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Alice always wanted to be a singer. Music was the         important thing in her life but, to tell you the            (true), she took lesson for years, practised every day,            in spite of all this, her voice didn't improve. Honestly, it didn’t get better, it just got (loud).
Her teacher finally gave         and stopped the lessons, but Alice refused to quit, and one day she decided to give a concert and invited her former teacher to attend.
The teacher was very worried about              to say after the performance. She knew it           be terrible and it was. She didn't want to tell a lie, but she didn’t want to hurt Alice’s feelings              . Finally, she got an idea and went backstage to greet her former pupil.
“Well”, said Alice, “what did you think of             performance?”
“My dear,” said the teacher, “you’ll        be better than you were tonight.”