Choose the one verb that correctly fills all three gaps.
1) Wages have failed to ___ pace with the rising cost of living.
2) It is hard to ___ a diary when you travel constantly.
3) She could not ___ a straight face when he told the joke.
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- Ckeep
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Each gap needs a fixed collocation. 1) 'keep pace with' means to advance at the same rate as something. 2) 'keep a diary' means to write regular personal records. 3) 'keep a straight face' means to stay serious and not laugh. 'keep' is the only verb that forms all three set expressions. 'hold' fits none of them as a normal collocation, although 'hold' is used in other expressions such as 'hold a meeting'. 'take' fits none of the three expressions: 'take a diary' would mean to carry one, and 'take pace' does not exist. 'make' appears in 'make a face', but 'make a straight face' is not a standard expression, and 'make pace' and 'make a diary' do not work either. The answer is 'keep'.