MULTI_CONC
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Each item contains 7 lines of text. In the middle of each line is a gap (a blank line). Which word fits in all of the gaps in each set? Use the drop-down menu to make your choice. If you choose an incorrect word, it will appear next to the drop-down list. Keep trying until you choose the right word. When you finish the quiz, you will see your score. Click START OVER to try the quiz again.
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word/phrase fits all the gaps in each set? (Corpus=corpus_awl.txt )
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[001] 's pupil. One needs high talent. Segovia has written _____ Carl: "His fingers labor heavily on the strings a
[002] une's photographer, Ira Rosenberg, tells an anecdote _____ the time he wanted to take a picture of Carl playing
[003] n a Grecian sense. Her clothes, her hair, everything _____ her is both graceful and simple. She has small, broa
[004] tography editor of Vogue magazine titled his article _____ Steichen, "The World's Greatest Photographer".)
[005] ss in Milwaukee. But her father was not enthusiastic _____ sending young Paula to high school. "This is no plac
[006] by Mark Twain on "White Slavery". Paula was saddened _____ what was happening to little girls and vowed to knee
[007] the necessary sharing of this burden and in bringing _____ still further increases in mutually profitable trade
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[001] ations to the University of Illinois, but during the _____ at Urbana felt more important events transpired at t
[002] ate ambitions, as expressed in their different multi- _____ plans. Through the World Bank and other instrumental
[003] to assist in the development effort. During the past _____ I have discussed this matter with the leaders of sev
[004] urn loose this destructive power. During the past _____ , our long-range striking power, unmatched today in m
[005] c missiles, where America had none before. This _____ , moreover, growing numbers of nuclear powered submar
[006] the data we seek. Fifth, we have just completed a _____ 's experience with our new space law. I believe it de
[007] ge to deal boldly with the issues of the day. A _____ ago, when I met with you, the nation was emerging fr
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[001] nberg, tells an anecdote about the time he wanted to _____ a picture of Carl playing a guitar. Carl hadn't brou
[002] , a former delegate. I think you are being unfair to _____ these things up now. "You know, this hits in many
[003] ruel Burmese governors could, on the slightest whim, _____ a man's life. As for missionaries, even if they succ
[004] urned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to _____ up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun s
[005] ing company encouraged the burgeoning song writer to _____ a wife, Elizabeth Meehan, a dancer in the Gaieties.
[006] -ordained. It was said that the Hetman plotted to _____ over the entire Hearst newspaper empire one day by m
[007] e desk an account of a murder. The Hetman told me to _____ the story over the phone and to write it. While I wa
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[001] urban trolley. When fame came it changed Sandburg _____ slightly. Lewis remembered another newspaperman aski
[002] melight. She has shared her husband's greatness, but _____ within the confines of their home; it is a dedicatio
[003] upon her except to state a few bare facts. The _____ way to describe Paula Sandburg is to say she is beau
[004] apable hands and an enormous energy. She is not _____ a trained mathematician and Classicist, but a good a
[005] alist leaders in Milwaukee recognized her worth, not _____ because of her dedication but because of her fluency
[006] ly postwar years. No longer is the United States the _____ major industrial country capable of providing substa
[007] ling with the problems of development, will progress _____ - regardless of any outside help- if they demonstrate
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[001] uitar. I am certain that Carl Sandburg will not fall _____ the same sad philosophy. The heart of this great poe
[002] Steichen to translate some of his German editorials _____ English. Carl, who was stationed in Appleton, Wiscon
[003] tions. But the enmities it will incur, the isolation _____ which it will descend, and the internal moral and sp
[004] large rocket engines to place vehicles of many tons _____ space for exploration purposes. Fourth, in the me
[005] asket, and Bang-Jensen dropped four sealed envelopes _____ the flames. In one of these he said were notes on th
[006] for missionaries, even if they succeeded in getting _____ the country they probably would not be allowed to pr
[007] commented, "If they Could Draw that young Gentleman _____ Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, f
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[001] r many- just two of you in sweet meditation". The _____ York Herald Tribune's photographer, Ira Rosenberg, t
[002] rts. That was all he had to say. In answer to a _____ York Times query on what is fame ("Thoughts on Fame"
[003] further increases in mutually profitable trade. _____ Nations, and others struggling with the problems of
[004] for assistance in our earlier years, so now do these _____ and emerging nations that do have this faith and det
[005] wer, unmatched today in manned bombers, has taken on _____ strength as the Atlas intercontinental ballistic mis
[006] we have just completed a year's experience with our _____ space law. I believe it deficient in certain particu
[007] ter of fact, I've looked through back-issue files of _____ York papers for December, 1957, and haven't found a
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[001] r Paus'l, a Luxemburg endearment meaning "pussycat". _____ of the children of the family could not pronounce th
[002] r of Congress, had asked Paula Steichen to translate _____ of his German editorials into English. Carl, who was
[003] r and world progress in freedom. Other countries, _____ of which I visited last month, have similar needs.
[004] ear powered submarines will enter our active forces, _____ to be armed with Polaris missiles. These remarkable
[005] esponsibility; in certain instances the denial to _____ of our citizens of equal protection of the law.
[006] s a fine and devoted individual. I had known him for _____ years, when I was a delegate and before, and this ma
[007] ike that. "I've been in government and I can tell _____ pretty hairy stories about personnel difficulties, s
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[001] aning "pussycat". Some of the children of the family _____ not pronounce this name and called her Paula, a soub
[002] of St. Augustine. She read everything else she _____ get her hands on, including an article (she thinks i
[003] , the Organization for European Economic Cooperation _____ help with the initial studies needed. The goal is to
[004] startling contrast to a system of sullen satellites _____ be imagined. If we grasp this opportunity to buil
[005] ed upon security and freedom. Otherwise, the outlook _____ be dark indeed. We face, indeed, what may be a turni
[006] at his insistence. He was right, and Peter Marshall _____ not help but recall Andrew Cordier's words on the su
[007] s case". Gross swung his swivel chair. "Well, how _____ that have been? I don't consider that he was prejudg
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[001] ence. Even now I will not intrude upon her except to _____ a few bare facts. The only way to describe Paul
[002] nations and those that have already achieved a high _____ of economic advancement, we will make brighter the o
[003] being "outside" the U.N. applied only to a physical _____ , not an objective one. But by the time the papers we
[004] of people". "What did you think about his mental _____ "? "I think our report sums up our finding", Gross
[005] obite Party", pose an immediate threat to Church and _____ . Like Burnet, he deplores the indifference of the pe
[006] siting the Central Park monkey house. I explained my _____ of mind to artist Winsor McCay and to "Bugs" Baer. M
[007] em how to keep the maids around the White House in a _____ of terror. The dogs would run through the halls a