Alice always wanted to be a singer. Music was the 31          important thing in her life but, to tell you the   32           (true), she took lesson for years, practised every day,  33           in spite of all this, her voice didn't improve. Honestly, it didn’t get better, it just got  34           (loud). Her teacher finally gave 35         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 36              to say after the performance. She knew it 37            be terrible and it was. She didn't want to tell a lie, but she didn’t want to hurt Alice’s feelings 38               . Finally, she got an idea and went backstage to greet her former pupil. “Well”, said Alice, “what did you think of 39              performance?” “My dear,” said the teacher, “you’ll 40         be better than you were tonight.”