Redundancy Test Prep

Every year, our company has an $\boxed{1}$annual "Summer Celebration" party for which we cook a ton of food. Highlights of the party include not only a range of savory foods but an incredible diversity of sweets, $\boxed{2}$more different kinds of sweets than you can even imagine. We usually have cake, ten kinds of cookies, and fun beverages, $\boxed{3}$like aguas frescas and lemonade. 

Another highlight of our party, $\boxed{4}$one of the very best parts, is the game playing. We play traditional party games, $\boxed{5}$the ones that everyone plays, like Catchphrase and Taboo. We also have $\boxed{6}$original games that we made up ourselves, like Product Match and HexiBoost and Talk Around the Block. Sometimes we turn things that are usually tedious, like times tables $\boxed{7}$ and other skills that students find boring, into games.  Our students enjoy playing times table wars and other math games.  They have so much fun playing $\boxed{8}$enjoyable games that they don't even realize that they are doing schoolwork, $\boxed{9}$but they are!

Each year we try to do a unique activity $\boxed{10}$that we have never done before. One year we had an egg drop and many ingenious students found very clever ways to encase their eggs and drop them a long distance, $\boxed{11}$from our second story balcony. Another year we built structures out of marshmallows and uncooked spaghetti, a project that was hilarious $\boxed{12}$but messy!  This past year, students constructed boats, $\boxed{13}$building their own water vessels, from plastic wrap and straws. The winning students created boats that held $\boxed{14}$the most weight. 

  1.  
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    2. yearly
    3. semi-annual
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    2. more differently labeled sweets than you can even imagine
    3. more varieties than you can imagine
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    2. like cupcakes and lemonade
    3. such as aguas lemonade
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    2. a very good part
    3. some very good parts
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    2. the customary ones
    3. the ones typical at parties
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    2. our own
    3. homemade
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    2. and other boring skills
    3. and other activities that students find dull
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    2. these fun games
    3. games that are really fun
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    2. but, they are
    3. but they really are fun
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    2. that is something totally new
    3. that is new for the students each year
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    2. from our really high second story balcony
    3. from our balcony
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    2. but, really messy
    3. but, messy
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    2. building his or her own water vessels
    3. building their own boats from straws
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    2. the greatest weight
    3. weights, the greatest
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