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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] men?' she asked. He answered politely, 'Certainly - _____ you want,'3 and followed her outside: On the veranda
[002] men?' she asked. He answered politely, 'Certainly - _____ you want,'3 head and killed him. Three more men came
[003] on. Perhaps he had helped them to steal the things, _____ they were. Then Stratos, Tony and Josef probably argu
[004] everybody. But for the moment he had to give Dunstan _____ he wanted, keep Molly happy, and lie to his father an
[005] in this colour, dear child! You know you always have _____ you want in the end, although you never give orders o
[006] ress. Do you want me to go?' Godfrey asked Nancy. Do _____ you like,' replied Nancy, trying to sound cold again.
[007] o her. She Firmly believed that people should accept _____ happened to them in life, because it was God who deci
[008] sorry it was one of my family who stole it from you. _____ I can do for you, I will, to repay what I owe you , a
[009] 's complete and God doesn't ring the Final bell - or _____ it is they expect - we may be in trouble. It's our ma
[010] ne a few minutes,' he said, more calmly than he felt. _____ I Find, I'll return immediately.' How could he guess
[011] e stars were far away. And so also was tomorrow, with _____ unhappiness it would bring... By the end of the week
[012] s trousers. George got quite angry the second time. ' _____ do you want your trousers for? It's the middle of the
[013] er, I've heard they could see it from out at sea, but _____ was there fell down long before our time.' A good th
[014] house. In any case, they did not seem to be afraid of _____ was in that room, so why should he be afraid of it?
[015] derstand, but both men felt certain that the message, _____ it was, could bring unknown horrors to its owner. The
[016] eve in ghosts, or anything of that kind?' In nothing _____ of that kind,' replied Parkins. There is an explanati
[017] your feeling that you must do something about it.' ' _____ you say will remain between ourselves.' 'Well, first
[018] bride price in good time. He will give Okonkwo double _____ he asks. But that isn't all. Nna-nndo must come and l
[019] ra!' - her mother followed her out of the marquee - ' _____ happens, don't .' 'What, mother?' No, it was better
[020] down and pick it up herself - a thing she never did. ' _____ are you doing!' I cried, and I ran to stop her. 'Wel
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[001] t was necessary to defeat Sherif Ali, and planned to _____ his mountain home. Doramin owned several heavy old g
[002] rom among them. The Rajah was afraid that Jim would _____ him too - he could lose his land, his money, his wome
[003] She turned and whispered to Jim, 'They were going to _____ you while you slept.' Jim felt miserably disappointed
[004] ake their own stockade, and waited for the natives to _____ , in the growing darkness. The people of Patusan wer
[005] ing a clever game, hoping that these white men would _____ and defeat Doramin's men before Jim returned. Meanwh
[006] ching the bigger creek, and did not expect anyone to _____ from the narrow creek behind them. When Brown's men
[007] himself. It needs another human. And the killer won't _____ Isidore; he's not on the list. ' You're androids,' I
[008] . The advantage of a goat is that you can teach it to _____ thieves. And, unlike other animals, it can eat anythi
[009] Okoboshi in the face. Aku-nna expected the others to _____ Chike, but nobody moved. Ma Blackie came rushing in
[010] convinced. Conrad did not seem the kind of person to _____ an old man so violently. But how could he judge? He
[011] here was a wicked wolf just waiting for the chance to _____ them. Catherine is ill 3 THE NEXT TIME Heathcli c
[012] ickly, and as I ran out of the kitchen, I saw Hindley _____ Heathcli. Both of them were rolling on the floor, fig
[013] and patted me on the shoulder. 'I didn't come here to _____ you. I came to ask you not to go out alone at night
[014] If any of us leaves, or says we'll leave, she has an _____ .' 'An
[015] .' 'An _____ ? What of?' Flora was becoming a little impatient. Unl
[016] if anyone does anything she doesn't like, she has an _____ . 'Tes terrible.' 'It is indeed,' agreed Flora. It see
[017] filled with Biko's own humanity. What had begun as an _____ on Black Consciousness had become a platform for Bik
[018] ords, so Woods was sure that the government would not _____ one particular newspaper. In spite of this, the Board
[019] lear the wreckage. 'Who do you go to when the police _____ you?' Ntsiki asked sadly, not expecting an answer. B
[020] f them at ten pounds each! Oh!' It'll be more if they _____ the Chapel,' said Mr Sniggs. Oh, please God, make the
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[001] een terribly disappointed, especially when it seemed _____ that Nancy could have no more children. Nancy's relig
[002] ind to them for a few seconds - a chance that was not _____ to happen again for many centuries. There were three
[003] g who said his paper was no good.' I don't think he's _____ to do that,' replied her husband. Dunning won't tell
[004] do this. Brat thought to himself that Simon was more _____ to stay at Latchetts, waiting for his chance, like Ti
[005] thing odd and unpleasant had just happened - and was _____ to happen again. Then we laughed at ourselves, and at
[006] luence this house,' I said to myself. 'It's much more _____ to influence her!' That night in the library of his
[007] be used as weapons. Now they had learned 'Who Is A _____ Mugging Victim?' All the ladies who went home later h
[008] dy rain. Flora realized that the conversation was not _____ to develop beyond this point, so she rose, said good
[009] hink of behaving as Adam feared. But it was even less _____ that he would want to marry her. Young country gentl
[010] ani wants to get a local car which the police aren't _____ to check when you drive to the border.' Woods was sti
[011] wider) was not one that Lumsden of Strathdrummond was _____ to appreciate. Here's an awful man wearing the Bollin
[012] gs ever built. They are so heavy that they look more _____ to sink into the surface of Forta than to fly off int
[013] ve a companion. A person entirely on his own was more _____ to go mad from loneliness. But Duncan had not thought
[014] area?' 'His purpose? No, of course not. But it's very _____ that he'll fall in love with one of them. And I want
[015] e loves dancing! Everybody knows that means he's very _____ to fall in love!' As politeness required, Mr Bingley
[016] dear, you'd better ride over there, because it looks _____ to rain, and then you'll have to stay the night.' 'Tha
[017] with a happy smile, that her eldest daughter was very _____ to be engaged soon. 'But there are my other daughters
[018] seen.' After a pause Wickham added, 'I wonder if he's _____ to stay at Netherfield much longer. .' 'I don't know
[019] s for him, she (most kindly!) warns me that he's very _____ to marry someone else!' 'I have a totally dierent opi
[020] d ever felt before, how many more years Mr Bennet was _____ to live. Charlotte herself was quite satisfied. Mr Co
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[001] n companies, excluding Japan, listed on the New York _____ Exchange went to 30 this year from 2 in 1988, and Am
[002] a spin. STAINLESS-STEEL laboratory cabinets are the _____ in trade for naturalists and explorers today, impers
[003] potential targets. Many analysts find the company's _____ , if not hot, at least an interesting way to play the
[004] , prompting some pundits to say that one of the best _____ market runs in history was over. The Dow finished tha
[005] hat the club's time has been well spent listening to _____ analysts, estate lawyers and other financial experts,
[006] in Texas in the 70's when oil prices were soaring and _____ and bond prices were plunging. "It's important that
[007] apital gains rates. How would you invest $25,000 in _____ mutual funds? That was the question posed by Morning
[008] the sector distribution of the Standard & Poor's 500- _____ index as closely as possible. STEPHEN SHULMAN fel
[009] in fresh produce and meat - and don't even bother to _____ toothpaste or soap. The company also has two conveni
[010] x that could accurately predict the direction of the _____ market. Cool. In the same way that America is havin
[011] e up. Unemployment is down. And, notwithstanding the _____ market's gyrations, the news seems only to get better
[012] tal ball. One company it profiled was I. B. M., whose _____ price sagged after a corporate reorganization - thou
[013] rous and irresponsible fashion? TEN years after a _____ market crash marked the beginning of the end of an e
[014] e his predecessor, Jeffrey N. Vinik, believes that a _____ fund should be fully invested in stocks, neither alte
[015] er very well; the manager can't quickly buy a lot of _____ in even a medium-size company because the purchase w
[016] ance, when Magellan whipped the Standard & Poor's 500- _____ index by an incredible 16 percentage points, the fund
[017] learned, after doing an analysis of McDonald's - the _____ we've spent the evening studying - that its price is
[018] ange, we'll take another look.) Over the last decade, _____ clubs of all sorts have become a growth industry, as
[019] s with information and analytical tools (such as the _____ Selection Guide) and promotes a philosophy of investi
[020] ns on that issue. With the 10th anniversary of the _____ market's 23 percent plunge coming up in just a few w
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[001] to the Red House, he felt very relieved. Nobody would _____ his dead wife, and soon his secret would be buried wi
[002] Half the name's missing, you see. I don't suppose you _____ the house, do you?' No, I don't,' said Mr Binks. It'
[003] rrounding Luord Abbey - every child in the room could _____ the place. There was a horrible creature in white fol
[004] I can grow a beard,' said Dunning, so that he won't _____ me. But who knows when the end will come?' I think I
[005] earing glasses, and felt sure that Karswell would not _____ him. He noticed that he no longer felt himself to be
[006] esses so richly. An older, more experienced man would _____ all the good things in her character, and would find
[007] h her aunt had quietly left. For a moment she did not _____ him. He was forty five years old, fatter, with thinni
[008] 'Your clothes, my boy. They're my business, and I can _____ American clothes without any diiculty.' So they had
[009] calmly. 'You do your hair dierently,' he said. 'You _____ her, then?' said Mr Sandal. 'Yes, of course. It's Aun
[010] andal spoke again. 'Even if Miss Ashby is prepared to _____ you as her nephew, you will understand that the matte
[011] ons had been completed. He was now oicially ready to _____ the boy as Patrick Ashby, the oldest son of William A
[012] looked across at Simon, and for a moment she did not _____ him. This deathly white face with the burning eyes wa
[013] sure that Brat was an impostor, why was he willing to _____ Brat as his brother? Was Simon just waiting for Brat
[014] had looked at so often with Alec Loding and began to _____ what before he had seen only on paper. He looked down
[015] Brat sat looking at Simon for a long time. 'Don't you _____ me?' he said. 'No. Who are you?' 'Retribution,' said
[016] s Ashby, your nephew is conscious now, but he doesn't _____ anyone or where he is. He just keeps talking about s
[017] until the bride price was paid, her family would not _____ the marriage, and she was worried. Ofulue soon learn
[018] ay and spoke coldly. 'I only realized later. I didn't _____ Mattingly immediately. And then I found he had gone
[019] man, she just smiled at him happily. She didn't even _____ him again. The Woman at the Store All that day the h
[020] nd dierent. Soon he crossed a stream which he did not _____ . Then he knew that he had taken the wrong path. For
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[001] ver ring, which Jim had worn so proudly, fell to the _____ . With an expression of mad pain and anger on his face
[002] lder had bled. I was afraid, and I felt around on the _____ , to see if he had fallen there. Nothing. The shed was
[003] quickly, 'There's nothing up there. Don't go up. The _____ is not good.' 'Oh, it's all right,' I said. As I wen
[004] water.' He went over to Mark's bag which was on the _____ . The gun was where Lambis had put it - by the door. I
[005] and his other arm held the boy. The gun fell to the _____ . I did not move, because, at the same moment as I had
[006] s and the burglars had thrown them on the walls and _____ . Furniture was broken. Dad's darkroom was destroyed.
[007] g room. I felt ashamed and sat down and stared at the _____ . I wondered if any of them guessed, but perhaps the
[008] roken, papers and magazines were thrown all over the _____ . When I walked into the room, the policeman turned hi
[009] I became conscious, it was quiet. I was lying on the _____ . I'm alive, I thought. I tried to move. A bad mistak
[010] or hours. I waited to die, but I didn't. I lay on the _____ all night and all morning. The blood on my face drie
[011] et a doctor,' said Jeremy. 'If he wants to lie on the _____ , let him. He's been injured many times. He knows what
[012] itchen,' Clare said. l . . . I Dana sat down on the _____ beside me. She was worried, afraid, desperate. 'Pleas
[013] ped me to the bathroom. 'I'll wash the blood off the _____ downstairs,' he said. I looked at myself in the mirro
[014] o the darkroom... and found Jeremy face down on the _____ . A bowl of water had fallen beside him. There was a
[015] With angry fingers he dropped the photographs on the _____ . 'She said that you didn't have the list... She said
[016] ope if I die.' Lance looked at the photographs on the _____ . 'George's letter...' he said. 'When George telepho
[017] e money was not there. Then he noticed a place on the _____ , near the loom, where the floorboards looked dierent
[018] he Fire. But when his shortsighted eyes looked at the _____ in front of the Fire, he seemed to see gold there! Go
[019] ut one on himself. Then he opened a glass door in the _____ , turned to her and said, There's no gravity down here
[020] window. Then we put everything in the middle of the _____ . After we had done that, we sat there and we looked a
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[001] ling that he couldn't explain, but he was a sensible _____ reporter so he didn't worry about it too much. The r
[002] n't believe the Wall is made of anything known to our _____ .' He put away his useless cutting tools and took out
[003] ed Bill's mind. We had no idea you knew so much about _____ ,' said the Thaarns. But there's no time to discuss t
[004] , to enrich your world in the future. But as well as _____ , we can leave you other things, things to delight the
[005] Many of the islanders were nervous about the strange _____ of the visitors. Did the Earthmen know what they were
[006] s, his interest in protecting the world from modern _____ , and what I knew about the work Penny Ashton was doin
[007] you think of what is happening in modern biological _____ ?' Crammond looked very surprised. Mayberry turned t
[008] e wrong gene. Everything is so new in this branch of _____ . There are no laws, at least no manmade laws, to dec
[009] said: Tomorrow, the Globes will go out. Tomorrow, the _____ and skill of Forta will win a victory over nature. T
[010] ection. Each one of you holds the whole history, art, _____ , and skill of Forta. Use this knowledge to help other
[011] y in his body.' -'Who told you that?' Samine asked. ' _____ tells us - everybody knows it's true,' I answered. 'B
[012] ybody knows it's true,' I answered. 'But doesn't your _____ tell you that there's a part of a person that remains
[013] three of them were normal. And I did some work in the _____ laboratories. Almost everyone does that when he has a
[014] , and now he taught himself everything he could about _____ , physics and mathematics. He sank himself into studyi
[015] ambition was to write an important book about art or _____ - something new but useful as well. Tonya encouraged
[016] Greeks also made many discoveries in mathematics and _____ . Hippocrates, a doctor of the fifth century BC, is no
[017] y did not share other Greeks' interest in literature, _____ and philosophy. Macedonia was ruled by a royal family
[018] wrote that it was a waste of time teaching political _____ to a young man, because he has no experience of life,
[019] ey were very interested in literature, philosophy and _____ , and invited the most famous writers of their age to
[020] e last two decades have shown significant progress in _____ and mathematics, a generally flat performance in rea
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[001] ur life better, and we'll be happier.' The following _____ , there was a wedding in Raveloe. The sun shone warmly
[002] time in his life, Shervane saw the Wall. In the early _____ he said goodbye to his people and travelled over the
[003] gone, destroyed by the storms and rockfalls of early _____ , and now lay in pieces in the river three hundred met
[004] house, and Mr Thomson was the only guest. It was Fine _____ weather and Mr Thomson's days passed very happily. Hi
[005] d my way to the front door. I went out into the cold _____ air. While I looked doubtfully along the street, won
[006] eep you waiting,' she said. We went out into the cold _____ air and ordered coee at a little coee shop around th
[007] s had failed. I turned the steering wheel dates this _____ . The7 to move towards the exit. It turned loosely in
[008] some kids?' Someone brought in an enormous armful of _____ flowers. They were from Paige Carrington. Murray Ry
[009] he houses were huge, with beautiful gardens. The weak _____ sun shone on trees which were just showing their fir
[010] ?' We went up to the house. The garden was green with _____ and
[011] and _____ flowers provided bursts of colour at the corners of
[012] afalk's yacht was beautiful, in the5 golden light of _____ . Painted white and green, she floated easily against
[013] e empty flower market. It had been raining, the first _____ rain of the year, and the air smelled of plants and w
[014] eth has warned me I won't be able to go out until the _____ . All I can do is lie in bed, listening to the howling
[015] s sitting downstairs, by an open window, enjoying the _____ sunshine. . Her appearance had changed since her illn
[016] , and brought first rain, then snow. Next morning the _____ - flowers were all hidden under deep snow. Mr Edgar s
[017] with me. Her father gave permission. It was a lovely _____ morning, and I was very happy walking in the sunshine
[018] him if anything had happened to upset Elinor in the _____ . 'About Easter,' I said. 'I don't remember anything,'
[019] rple and completely closed. Then he told me. In the _____ , Elinor had come to him with a strange story. She was
[020] ed Mrs Smiling, and Charles came too, with a bunch of _____ flowers which he nearly forgot, but put into Flora's
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[001] family. I could have forgiven him his wooden leg, his _____ of money, his dishonesty and his ugly face, if only h
[002] e cold, because you're alone. You're ill, because you _____ love. And you're a fool, because love is near you, a
[003] n, looking in vain for work. I was now very weak from _____ of food, and I began to wonder why I should struggle
[004] h it. I was alone on the moor, and now very weak from _____ of food. The wind and rain beat down on me, and I fe
[005] xcept the gentle noise of soft voffices. I found this _____ of natural sound depressing. Samine led me to a row o
[006] ike 'soul'. She went on: 'Because most of the children _____ this human "soul", their minds are weak and do not de
[007] lushed for her mother, who could not help showing her _____ of intelligence and common sense in everything she sa
[008] Bennet and her other daughters apologized for Lydia's _____ of manners. Mr Collins. was not a sensible man, and n
[009] l yourself poor. When have you ever suered because of _____ of money?' 'Well, perhaps I haven't really suered muc
[010] referred to the past, in almost every line there was a _____ of cheerfulness, which Elizabeth had not noticed the
[011] had discovered Wickham's It weakness of character and _____ of morals. After my father's death, Wickham wrote to
[012] , could not be criticized for their poor behaviour or _____ of intelligence. On their way back to the house, Mr D
[013] are oversight and coordination, something many of us _____ , no matter how we purchase our health care. Times
[014] world's most photographed woman. But it was not for _____ of trying by the celebrity-fueled press that has come
[015] ress that has come to girdle the globe. Nor was it for _____ of glamor on the part of Diana Spencer. The princess
[016] 's main victims, became increasingly frustrated at the _____ of progress. So they finally bagged Mike Espy. Af
[017] cry American Jews for their superficiality, for their _____ of Jewish education and for their failure to take the
[018] nfirmary at the women's facility has been beset by the _____ of a chief physician and trained staff, and there ha
[019] hompson also played all 40 minutes. Victimized by a _____ of pace in the Sunset Handicap last month at Hollywo
[020] ies more humanely and with a sense of public order we _____ . They're still planted in publics libraries, and stil