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.
Which
word/phrase fits all the gaps in each set? (Corpus=corpus_awl.txt )
always
away
company
far
night
report
service
something
until
week
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2. WORDS
always
away
company
far
night
report
service
something
until
week
[001] riff to find her boy friend who, apparently, had run _____ . He put in a call to Cunningham from his hotel ro
[002] oned. If there was such a person, I'm afraid she got _____ with it. Pity we don't know more about him. I think
[003] . Do they still live here"? "I think they moved _____ shortly after they were married. He was a salesman f
[004] es. We usually run a social note when somebody moves _____ ". He stood up and thanked her. "Have they in
[005] . From reconstruction to moon rockets. But he pulled _____ from the irrelevant old volumes and walked around to
[006] e I'll be needing some more myself pretty much right _____ . And I done favors for you, big favor not so long ba
[007] os". Dear heaven, no, thought Mr. Skyros, turning _____ as another man came in. He straightened his tie at
[008] ice that the customer seized her purchase and turned _____ without a smile or a word of thanks. Usually she mar
[009] just something like, Don't worry about me, I'm going _____ to make a better life. A better life. Escape. I
[010] if I have them around long, impossible to give them _____ ! And I suppose now that you've finally grown up, if
[011] running around, God knows where". She had swished _____ , she had been gone for a long time probably when Sar
[012] l crawled over her again. Maude? Glendora flapped _____ . The rice wasn't dosed with opium, indeed it had no
[013] he had, everything he wanted. Someone had taken her _____ from him. Who? Where there is a left-hand en
[014] a week's honeymoon in Acapulco. While they were _____ Blanche came into the office every morning, running
[015] led figures, and Blanche had to leave. She stayed _____ for ten days. Those ten days were like no others tha
[016] ary bucket, swooping down hard to grab it and coming _____ with equal snap like a ball that's been bounced hard
[017] ou're a taxpayer, householder, landlord. You've been _____ from home for the New Year festivities, but now the
[018] spotted reporters in the lobby, so Andy was hustled _____ quietly through the hotel's service entrance in a st
[019] Skolman isn't going to like it much, though, giving _____ what he should be selling". Skolman wasn't the on
[020] x to cut off the finale introduction. The music died _____ discordantly. He drew a deep breath. "Ladies and gen
[021] I've been today. I practically had to sign your life _____ , you'll probably fire me for some of the deals I had
[022] she said half-aloud to the empty room. "They took it _____ , overalls or something". She walked restlessly acros
[023] ait until five". "No ... o ... o. Come home right _____ ". She slapped the receiver into its holder and stepp
[024] She slapped the receiver into its holder and stepped _____ . Her eyes were bright with anticipation. In his
[025] k on the Payne luggage.) She might now have taken it _____ again. Motive- her husband wandering? Bitter, unreas
3. WORDS
always
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company
far
night
report
service
something
until
week
[001] be posted on the call board. Bake was waiting to _____ that Lou DuVol had been sobered up to the point wher
[002] angry in his attitude, as if he might be waiting to _____ something. Holden stepped on the gas. A new ide
[003] re time? His thoughts were scattered by the sharp _____ of a rifle from the other side of the door. Hoag pus
[004] ailed inspection of the third floor and to receive a _____ from his man covering the floors above before Griffi
[005] his throat. Killpath said, "You were expected to _____ to my office twenty minutes ago, Sergeant. That's no
[006] his desk. "I might point out that your inability to _____ to my office this morning when you were instructed t
[007] en he'd put on the transfer detail. He stared at the _____ in Killpath's hand, sure it was written by Accacia-
[008] s of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the _____ as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, "Acting L
[009] eports. Where the hell did he get off threatening to _____ any laxness on their part to the captain? A man with
[010] p the river bank. He wanted a careful, uninterrupted _____ from Dill on the conditions in the valley. They s
[011] ivery truck floor boards and- but this is no medical _____ . I was again in motion and at a speed which belie
[012] e, and a chief is naturally expected to stay off the _____ . But the beer hall riot in Subic had been unusual, t
[013] in Hebrew. They chanted a fixed tune in time to the _____ of the stick. Each boy opened his small mouth wide a
[014] d and dubious, but impressed by the engineer and the _____ . "Your alternative is breathtaking", he said, "an
[015] in charge, rushed to the Hollywood police station to _____ the theft, and less than five minutes later, detecti
[016] , number of chairs, thickness of carpet. Researchers _____ that distinctive status markers like specifically co
[017] 3 Reading The following passage comes from a _____ on the ecological consequences of the shrinking of th
[018] ment. Student campaigners, how- ever, fear that the _____ will be watered down in the inevitable political wran
[019] ng members of the Scottish parliament to endorse the _____ with few, or no, amendments. But it is unlikely that
[020] ersee the experiment recommended in Professor Krebs' _____ to assess the effectiveness of badger culling in red
[021] .D., professor of preventive medicine, and colleagues _____ in today's issue of the journal Cancer that estrogen
[022] nts can be made," says Richardson. "As we say in the _____ , 'It may be part of human nature to err, but it is al
[023] o err. When the Institute of Medicine's provocative _____ , To Err Is Human, surfaced last year, you probably wo
[024] ear, you probably wondered where the news was in the _____ . The data, recorded in 1984 and interpreted in a jou
[025] generally follows the organization of the body of the _____ : the discussion is divided by greenhouse gas and by
4. WORDS
always
away
company
far
night
report
service
something
until
week
[001] so Andy was hustled away quietly through the hotel's _____ entrance in a strange car which Hub had procured som
[002] t a thing". He tossed her a towel, then repeated the _____ for Poet. "Cigarette"? Elaine shook her head as s
[003] t-story"? "I'm with the Syndicated Press, Feature _____ . Either I get the story- or I get the suite". I
[004] ot seen it before. Jubal would not have minded it if _____ had not gone to pieces. The girls seemed to spend ha
[005] this. Insomnia would ground him from the Exploration _____ , on physiological if not psychological grounds. He h
[006] r"? she asked hopefully, as she recognized the Scout _____ uniform. "All you have to do is ask", he retorted
[007] ith her running, calling out in her bowing, "At your _____ ". He would order her to bring coffee, and would take
[008] sent to the wrong place for duty. There was more to _____ in the Navy Nurse Corps than the hours in the ward.
[009] Mrs. Salter. ## MR. SALTER came home. The funeral _____ was in the house, the Methodist minister, how clean
[010] es, Julie dear. You've done me the greatest possible _____ . By myself I'll be fine". "Take care of yoursel
[011] usiness"- Old Mr. Thom himself had stopped at the _____ station for a grease job, Wally confessed, and could
[012] t an inward shiver. "I sure can't complain about the _____ in this place", she said. "I just got through seeing
[013] most likely to be the primary user of the product or _____ . By considering both the likely user and the likely
[014] ovide information to other members about a product or _____ Gatekeepers Family member(s) who control the flow of
[015] ho control the flow of information about a product or _____ into the family Deciders Family member(s) with the po
[016] se, use, consume, or dispose of a specific product or _____ Buyers Family member(s) who make the actual purchase
[017] o make the actual purchase of a particular product or _____ Preparers Family member(s) who transform the product
[018] member(s) who use or consume a particular product or _____ Maintainers Family member(s) who
[019] Maintainers Family member(s) who _____ or repair the product so that it will continue to pro
[020] disposal or discontinuation of a particular product or _____ 8 The number and identity of family members who fil
[021] he consumer's self esteem and then show a product or _____ that will provide a remedy. For example, the United
[022] nts which constitute the Mass (the principal worship _____ of the Catholic Church). Although the beginning elem
[023] d the medical corps in the British army and ended his _____ in France as an artillery officer. His subsequent Don
[024] by taking longer to complete. For example, your RSS _____ logs (located in the Remote Storage snap-in) show the
[025] to 4.6 percent. The growth of average earnings in the _____ sector was lower still at 4.5 percent. You depres
5. WORDS
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company
far
night
report
service
something
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week
[001] usion. She thought it was sometime during the second _____ she worked for Stanley. It was nothing that he said
[002] atulations. That night the two of them left for a _____ 's honeymoon in Acapulco. While they were away B
[003] e had always run them for Stanley, going through the _____ in a dazed stupor, getting things done automatically
[004] done automatically, out of habit. For exactly one _____ , she was able to continue in this manner. On th
[005] not included; he had been at the Dumont for almost a _____ . There was, of course, no special reason to believe
[006] rthur. A combo was staying there. And had been for a _____ . Anything else? Anything at all? Shrugs met that.
[007] "? "With my trial coming up in Federal Court next _____ I wouldn't want that picture published". "Who s
[008] he was a hard worker, hustling around to get a full _____ 's work. Anyway, Julia asks me to ...". "Julia"?
[009] full of new furniture, five bucks down and a buck a _____ stuff, but all of it clean and full of the warmth of
[010] Buck owe him any wages"? I asked. "Well, for this _____ , but they wasn't due 'till Saturday. Listen, Mr. Ins
[011] ociety, that he rather smells of cosmetics. The next _____ , cousin Red wandered in as casually, but curt and un
[012] that damn Handley, the sneak"! And later in the same _____ they both came together to examine the register. For
[013] seven o'clock, after mushrooms, since there'd been a _____ of rain which had stopped early that morning and the
[014] bi for D-night. So it wouldn't be for days or even a _____ before you could do anything. But your friend Manny
[015] ng up on each other. This continued most of the _____ following that ill-starred trip to church, during wh
[016] h-weeks each". Mercer did not know what an "Earth- _____ " was, since he had not been a well-read man before h
[017] ups and handled the shipments of raw gold which each _____ went out to San Francisco. Hague squeezed down hi
[018] teaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single _____ . "My reputation's my stock in trade", Tom mention
[019] "I ain't ragging him"! Gran peered again at the _____ -old blond mustache shadowing Dan's upper lip. "But h
[020] me to her as my new Aunt. They were married over the _____ -end, though he was easily sixty and she could not ha
[021] earer three months. He had returned to the pension a _____ ago. Now, he was just in the late poems of Ho^lderli
[022] ed at her sincerity. And for the hundredth time that _____ , he was startled at her beauty. Strange. Seven years
[023] walked was melody. She had been in Japan just one _____ . It was an alien land, and she hated it intensely; s
[024] talking down Eskimos". "Oh, I just come once a _____ . Every day I visit a different hotel. I feel it's my
[025] inued with energy, "I myself did not see her until a _____ after she had run off to find the father. No one saw
6. WORDS
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night
report
service
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week
[001] ime she had spent on Latin verbs. "Not since last _____ . I didn't think there was any reason to". "Mayb
[002] mbered who Gilborn was, what had happened to him the _____ before. He looked at Gilborn with undisguised curios
[003] . He wasn't like so many other men. The dentist last _____ , for instance. Dinner and the movies had been fine.
[004] had been fine. He had taken her upstairs to say good _____ . She had invited him in for coffee. It was in t
[005] surprise and offer her congratulations. That _____ the two of them left for a week's honeymoon in Acapu
[006] e having any sort of active interest in the previous _____ 's noisemakers and paper hats. Felix was the exc
[007] him back. "We're here because of what happened last _____ ", he said. "Past, yes, but important. Since it is im
[008] re tightly drawn and the whole studio was as dark as _____ . He quickly fixed that, rolling back the shades on s
[009] date. And once Bake slipped in, pale and drawn, last _____ 's liquor still on his breath with some of today's ad
[010] gathering but Andy sensed the difference from last _____ 's hero-worshippers. They had come not to admire but
[011] hing of the polish, pace or cohesion of the previous _____ . Here's where luck would normally step in. But this
[012] some water. ("I certainly was not at the Dumont last _____ and my husband couldn't have been. He's in Boston. O
[013] ed streets to railroad stations and, at odd hours of _____ , drive from smaller stations to distant homes, proba
[014] ousy cop to boot, if I'd sat around this station all _____ when somebody got away with murder in my district. I
[015] om from the business office, he nodded and said good _____ to the station keeper and his clerks, not stopping t
[016] lieutenant to sit on his ass around the station all _____ , Killpath would just have to go out and drag Gun bac
[017] of busy creatures that had lain dormant in the quiet _____ . Mission Street at this hour was populated by a whol
[018] strings tied. Who's ..."? "I'll collar Tim before _____ ". "Who's your witness"? "Julia had- has- an
[019] dered yourself- between eleven p.m. and one a.m. the _____ you arrive". Alec smirked. "Cheerful way to spend
[020] e tiled floor, and Persian rugs. He studied the _____ clerk as a man measures an adversary. "I'd like the
[021] ated. Then, "I'm not talking. But I wouldn't spend a _____ in here for a million bucks"! He was in a hurry t
[022] neup at Police Headquarters in New York, in Broadway _____ clubs and Seventh Avenue pool rooms, in the criminal
[023] y, the hangover reminded Haney where he had been the _____ before. The hangover in turn reminded him of his con
[024] s the same bar, and it was two weeks later- Saturday _____ , when he had an excuse to drink heavier than usual.
[025] drinks. I'd brought along the virgin pint from last _____ , but we were going to kill that only when we were th
7. WORDS
always
away
company
far
night
report
service
something
until
week
[001] It must be coming from an upright heater against the _____ wall in the supervisors' office. Until now, Lil
[002] door and surprised a domestic little scene which was _____ outside the dark realm of murder or attempted murder
[003] to disperse them. His son watched until he got as _____ as the hall, almost out of sight, then hurried after
[004] having some kind of teen-age affair- God knows how _____ that had gone- and the kid's crippled. He limps, and
[005] murder. The whole thing, his manner conveyed, was so _____ outside the normal routine of Hohlbein and Garth tha
[006] ty". He spotted Docherty coming out of a room at the _____ end of the corridor and called to him. Docherty
[007] side of the door. Hoag pushed open the door: at the _____ end of the long dark room Muller was faintly silhoue
[008] then his mind moved on to be confronted by something _____ more serious, and as the thought expanded, the impli
[009] in a line on the chart. "We're out just a little too _____ . Make a 90 degree straight for shore". Poet cam
[010] , not enough tourists or working stiffs. It's at the _____ end of the county and the last time I came here was
[011] "Don't worry about my being tough, Moore. Also, it's _____ too early in the day for corny lines like the bigger
[012] sitting in the usual corner at the little table, as _____ as possible from any talkative, friendly lushes. He
[013] room, empty except for a few things of Pop's at the _____ end- a wooden crate on which stood the candle, a spr
[014] he better. I was dead tired and slept soundly, as _____ as I know dreamlessly. We met at Maxine's and d
[015] lva would live a rewarding, rich and unusual life, a _____ cry from what she would have faced as an ordinary, "
[016] child-face grimace as the head was cut; he felt the _____ , cool flash of unimportant pain, as B'dikkat dabbed
[017] hide among the frozen crop of transmuted flesh. _____ long ago, some other prisoner than one of these had
[018] had thought up was dispelled. No girl would go this _____ to fool a man so she could kill him. Besides, she ha
[019] eck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow _____ away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in
[020] nd told him how his cattle were being rustled at the _____ end of the valley. He remembered Gavin's smirk, his
[021] om all that had meaning to him. California is too _____ , he thought. He would never reach California. He was
[022] ead up! They'll be back"! Montero was shouting. _____ up the valley I could see the Rees circling and reor
[023] teface bull that was chewing its cud just within the _____ reaches of the firelight. She studied it for a long
[024] e rang he answered it. His authority extended to the _____ edge of the counter, no further. None of the men han
[025] s daylight filtered through their vents, down at the _____ end of the hall, could be turned on by a master swit
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[001] gainst the far wall in the supervisors' office. _____ now, Lilac Gaylor and Lila Kingsley had been like an
[002] lls so's nobody would suspect- maybe couldn't get it _____ Monday account of that, the banks- But that wasn't r
[003] ery soon now ... #@ SIXTEEN @# Mendoza didn't wake _____ nearly nine-thirty. It was going to be another hot d
[004] capsule, a crutch he rarely used, and didn't awaken _____ early afternoon. Memory flooded him the instant he o
[005] s of the police to disperse them. His son watched _____ he got as far as the hall, almost out of sight, then
[006] questions. I stalled him off. He doesn't expect you _____ five". "Then I'd better wait
[007] five". "Then I'd better wait _____ five". "No ... o ... o. Come home right away". Sh
[008] cheming, poking, prodding, suggesting, and dictating _____ the cops got up enough interest in him to go back to
[009] nd they're gone. I'm sure they were in the garage up _____ a couple of days ago. Or even yesterday. You used to
[010] t. He had to look for other prospects, other motives _____ more conclusive evidence pointing to Johnston came t
[011] Griffith said, "Hoag told me to tell you"- he waited _____ they were close; it was hideously embarrassing- "not
[012] n do who have been born to money and social position _____ his father double-crossed him by dying broke. Since
[013] dham said, "but I've never been able to get anywhere _____ the last few days". The girl's eyes were softly
[014] In fact, he did not think about Jerry Burton at all _____ he entered his living room and closed the door behin
[015] still on. slowly he pulled out the hand throttle _____ the boat was moving at little more than a crawl, and
[016] came behind the wheel and backed off the anchor line _____ it was set in the ocean floor. She cut the engines a
[017] wly the cruiser swung around on the end of its lines _____ its bow was pointing into the wind and the cockpit f
[018] Julia phone me. Nellie went on with her house work- _____ I found Julia dead. And before you say it, Nellie ai
[019] "Did you hear Tim return"? "No sir. Nobody came _____ Chief Moore". I drummed on the kitchen table with
[020] dumb. A man, lighting a match for his cigar, paused _____ the flame burned his fingers. Even the bellboys on
[021] his new-found buddy had matched him drink for drink _____ he lost count, and the man's eyes were still clear.
[022] t for stakes. But let's not talk about it abstractly _____ we're out of here. Now, first question: the bottles.
[023] news". Mike had not heard it; he had not known it _____ asked. "They should not be sad. Mr. Booker T. W. Jon
[024] o louse it up. Foster listened with angelic patience _____ Digby ran down, then said, "Listen, junior, you're
[025] me for recriminations. You too were a stupid jackass _____ you poisoned me. Afterwards you did well enough. Now
9. WORDS
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[001] , said Mr. Skyros. "And you know, Angelo, Pretty, he _____ keeps it a strict cash basis, like they say"- "
[002] Katharine- Let's ask Katharine to go with us, she's _____ lots of fun- Katharine- Soon, very soon now ...
[003] n't choose Rev as a confidant; it must be Lucien. _____ provided that Lucien himself had not dosed her coffe
[004] ee him again. Stanley wasn't like that. She could _____ predict what Stanley was going to do, ever since she
[005] the office every morning, running things as she had _____ run them for Stanley, going through the week in a da
[006] That much Latin we remember", Gibby said dryly. "You _____ live up to your name,
[007] live up to your name, _____ like this,
[008] like this, _____ making happy"? "I try", Felix said blithely. "The
[009] You may think we didn't need Nancy and Jean, but you _____ get what you can when you can, and we had no guarant
[010] information to improve on his situation, there might _____ be some way. If you can possibly avoid it, you don't
[011] pened and hell knew it too. But- it happened, almost _____ , among the primitive and, usually, among the very yo
[012] hnston affair. She'd have consulted us, you see. She _____ did before, and showed the utmost confidence in what
[013] light brown hair that had a pronounced wave. He was _____ well groomed and well tailored, and he had that rich
[014] nt up stairs and did the bath and her bedroom- way I _____ do in the morning". "Have you any idea what thi
[015] n to one, it's even been redecorated"! "There's _____ a chance they may have overlooked something", return
[016] rate". Alec's face was dark, blunt, and sulky. He _____ looked impertinent and he could look dangerous. He
[017] rately, to Gloucester some twenty years ago- there's _____ been an artists' colony somewhere on Cape Ann- and e
[018] about it, as though it were of no consequence. He's _____ like that, in spite of being a big man. (When you se
[019] er. A real gentleman, I feel, would do neither. He's _____ worn a broad-brimmed hat, and I've noticed, in my sm
[020] bristled. Le rouge et le noir. Violent men both. Red _____ was morose, yet that day the dapper Handley was the
[021] ur landlord's habits and movements first. You see, I _____ make it look like an accident. Maybe suicide, if it
[022] mpatiently. "Of course it looked like an accident. I _____ work it that way- and
[023] work it that way- and _____ at a time when the customer has an alibi. Let me pro
[024] At first I was homesick", he answered. "I was lonely _____ ". He rolled toward her and took her in his arms. "Bu
[025] as? Is! As I grew older and was promoted, so was he, _____ where I was. He was my gapt in the creche. He was th
10. WORDS
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company
far
night
report
service
something
until
week
[001] ortly after they were married. He was a salesman for _____ or other and must have been transferred. I'm sure it
[002] d thanked her. "Have they inherited some money or _____ "? she asked with a reportorial gleam in her eye.
[003] rell is a private detective, Hirey. Wants to look up _____ in the newspaper files, so don't lock him in here".
[004] around, saw nothing, and decided it must be a mouse. _____ else distracted him, yet there was no sound, only to
[005] stitious man, but he felt perhaps there was a little _____ in that, indeed. He rather wished he had never got i
[006] No need leave a note with it, either- or maybe just _____ like, Don't worry about me, I'm going away to make a
[007] de would attempt to frighten her. Besides, there was _____ hysterical and silly,
[008] hysterical and silly, _____ almost childish about an attempt to frighten her. Ma
[009] ammer. Lolotte held a patch of leather, Rev steadied _____ , a tiny brad, waiting for George's poised hammer. Ge
[010] er. She eyed the chickens with, if she had known it, _____ of Glendora's dismal look and thought with a certain
[011] o make sure. Also, it's just possible she might know _____ about Mrs. Gilborn". "Right. I'll see you later
[012] ays when he didn't come in at all. Blanche knew _____ must be causing Stanley's new, strange behavior but
[013] ou go into the house oppressed by the knowledge that _____ is cooking and that your house has passed under this
[014] to court and have it officially changed, and this is _____ I don't tell everybody. That was almost forty years
[015] ing even so much as a crack of glare. Expecting _____ more-than-average wacky, I was surprised by what we
[016] k. He stalled for a half-hour longer, hoping to hear _____ from Vecchio about the ransom money. Bake and Shirl
[017] my regular closing number tonight, I'd like to sing _____ of a different nature for you. Ray, if you please- t
[018] nd some sort of new evidence, a bundle of clothes or _____ , and it must link the kid even stronger to the crime
[019] Holden turned from the window draperies. "They found _____ else up there", she said half-aloud to the empty roo
[020] to the empty room. "They took it away, overalls or _____ ". She walked restlessly across the room, then back t
[021] se cops turn around! They'll ... they'll think I did _____ ". He couldn't see the grin that split her mouth;
[022] e little office sat old man Arthur; he was straight, _____ angry in his attitude, as if he might be waiting to
[023] in his attitude, as if he might be waiting to report _____ . Holden stepped on the gas. A new idea drifted
[024] om from the hallway to the kitchen. She had a cup of _____ steaming, coffee perhaps, in one hand, a fresh piece
[025] nd explain what happened. Tell them the truth ... or _____ ... before they come here". A seeping coldness en