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ответ на вчерашнее задание. Patient. I always try to be patient and I don’t enjoy being around other people who are not. There’s no point in winding yourself up and making yourself nervous. In the end, you will realize it anyway that it’s absolutely unnecessary. I see people getting angry easily if there is a line at the cashier or in the post office and they have to wait. I take things easy. I don’t get emotionally involved. I know that sooner or later the line will move and it’s going to be my turn. I use public transportation quite often, and most people start to get impatient when they can’t find a seat. I think it’s absolutely unnecessary. If you complain, you will only do harm to yourself. When I’m driving and get a red light, I wait patiently till it changes, although sometimes it seems like hours before it does. I am patient at work too. I don’t like to rush or get flustered.

Reliable. I am reliable. That’s how I was brought up. If I promise something, I’ll do it. You know I am a building contractor and it’s a must that you are reliable. If I wasn’t reliable, I wouldn’t have work. I know a person who is a building contractor too but he hardly has any jobs. He’s managed to earn a bad reputation for himself because he cheated many of his customers. He asked for money from them upfront but then he was late on the work and the quality was bad as well. Some of his customers even took him to court.

When someone brings up a child, they look after it until it is an adult.
If someone has been brought up in a certain place or with certain attitudes,
they grew up in that place or were taught those attitudes when they were growing up.
She brought up four children...
His grandmother and his father brought him up...
We'd been brought up to think that borrowing money was bad...
I was brought up a Methodist. = raise

Someone who raises a child looks after it until it is grown up.
My mother was an amazing woman. She raised four of us kids virtually singlehandedly. = bring up

When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which
they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
Students may be tempted to cheat in order to get into top schools.
The company engaged in a deliberate effort to cheat them out of their pensions...
Many brokers were charged with cheating customers in commodity trades.

ask + существительное - о нематериальном. ask time...
ask for + существительное - о материальном. ask for money...