125c
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125c
DIRECTIONS: Below, you will see 10 items.
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.
Which
word/phrase fits all the gaps in each set? (Corpus=corpus_awl.txt )
avenue
brown
disease
excellent
formal
hat
jump
sheet
smooth
snake
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2. WORDS
avenue
brown
disease
excellent
formal
hat
jump
sheet
smooth
snake
[001] eir lives. You have to put on a completely different _____ ". For Dancing Through The Dark, Russell has also had
[002] he Dark, Russell has also had to wear his composer's _____ , scoring five new songs and all the background music
[003] r-Lyme as an Italian town band, with Chorus in a red _____ and sash beating the bass drum. It is an immediate,
[004] ly and they had a pre- season tour. Hopes of a title _____ -trick hang by a thread, but all is not quite lost. G
[005] rovided a gleaming backdrop for Gary Lineker's first _____ -trick for two years, but Gary's glory game served only
[006] nders should at least have emulated Trevor Francis's _____ -trick at Villa Park a week earlier, and Paul Goddard'
[007] they were heading for another defeat. Dave Wensley's _____ - trick in the opening 10 minutes of the final period
[008] charabancs and had four wheels and a man in a peaked _____ ". All that Keay is prepared to say on the subject is
[009] ft the North Midlands defence for dead with astunning _____ -trick of tries. What appeared to be the last rites w
[010] first halves was which of them would be first to his _____ trick. Atkinson shaded it, but both were home and dry
[011] Thomas eases the doubts By NEIL MORTON ON A night of _____ -tricks in the Littlewoods Cup last night, Michael Tho
[012] st Bromwich Albion and Crystal Palace. A John Thomas _____ - trick enabled Albion to take the aggregate score to
3. WORDS
avenue
brown
disease
excellent
formal
hat
jump
sheet
smooth
snake
[001] two stars (fair), three stars (good) and four stars ( _____ ). Mixed audio review. Within the context of commercia
[002] y opens the selected volume or volumes purchased. An _____ example is the monthly photonic magazine Nautilus, p
[003] opulation that is under- employed. FTTH will provide _____ operational experience and offer participating compan
[004] House in New Delhi. The books include clear maps and _____ entries on individual buildings, monuments and follie
[005] o combines faithfulness to Classical principles with _____ planning. The only architects so far who have provide
[006] lingly lovely dance images. The performances too are _____ , with all six dancers (from the Royal) sensitively ad
[007] up during the Angelus. If memory serves, Ian Judge's _____ production, Ann Curtis's fine costumes, and Gerard H
[008] in the repertoire, what hope is there for the merely _____ ? The main problem is the large, virtually all black
[009] n an operetta singer, but her virtues, solid attack, _____ diction, and a clear, fine voice appealing more throu
[010] and falls in love. "I've got a kid," she warns him. " _____ ," he ripostes. "We'll save time starting a family". K
[011] ecially in the humourless hauteur of Graham Fellows's _____ Tybalt. His foil, Mercutio, is given both lightness a
[012] ding's all- important drop goal. The Kiwis wasted two _____ try opportunties with careless forward passes, and g
4. WORDS
avenue
brown
disease
excellent
formal
hat
jump
sheet
smooth
snake
[001] ouillet. Paquette's blue eyes reveal no fear; this is _____ No. 600. Brouillet, with more than 3,000 leaps to hi
[002] magnetic field directs the flow. A fluid in a dish can _____ out toward a nearby magnet! If an object heavier tha
[003] cans as the world's most frequent phone callers will _____ another notch. Installed telepoint networks provide t
[004] de, the majority in Japan. The most recent conceptual _____ was the idea of carrying this sunlight to the ocean
[005] into Artistic seriousness by an arabesque or a beaten _____ , into Moral seriousness by a hungry contraction or pr
[006] all Street's gains, a softer Australian dollar and a _____ in futures prices. The All Ordinaries index added 28.
[007] ions were similiarly arranged, though with a further _____ to 10.45 per cent on all pay- packets of over £165
[008] ight back thousands who block the tracks and want to _____ on board. Hundreds gather on the platforms at Hof st
[009] ace, with the only other clear round of the 10- horse _____ - off, went to Belgium's Evelyne Blaton on Careful. Ea
[010] ns when neither of the Whitaker brothers reached the _____ -off, but Skelton still had 11 to beat. They included
[011] ed by 1.05sec. Joe Turi, the first to go clear in the _____ -off, was pushed back to third place on Country Classi
[012] ts to the weekends. As first to go in the nine-horse _____ - off, Halliday had seemed to be handicapped by the dr
5. WORDS
avenue
brown
disease
excellent
formal
hat
jump
sheet
smooth
snake
[001] he 14- story prewar apartment building at 1150 Fifth _____ , at 96th Street, and a trio of multimillion- dollar d
[002] believe was situated around 125th Street and College _____ in Manhattan. Where was it situated and what has hap
[003] call was built in 1884 on the west side of Amsterdam _____ , between 136th and 138th Streets. The banker Jesse
[004] in Ocean Beach (583-7505), a branch of the Lexington _____ spot with the same name, bills its food as French-
[005] opment Bank's Cultural Center Art Gallery on New York _____ and 'Brazilian Art in Washington' at the U. S. Distri
[006] ing the turf war with gang members over West Elmwood _____ . So the city rolled out a weapon against which gangs
[007] t Le Cirque and Provence in New York City and Ocean _____ Seafoods and the now- defunct Tatou in Los Angeles,
[008] stand on this corner of East First Street and Second _____ in Manhattan was never much to behold, and the city d
[009] cher-type seats are being erected along Pennsylvania _____ between the Capitol and the White House for the big
[010] wn this historic ceremonial route. Pennsylvania _____ , named for one of the original 13 states, perhaps is
[011] n approach it. #MANY BUILDINGS# Within view of the _____ are some of the United States government's tremendou
[012] in an easy walk from Capitol Hill where Pennsylvania _____ comes together with Constitution
6. WORDS
avenue
brown
disease
excellent
formal
hat
jump
sheet
smooth
snake
[001] al advantage is even greater for workers with little _____ education and training and for women, blacks and His
[002] pastilla, or in spite of them. Miss Ahern lacked any _____ knowledge of wine when she liquidated her Mazda and M
[003] company or the union. Both sides have the right to a _____ hearing on the concerns they raise. And if they don'
[004] atives of the Irish Republican Army to participate in _____ peace talks. That persuaded her to invite Sinn Fein,
[005] itation immediately and is now scheduled to enter the _____ negotiating process in Belfast on Sept. 9, at the c
[006] ay with all the cathartic and clannish pageantry of a _____ police funeral, as detectives investigated whether hi
[007] e ordinary people, generally unskilled, having little _____ education, and basically unprepared for the arduous
[008] " and the "know-nots" is not a matter of race, color, _____ education, or even economics. It is attitude. Informa
[009] belonging to the Fortune 500, have so far instigated _____ telework programs. You can bet that many others will
[010] African horns) but also in the way they take stiff, _____ tempi (waltzes and tangos) and mockingly squeeze the
[011] sixth largest record company worldwide, will make the _____ announcement today in London, writes Mary Fagan. The
[012] 552p as news of the bid began to leak out. After the _____ announcement by Australian Mutual Provident yesterday
7. WORDS
avenue
brown
disease
excellent
formal
hat
jump
sheet
smooth
snake
[001] ry year everywhere are gone. So are the days when the _____ 's inner workings seemed to defy understanding or sci
[002] doctors who cared for them, felt as they faced the _____ . Today, in many parts of the world, the AIDS epidemi
[003] treatment of unexpected potency, to bear against the _____ . The monotonous pessimism AIDS called forth in the e
[004] stories about his fatal illness (a rare bone marrow _____ contracted during a trip to China), his abrupt depar
[005] iling Marina, but the animal tested negative for the _____ . The D. C. government has agreed to stop awarding s
[006] r also paints a clearer picture of brains damaged by _____ . X rays were a big advance, enabling us to see into
[007] ages can be directed to a specific site or a specific _____ . Just as industries have realized that they must spe
[008] we will be able to program our body to fight illness, _____ , and physical injury. It is revolutionary -- and evol
[009] orn or bean that someday will be the victim of a new _____ , and we will all starve in an age of pestilence and f
[010] iminated with injections of a modified version of the _____ itself, the Western world would have considered you
[011] s vaccine could prevent smallpox. Today that dreaded _____ has been virtually eliminated. Other vaccines have m
[012] age and transportation costs. The seeds are virtually _____ -free and are less costly to produce than seed potatoe
8. WORDS
avenue
brown
disease
excellent
formal
hat
jump
sheet
smooth
snake
[001] e British, and continue through the early 1770's. The _____ slate, gray as hammered lead, had been quarried and
[002] highlight the contrasts between warm and cool tones, _____ and rough textures, and natural and artificial colors
[003] by making what on the surface at least, seems like a _____ transition from being a relatively home and hearth- o
[004] quid into a shot glass and downs it as if it were as _____ as rye. With a few cans of Spam and little cash, the
[005] ut who is ever- present in her mind as she feels its _____ grain- gently, as if stroking the temples of a dreami
[006] on Monday. A FENCED-IN patch of red and tan brick, _____ and flat, doesn't look like much of an attraction, but
[007] kyo, where a highly-sculpted interior is covered in a _____ , almost featureless exterior. It is in the tension be
[008] indy-hop, tap, Broadway and disco) than in trying to _____ out its vernacular with the classy accents of ballet
[009] employers. Nigel Lawson has now made two attempts to _____ the system out. The obvious answer is to fuse nationa
[010] a retreat, but in vain; everywhere the wall appeared _____ , plain, and perpendicular. However, at the mouth of
[011] sformed into clubs, the ends of which Herbert rubbed _____ on a rock. Oh! what would they not have given for a
[012] ad left perfectly level. This bed of fine sand was as _____ as ice, not a grain out of place. It was of little im
9. WORDS
avenue
brown
disease
excellent
formal
hat
jump
sheet
smooth
snake
[001] l. Airplanes won't be constructed of riveted aluminum _____ metal. Leisure sports equipment will be composed of m
[002] he difference written off earlier through the balance _____ . Sandhurst, which has performed dreadfully under Toot
[003] would be "minimal". The impact on MB Group's balance _____ of acquiring sizeable goodwill in both ABS and Carado
[004] use. Assets more than cover the price and the balance _____ is almost ungeared so there is limited downside. ’ΔΆ
[005] n the sector below £39m. Some may argue that balance _____ numbers like these are not important for people busi
[006] em to suspect that the Ferranti International balance _____ exposure to fraud was any different from that referr
[007] he year. The sale will strengthen Standard's balance _____ and improve its capital ratios, which have recently su
[008] gs, the NEC said. Yet it was able to produce a score _____ which showed that out of a possible score of 100, th
[009] than athletics. You only have to look at the balance _____ its treasurer John Lister will present to its annual
[010] of them. The sea, indeed, formed an immense circular _____ of water all around them! Perhaps, on climbing again
[011] ed to his companions that the altitude of this little _____ of water must be about three hundred feet, because th
[012] ncroft followed with more sedate steps. The beautiful _____ of water glittered through the trees under the rays o
10. WORDS
avenue
brown
disease
excellent
formal
hat
jump
sheet
smooth
snake
[001] ' quarterback. "I have Giants season tickets, " Dave _____ said last week, sitting in an empty Giants Stadium a
[002] g to sit there like all the other Giants fans. " That _____ grew up a Giants fan has always mattered. When Giants
[003] Giants General Manager George Young was deciding if _____ was worth a first-round supplemental draft pick five
[004] upplemental draft pick five years ago, he liked that _____ was local, from Westfield, N. J., less than 20 miles
[005] reas should improve dramatically as quarterback Dave _____ already looks like a different player and the defens
[006] ent from Pittsburgh to San Francisco; linebacker Chad _____ , the AFC's defensive MVP, from the Steelers to Seat
[007] debts through a liquidation under Chapter 7. Ricardo _____ always figured he would go right from high school to
[008] ree. Nynex's offer, he felt, was too good to pass up. _____ decided to forgo full-time college studies, at least
[009] thought I'd be working right after high school,' said _____ , who also is taking night courses at nearby Wentwor
[010] sands of solid-paying, career- oriented jobs such as _____ 's available, a steadily increasing number of high sc
[011] nly backward. 'This same kind of march,' said Willie _____ , the mayor of San Francisco, 'was held years ago, w
[012] k hair frames her unlined face, accenting fiery dark- _____ eyes. The 31- year- old Nicaraguan smiles constantly