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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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[001] Regnier, another Morningstar analyst, selected Domini _____ Equity, an index fund whose annual expense ratio of 0
[002] ause he wanted a "socially responsible " fund. Domini _____ Equity, which owns stocks that meet certain
[003] Equity, which owns stocks that meet certain _____ criteria, mimics the sector distribution of the Stan
[004] women still lag behind men in traditional pension and _____ Security benefits. And because they live longer, wom
[005] most national pension systems in Europe, as well as _____ Security in the United States, is headed inexorably f
[006] y available. Peer advisers help students with their _____ lives, linking them with friends and faculty. Dr. (Mi
[007] d variegated book. Part confession, part memoir, part _____ and sexual history of the last three decades of gay
[008] and his background gave him an acute sensitivity to _____ distinctions. From his earliest stories he was fascin
[009] be shown on the screen of a fluoroscope gradations of _____ prestige of which one before had not been aware. ' U
[010] Latinos. With so many Latinos visible in a variety of _____ spheres, Latino public personages are somehow less r
[011] ious of the urban model of the European city and the _____ ills that they perceived grew out of its density and
[012] l. This other kind of city was, in fact, the cause of _____ problems- alienation, community disintegration, dead
[013] ion, community disintegration, deadening conformity, _____ and economic injustice. It is still difficult to read
[014] really needs,' said Ramiro Nepita, 35, a Mexico City _____ worker who belongs to the Democratic Alliance, PRI re
[015] e part because they are the place where this nation's _____ problems come home to roost. But as voters study vouc
[016] all applicants, regardless of educational ability or _____ background? If a school accepts only those children i
[017] or credits in high school: four in English, three in _____ studies/science, three in mathematics, three in natur
[018] ages. Sweden's self-image is built around its humane _____ welfare system at home and its promotion of racial
[019] newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, reported this month that _____ Democratic governments between 1935 and 1976 coerced
[020] irmly entrenched process. That in turn disrupts some _____ system, fixture, or institution. After technological
[021] namic than either innovation operating alone. Larger _____ disruptions occur. A new technology may be developed
[022] custom, practice, or system; an organization having a _____ , educational, or religious purpose". To advocate chan
[023] systems would work in a similar way without curtailing _____ life. Security guards would no longer be restricted t
[024] it also brings back indentured labor. What are the _____ consequences of such a twin- level society? What is
[025] al of the company. Dumb. Especially when, with proper _____ incentives and availability of training, that floor s
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[001] ock price sagged after a corporate reorganization - _____ it has since rebounded strongly. Another was Stew Leo
[002] illion- dollar home. Mr. Colonnese is also a golfer, _____ he might find the Trout Brook Valley golf course's m
[003] Carroll Gardens to the housing projects of Red Hook. _____ only on the job two months, Mr. DeStefano, a heavyse
[004] result of his not having to commute on the L. I. E. ( _____ I'm sure his version would indicate both are torture)
[005] ocus on state and local topics, are getting tougher ( _____ they've never been easy). In New Jersey as in the n
[006] nd millions, full- page newspaper ads appearing even _____ no legislation has yet been introduced. And a countr
[007] eart of yet another unsuspecting opponent. This time, _____ , it did my heart good. H'cone was 16 now, his once
[008] r - and win - Super Bowl XXXII in San Diego Jan. 25. _____ only 89 players switched teams, the lowest number sin
[009] until they are 16, was the star of the evening even _____ she lost to third-seeded Jana Novotna, 6-2, 6-7 (7-3)
[010] . ' It owns 463 stocks of various shapes and sizes, _____ mainly large. Stansky buys both growth (that is, fas
[011] ure treasured independent of their political careers ( _____ of course not independent of their ideology). A few
[012] . But once the Ford Cobras roared down Aliso Street- _____ little faster than the traffic just below on the Hol
[013] power and feeling. At the end, the beautiful room, _____ in fact emptied of many of its AIDS-stricken dancers,
[014] Boy's Own Story,' for example, the Midwest setting, _____ carefully depicted, is never specified. This lends a
[015] ssler is a late entry into these annals of complaint, _____ you wouldn't know it from his wide- eyed and breathl
[016] d have furnished the basis of a great novel. No need _____ : In 'The Napoleon of Crime-The Life and Times of Ada
[017] for this gesture of friendship. He politely declined, _____ , because the 55- year-old pediatrician's presence was
[018] t, who died in May 1996 of autoerotic asphyxiation. _____ it was obviously an accident, reports of Gilbert's de
[019] ,' garnered better reviews than its predecessor, even _____ she was working with different musicians and doing m
[020] e sensitive accompaniments. Favorable audio review. _____ he was at one time considered this country's greates
[021] s her seem 10 years younger. She also laughs easily, _____ often at the wrong time, like when retelling a pain
[022] l of it, the size of a small ballroom, in the 1930s. _____ Wright expressed contempt for 20th century American c
[023] eless' still roam the streets, year after year, even _____ they're being dealt with in other cities more humanel
[024] nd off to the store to buy a program to do that, even _____ the odds are they'll never need to do it again. If you
[025] r Frank Sinatra and was a pal of Wayne Newton - even _____ he calls "Danke Schon" "a stupid song." He was the o
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[001] red statue in a cemetery or garden, she's a peaceful _____ , but her body is pierced by a bronze culvert pipe th
[002] s are going to be dinosaurs. Try thinking of ways to _____ out what students know other than by how long they sa
[003] ter having climbed six-tenths of 1 percent in June, a _____ unchanged from the initial report. It was the weakes
[004] organizations, is running around 20 percent. The true _____ is probably closer to 30 percent because many larger
[005] though vacancy rates still hover between the official _____ of around 1 percent and the "street rating" of 5 per
[006] ions. Leave your message, if you are bright enough to _____ out how, and someone may call you back. Perhaps afte
[007] auty. For this New Yorkers have made him into a cult _____ . Conversation there in recent weeks has centred on t
[008] rage, but he was also, from the beginning, a central _____ . There cannot really have been the "architect- client
[009] itain's great Renaissance architect remains a shadowy _____ . David Brady reports on the lack of support that nea
[010] n more by name than for his work. For such a central _____ in the development of the arts in Britain, Jones rem
[011] s, like Shakespeare, another contemporary, a shadowy _____ . But he is one of Britain's true ideal Renaissance m
[012] alternative audiences", it cuts an oddly respectable _____ in the modestly louche surroundings of Chapter. Two r
[013] , except at a time of national emergency, a resonant _____ of any sort. He has so few doubts, and his objective
[014] we are carefully informed, is unmistakably a Christ- _____ , and throughout the second half Jack Klaff is dressed
[015] g cries that try to resurrect the king, and the still _____ of Jack Klaff, there is nothing radical or dynamic in
[016] ader's chair was occupied by the familiar and welcome _____ of Bradley Creswick, who recently moved to the Philh
[017] LM's representative on the NorthWest board. "I can't _____ out why foreign investment is the battlefield he deci
[018] 1989 volume should comfortably surpass 1986's record _____ of dollars 179bn, and may yet reach the magic dollar
[019] purchase of HP Sauce and Lea &Perrins from Hanson, a _____ of between £30m to £40m may have been paid. With a
[020] r cent in August _ barely changed on the provisional _____ . In the year to August, sales were just 1.2 per cent
[021] sting that they stand a good chance of winning a six _____ sum of money and a car in a prize draw. With the pos
[022] tions that directors had jumped the gun by putting a _____ to the fraud before Coopers had completed its report
[023] tt, had hoped for £12m before tax; in the event the _____ was £9.54m, still 89 per cent up on the correspondin
[024] ritish Steel would now "rest content" at the combined _____ of 35 per cent. The acquisition of Walker will put B
[025] Grosz, the outgoing general secretary, cut a lonely _____ as he bowed out, dropping hints that in future he wou
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[001] and piercing eyes stood there, and I pushed Gregory _____ him. We explained our mission, and the policeman nod
[002] e market- rate rent for the apartment, while turning _____ mixed-income housing as an alternative to large- scal
[003] the end of an earlier boom, Long Island is climbing _____ a new economic peak that has economists, planners and
[004] lted in part from a distinct change in NATO's policy _____ the Dayton agreements. Until recently, Western polit
[005] me, being ratcheted up the mountain from the airport _____ Acapulco in a little VW Beetle taxi, the new gold rin
[006] terans, pushing a shopping cart as he continued down _____ self-destruction. It was only through the interventi
[007] rsa, as Hollywood's most watched financial tiff heads _____ a November trial date in Los Angeles Superior Court.
[008] fight over bilingual education and lingering animosity _____ Gov. Pete Wilson. Leading the initiative drive is Re
[009] m. ' Late in this second novel, as if feeling his way _____ his ultimate methodology, the narrator characterizes
[010] esmanship, wholly uninhibited and urgent in its drive _____ exhaustiveness, becomes the modus operandi of 'The F
[011] my work'), was dominated by them, even as she groped _____ a new syntax throughout a 24-year writing career tha
[012] switched teams doesn't mean I have any hard feelings _____ them. It's only a coincidence that I did well agains
[013] ly provide the first indication molten rock is moving _____ the surface, often followed by venting of steam and
[014] elighted by the memorial. They see it as a major step _____ equality. The issue of total equality is a burning o
[015] into a waiting car and whisked her against her will _____ the Bosnian Serbs' mountain capital at Pale, where h
[016] ome directly involved in politics as the nation heads _____ a scheduled election in May. Mr. Hun Sen has said he
[017] tone- faced when he finally emerged from his privacy _____ evening yesterday. The march, just like the torture
[018] in the tissues. Their work took science a giant step _____ an understanding of how proteins do their vital work.
[019] ield directs the flow. A fluid in a dish can jump out _____ a nearby magnet! If an object heavier than the fluid
[020] g to the bottom the object becomes buoyant and drifts _____ the center of the container. There are considerable
[021] y's -- not tomorrow's -- technology. As Drexler works _____ building the first crude molecular assembler, Dr. Ral
[022] failing large companies, that same legislation works _____ the fracturing of the business world and the benefit o
[023] one 12-inch disk! And on top of all this is the trend _____ small businesses that operate from the home. One rece
[024] ou attach the card to your sun visor, which you turn _____ the driver's side window. The decimal point starts bl
[025] kard computer fame who donated more than $50 million _____ its construction. The aquarium has been a catalyst fo
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[001] en moves on to depict the Acadians farming, going to _____ and building dikes, the British cannons firing, Anna
[002] e. Here you'll find the town square (or zocalo), the _____ , several hundred stalls of the municipal market and
[003] f the Georgia WIMSA chapter, for a year, speaking to _____ groups throughout the metro area. Sellers was a nurse
[004] handling doctrinal debates within the Roman Catholic _____ , setting down clear guidelines for how dissident the
[005] guidelines appear to be an attempt by the Catholic _____ , which maintains its centuries- old tradition of a s
[006] moir, he attended the Jewish chapel, then switched to _____ . After graduating from West Point, Mr. Salter enroll
[007] lined the streets outside St. Edmund's Roman Catholic _____ in Sheepshead Bay as skirling bagpipes played "Amaz
[008] to the couple's baby, Gabrielle, in May, entered the _____ with her head down and dark glasses covering her eye
[009] ion of African American churches, (Charles) Johnson's _____ and its pastor also share a 6 percent commission for
[010] rmation. He belonged to St. Frances de Sales Catholic _____ in Washington. In 1976, she returned temporarily to
[011] ly by hand. Initially only the the illuminati of the _____ and then a few members of royalty were able to see a
[012] garb? Or should development be given over to a broad _____ of interest groups and realised by a catholic mix of
[013] the open-air market in the shadow of old St Martin's _____ , explore the curving three- storey shopping halls or
[014] 's Cathedral the view is no longer dominated by City _____ steeples but by an intrusive cacophony of drab, chara
[015] from Wren's dome. This is not an office block, nor a _____ - although its sublime form might suggest that its ar
[016] nce, it seems to belong to some strange Expressionist _____ one has not noticed before. Not for nothing were such
[017] e beautiful proportions of the portico of St George's _____ , are all circumstances that unite in beauty, and mak
[018] e beautiful proportions of the portico of St George's _____ , are all circumstances that unite in beauty, and mak
[019] t to work briefly for the "amazingly claustrophobic" _____ Commissioners before moving on to the Islington offi
[020] t good news to learn that the redundant St Stephen's _____ is to be "refurbished as a heritage centre"? From an
[021] les Rennie Mackintosh, 1903-04.) Where can you go to _____ in a Greek sarcophagus? (St Jude's
[022] in a Greek sarcophagus? (St Jude's _____ , Blythswood, 1838-39 by John Stephen.) Is that the tw
[023] carpet factory or "Greek" Thompson's Vincent Street _____ (ish thish the Acropolish I shee before me?) could o
[024] d fluted columns are miraculously transposed from the _____ to the fortress. Perhaps the final act, with its slo
[025] : HID (Hess is Dead) - RSC Almeida season By MICHAEL _____ IN a pre- production interview with this paper Howar
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[001] to lighten his course load during the year and make _____ for swimming. He includes Spanish among his favorit
[002] geable when I walked it from my bedroom to my living _____ back in California) was more unwieldy than I had anti
[003] apologized to the bystanders for. The Liberty locker _____ was quiet before today's game and silent afterward.
[004] ,600 to 2,000 square feet, with 19- foot-high living _____ ceilings, wood-burning fireplaces, skylights and view
[005] restaurant is closed, they are opening up the dining _____ by taking out some columns and substituting heavy ste
[006] appings of a Big Washington Issue: a White House war _____ staffed by special outside lobbyists, coalitions on b
[007] $52 a night, we got an air- conditioned, ocean-side _____ with a balcony, fridge and shower in an older hotel
[008] former staffer who started in (Arlen) Specter's mail _____ in 1992 and worked his way up to legislative assista
[009] ian Hamilton stands in a windowless fluorescent- lit _____ in the bowels of D. C. 's Superior Court building, wi
[010] oom just a few feet away. They both enter the small _____ and the door creaks closed. Mirrors are everywhere. T
[011] y Healey waits for the answer in the doorway of the _____ where she has just killed a cat. It went quietly, as
[012] narrator was still in boarding school. 'The Beautiful _____ Is Empty' (1988) followed the narrator from the rep
[013] xually, creatively and intellectually. 'The Beautiful _____ ' ended in 1969 with the Stonewall riots ('Our Bastill
[014] tion of power and feeling. At the end, the beautiful _____ , though in fact emptied of many of its AIDS-stricken
[015] ), an approach that begins to fade in 'The Beautiful _____ . ' Late in this second novel, as if feeling his way t
[016] s keeping it at arm's length. He enjoys cable TV and _____ service. Acquaintances think of him as a couch potato
[017] ith outstretched hands, standing in the center of the _____ . Cast in concrete and sandblasted to resemble a weat
[018] ue paint. Little smudges and stains of color dot every _____ of his house. In the rearmost bedroom, which he use
[019] a bench up to the piano at Mr. A's, a popular dining _____ and lounge where he has been a fixture for years. He
[020] ee- story house she cleans in the suburbs to the one- _____ apartment she shares just west of downtown covers le
[021] t plus two pools, a pool house, guardhouse, exercise _____ and two saunas. Hammer filed for bankruptcy in 1996
[022] al light, comfortable banquettes and plenty of elbow _____ between the tables. The gleaming stainless- steel ope
[023] row of stools, adds focus and excitement to the airy _____ . By comparison, the fenced-in front patio with umbre
[024] 4 million fund- raising campaign. Still, Manley sees _____ for improvement. She said 'the rigor of the curricul
[025] ny will say the writing itself. They'll rearrange the _____ in which they write, line up pencils, undertake a las
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[001] to enlist official help. Ms. Moore plays an ambitious _____ Navy intelligence officer who is selected to become
[002] er. A wily woman Senator who initially championed the _____ officer helps the Navy blackmail her on phony charge
[003] went to deposit it in the local police box. A stocky _____ policeman with trim hair and piercing eyes stood th
[004] always mattered. When Giants General Manager George _____ was deciding if Brown was worth a first-round supple
[005] perhaps a testament to the second kind of miracle. A _____ Washington lawyer, he was even closer to death last
[006] ears. 'That's why I don't think the rules are great. [ _____ players] show the results and can play well, so they
[007] nder the meadow, where a shepherd collie darts among _____ lambs and butterflies soar and dive. It is a scene s
[008] et is bursting with energy, and the nation's talented _____ artists have been gracing the glossy pages of interna
[009] decision to defect is a lonely one like that. For two _____ baseball players like Jesus Ametller and William Orte
[010] S. He was sacked, and he needed more money. By dying _____ and frail, Chatwin seems to have disappointed those
[011] o, have exploded after acquiring Otis Nixon and Eric _____ . Nixon had three hits in four at-bats and drove in th
[012] ers before a paid crowd of 53,638 at Dodger Stadium. _____ had a two run- scoring doubles in three at- bats an
[013] s in three at- bats and scored three runs. Nixon and _____ have a combined. 400 batting average with eight runs
[014] have solidified his position in history, but he died _____ (and insane) at age 47 in 1908. Working against him t
[015] example. Your parents might have anticipated that a _____ soprano making an L. A. debut as Mimi, such as Ana M
[016] reclaim its former powerhouse position in junior and _____ women's apparel. The company is also beefing up its
[017] re male-only -but the changes came too late for Lucy _____ , a commercial pilot and a deskbound captain in the Na
[018] leans brazenly against the post. Just behind him is a _____ guy who sent this card to his dad in 1916, writing o
[019] raeli forces from southern Lebanon, a day after four _____ Israeli soldiers burned to death there in a blaze ign
[020] victory for Japanese who have been trying to educate _____ people about their country's wartime atrocities, the
[021] rdic or mixed ethnic backgrounds. It is sad to see a _____ politician's promising career go down the drain in a
[022] diabolically programmed to place authentic demands on _____ caregivers - primarily the tasks of tending to both
[023] nsive, space- efficient means for inculcating in the _____ a sense of discipline and responsibility. (Which is w
[024] e messes on your carpet. Tamagotchis also motivate a _____ mind to get comfortable with digital technology. If
[025] victory over No. 8 Anke Huber - the biggest win of her _____ career - and was embraced as wildly and warmly by th
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[001] hard to keep the hammer on them, because it's human _____ to relax a little bit. As the NFL begins its 78th sea
[002] w from the moment I began reading Whitman's muscular, _____ - ridden verses that something in them touched me dee
[003] e Mariners in the American League West. 'It's human _____ to want to do well against your old team,' said Snow,
[004] ion of mainstream songs, most of them of a depressing _____ . But in the past, the band has offered music that wa
[005] mental despoiler, it did create the largest system of _____ preserves in the world. This vast natural collection o
[006] sky, inhaling deeply and marveling at the majesty of _____ , the mountains and rushing water (melting off Lassen)
[007] ed on the automobile and yet preserving contact with _____ , can be discerned under the deceptive surface of our
[008] in the spiritual benefits of continuous contact with _____ -a recurring theme in American thought and literature.
[009] ted to reestablish the nuclear family in relation to _____ -a building block of Jeffersonian democracy. To recov
[010] state technology, a new class of materials unknown in _____ . Ferrofluids are a completely new type of material. T
[011] by the design of a working enzyme unlike anything in _____ . This could herald the concept of evolution-in- a-dr
[012] velop nanotechnology during this decade. The journal _____ recently convened a conference in Japan on nanotechn
[013] aping from everyday life and immersing themselves in _____ . Combined with the diversification of lifestyles and
[014] duced by the twenty-four-hour convenience store. The _____ of food will change, too. Researchers at the U.S. Dep
[015] cess has come a long way in a relatively short time. _____ might have taken a billion years to isolate and tran
[016] tory by improving the breed at a rate far faster than _____ could. The technique that makes this possible is arti
[017] lower retail prices. Agnes has some advantages over _____ 's model. It's no secret that young piglets have a tou
[018] cts, such as John Simpson and Quinlan Terry, are, by _____ of the style they choose to work in, a good thing. Mo
[019] sidents are struggling to stop, or at least change the _____ of the giant new retail redevelopment, designed by Ch
[020] aked havoc with traditional societies. The speed and _____ of change have been traumatic. Muslims who wish to m
[021] elaxed. His equanimity may owe as much to the steady _____ of his professional evolution as to his ability to ba
[022] from disappearing into itself is the obliquely moving _____ of the central relationship and some patchy but start
[023] Ghanashyam (A Broken Branch) approaches opera in the _____ of the story it tells: originating in village festivi
[024] uiry into a fundamental shift in Western attitudes to _____ . All in all, very far from kid's stuff. ’Ä¢Arts Page
[025] sture can convey the destructive extremes of Nikiya's _____ . Only she can phrase her movement so that its rhythm
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[001] adept play- caller. OUTLOOK: The Colts, after a 4-0 _____ last year, were hampered by injuries but still made t
[002] ducate dog owners about responsible dog ownership and _____ enforcing the numerous dog- related laws that already
[003] sses, the rain did not fall. "Full of information, the _____ of this East African folk tale evokes a distant past,
[004] cream and black olives - plenty for two to share. Or _____ with a vegetable roll, a pretty presentation in the J
[005] bout a little- understood organism, especially at the _____ of a holiday associated with boating, swimming and ea
[006] ese older neighborhoods never get so bad that people _____ to abandon them. ' Revitalizing older commercial cent
[007] named for him. Ashe was a great champion. He didn't _____ playing tennis until later in life, like me, but he s
[008] pendent schools in the District. People who want to _____ new schools in the District can now seek charters fro
[009] worried that 'when September's numbers are out, we'll _____ getting $400 million or $500 million a month' in ne
[010] Nuremberg. The Los Angeles Grand Prix sputtered to a _____ Saturday as construction crews rushed to finish fenc
[011] the Hollywood Freeway- some fans forgot the thwarted _____ . If God himself one day came looking for a close- u
[012] fe of the loan. The following figures assume that you _____ accelerated principal payments in the first month o
[013] 6 and was playing semipro by age 12. Almost from the _____ , he was drawn to the sound of boogie- woogie, enrapt
[014] ing hard enough and cursed sincerely enough it would _____ working), a couple of screwdrivers and a pair of Vise
[015] the Stormont area of Belfast, where the talks are to _____ on Sept. 15. "In reaching it I have considered care
[016] 8 percent. Still, the Dow is up 18 percent since the _____ of the year. Still, yesterday's session seemed to be
[017] anged but the game itself. Many in that industry will _____ worrying too as others, raised with the new game, bec
[018] ture Survival Guide 1. If you are not there already, _____ preparing to switch to a sunrise field from a sunset f
[019] ould be more than a new discovery -- it could be the _____ of a new industry. Nanotechnology Here's a real-life
[020] be replaced by a machine, even one not yet invented, _____ retraining now. Global competition dictates it. If yo
[021] in San Francisco, offers computer data entry. Prices _____ at seventy- five cents per thousand computer keystro
[022] nety percent of all you will work or play with by the _____ of the third millennium hasn't yet been developed. Ci
[023] , movie spectaculars, and election polling booths to _____ using the "talking posters" in the near future. Airb
[024] omputers will change the face of medicine before the _____ of the third millennium. Scientists have now sucessfu
[025] With the mastery of genetic manipulation, humans will _____ designing their successors. With this will come incre