ____________________ or dogs better? Why?

____________________ you could be any animal, what


13 would you be? Why?

Topic 18 Shopping (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ a are area before bought but Christmas


department did often on shop where's

Questions My Answers
What kind of things do you like to ____________________
1 for?
Answers
2 What's something you've ___________________ recently?

3 What's your favorite shopping ____________________ ?

Which _______________________ store do you go to most


4 often? Why?

Where ____________________ you buy the shoes you're


5 wearing now?

______________________ a good place to buy cheap but


6 fashionable clothes?

7 ____________________ you a good bargain shopper?

What's the most money you've spent __________________


8
a piece of clothing?

About how much money do you spend on


9 presents ____________________ year?

Do you usually buy _______________________ presents for


10 your family?

11 What are 2 videos you've bought ___________________ ?

Do you ____________________ buy things you don't


12 really need?

13 What's something you want to buy ____________________


can't afford?

Topic 19 Health & Fitness (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ a diet do eat exercise fruits if


lot overweight take what you your

Questions My Answers

1 Are ____________________ healthy?


Answers
2 _________________ do you do to stay healthy?

3 How often do you ______________________ ?

4 Is __________________ diet healthy?

5 How often do you ____________________ junk food?

Do you eat a lot of ____________________ and


6 vegetables?

7 Do you ____________________ vitamins?

8 Are you _______________________ ?

Have you ever been on a ____________________ ? Did you


9 lose weight?

10 ___________________ you smoke?

11 Do you have a ___________________ of stress?

How many hours of sleep do you get


12 ____________________ night?

____________________ you want to live a long life, what


13 should you do?

Topic 20 Fashion (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ brands do get have important in style kind


look on pairs of think wear where

Questions My Answers
What ____________________ of clothes do you usually
1 wear?

2 Do you think it's ______________________ to be in fashion?

3 What kind of clothes are ______________________ now?

About how much money do you spend


4 __________________ clothes per year?

Do you own any designer ______________________ ?


5 Which ones?

6 ____________________ do you usually buy your clothes?

7 How many _______________________ shoes do you own?

8 How often do you ____________________ dressed up?

9 What colors ____________________ good on you?

Do you ___________________ a cell phone?


10 What type is it?

11 ___________________ you ever dye your hair?

12 What kind of jewelry do you ____________________ ?

13 What do you ____________________ of nose rings?



Topic 21 Travel (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ abroad country fear how never planning prefer


souvenirs train trip what which would

Questions My Answers
How many times have you traveled
1 _______________________ ?
Answers
_________________ you rather travel abroad or
2 somewhere in your own country?

Which ______________________ do you most want to


3 visit? Why?

What's a country you'd __________________ want to


4 visit? Why?

____________________ long does it take you to pack for


5 a one-week trip?

Do you prefer to travel by plane, ____________________ ,


6 or bus?

7 Who do you _____________________ to travel with?

_____________________ foreign airline would you prefer


8
to fly on?

9 What's your biggest __________________ when traveling?

Did you go on a school _____________________ in high


10 school?

If you were going to Hawaii, what kind of


11 ______________________ would you buy?

12 ____________________ are 2 useful phrases for travel?

13 Are you _____________________ to go anywhere this year?



Topic 22 Books, Magazines &
Newspapers (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ are best comics magazine often prefer read


section spend was what write writer

Questions My Answers

1 ____________________ kind of things do you usually read?

2 Do you _________________ fiction or nonfiction?

3 Where do you usually ____________________ ?

How much do you __________________ on books and


4 magazines a month?

5 Who's your favorite ____________________ ?

6 What's the ___________________ book you've ever read?

What ____________________ one of your favorite books


7 as a child?

8 ____________________ you reading any books now?

9 What's your favorite ____________________ ?

Do you like _____________________ ? What's your


10 favorite one?

11 How ___________________ do you read the newspaper?

12 Which ____________________ do you usually read first?

13 Ifkind
you wanted to ____________________ a book, what
of book would you write?

Topic 23 Sickness (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ any bad do had have headache highest


hospital how last school take when

Questions My Answers

1 When was the ___________________ time you were sick?

2 _________________ often do you get a cold?

3 What do you ____________________ to get better?

4 How often do you get a _____________________ ?

5 Do you usually ____________________ painkillers?

6 Do you have ____________________ allergies?

Have you ever been in the _____________________ ?


7 For what?

____________________ was the last time you went to


8
the doctor?

What's the _____________________ temperature you've


9 ever had?

Have you ever had a really ___________________


10 sunburn?

11 Have you ever ___________________ a hangover?

12 ____________________ you ever broken a bone?

13 How many days of ____________________ do you miss


a year because of sickness?

Topic 24 Holidays (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ celebrated chocolates did do holiday how important


last presents spend usually what's year

Questions My Answers

1 What's your favorite _____________________ ? Why?

Answers
What was the last holiday you ____________________ ?
2 What did you do?

What are the most ____________________ holidays in


3 your country?

4 What do you usually __________________ for Christmas?

5 How many _____________________ do you usually buy?

____________________ the best Christmas present you've


6 ever gotten?

7 What do you ____________________ do on Halloween?

Do you ever buy _______________________ or flowers on


8
Valentine's Day?

9 Did you get any valentines ____________________ year?

10 How do you usually _________________ New Year's Eve?

11 What ___________________ you do last year?

____________________ do you usually spend New Year's


12 Day?

13 What did you do last ___________________ ?



Topic 25 Fears (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ anyone are child coasters dentist experience have


make most scares scariest speech things

Questions My Answers
When you were a ____________________ what things
1 were you afraid of ?

2 What animal _________________ you the most?

Which insects are you the ____________________


3 afraid of ?

4 __________________ you afraid of flying?

5 Are you afraid of roller ____________________ or heights?

6 Are you afraid of going to the ____________________ ?

7 What's the ___________________ movie you've ever seen?

8 What's a scary _______________________ you've had?

9 ___________________ you ever seen a ghost?

10 What things ___________________ you nervous?

11 Are you afraid of giving a __________________ in public?

What ____________________ are you worried about


12 recently?

13 Is there _____________________ you're afraid of ?



Topic 26 Dating (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ dating do first girls go good hands


how kiss look movie partner want

Questions My Answers

1 Where's a ____________________ place to go on a date?

2 Where did you go on your _________________ date?

3 Are you ______________________ somebody now?

Would you rather go to a ________________ and dinner,


4 or to an amusement park for a date?

____________________ you prefer girls/guys with short


5 or long hair?

6 What does your ideal date _____________________ like?

What are 2 qualities you would _____________________


7 your date to have?

8 ____________________ old do you want your date to be?

Do you think it's okay to ____________________ someone


9 on the first date?

Do you think it's okay for ___________________ to ask


10 guys out?

Do you feel comfortable holding ___________________


11 in public?

12 Would you ever ____________________ on a blind date?

13 Would you ever try using a matchmaker to find


a ______________________ ?

Topic 27 Marriage (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ are children different divorced get guests live


long marry parents style what where

Questions My Answers
At what age do you want to ____________________
1 married?
Answers
How old were your ___________________ when they got
2 married?

How ____________________ do you think couples should


3 know each other before getting married?

Would you __________________ someone 10 years


4 older than you?

Would you marry someone from a


5 ______________________ country?

Would you ____________________ with someone before


6 getting married?

____________________ are 3 qualities you want your


7 future spouse to have?

8 Do you want to have ____________________ ?

What ____________________ of wedding do you want


9 to have?

How many ___________________ will you invite to your


10 ceremony?

___________________ do you want to go for your


11 honeymoon?

12 ___________________ your parents happily married?

13 Would you ever get ______________________ ?



Topic 28 Beliefs (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ believe blood did do dreams God important


in life planets type what's you

Questions My Answers

1 Do you believe in ____________________ ?

Answers
2 Do you believe in _________________ after death?

3 Do you believe ____________________ UFOs?

4 __________________ you believe in horoscopes?

5 Do you _____________________ in love at first sight?

6 Do you think there's life on other ___________________ ?

7 ____________________ you use to believe in Santa Claus?

Do ____________________ believe blood types can tell


8
a person's personality?

9 What's your blood ____________________ ?

Does your ____________________ type match your


10 personality?

___________________ a common superstition about


11 bad luck?

Do you think ____________________ can give us useful


12 information?

13 Which is more ____________________ to you, family


or friends?

Topic 29 Crime (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ are burglar country ever have house illegal


news safe stolen things what woman

Questions My Answers
Do you think your country is ____________________ ?
1 Why or why not?

2 _________________ kind of crimes are increasing?

3 ____________________ you ever witnessed a crime?

What ____________________ are you afraid to go to


4 because it's dangerous?

5 Have you ever had anything __________________ ?

6 Have you ____________________ stolen anything?

Have you ever done any other ____________________


7 thing?

8 Has your ____________________ ever been burglarized?

What would you do if you heard a ____________________


9 in your house while you were sleeping?

What would you do if you saw a ___________________


10 being molested on the train?

What ___________________ do you do to protect


11 yourself from crime?

What's a crime that was in the ____________________


12 recently?

____________________ you for or against the death


13 penalty? Why?

Topic 30 Opinions (Warm-Up)
Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

☞ do funnier how live most of opinion


smoking think use what who your

Questions My Answers

1 What do you think of ______________________ ?

2 What's your __________________ of gambling?

3 ____________________ do you think of this school?

Do you think ____________________ teachers give you


4 too much homework?

Do you think people should be allowed to


5 _______________ cell phones on the train or bus?

____________________ do you feel about the American


6 right to own a gun?

What do you ____________________ of your country's


7 leader?

Do you think the government should let more


8
foreigners ____________________ in your country?

____________________ you think people should feed


9 stray cats?

10 What do you think ___________________ Thai food?

___________________ do you think is a better actor,


11 Brad Pitt or Leonardo DiCaprio?

Who do you think is ____________________ , Jim Carrey


12 or Eddie Murphy?

13 What do you think is the ____________________


important thing in life?

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