Read the excerpt from Iqbal. The master and the mistress had a television. Sometimes at night, when we were trying to fall asleep, we could hear those strange voices in Hussain Khan's living room and see the colored lights through the rush matting at the window. Karim, always Karim, bragged that once he had sneaked up to one of the windows, and had seen almost five minutes of a cricket game. "What's cricket?" I asked. "Shut up, stupid!" he answered. What can be inferred by the description of this setting? Couples are strict about bedtime hours for children in this area. Late-night television shows are common in this area. Cricket is a widely played sport in this area. Televisions are a luxury in this area.

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now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

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a. "to practice" is the best phrase to complete the sentence.

explanation:

during the summer, she likes to practice her soccer skills so that she is ready to play in the fall.

(note that : all the other options "the practicing of", "practice for" and "to do a practice on" are inappropriate as they make the sentence grammatically incorrect.)