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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] n the forest with his wife, Maid Marion, and his men, _____ them Friar Tuck, Allen a Dale, Will Scarlet, and Li
[002] ing in a group of friends when suddenly a man arrived _____ us who broke off everyone's conversation by the simp
[003] d us again. 'Welcome to the conversation,' he said. ' _____ the topics we shall be covering this evening, if con
[004] 'through no fault of their own', he said, including _____ those, the disabled, the elderly and 'those on very l
[005] e NHS reforms: 'There is on the ground a restlessness _____ medical staff about the number of men in grey suits,
[006] d-Seventies, she has worked in television and radio, _____ other things presenting BBC2's The Late Show, produc
[007] eir own alma mater): 'Go to X. They have a department _____ the best for that subject.' Places sixth- formers ma
[008] industrialists and right-wing economists. It proposed, _____ much else, the founding of the New Universities with
[009] before. Nothing will do more to reduce class-ranking _____ the universities - old, new and new-new - than an inc
[010] e in the university, it's probably bigger in the town _____ non-students. Most students are in debt and aware tha
[011] of Despair (1990), Breviary of the Vanquished (1992) _____ a host of others. An album of very fine black-and-wh
[012] e recently opened Liverpool institution sponsored by, _____ others, Paul McCartney, is now known universally as t
[013] rers. But nursery or playgroup is just the beginning. _____ the privately run classes available to toddlers of t
[014] promotes Christianity through sporting relationships _____ students and in local churches. Yet its place in spo
[015] aller, and a fairly sexually active one at that. Fans _____ the faithful saw him as a sinner; he in turn felt let
[016] nication within the French Department and he worked ( _____ many other things) to promote excellence in language
[017] nge of academic disciplines, its business courses are _____ the fastest- growing. The Open University Business S
[018] ter, novelist, translator, and critic, Glyn Jones was _____ the most versatile and distinguished of those Welshm
[019] 1944) includes a long poem for broadcasting which is _____ the most moving ever written about the teaching prof
[020] endidly scurrilous gossip about mutual acquaintances _____ the London literati. Glyn Jones received several hono
[021] n the republic of letters remained vital to the last. _____ those who gathered at his bedside during his final i
[022] the next century. ON THE EVE of the debate the mood _____ many of Britain's ruling politicians is that the Fore
[023] might. According to their peers, British diplomats are _____ the best in the world. They work hard, they are well
[024] here has long been a whiff of snobbery about 'trade' _____ senior diplomats andalthough this has been changing
[025] n dubbed the New World Disorder in which Britain was _____ those who retreated from the difficult zones. In Bos
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[001] computers, children's toys, even spare parts for the _____ body. It is added to other materials to give them ex
[002] have even left the earth and visited the moon. Then _____ species is the most powerful of all the animals on e
[003] Sweden have complained to the European Commission for _____ Rights that jokes about mean Scotsmen in advertising
[004] information demanded by the European Commission for _____ Rights, the Scots in Sweden are up against another
[005] ew days only. All these are marvellous technical and _____ achievements, but none of them involves living inde
[006] els like gravity. every space trip has shown that the _____ body needs gravity if it isn't to deteriorate, and
[007] use they remind us of things we have forgotten about _____ nature. *** SPORTS REPORT Announcer: Last night
[008] aura Linney), sent by her technocratic boss ('I'll be _____ later') to find out what happened to a previous diamo
[009] Mathew Parris's brilliant evocation of him as 'half- _____ , half-Vulcan, brother of the brilliant, cold-blooded
[010] ything in it - from galaxies to mammals to strokes of _____ inspiration - actually come to pass. They are identi
[011] ep their children busy all the time, because like all _____ beings, they genuinely need time to think as well as
[012] Christian point of view, there was only one perfect _____ being - the Lord Jesus Christ - and we killed him. I
[013] and death: Biology blurs the beginnings and ends of _____ existence By DR JOHN HABGOOD One of the tasks o
[014] ight in his repeated assertion that the protection of _____ life, and especially life in its weakest forms, is no
[015] but also the essential moral foundation for any truly _____ society. But it is the details which give cause for c
[016] e same is even more true of the transition from pre- _____ to
[017] to _____ life in the story of evolution. By relying exclusivel
[018] xclusively on biblical material for his description of _____ life, the Pope faithfully echoes traditional Christia
[019] glory.' As a statement about the present role which _____ beings occupy, the theological claim is compatible w
[020] laim is compatible with a biological understanding of _____ origins. But we need to know whether the biological
[021] Was there for instance some moment in prehistory when _____ life attained its unique value and significance? Or
[022] perhaps with the gradual growth of the brain and of _____ language? The difference is not merely theoretical,
[023] n and embryo research depends on the assumption that _____ life, in some reasonably full sense, begins at the mo
[024] with the statement that 'the mere probability that a _____ person is involved would suffice to justify an absolu
[025] r prohibition of any intervention aimed at killing a _____ being'. But suppose there is not even a 'mere probab
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[001] these two activities in turn for a couple of miles. _____ a few weeks I could jog half way round Hampstead Hea
[002] in 1982 I realized that if I trained for it, it was _____ my reach. After a slow, six- month build-up, I manage
[003] k that technology has advanced so far that soon, or _____ a few years, many people could work at home instead
[004] n, family support and self-reliance, more Englishness _____ a strong union, no European federalism, no single cu
[005] ed how she could take on the real world and manoeuvre _____ it. She's got a real skill for not being overwhelmed
[006] methods of financing. The contrast with the climate _____ which the last great enquiry into higher education (e
[007] llness was elongated into a bitter, brooding thinness _____ the deepening ravines bracketing it on either side.
[008] the Bible to say you can't be aggressive about life, _____ the rules. 'Any Christian who rushes at another man a
[009] particularly keen to improve democratic communication _____ the French Department and he worked (among many othe
[010] call for a stern new military-type command structure _____ prisons and the prison service. The 134 prison estab
[011] ble to rail against a phantom 'liberal establishment' _____ their own departments. The Home Office is by no stre
[012] ages of manuscript later, he finally called it a day. _____ a year of throwing City's heavy hull off his back he
[013] and euthanasia, that they should be lumped together _____ a single 'culture of death'? Biologically speaking, t
[014] do in life. And today even Oxford and Cambridge are _____ reach of young people with a more practical bent. Bo
[015] hing his cheek and ear, a matter for seven stitches. _____ hours he was insisting 'I'm all right'. But only abov
[016] d at One programme. Mr Blair was also condemned from _____ his own party. Alan Simpson (Lab, Nottingham South),
[017] too subtle, but such is the language of contradiction _____ the higher reaches of the Church. On the issue of con
[018] ment; and Opus Dei, the present Pope's favoured sect _____ the church, dislikes him. Yet the Piedmontese cardin
[019] merica), it became a huge bestseller (100,000 copies _____ one year). Little Men and Jo's Boys followed: 'girls'
[020] he stereotypes of growing up female, learning to live _____ those boundaries or reject them. For me, Jo denied t
[021] orld. I think there might have been a kind of despair _____ me there: that the world outside would be too much f
[022] runaway, the tearaway and the teen rebel still lurks _____ every one of us By LESLEY GARNER It takes a lon
[023] a way that did not prevent experiment and development _____ a traditional structure. The bombing of Paternoster R
[024] care of his devoted wife, Peggy, whom he had married _____ three weeks of their meeting in 1944. Under her care
[025] o an expensive property on the grounds that it falls _____ the catchment area of a good school. Their informatio
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[001] the three black coated men with red eyes and angry _____ teeth, when suddenly he woke up. He listened. There
[002] rkers can choose the kind of bread they want - brown, _____ , or a roll - and then all sorts of salad and meat o
[003] ed school. I was five and everyone in the school was _____ , except for one Chinese boy and me, and the others c
[004] other side of the hedge he saw a pond with a large _____ duck swimming round and round on it. The tramp had a
[005] Soon he was sitting by the pond with a large pile of _____ feathers beside him. Just then he heard a shout. The
[006] ng, lean, gentle and kindly. He is the design world's _____ Knight; but he might just this time have hit on somet
[007] k. I felt very rootless, and I didn't fit in with the _____ expatriate people working over there. That's when Sar
[008] The older universities - Oxbridge, plus Redbrick plus _____ Tile - were joined in the Sixties by the New Universi
[009] ng a host of others. An album of very fine black-and- _____ photographs of Cioran by Irmeli Jung, accompanied by
[010] photographs of the man, and Irmeli Jung's black-and- _____ studies are profoundly revealing of the genius who w
[011] owever: David De Silva, the show's creator By JIM _____ The question most people ask of David De Silva is,
[012] tension between the US government and its gun-loving _____ religious right, for whom America's fast-growing net
[013] ment has been a powerful grassroots force throughout _____ rural America. It has flourished against a backdrop of
[014] er of the Sheriff's Posse Comitatus. This right-wing _____ organisation campaigned, much as the militias are do
[015] They had been involved with one of the US's leading _____ supremacist groups, Aryan Nations. Early in 1991 Rand
[016] t. Now, too, we can understand why right-wingers and _____ supremacists featured prominently in many of the mee
[017] sm aside, this bombing has its roots in the birth of _____ America and the creation of its constitution. People
[018] prevent President Clinton meeting Gerry Adams in the _____ House this month. Britain was given a poke in the eye
[019] ay, searingly - acts of unpredictable cruelty. Small _____ kurtas of three-year-old children, hanging as innocent
[020] --- IND 31 JAN 95 / Fugitives from the book police: _____ male writers increasingly risk a tap on the shoulder
[021] thrown off American literature syllabuses as a 'dead _____ male' - sounded like the defensive hyperbole of the o
[022] s - in favour of moremodern works by non-male and non- _____ writers. 'All aesthetic and most intellectual standar
[023] oth great constabularies of the modern book police. A _____ protestant American male, Updike writes in what, to m
[024] ocial historian, whose books are a record of the male _____ middle-class generation to which - for better or, in
[025] phere, the same edgy self-scrutiny may soon extend to _____ male writers approaching the subjects of gender and r
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[001] ss,' or adjective 'active,' adverb 'actively,' noun ' _____ '. That I think is very useful - see, 'use,' 'useful,'
[002] at two latest offerings By ADAM MARS-JONES The _____ -adventure film with a consciousness-raising component
[003] rank Marshall's Congo, it's business as usual for the _____ picture: a little politics (a very little), lots of s
[004] of the association, said SCAA should take immediate _____ to calm schools' fears. At the very least it should
[005] , with less diversity, more rules and less freedom of _____ for governors. There are fears that harsh new securi
[006] cco and Firearms) are seen as the instruments of this _____ , which is why the federal building in Oklahoma City,
[007] y Americans. And here, at last, for those who craved _____ , was a case which justified not merely resistance, b
[008] e militias will know that this kind of violent direct _____ has long been in the pipeline. Militia extremists hav
[009] ists have been openly calling for direct paramilitary _____ against the authorities for months. In a curious way,
[010] he stressed the duties of citizens and urged tougher _____ on truancy and noisy neighbours. But his approach wa
[011] tbench spokesman asked: 'Is it practical? If you take _____ against parents you tend to get them chucking the chi
[012] so tamed by responsibility that we couldn't separate _____ from awareness of the consequences even if we tried.
[013] Eggar, Schools minister, when asked if he would take _____ on class size, 1991 W H A T T H E R E S E A R C H S
[014] e for me to take control like this. But I was used to _____ , and they could see it. It was the Frenchman, Royer,
[015] nd I'll pay cash,' Rick said. With Dave Holden out of _____ , he could earn a lot in the next month. Sir, the pri
[016] He produced a piece of hair to prove his story. His _____ caused some bitter arguments, and many people became
[017] the curtains wide. I was surprised by the eect of my _____ . Heathcli dropped his candle and stood without moving
[018] Woods, who had been pleased with the minister's quick _____ , suddenly realized that he was dealing with a local p
[019] Kruger's smiling face on television drove Woods into _____ . The next day Woods and Ken drove the sixty kilometre
[020] ght that Biko would have called his book 'non-violent _____ '. After three months, Woods finished writing. Then he
[021] and tied it around the bag. Woods felt sure that this _____ indicated that Tami was going to help him. 'Is there
[022] r.' Woods could hardly believe the generosity of this _____ , but already Monyane was walking quickly towards the
[023] ther under his arm. If they're expecting that kind of _____ , then we should be prepared.' 'Right, I give you per
[024] Sunday twice, I'm told. Do you think it was a good _____ to throw acid into the face of a young woman?' 'I am
[025] fied with a quiet life, and women as well as men need _____ . While on the top floor I often heard Grace Poole's s
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[001] usually rent a house and make it our base so we can _____ to the kids each night. We're all vegetarian, so bre
[002] 1:15. A: It gets in at 14:40. B: Right - I'll have a _____ ticket, then, please. A: When are you coming back? A
[003] today? B: No, tomorrow. A: So you can't have a day _____ . You need a period
[004] . You need a period _____ . That'll be 78 and 40 pence. B: Can I pay by credit c
[005] the dark. Birds can fly thousands of miles away and _____ to the same place every year. But we are different.
[006] way offers its customers: INTER-CITY SAVERS These are _____ tickets valid for travel between large towns. They a
[007] ng business hours. ORDINARY FIRST- AND SECOND- CLASS _____ TICKETS These are valid between any two stations. You
[008] &O European ferry company. From day-trips at 10 50p _____ , to five-day returns by foot, by coach, or by car. P
[009] dnappers will soon make contact and ask for money to _____ the child. *** FLOOD KILLS SEVEN After a solid mo
[010] , much as the militias are doing in the 1990s, for a _____ to local laws which were locally enforced. The Posse
[011] mbarrassed way. Now, German history-books insistently _____ to the subject that past generations have sought to
[012] vernment if the people of southern Bhutan are ever to _____ to their homes. origin who have fled Bhutan because o
[013] hen Manchester Grammar School floated its proposal to _____ to the state sector last week, there was a flurry of
[014] hat Russian academia has for Britain. 'Students might _____ home with the feeling that British education is inad
[015] were still to be seen. Then, and on many subsequent _____ visits to China, he criss-crossed the country repeate
[016] he pseudonym 'Henry Holorenshaw'. It was on Needham's _____ from China in 1945 that Needham's friend (Sir) Julian
[017] right are humming victory marches and proclaiming the _____ of national self-interest as the governing principle
[018] rom the sequence I will always be here, for instance, _____ to the enigmatic scattering of clippings on the nake
[019] ople, the ones who stay at home and wait for them to _____ , feel both rage and envy. Nick Leeson was given the
[020] ------------------------------- INS 08 JAN 95 / The _____ of the Magic Story-teller: Publishers race to republ
[021] them and say you found it in my bedroom. Ask them to _____ it to me if they find me.' Three minutes later the ca
[022] ing in German. 'Put this man in the back room until I _____ .' I was taken out of the room with a gun at each ear.
[023] t the details without anybody knowing, and Royer will _____ to Paris thinking that everything is still secret.'
[024] ant are waiting for you, although you may not want to _____ there.' As Sir Walter and I left, he said I was free
[025] ng hours.' Then, after the friends had called: Always _____ a call within three days, my dear. And never stay lo
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[001] but it's fine now. I have a lot of good friends. I _____ my Mum and Dad very much, but I don't want to live a
[002] is given even more extra lessons. P: Phew! They must _____ the holidays. G: Yes, they do, but they don't have m
[003] school because we have no time to be bored, and we _____ all the club activities'. P: How very interesting! I
[004] es and onions. I also make coffee milkshakes which I _____ . I'm a real baby that way! If I'm lucky during the d
[005] ever been to Poland, but we might go this summer. I'd _____ to meet my Polish relatives. PRESENTER: And now we m
[006] ol holiday with our French grandmother in France. I _____ French food. We used to eat mainly French food at h
[007] of the world is so tiny by comparison to yours! I'd _____ to travel around with an orchestra, but unfortunately
[008] t's hard work, you know. F: I'm sure it is. I'd just _____ to travel to all those places. Tell me about them. Wh
[009] We had big audiences for our concerts. The Japanese _____ classical music - they often stand up and clap thei
[010] ul of roses for the musicians - it's wonderful. And I _____ Japanese food, so we all had a good time. F: And las
[011] g home. She's having a really good time. Jason is in _____ with a lovely girl called Rosene! He met her at a par
[012] e all that makes people and animals different. People _____ to talk, talk, talk. We are the great communicators!
[013] to yet - Eastern Europe, Japan, South America - I'd _____ to perform in those places. I: Paul, you've obviousl
[014] l from me. *** Man: Excuse me, Miss! Woman: Yes, _____ ? M: What's on the menu today? W: Well, let me see. W
[015] her a good old- fashioned socialist who would dearly _____ to say so.' Chesham and Amersham Conservative Associ
[016] ant society for centuries, compared to many others. A _____ of lager or the ubiquity of Sky TV does not undermine
[017] ing is my life. I coach the North East squad. I just _____ it, it is physically and mentally challenging. There'
[018] ed enough to learn. Children of this age need lots of _____ and reassurance and some social contact with other to
[019] pleasure enhanced by his ability to convey his great _____ as much of words (especially the richness of language
[020] -------------- INS 21 MAY 95 / Bunhill: Language of _____ lashed by an acid tongue By DAVID BOWEN IT MAY
[021] ). Brian Coffey wrote profoundly and tenderly of the _____ between man and woman, that difficult and complex rel
[022] zine in 1931 but, although poetry remained his first _____ , his output was comparatively small - there will be a
[023] her strengths. Through the year, children can grow to _____ , hate or merely tolerate their class teacher. No teac
[024] es morals, absurd super powers and busty but platonic _____ interests. 'Unlike John Major,' says Gaiman, 'Morpheu
[025] , Jo March teaches herself to write such stories of ' _____ , mystery and murder' from studying the illustrated m
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[001] She stood up and looked into his eyes: 'Please take _____ , James. Look out for these people - they're killers'
[002] One took the top off my finger last year, so I don't _____ for them very much. It's a shame, because I like dog
[003] ng crisp breads to the United States because I don't _____ for their bread very much. And I take biscuits because
[004] bread very much. And I take biscuits because I don't _____ for their biscuits very much. But otherwise I can bu
[005] in. I think people are more caring to other people - _____ more about each other, if you see what I mean. Some
[006] st enjoying each other's company. They even seem to _____ about foreigners more than we do in London. I: Right.
[007] ootball fan,' says Phil. 'But in this game, I don't _____ what the score is, even if it's 20-nil; I'm just happ
[008] lizabethan mansion when she became too old and ill to _____ for it. When she died, she left him everything in he
[009] at was publicly and privately provided for in health _____ , even though he had no wish to re-open that debate '
[010] ance of expenditure between administration and health _____ .' Speech to Welsh Conservatives, November 1993 On Br
[011] ing in the rain it's one big friendly community. They _____ about each other and the environment. Few smoke, few
[012] But according to Penelope Leach, author of the child- _____ manual Baby and Child and more recently Children Fir
[013] rents, who partly assuage their feelings by choosing a _____ system that involves heavy doses of learning. 'I thin
[014] rce. With this conviction and with notable historical _____ , he published the monograph The Levellers and the Eng
[015] s the emphasis the British system places on pastoral _____ ,' says Miss Conget. 'In France tutor groups do not r
[016] torial always proved was that Whitfield had read with _____ the texts on which he chose to argue (and that the g
[017] ever after confined him to his Islington home in the _____ of his devoted wife, Peggy, whom he had married withi
[018] thin three weeks of their meeting in 1944. Under her _____ he was able to resume writing: a history of the shor
[019] and cultural contexts, and to tell us why we need to _____ about MacNeice. The silence we get instead of these
[020] ggressively and absurdly bouncy in last year's Elseve _____ Mousse Conditioner commercial, and the arc started, I
[021] ed by fairy-tales, it was still commonplace for child- _____ experts to say that they should be avoided because t
[022] a bed. Soon, was a good friend, that roadman. He took _____ of me He for ten days, until my fever had gone and m
[023] -trays were on the tables. The captain took immediate _____ of all the ladies, passing round cups and bread-and-b
[024] to help us out of the carriage. She always took good _____ of Miss Matty, and tonight she said: Eh! Dear madam,
[025] t and gave it to her. Goodbye, Matty,' he said. Take _____ of yourself.' He had gone. But he had given her a boo
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[001] ve. Sometimes I just want to shake her until she sees _____ . I'm sorry how it's all turned out. I used to get al
[002] - for lots of reasons, but I think there is one main _____ . P: What is that? G: I think it's the Japanese attitu
[003] ble - they were nonsense. He guessed the more likely _____ the workers were annoyed was that they waited with n
[004] neighbour's car. BG: Oh dear. JV: Yes, there was no _____ for it - I simply didn't look. I still can't believe
[005] movement's prophet, was close to disenchantment. The _____ was that the movement had become commercialised over
[006] set the child up for failure.' At least part of the _____ for the apparent explosion in pre-school courses is t
[007] o there are fewer around to commit crimes; stands to _____ , doesn't it? However, Home Office research shows tha
[008] y our republic.' Nor, on the face of it, is there any _____ why they should. Up here in the Kabyle mountains, whe
[009] and, although he turned out to be a man who had good _____ to speak the language. He was Nordi Amirouche, only s
[010] plex as he is with as few notes . . . .' Part of the _____ Lambert was such a magnetic figure to the young was
[011] his winsome quality they mistake for acting - another _____ why I'm not exactly stamped- ing towards the cinema
[012] perhaps Good Wives, had the same impact. I think the _____ for the book's resonance is that it presents girls w
[013] die out of a sheer weight of virtue. I think that the _____ was that I was intensely shy in those days. People fi
[014] o fund such research but, so far, it has said no. The _____ given is that of expense. As the past ten days have
[015] year?' Mr McDonald asked. Emscote Lawn also has good _____ to be proud of its facilities. Its classrooms, built
[016] who refused to use whole-class teaching were the main _____ for low standards. Instead, Mr Mortimore said that pr
[017] Modern. You can claim to be doing it for every kind of _____ . It doesn't wash for long. Cliches, like ministerial
[018] ger to them. They had tried to kill me - for the same _____ . So why hadn't they changed their escape plans? They
[019] said, when she was annoyed with Captain Brown (for a _____ I'll explain later), that it was time Miss Jessie sto
[020] etting a little bored at Mrs Jamieson's. Whatever the _____ , Mrs Jamieson suddenly sent us invitations to a small
[021] and drink tea with us that evening, I'll have a good _____ to refuse.' I saw Miss Pole's expression change. You'
[022] ains, he was just Jim, nothing more. He had a special _____ for not wanting people to know his other name. But
[023] is past. I must tell you, however, that I had another _____ for sending him away. I was about to go home to Eng
[024] hy? For what?' I had told him (indeed it was the main _____ for my visit) that Stein wanted to hand over the wh
[025] ad, aren't you?' 'Well,' Frances said, 'what possible _____ can they have for keeping him alive?' A walk in the