English C1 CAE

Most of us always (0) KEEP forgetting important dates, apart from the lucky few (1) ............ are blessed with a good memory or the ability to organise (2) ............, so they don't forget important things. How many times HAVE we all said "I wish I had remembered!" How often have we offended people by (3) ............ remembering their birthdays or name days? (4) ............ they say it doesn't matter , we know, deep down , that we have hurt (5) ............ feelings. We can always try to make it UP to them next time but unfortunately, the damage was already done and our relationship with that person will (6) ............ be quite the same again. On the (7) ............ hand, we sometimes do too much for someone else because we want to please them and then feel we have damaged our own interests in doing so. When friends are involved we (8) ............ find it difficult to say "no" when they ask us to do them a favour, but true friendship should mean we can say "no" without any risk to the relationship.