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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] early morning wake-up call gets them moving. (If you _____ in too late, you might wake up and wonder if you're d
[002] a shopping complex that draws in people who live and _____ at the end of the bus routes? Do they want to plan f
[003] and the line about waking up in a city which doesn't _____ . The British imitators are still whispering to a city
[004] "that seemed to hang together, especially "Lie Still, _____ Becalmed". It all became a kind of tribute to the Fa
[005] s he was concerned he was still on Cacoethes. I shall _____ easy tonight," Starkey said. Willie Carson will also
[006] come by fatigue, he managed to forget his sorrows in _____ . Herbert went to
[007] . Herbert went to _____ directly. As to the sailor, he passed the night with
[008] did not spare fuel. But one of the castaways did not _____ in the cave. The inconsolable, despairing Neb, notwi
[009] preceding night, and Herbert was not long in going to _____ near the sailor, who had stretched himself beside th
[010] he thunder, and the tumult, Herbert slept profoundly. _____ at last took possession of Pencroft, whom a seafarin
[011] g." The engineer nodded faintly, and then appeased to _____ . They respected this
[012] . They respected this _____ , and the reporter began immediately to make arrangem
[013] had not left. The engineer was just awaking from the _____ , or rather from the drowsiness, in which they had fo
[014] f sea- weed which still remained almost dry. The deep _____ which had overpowered him would no doubt be more ben
[015] orning, he saw his companions around him watching his _____ , and, as on the day before, his first words were:-- "
[016] cluding the faithful Top, were soon buried in a deep _____ . No incident disturbed this peaceful night, and the ne
[017] illed with no sulphurous vapor. It was more than the _____ of a volcano; it was its complete extinction. Cyrus H
[018] lt. Then each settled himself as well as he could to _____ , and in that rocky hole, at a height of two thousand
[019] moment when each one was about to give himself up to _____ , Cyrus Harding drew from his pocket little specimens
[020] at nightfall entered the Chimneys; but they did not _____ before the question of knowing whether they could th
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[001] easily moved to the next. When the foundation slab is _____ , the logs are laid in horizontal fashion, just as in
[002] portation costs drop dramatically, but such things as _____ cleaning and fancy clothing bills also shrink. Expens
[003] m reminiscent of the time you stopped to pick up the _____ cleaning and got trapped in a traffic jam. Such an ou
[004] d our longevity, and gave us homes that were warm and _____ . The biotech world will change things in ways we can
[005] tnessed rural peasants grubbing out a living from the _____ desert soil in the mountains of Mexico and Peru? Thei
[006] ucial difference between old and new is how it keeps _____ . Modern houses are built on the principle that damp
[007] liked to say, "vision follows reality," parodying the _____ modern movement dictum, "form follows function". His
[008] to pee in a bucket was one. But a child that is warm, _____ and loved does not care about such things. The attitu
[009] had to shed large numbers of employees as home sales _____ up. Building societies face the threat of a further
[010] . A Polish farmer fits him out with a complete set of _____ clothes and sends him on to the West German embassy i
[011] whose Westward migration almost drained East Germany _____ before the Wall went up on 13 August 1961. The GDR's
[012] hat trick. Atkinson shaded it, but both were home and _____ by the 53rd minute. Whitton pulled ahead five minutes
[013] o the engineer. But they searched in vain for wood or _____ brambles; nothing but sand and stones were to be foun
[014] long grass, Pencroft felt that his feet were crushing _____ branches which crackled like fireworks. "Well, my bo
[015] ansporting it was not yet found. The wood, being very _____ , would burn rapidly; it was therefore necessary to c
[016] ieces of wood, which they had fastened together with _____ creepers. A raft was thus formed, on which they stack
[017] t rapidly twisted a cord, a few fathoms long, made of _____ creepers. This vegetable cable was fastened to the a
[018] have been contented deserved the name. But they were _____ , and there was space to stand upright, at least in the
[019] savages do," replied Herbert, "by rubbing two bits of _____ stick one against the other." "All right; try, my boy
[020] caution. The sailor first made sure that it was quite _____ ; that done, "We must have some paper," said he. "Her
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[001] ing. Even in North America that was 98 percent of the _____ . Yet during the past century most countries managed
[002] le to leave their accumulated wisdom. With increased _____ and longer lives, more human imaginations will be av
[003] rage only $640. With about 75 percent of the world's _____ living in countries with a low income, pure water the
[004] re equates with survival. One- quarter of the world's _____ -- 1.2 billion residents of those countries -- do not
[005] eople in Africa, about 40 percent of that continent's _____ , will suffer or die as a result of water- related tro
[006] lishers have never considered: that 40 percent of the _____ that can't read. (In North America about 20 percent o
[007] vice, enhance a culture, or provide an income for the _____ . For years now the official (and memorable) logo of
[008] at Japan is in control of a larger productive working _____ than the United States, even though the United State
[009] States, even though the United States has twice the _____ of Japan. Techno- peasants will face bleak futures. T
[010] will inherit what's left of most big cities. Current _____ growth projections show techno- peasants increasing a
[011] g the same. Now a reported 17 percent of the working _____ in western Canada and 10 percent in eastern Canada a
[012] after age sixty-five. That means almost half of that _____ segment won't be in the leisure class as soon as the
[013] - five, now the fastest growing segment of the adult _____ . These older people are still healthy, but constant
[014] In North America at least 10 percent of the working _____ (i.e., taxpayers) are working at home. In almost eve
[015] Research indicates that a sizable percentage of the _____ finds that receptivity to new types of foods and coo
[016] ry few minutes. The doomsayers leave the rest of the _____ suspended in horror with the image of a shrinking wor
[017] just a few years ago. At one time 98 percent of the _____ of North America were farmers. Today farmers make up
[018] we produce more food than our present North American _____ of 275 million can eat. The farm of the future will b
[019] ig, the first test area. The city has a well-educated _____ that is under- employed. FTTH will provide excellent
[020] oday and tomorrow. They are well aware that the world _____ is going to continue to increase considerably before
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[001] udge- substance back to the surface. It might even be _____ enough to heat water and generate electricity! Housto
[002] ng, screening, training, and placing retirees. Another _____ spot is to fill gaps in corporations that have unexpe
[003] rst holographic shows occasionally at the local pub. _____ Art Several years ago during an especially cold, we
[004] Guinea. He thought it would be most appropriate for " _____ art". Whenever I feel cold, I just turn on Norm's jung
[005] electrical source -- and fry an egg in thirty seconds. _____ stuff! Outdoor Air- conditioning A new technology ca
[006] p to 100_F, only one line is required. For extremely _____ temperatures, as in Saudi Arabia, an additional over
[007] ks in an environment that will change the meaning of " _____ house" forever. The company is also working on date-
[008] hing in the world like it. How would you like to try " _____ -dogging" on the moon -- or over Manhattan -- or even
[009] e possible. Consider a stove. Adults know a stove is _____ , probably because they once got burned. In a cybernet
[010] architects and developers. Third, people should get _____ under the collar when presented with dreary architec
[011] the skyscrapers. Mohammed's courtyard, all right in _____ climates, is repeated without regard for local condit
[012] rsions of Lehar's Vilja Song or My Lips They Kiss So _____ . Soderstrom has been, in her distinguished career, m
[013] d anticipated far stronger growth following the long _____ summer. Environmental engineer Wheway slipped 2p to
[014] dhurst West looks back at COMDEX, and decides what's _____ , and what's not in Coming our way. Coming our way Co
[015] fell. Michael Pickard, chief executive, says that the _____ summer weather favoured sales of sporting shoes, wher
[016] quality of output. ’Ä¢Business & City Page 25 891006 _____ summer was healthy for Etam By TERENCE WILKINSON, As
[017] ng space of 29 per cent, appeared to benefit from the _____ summer weather and its low-priced fashion for younger
[018] es not quite understand. Civil-defence workers serving _____ soup from their mobile kitchens on Hof station have
[019] scar afterward. ’Ä¢Foreign News Page 10 891007 In the _____ seat BOGOTA (Reuter) - Roberto Salazar Manrique, an
[020] given a veneer of legality. The business of turning " _____ " money into legitimate tender is as old as crime its
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[001] e basis. Those that do not offer the same service and _____ the new global plan will be left behind as technology
[002] d probably have answered. Television was so quick to _____ the Yuppie Backlash that there is now a real danger of
[003] terms in which Lodge's defence is couched once again _____ them to beat them. "I think one of the functions of t
[004] ow of strength. Mr Hawke has embarked on a crusade to _____ the airlines in smashing the pilots' claim, seeing i
[005] sterday Barclays and Lloyds announced they wanted to _____ Switch, the debit card network founded by National W
[006] out of its merger with Touche Ross and is expected to _____ up with Coopers &Lybrand. This page and View from Ci
[007] pplications: Barclays and Lloyds banks have applied to _____ the Switch debit card network. Outlook, page 31 Smur
[008] finance director, and Tim Walker of Caradon, will also _____ the MB Group board. "This is not an ordinary acquisi
[009] e of seats ripped from the stands. Millwall is now to _____ the junior Unlisted Securities Market while Tottenham
[010] rather different view, describing Honda's decision to _____ the flow of Japanese car makers into Britain as an op
[011] ’Ä¢Business & City Page 26 891005 Halifax and Leeds _____ list of casualties By PATRICK HOSKING, Banking Corre
[012] tte firms in the US, Japan and France have agreed to _____ DRT, with Canada expected to follow. Coopers has Del
[013] one former conservative minister, Yannis Boutos, to _____ him. His proposal of limited electoral co-operation
[014] Police beat back would-be emigrants as they tried to _____ sealed trains carrying their countrymen to the West, o
[015] amentalists", whereas the document allows everyone to _____ the new party. "Everyone appears to be a reformist,"
[016] , Viktor Karpov, made it clear that Moscow would not _____ in making such reductions unless the US first ended i
[017] ebuffed in his attempt to convince leftist forces to _____ his socialist camp in a coalition government, returne
[018] daily at the West German embassy In Warsaw, hoping to _____ the 1,436 who have gained passage to the West via Po
[019] ve to make up their minds about whether they want to _____ the new ship. ’Ä¢Foreign News Page 12 891010 Latvians
[020] an citizenship papers and DM200 ( £66). Many quickly _____ relatives or friends living here, while the rest go t
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[001] y a magnetic field they defy gravity and can take the _____ of their container, go upward, turn corners. Manipula
[002] t's still in progress. ’Ä¢ 4 The Everyday World The _____ of Things to Come "Ceramic- home living certainly ma
[003] cid fluid, the paint can be applied to objects of any _____ and a wide variety of substrates. It can be applied
[004] he system to keep expensive horses and polo ponies in _____ . Hothouse owners report that their plants now grow b
[005] . Now comes new hope: a form of "intimate TV" in the _____ of wraparound glasses that carry their own TV camera
[006] so pliable it can be massaged into the desired square _____ . The log is allowed to cool to room temperature whil
[007] 50 pounds per square inch. The log retains its square _____ when released from the oven and the conversion press
[008] g designed by the Taisei Corporation of Tokyo in the _____ of a seagull (and named "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"
[009] n the present architectural climate. Increasingly, the _____ and construction of a modern office block are determ
[010] n's users. I have been puzzled about the forces which _____ public sector building in this country: what gives it,
[011] s individual strengths it doesn't evolve a satisfying _____ . The choreography remains a moment by moment respons
[012] "The rise in base rates does not unduly threaten the _____ of the economy and the market going into 1990-91", he
[013] also disappointing to see that home shopping, in the _____ of Grattan, has failed to recover from the travails
[014] of its people to West Germany. "Together we want to _____ our fatherland in such a way that the growing materi
[015] eight division and his career will now take definite _____ . Nevertheless he will be required to introduce more v
[016] will not give them time to hatch, unless it is in the _____ of an omelet!" replied Pencroft merrily. "But what wi
[017] e. Pencroft then twisted the piece of paper into the _____ of a cone, as smokers do in a high wind, and poked it
[018] e surface of the Pacific. This was in fact the exact _____ of the island, which it is of consequence to know, an
[019] sort of protuberance which did not give any particular _____ to this part of the island, of which the center was
[020] ives. The exploration of the island was finished, its _____ determined, its features made out, its extent calcul
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[001] and promote the sale of combustible wooden shingles ( _____ , they are combustible even with fire retardants, for
[002] one morning wondering what to do. You remember, "Oh _____ , today I was going to run Program 7001," a landscapin
[003] t to do? Call "program busters" in Moscow. In Moscow? _____ . DeLyon shipped his inoperative software to a friend
[004] the years to come? All trends suggest the answer is _____ . Look at office space. Sydney, Australia, known for
[005] n your electronic store shelf within three years. And _____ , you guessed it. It's Japanese. The Latest Phones R
[006] ing the American gallery- going public? The answer is _____ , unless the Royal Academy can raise £50,000 by the e
[007] reet you catch sight of looking down Albion Street? ( _____ it is, designed by Sir Owen Williams in 1936, using t
[008] hic film-star, thus proving his honesty in a town of _____ -men. In real life he would have been sued for million
[009] corporate life in the early 1980s. "We stirred it up, _____ , but we never lost any money for anybody and we neve
[010] e standard but the inevitable follow up comment is: " _____ , ours". According to bankers active in the Euro- equ
[011] ." "What still remains to be thrown out?" "Nothing." " _____ ! the car!" "Let us catch hold of the net, and into th
[012] et us look for him! let us look for him!" cried Neb. " _____ , Neb," replied Gideon Spilett, "and we will find him
[013] ust!" "Still living!" "Can he swim?" asked Pencroft. " _____ ," replied Neb, "and besides, Top is there." The sail
[014] nded on the west by an abrupt and precipitous coast. _____ ! the land was there. Their safety was at least provi
[015] d him. "Do you want to cross the channel?" he asked. " _____ ," replied Spilett. "All right!" said the seaman; "wa
[016] ptain Harding and were to bring him back with them!" " _____ , indeed!" said Pencroft, "that was a man of the righ
[017] n Harding or Mr. Spilett will not be without them." " _____ ," replied Pencroft; "but in the meantime we are witho
[018] g of a dog!" "A dog!" cried Pencroft, springing up. " _____ -- barking--" "It's not possible!" replied the sailor.
[019] ell!" said the reporter, pressing the sailor's hand. " _____ --
[020] -- _____ !" replied Pencroft. "It is Top! It is Top!" cried Her
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[001] almost indestructible disks. Make as many as you can _____ . Notice I said "as many as you can
[002] . Notice I said "as many as you can _____ ," not _as many as you think you can
[003] ," not _as many as you think you can _____ ". Make exactly what the market will buy. That's a luxu
[004] igh. It will still be low compared to printed books. I _____ my collected work as an electronic book, and my profi
[005] planners on staff trying to create a crisis they can _____ to the public: "We must preserve our green space. Roa
[006] Madras has set up a U.S. subsidiary in California to _____ offshore software development. A second Indian compa
[007] eel them, but electronic books. Is that "working"? I _____ books but I duplicate my master electronically on a
[008] hop at your store. Store owners today know what they _____ but they don't know to whom. An upcoming generation of
[009] and cabbages, anyone who buys the seed can grow and _____ the plants. Not so with patented plants developed thr
[010] ly won't have the know- how required to manufacture, _____ , distribute, and operate the newest equipment. No ot
[011] one or two years," says Kobayashi, "it will probably _____ licenses for the technology outside the prefecture".
[012] or a commercial development as BR would still want to _____ the land. Whether BR and the Government should be co
[013] cies. Fimbra, as the regulatory body of middlemen who _____ investment and insurance products, is attempting to
[014] ith a five per cent stake, strongly opposed plans to _____ off three of GPG's operating companies. But sharehold
[015] reholders voted by three to one last week to back the _____ -offs which will reduce borrowings to a consortium of
[016] is not a problem; and to convince the markets not to _____ sterling. In both arguments, the next two weeks _ whi
[017] ucture its capital base. It has already undertaken to _____ off £100m worth of businesses and to raise £150m t
[018] FAGAN THE GOVERNMENT faces controversy over plans to _____ off the spectrum of radio frequencies. From a commerc
[019] ¬£70m. They rate the shares, at 112.5p yesterday, a _____ . ’Ä¢Business & City Page 27 891003 View from City Ro
[020] held up by the Coats offer, worth 133p. If it fails, _____ Tootal. If it succeeds
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[001] t and the United States is power- hungry, power could _____ to North America. When it is night here, power could
[002] to North America. When it is night here, power could _____ into the Russian network. A win-win situation. Water
[003] rners. Manipulation of the magnetic field directs the _____ . A fluid in a dish can jump out toward a nearby magne
[004] radual braking. Such sensors will standardize traffic _____ , permitting a 50 percent increase in the number of ca
[005] s the cap, inserts its nozzle, and the gas starts to _____ . The nozzle is equipped with an airtight seal for vap
[006] a desired gene that prevents disease, improves lactic _____ , or produces a "jungle pharmaceutical," this gene can
[007] be eliminated because natural water-borne food will _____ continuously through the fish farms of the artificia
[008] eard of. And their food was natural because of tidal _____ through the barrier nets. The operators could check o
[009] quently denigrated ring road system allows traffic to _____ at a remarkably fast pace (17.5mph in rush hours comp
[010] of contradictions and loopholes (how will the traffic _____ if the ring road is downgraded as Holyoak plans? why
[011] as if they really love them; sensitive to the ebb and _____ of the text, they nurture unexpected melodic twists,
[012] onal Stock Exchange has been attempting to reduce the _____ of paper on share transactions through the evolution
[013] an insurance broker is not asset-backed. It has cash _____ but its assets are its people. The insurance business
[014] fferent view, describing Honda's decision to join the _____ of Japanese car makers into Britain as an opportunity
[015] keover and which finances its rapid growth from cash _____ . The half-year interest bill was up 77 per cent at £8
[016] skills. Although East Germany managed to staunch the _____ on the eve of its 40th birthday, observers said it wa
[017] ied a ban on transport strikes and again stemmed the _____ of supplies into Armenia. Reports conflicted on how m
[018] "proceso 500," and earns 80, 000 Kwanza, To stem the _____ of MPLA party workers, state employees, and professio
[019] tained by West German police for identification. The _____ of East German refugees swelled during the 24 hours t
[020] tions in 1985, he got dollars 2bn - 15 times the cash _____ of the stations, rather than the usual multiple of ni