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Test 1 For some of our nation’s most important workers, there is a major disconnect between pay and priorities. Many teachers and firefighters are (26)____ just to make a living. While there may be a (27)____ sense of heroism for the nation’s firefighters, they are not compensated for the (28)______ risks that they face daily. And teaching is one of the lowest paying among (29)_____ professionals. Teaching is no 9-to-5 job. Don O’Neil leaves the house and arrives at Weaver High in Hartford by 7. To connect with inner-city students, the science teacher helps coach the football team and he (30)_____ students, meets with parents and grades paper. When the bell goes on, he is on stage. He is an actor, a (31)_____, an instructor, a parent, a (32)____ worker, and he has to do it five to six periods a day, five days a week, (33)_____ of how he feels. For all of this, the 50-year-old, six-year veteran gets paid just $36,000, even though his state (34)_____ the third highest in teacher’s pay. His paycheck shrank by a third when he switched careers from managing a paint store to managing students. (35)_____, he teaches night and summer school as well. Teachers just don’t make the grade when it comes to pay. The pay gap between teachers and other professionals keeps growing. There have been explanations that a lot of the new money is going into special education, which tend to have smaller class sizes, which means you end up hiring more teachers instead of paying the teachers you have more. Test 2 There’s a new business in a trendy Washington D. C. neighborhood that’s kind of hard to categorize. It could be (26)____ as a store with no employees inside, or perhaps the world’s biggest (27)_____ machine. Our Bob Franken, quarters in hand, checked it out. ATMs, who (28)_____ bank tellers? Travel is becoming almost (29)____. Reservations are booked on the Internet. Boarding passes picked up at (30)_____ ticket kiosks. And now, an automated convenience store. The (3