3. Read the passage and fill in each gap with a suitable word from the table
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In the first year of secondary school I had some difficulties in learning English. My
(1) ________ of English words was really bad and my English grammar was worse. I didn’t know how to (2) _______ them. One afternoon, after the lesson, my teacher of English told me to wait for her (3) _________ the classroom. She took me to the school library and showed me cassettes of pronunciation drills kept (4) _______ a glass bookcase. She also told me how to use an English-English dictionary to improve my English grammar. I didn’t know that only one year later I would win the first prize in the English Speaking (5) _________ held for secondary school students in my hometown.