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I had some spare time last week and my mom recommended me to read some of her favourite books. They were mainly of foreign authors and I Liked many of them. But most of
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In England the cinema is usually called ‘the pictures’. The American name, ‘the movies’, is sometimes used. The performance, or ‘show’, as it is called, begins about two o’clock in the afternoon, and goes