#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

using namespace std;

int t = 0;
char arr[100];
char newarr[100];

int main()
{
  int len = 0;
  freopen("input.txt_ch", "r", stdin);
  cin >> t;
  string newstring;
  for (int i =0; i <t ; i++)
  {
     memset(newarr,0,100);
     cin >> arr;
     len = strlen(arr);
     for  (int i = 0; i < len; i++)
     {
        if(i%2 ==0) //even
           cout <<arr[i];
        i++;
     }

     for  (int i = 1; i < len; i++)
     {
         if(i%2 !=0) //even
            cout <<arr[i];
         i++;
     }
     cout<<endl;
  }
}