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 )
girl
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[001] and Stenhammar were shown setting the same text (The _____ returned from meeting her lover) with Stenhammar prov
[002] e, with the piano pounding more to match the betrayed _____ 's despair towards the end. Nordic composers around th
[003] a film debutant: "You don't do Follies or Me And My _____ by phoning it in". He and Ockrent go back a long way
[004] ead up to a balcony, a tap drips into a can. A black _____ wanders on softly singing a country blues, and is joi
[005] and even more enviable. A sensible choice as a young _____ 's role model, she appears to be so attainable; nothing
[006] autiful or clever about her, just a pleasant- looking _____ -next-door who won the pools when she met Stock, Aitk
[007] finally all mix together into Angolan slang. A young _____ selling sugar doughnuts on a street corner is symboli
[008] jor in the English army, a French geographer, a young _____ , and a young boy. These two last were the children o
[009] iss Hall's school, stayed on in Florence as a career _____ . Her fiance, who is with a publishing firm, translat
[010] d, Jr. 22 months, were admitted to the hospital. The _____ was in critical condition with burns over 90 per cen
[011] nt papers from Portland detectives. A 12-year-old _____ , Susan Elaine Smith, 9329 NE Schuyler St. was in se
[012] mbers of the crew on liberty rendered first aid to a _____ who fell from a train. Local authorities credited th
3. WORDS
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[001] l Association school unless he renounced Classicism ( _____ ) and submitted a Modern scheme (Satan) for his final
[002] l Association school unless he renounced Classicism ( _____ ) and submitted a Modern scheme (Satan) for his final
[003] Henry's most anguished outpouring, his prayer to the _____ of battles before Agincourt; here Branagh the actor i
[004] ference: Pizarro's fascination with the defeated Inca _____ -king Atahuallpa, and Gallimard's desire for his Butte
[005] ica. ’Ä¢Foreign News Page 12 891006 Peking scorns the _____ King's Nobel prize From ANDREW HIGGINS in Peking SHO
[006] y guns: the international prestige of Tibet's exiled " _____ King". Officials in Peking last night refused to comm
[007] North Carolina. "At this moment my faith is still in _____ . . . I went into the courtroom innocent of the charg
[008] to be another lot of historical victors . . . hold to _____ 's word and love your neighbour as yourself". The cong
[009] rs and was threatening the world. Vishnu, the second _____ of the Hindu triad, resolved to return to earth in h
[010] in our misfortune, we must thank Providence for it." " _____ be praised!" responded Herbert, whose pious heart wa
[011] Herbert, "do you despair of ever seeing him again?" " _____ forbid!" replied the sailor. Their work was soon don
[012] b," said Herbert, running to him, "we will find him! _____ will give him back to us! But in the meantime you are
4. WORDS
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[001] led only tangentially, Smith's are delivered with her _____ immediacy. The frustrations of the cripple are rawly
[002] as deals could not be completed within the exchange's _____ accounts periods. According to Anthony Preece, direc
[003] s of the party paper Neues Deutschland with more than _____ determination. The solid education system, full if un
[004] amibia. Officially it is for "consultations" but the _____ reliable sources say it follows a series of death thr
[005] times the cash flow of the stations, rather than the _____ multiple of nine to 11. ’Ä¢Foreign News Page 16 89101
[006] ers - ironically after preparing more thoroughly than _____ . The harvest was early and they had a pre- season to
[007] Smith and Brook Street Boysie, who threw down their _____ serious challenge only to be bettered by 1.05sec. Joe
[008] planned he would come back on the bus, but when the _____ head count was made for the return journey we, of co
[009] notwithstanding missed Gideon Spilett, who, with his _____ fortune, came out of this affair without a scratch.
[010] indeed they might even die, should it be out of the _____ track of vessels, as was likely to be the case. "Well
[011] imself, and collecting his ideas with the promptitude _____ to seamen. The reporter was leaning over him, and sa
[012] ose, and besides, there is "the knack," following the _____ expression, and it is probable that Pencroft had not
5. WORDS
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[001] e well planned maisonette blocks and where, for that _____ , are the successors to the Span developments to whic
[002] l complacency which considers housing design to be a _____ of banded brickwork and joinery detail and not about
[003] ctionalism nor pure whim. As Outram says: "It doesn't _____ if not many people can understand. If the work has it
[004] "While everyone else thought there was something the _____ with architecture, Soane stuck to it that architectur
[005] rs after 1750, and architecture seems to be purely a _____ of period detail. John Simpson, the younger architect
[006] fessor- writer lifestyles and largely campus subject- _____ have made them a joined personality. Typically, the
[007] it's the businesses that are important. It does not _____ whether or not DRG makes sellotape or Basildon Bond
[008] lways, the interest is not unconnected with a little _____ of price. At last Monday's weekly London tea auction,
[009] e said yesterday that its current investigation was a _____ of routine. If they discovered evidence of share deal
[010] holders will be circulated with details of this "in a _____ of weeks", according to yesterday's statement, and th
[011] nds but he has shown he can handle it. This is not a _____ forthe Government". Later in the day, following a mee
[012] ch tendencies. Even if cross- border mergers become a _____ for Brussels - which might be expected to take a lar
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[001] esponsible for turning our cities into monolithic and _____ monstrous retail centres, Prince Charles is beginning
[002] esponsible for turning our cities into monolithic and _____ monstrous retail centres, Prince Charles is beginning
[003] e respondent opted to live in a high-rise flat, most _____ confused with Sixties prefabricated council estates.
[004] nn, the author of The Face of London, noted: "It has _____ been said that if Parliament ceased to talk for 12 mo
[005] sting, meant to influence a planning decision and can _____ seem undemocratic. The surprise is that they came fr
[006] pretty Georgian doorcase. Small builders are another _____ irresponsible group. I recently tried to buy a small,
[007] ning laws is frightening, and they are abetted by the _____ appalling lack of architectural discrimination of the
[008] s in the locality can also be helpful. Local builders _____ used similar methods and designs in many houses, and
[009] influence that Stirling embarked on a stripped-down, _____ jokey neo- classical style. It is also fascinating to
[010] s reflected in our architecture. We tend to build too _____ with condescension or plain expediency in mind. In bu
[011] but with the predominance of so much dance, drama is _____ lacking. For instance, the death of Ghanashyam is, fr
[012] ealising it, his audiences learn a good deal about the _____ totally unfamiliar music being performed. This concer
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[001] er and stone and bronze. But the structure will be an _____ generator for the architecture. People normally asso
[002] d imply that the development is itself something very _____ , but it turns out to be yet another block of specula
[003] is was the counter- scheme, was that this site is too _____ to be left to a simple choice of the owner and a gro
[004] t is inevitable that this power be used for something _____ such as interventions on moral, social, aesthetic and
[005] is recent work has been dominated by near- misses in _____ architectural competitions, the latest of which was f
[006] te incidental to the success of the building. What is _____ is that it is generated neither by pure functionalism
[007] at it had a structure of ideas behind it. It is also _____ that the intellectual foundation of a building is not
[008] and put more money into the pot to ensure that this _____ area gets the architecture and the community benefits
[009] the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. The painting is an _____ one. Not only was Anthony Van Dyck a contemporary of
[010] e, but brought up to date with good modern planning. _____ , too, was the fact that it was an architecture expre
[011] here are few hints as to why certain sequences are so _____ that they should be repeated over and over again But
[012] f her dancing and the scale of her projection promise _____ things to come. ’Ä¢Arts Page 16 891006 THEATRE / Lov
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[001] and, in decoration, has leaned towards the figurative _____ than the abstract form. For example, in outstanding
[002] as necessary conveniences to be disguised by design _____ than as generators of design itself. New materials, w
[003] and, in decoration, has leaned towards the figurative _____ than the abstract form. For example, in outstanding
[004] as necessary conveniences to be disguised by design _____ than as generators of design itself. New materials, w
[005] e health of London be seriously jeopardised". History _____ vindicates that view. Total abolition of the GLC came
[006] t attractive streets, there unexpectedly stands - or _____ , seems to float - a house of uncompromising modernity
[007] athedral and Harlow New Town. Then, for £700 a year _____ than the £400 which Gibberd was paying, he went to
[008] ashioned way with "end users" (to adopt the jargon), _____ than developers. From the resulting interaction, he
[009] unfashionably, claims that Lasdun's building enhances _____ than debases John Nash's brilliant plan for Regent's
[010] now aware, this means John Simpson's Classical scheme _____ than that of Arup Associates, the one which won a li
[011] ve somewhere are chaotic and inconvenient as London, _____ than decamp to Milton Keynes, apart from poverty and
[012] and coherent as Outram's is very much the exception _____ than the rule. ’Ä¢ Architecture Page 17 891129 ARCHI
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[001] od press for architects ACCORDING to a new survey 55 _____ cent of respondents (numbers unspecified) think Briti
[002] me idea of stylistic preference is conveyed by the 58 _____ cent of respondents who, when asked "Which type of ho
[003] ise apartment blocks remain popular. No less than 70 _____ cent of those asked thought that British architects "
[004] Modernity. The Prince quotes an approval rating of 99 _____ cent for his televised views and says it is such supp
[005] exhibition "Vision of Britain' confirmed his view: 87 _____ cent supported his position; 81
[006] cent supported his position; 81 _____ cent approved of his favoured neo-Georgian style; onl
[007] his favoured neo-Georgian style; only a minority - 25 _____ cent - supported Modern architecture. As if to discre
[008] a poll of architects which purported to show that 69 _____ cent of their kind disagreed that the Prince's 10 aes
[009] ria ∧ Albert Museum, found, surprisingly, that 48 _____ cent of journalists leaned away from his message, 36
[010] cent of journalists leaned away from his message, 36 _____ cent supported him and 15
[011] cent supported him and 15 _____ cent saw both sides of the issue. These figures repres
[012] ebate at the V ∧ A held during the exhibition, 96 _____ cent of an audience of 330 were in favour of the Pri