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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] tution over 20 or 30 years, especially at a time when _____ are set up at about the same time. What you can do,
[002] ld.' One of my grandsons, a bright young man, has had _____ offers from well-established and well-thought-of univ
[003] m Tonga, Western Samoa, Australia and Wales all have _____ true believers. Chester Williams, the only black memb
[004] come out as a Christian. Kriss Akabusi says he knows _____ famous sportsmen and women who prefer to keep their
[005] for his refusal to pay tax. In February 1983 he shot _____ federal marshals who tried to arrest him, killing two
[006] im, killing two. The 63- year-old went on the run for _____ months. He was eulogised in country and western song
[007] e hours, for example by following a language course. _____ large firms, such as British Aerospace, operate open
[008] he two world wars. Glyn Jones was typical of them in _____ crucial respects. Born in Merthyr Tydfil in 1905, int
[009] tances among the London literati. Glyn Jones received _____ honours during the course of his literary career. He
[010] e led a walk-out of their volunteer replacements. For _____ years he actively represented Labour Party interests
[011] tailed, explanatory diagrams, and over 270 footnotes, _____ of them the length of paragraphs. Other similarly ori
[012] e shadow Foreign Secretary will be there, along with _____ hundred dignitaries and pundits including Henry Kissi
[013] o turn the mandarins into marketing managers. She cut _____ British missions in countries where Britain was said
[014] that experience is beyond me. I could hear him from _____ hundred yards away. As I slung pebble after pebble i
[015] SON, academic and writer I'm sure I read Little Women _____ times. The thing I most remember about it was Beth dy
[016] and. Stallworthy picks up the argument put forward by _____ Irish writers (Edna Longley, Tom Paulin, Peter MacDo
[017] this part of his life, but Stallworthy tactfully winds _____ strands of personal mat-erial around the professional
[018] writing one dramatic masterpiece (The Dark Tower) and _____ very good ones (Christopher Columbus, Persons from P
[019] are victimised in some ways. 14 November: I've heard _____ reports of attacks on students by local people. You
[020] 88,000 school-leavers who are currently unemployed. _____ of the girls already have Saturday jobs, earning at
[021] girl managed to support all her family (and possibly _____ children) on the strength of her singing, teaching an
[022] novel from the Sixties, Shadow Dance, and her third, _____ Perceptions, is reissued this week, three years afte
[023] broke off the pattern of her growing reputation. For _____ years, after her pyrotechnic start, she didn't get mu
[024] y was transient.' Red lipstick is back again, I see. ' _____ Perceptions', by Angela Carter, is re-issued by Virag
[025] the families had usually had intellectual leanings for _____ generations. It is far more common in boys than in gi
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[001] udents is more generous than we can now afford. Five _____ cent, ten
[002] cent, ten _____ cent, perhaps 15
[003] cent, perhaps 15 _____ cent of each age group; not 30
[004] cent of each age group; not 30 _____ cent. Too many other areas are short of money. Predi
[005] 12 essays a term. It takes about 20 hours of research _____ essay, and more if you count writing time and orderi
[006] ernment plans to ease the cap in 1998 to allow three _____ cent growth by the start of the next century. Governm
[007] by the start of the next century. Government funding _____ student received by universities has fallen in real
[008] eived by universities has fallen in real terms by 25 _____ cent in five years, and is projected to drop a furthe
[009] n five years, and is projected to drop a further nine _____ cent in the next three years. Student grants were fro
[010] ent Loans Company. Last year, grants were cut by ten _____ cent - the first stage in a 30
[011] cent - the first stage in a 30 _____ cent reduction over three years. The next cut is due
[012] ation - unless the graduate's income is less than 85 _____ cent of the average wage (about pounds 14,500). From
[013] urvey. Graduate unemployment has fallen, despite a 25 _____ cent increase in students leaving universities with d
[014] e in students leaving universities with degrees; 43.9 _____ cent of graduates found work six months after graduat
[015] months after graduation. Unemployment fell from 12.7 _____ cent in 1992 to 11.7
[016] cent in 1992 to 11.7 _____ cent in 1993 across old and new universities. Univer
[017] universities. University hall fees have risen by 5.5 _____ cent and private rents by 7
[018] cent and private rents by 7 _____ cent. The most expensive place to study is London. Ch
[019] iversity and course can affect your job chances: 3.55 _____ cent of Oxford graduates are unemployed six months a
[020] re unemployed six months after leaving, whereas 13.49 _____ cent are unemployed after Keele. But six of the top
[021] ears. At the very least it should waive the pounds 5 _____ pupil fee for appeals. The SCAA said it had only rec
[022] area - with fees ranging from pounds 5 to pounds 15 _____ week
[023] week _____ child - are Making French Fun, Pre-School Pottery, M
[024] methodology (grammar, language awareness, workshops) _____ week, plus essays and lesson preparation after hours.
[025] rters, who contribute to an income of pounds 250,000 _____ year. An Evangelical missionary organisation, it prom
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[001] e Worst (1988). Such despairing pessimism had, as is _____ the case, profound roots in childhood. The prosperous
[002] gardens of the Luxembourg Palace, where Cioran could _____ be seen towards the end of his life taking his const
[003] ing himself on us for not having died on a sofa.' He _____ quoted Montesquieu's witty saying: 'I'd like to banis
[004] to teach children in Romania and 'loved it'. TEFL is _____ seen as a ticket to goabroad, to absorb language and
[005] they call training, but which is really much broader, _____ having no immediate benefit to the company or its cu
[006] to the top of any sport requires a ruthlessness not _____ associated with Christian teaching. And these days t
[007] goes into a quiet place like the bathroom and prays, _____ out loud. Va'aiga Tuigamala, rugby league player Know
[008] , a subject on which he became vastly knowledgeable, _____ amusing himself and his friends with the arcane peda
[009] to acquire knowledge of European business practices. _____ , there are classes dealing specifically with European
[010] whether the cost was justified given that the reports _____ told parents what they already knew. A spokesman for
[011] , which requires staff to be away from the workplace, _____ for quite long periods, open learning runs at the spe
[012] steam power is a tour de force. It is replete with 35, _____ detailed, explanatory diagrams, and over 270 footnote
[013] ng an active role in world affairs. The expression is _____ used these days that the country 'punches above its w
[014] don't seem to notice which of us is in any more and _____ call me by the other teacher's name. This means that
[015] ted to put in a plea for the 'orthodox' Christians so _____ portrayed as either bigots or hypocrites? The underst
[016] with their ragged trousers and tattered boots, their _____ toothless mouths, their calloused hands clutching en
[017] n who would fight the FLN guerrillas and whose fate, _____ as not, was what the French called 'the Kabyle smile'
[018] he has garnered in a segment of the industry that is _____ sneered at by the literary world. At least three doct
[019] have a soft spot for his principle chronicler. 'I very _____ go to bed not knowing what happens on the next page,'
[020] ble service in the days when Italianists were all too _____ isolated individuals struggling to give instruction o
[021] tion 'how should we live?' it had little to say. Too _____ its answer was merely an instruction about how to vot
[022] Women is about being poor and trying to be good, but _____ failing, and also about teaching young girls how to
[023] ad found it a foolproof system, but on the other hand _____ turned around to find himself living on his own. Pers
[024] oring by comparison to the vivid, energetic Jo. She is _____ stigmatised as being 'boyish' but we know this isn't
[025] itual - yet the cutting of hair, especially women's, _____ announces a new departure, a turning into a new iden
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[001] out over your degree to get through. The results are _____ to getting a job. I have a temporary job at universit
[002] t 'sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll' thing. Sex is fairly _____ to me. I've had one girlfriend all the time I've been
[003] wise had the opportunity to do. And it has been. The _____ thing for me was not the degree, but what you can lea
[004] me thinking about loads of things, like charity - the _____ thing is not to dig in your pocket and make a donatio
[005] taught me to communicate better; communicating is an _____ social skill. In school, you sit in a class and are t
[006] am more confident. Academic qualifications are really _____ . I chose Durham because I wanted to do Electronic Eng
[007] ionship. It was sexual, but not very. Sex is not that _____ to me. It's over now, I think I ended it. If I get a 2
[008] is one thing to show them Shakespeare, but it's also _____ to show them something contemporary they can relate t
[009] them off by expecting too much of them too soon. The _____ thing is to enjoy one another's company. Everything
[010] bumpy ride as it does so. Finally, and arguably most _____ of all, there is the vexed question of funding, of h
[011] ffected negatively. They suddenly have something more _____ to live for than just the next match.' But that is u
[012] means it satisfies public demand for retribution, an _____ function. But do the public know what retribution co
[013] sits. 'This is about peer review, which is crucially _____ ,' he explains. 'We are all from academia, so we do u
[014] business language. German and Spanish are enormously _____ ; why do we teach German to a quarter of the numbers w
[015] after the next election come what may. LUCK is rather _____ in the horse world, and so far Springfield Racing has
[016] fessor Farber agrees that the course content, though _____ , is only part of the draw of an MBA in Europe. A typ
[017] sector university is likely to be a safe bet. It is _____ , however, to look at the credentials of the teaching
[018] ope's overwhelming desire to protect life, it is also _____ to see that this cannot be done by ignoring what is k
[019] m in Veritatis Splendor, and is in my view profoundly _____ . But even here there are some difficult issues which
[020] unimportant. In all countries, people think the most _____ feature of a good school is its ability to help pupil
[021] values. Yet most think curriculum subjects are less _____ in education than fostering self- confidence and enab
[022] e Labour-controlled Valleys of South Wales. His most _____ novel, which has attracted a good deal of interest f
[023] laureates from Blackett and Bragg to CTR Wilson. As _____ influences he himself might well have first mentione
[024] was given a poke in the eye by her closest and most _____ ally. That friendship has been unravelling for some t
[025] rector, goes on business trips in a helicopter, very _____ schedule. You, little cold-calling person. Absolutely
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[001] ----------------------------------- IND 12 JUN 95 / _____ wills them to win: Does being a Christian improve yo
[002] ribed by others in the New Zealand camp as quiet and ' _____ - loving'. The aggressive, highly competitive world of
[003] porting performance became inseparable. When he found _____ in 1987 he was expected by many to lose the aggressio
[004] ion,' he says. 'I began to believe that my talent was _____ -given, and this was my ministry. He had provided thi
[005] the stick, and said, 'Oh, if I pray five times a day _____ 's going to help me run faster.' It doesn't work like
[006] ng to help me run faster.' It doesn't work like that. _____ gave me the right to work, not to win.' Conversion do
[007] stian magazine, under the headline 'Hoddle Signs For _____ '. But in 1991 Hoddle said he believed in reincarnati
[008] ddle says he has a very individual relationship with _____ . Football crowds are legendary for their cruelty, so i
[009] was not a shadowy figure from history but the Son of _____ who deserved my trust,' he says. While other players
[010] at 35, and looked about 25. Being called 'a widow'. _____ , I felt so stupid, and I felt so guilty after his deat
[011] after his death, but a friend saved me. He said: 'For _____ 's sake, you kept him alive the last few years..' Her
[012] choes traditional Christian teaching. 'The life which _____ gives man is quite different from the life of all oth
[013] ed from the dust of the earth, is a manifestation of _____ in the world, a sign of His presence, a trace of His
[014] tive stance towards the language - head office, like _____ , moves in mysterious ways. Curiously undated and wit
[015] y be 'private', for him or her alone to work out with _____ . Sexual lifestyle is not - and St Paul makes it very
[016] r really the point, was it? Adultery was sin, against _____ 's law, and if you did it you risked spending eternity
[017] his elder daughter. There is no hope,' he said. Thank _____ we have Jessie!' Then he quickly shook everyone's ha
[018] she commanded Miss Matty. I must go to those girls... _____ forgive me if I ever spoke sharply to the captain!'
[019] g. Oh, Jessie!' she whispered. How selfish I've been! _____ forgive me!' Sssh, love, sssh!' said Miss Jessie in
[020] ier. When I told him about the damage, he cried, "My _____ ! The whole ship will be full of water in a minute!" H
[021] moving towards me. Then, finally, I understood. 'My _____ !' I said. 'You don't think I called you a...' 'But I'
[022] st! You! Why not you? Ah! What a chance I missed! My _____ ! What a chance I missed!' He was silent for a while,
[023] ily on the table, so that the coee cups danced. 'My _____ ! I tell you I am not!'0 He was not afraid of death,
[024] think about that.' His face changed in a moment. 'My _____ !' he shouted. 'I never realized! How can I thank you
[025] ,' he repeated dreamily, then suddenly jumped up. 'My _____ ! Mr Stein's ship sails in two hours' time!' I went ba
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[001] en to go to one which, in general, ranks lower on the _____ scales. He is going there because it has an unusual
[002] ions to offer distinctive programmes. As well as the _____ benefits of any study in a foreign country, such as l
[003] rse, everyone identifies with Jo. Her sisters are the _____ feminine role models: Meg the mother, Amy the beauty
[004] ould be like her. I identified with Jo - not for the _____ reasons - but because of her hair. At that age I woul
[005] he wrote her sexually strange tales, it hadn't become _____ for bookshops to stock pornography written by women w
[006] rty. Her man Mulliner brought them himself, coming as _____ to the front door instead of to the back like other s
[007] ey in that unlucky bank. We lit the candle later than _____ that day. After tea, however, we talked about Lady Gl
[008] was sometimes quite full. Cranford itself went on as _____ . Mr and Mrs Hoggins were very happy together, though
[009] go I arrived at Samarang, and went to visit Stein as _____ . I was surprised and pleased to see Tamb' Itam, Jim'
[010] m, right3 up to the old chief, who was sitting in his _____ chair, with a gun on his knees. Doramin's wife was
[011] !' And the door shut. I tried several houses, but the _____ reply was a cold stare and then the door banged shut
[012] the doctor and the minister, and then went to work as _____ , still wondering why William had not arrived. But th
[013] he Fields. This time, however, he was not as lucky as _____ , and horse and rider fell while jumping a gate. Dunst
[014] marry Nancy, although it was his dearest wish. But as _____ he was waiting and hoping for some unexpected change
[015] speak. He was sitting with his head in his hands as _____ . He knew that the old man was trying to be kind, but
[016] ey was looking forward to this year's party more than _____ . But he was still worried. What if Dunstan returns?'
[017] of the new year. So tonight he was more restless than _____ . He opened his door several times during the evenin
[018] e wind as Chuck came out to join him by the wall. As _____ , Chuck was smoking one of the cigars that made him so
[019] ky overhead was perfectly clear, and bright with the _____ friendly stars. There would be no problem, thought Ge
[020] , they shouted unkind things about us - not just the _____ things, but special things about us, and about our fa
[021] washed them at Streatley made us pay three times the _____ price. We paid her, and did not say a word about the
[022] to make him angry?' asked the Secretary's wife. The _____ thing, my dear. He sent us a paper which he wanted to
[023] o his bedroom and searched it. Everything was in its _____ place. He searched the whole house, but found nothing
[024] nt furniture of a New York parlour. Mrs Penniman, as _____ , left the two young people alone to enjoy their roman
[025] ve. She ate her meals, went on with her daily life as _____ , and said nothing to anybody. I am afraid you are i
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[001] lit up recently. But one night stands and a different _____ every night - I'm just not sure that happens any more
[002] is is not Grease, this is not a cartoon. Remember the _____ who says she's going to live forever doesn't' It is
[003] e's going to live forever doesn't' It is not only the _____ who doesn't live for ever. The final irony at the hea
[004] origin who have fled Bhutan because of repression A _____ suffering from malnutrition in Timei refugee camp, sou
[005] courses tend to attract the typical boarding-school _____ who has decided she does not want to go to universit
[006] children happen all the time. When I asked one little _____ to join in she said: 'You can't tell me what to do be
[007] because of the character Jo, who didn't want to be a _____ . At that age, I didn't want to be a
[008] . At that age, I didn't want to be a _____ either and, in fact, I called myself 'Bob' for years.
[009] ler classes undoubtedly make a difference. My little _____ started school in a class of 32. When they could brea
[010] born with Downs Syndrome. The other two (the eldest a _____ , Elizabeth, and the youngest Freddie, born in 1907, w
[011] iggers? The variant on this is the 'wet hair arc' - a _____ in a stream shakes her head with such energy as to cr
[012] verse/Superman is what's behind this shot. BEAUTIFUL _____ , UGLY FACE This is a staple of advertising in 'young
[013] slopes of this posture lie in those hair ads where a _____ pulls a strand of hair over her face then grimaces ('
[014] urry to take on domestic responsibilities. 'It's every _____ 's nightmare to study and end up as a housewife,' says
[015] their own fascination. Her father died young and the _____ managed to support all her family (and possibly sever
[016] he kind you would rush to tell your children. A young _____ grows up in Northland with her beloved grandmother. S
[017] and masochism, especially in comics: 'Why isn't this _____ fighting back against gang rape? Because they have f
[018] wn-train. Then he looked up suddenly and saw a little _____ on the railway line, just as the train was coming int
[019] with the new maid. Martha was a rough, honest-looking _____ from a farm. I liked her, and I promised to teach he
[020] eft Woodley, she began to worry about Martha. Had the _____ had a follower' while we were absent? However, there
[021] oung letters from him, full of love for his Molly. The _____ 's letters were rather dierent all about wedding clot
[022] rumble shops, I suppose,' I heard her tell them. Poor _____ ! She did her best.' But Miss Pole had had an adventur
[023] sing Sun' to ask the way across the fields. A little _____ came in while we were there,' Miss Pole told us that
[024] Miss Matty was making a coloured ball for the little _____ , Phoebe, to play with. I've always been so fond of ch
[025] n't explain myself well,' Jem replied. So, Martha, my _____ ,' he whispered, why do you go on crying and pushing m
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[001] targetting individual courses with good reputations _____ than simply going to the ancients. Students from work
[002] just been added to English dictionaries. De Silva is _____ proud of the fact that the Japanese did not have a ve
[003] about the world through their own imaginative play, _____ than being forced to mimic the skills-oriented preocc
[004] nd culture as part of the working fabric of a country _____ than just a tourist. But as Tim, an editor of Nature
[005] urriculum, how parental choffice should best be met - _____ than in industrial terms. And as a result we are only
[006] ke other industries, is becoming driven by consumers _____ than producers. While children may have little choffic
[007] ourses (Russian with computer studies, for example), _____ as supermarket chains generate ever more exotic vari
[008] Comparing like offenders, those sent to prison were _____ more likely to reoffend than those given probation. (
[009] a job after the next election come what may. LUCK is _____ important in the horse world, and so far Springfield
[010] rogramme. One advantage of studying at a university, _____ than a private business school, is the access it giv
[011] to impinge on his poetry and prose. He was concerned, _____ , with the English language and its use as a medium fo
[012] or all lessons) 30 years ago showed that it depressed _____ than raised standards. Setting could be more accepta
[013] given to Department of Trade and Industry officials _____ than Foreign Office diplomats. The bottom line on am
[014] l year; job-sharing can give children more stability, _____ than less. But I think the overwhelming benefit for a
[015] Secretary in recent months. The new emphasis will be _____ less European and
[016] less European and _____ more national, with particular emphasis on winning g
[017] rd wheeze. And it has the further advantage of being _____ more soundly based than much governmental boasting -
[018] rdles into a dangerous fantasy. The world has changed _____ a lot since English galleons buffeted through the sea
[019] ed villagers turning into gunmen loyal to individuals _____ than the state? 'Impossible,' he roared. 'These men ar
[020] new territory by dealing entirely with the real world _____ than magic or science fiction. Neverwhere, a six- par
[021] sons the youngest of the nine Greek muses, raping her _____ than wooing her. Soft Places opens with Marco Polo l
[022] but teaching a 10-year-old to sail a dinghy he found _____ more difficult. I suspect that the main problem was
[023] it was two millennia of superstition that got gubbed, _____ than 15 wet Welshmen. But there is no doubt that for
[024] or the limits of growth, or how to measure happiness _____ than GNP. When thinking right- wingers, like Michael
[025] oneself, has been a mark of high civilisation.' But it _____ depends who's left to themselves, and what they do ne
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[001] s there if you want it. If you don't, then it doesn't _____ . I didn't go looking for sex or a relationship. I had
[002] more conscious of environmental issues. Facts of the _____ There are 1.5 million students in higher education, fu
[003] the first in 1985 and the second in 1993, and it is a _____ of great regret that this fine choir- trainer and org
[004] was specifically Welsh in feeling, style, and subject- _____ . His book The Dragon Has Two Tongues (1968) is a lar
[005] upported and fell there, gashing his cheek and ear, a _____ for seven stitches. Within hours he was insisting 'I'
[006] Jack Spence of the Royal Institute, 'but it's also a _____ of reputation. People want to think their country can
[007] complain about this, or about anything else for that _____ . A visit to the house in Brighton he shared with his
[008] grow is more complicated. Delinquency is no longer a _____ of apple scrumping and walking down the road with yo
[009] s paramount but never to the exclusion of the subject _____ itself. Walter Ernest Allen, writer, literary journal
[010] ND 16 FEB 95 / Education: Class size - does it really _____ ? - Education: With class numbers set to rise in the f
[011] ith the teacher that they should get. Class size does _____ , particularly in those early stages of education. 'At
[012] t the beginning, those small classes higher up won't _____ . The foundations for future success are not there.' W
[013] soon to be followed by free elections, it was only a _____ of time before attention turned towards the monuments
[014] he policeman got hold of me. I heard him ask what the _____ was, and Marmaduke, talking through his broken teeth,
[015] igh tide important? In a big harbour the tide doesn't _____ . It is only important in a small harbour, or somewher
[016] erstand something written by a dead man. But it was a _____ of life or death to us. Sir Walter and MacGillivray
[017] .... three men. But none of us thought that It was a _____ of life and death to us. this would help. 'Here's th
[018] -servants busy. They have opinions on every important _____ without troubling themselves with unnecessary reasons
[019] ord met to discuss whether they should visit her. The _____ had still not been decided when Miss Jenkyns died. H
[020] he never knew why I refused him. Ah well, it doesn't _____ now. I am very happy, my dear. I have such kind frien
[021] n judge, who was responsible for his soul. This was a _____ too diicult2 the awful moment. 'There were eight hund
[022] s, but the Patna had sunk too fast. The story didn't _____ to me. I had jumped, hadn't I? That's what I had to
[023] suppose any of you have heard of Patusan? It doesn't _____ . There are many stars in the sky that most people ha
[024] the real, real truth.' He paused again. 'It doesn't _____ . I am almost happy with what I've done. And they beli
[025] Can any of you here? No, I thought not. So it did not _____ who trusted him, who loved him, who hated him The