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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 )
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[001] t till the dust settles"? Willis glanced at the _____ pages given him and shrugged. "Well", he said, "ther
[002] chools, beaches, and abundance of names. "You are _____ to get involved with people when you have children",
[003] stees of the SETI Institute) conceived an approach to _____ the terms involved in estimating the number of techno
[004] e our approach can be used to eventually improve the _____ to d < N0.5. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The largest
[005] . If they need to convert inches to centimeters, they _____ off to the store to buy a program to do that, even th
[006] an be treated. Heavy metals, it is believed, will be _____ to the ash, but even if this proves not to be the cas
[007] y are highly mobile, flexible beyond belief, and not _____ by nationalism -- they are truly planetary citizens.
[008] so an example of how the centrifugal forces that once _____ societies together are now tearing them apart. But he
[009] liability becomes an asset in another age. Literacy is _____ to become less important in years to come. For some
[010] stems from the diary of an old man whose memories are _____ up with his obsessive recording of the weather. Matt
[011] iberia is a glasnost spin-off piece: a genre that was _____ to have a vogue. When writers go abroad they bring b
[012] ed when he first appeared he looked practically fog- _____ during the closing numbers. His voice, though, was ge
[013] oopers. Australia is likely to follow suit. There is _____ to be considerable upheaval among the blue- chip cli
[014] in with more than 600 East Germans left Warsaw, also _____ for West Germany. It was delayed because extra carri
[015] e in Sidon and the surrounding hills, and the PLO is _____ to be accused by its enemies of involvement in the k
[016] rillas in San Salvador board a plane, believed to be _____ for Chile, after they were evacuated from the Mexican
[017] ment faces a vote of no confidence today which it is _____ to win. The motion has been tabled by the Gaullist R
[018] begun for the space shuttle Atlantis and the Jupiter- _____ spacecraft it is carrying. But a Washington court co
[019] r an end to the current system of zero- rating goods _____ for export to other EC states in favour of levying VA
[020] out the possibility of seeking admission to it. He is _____ to realise he can hurt the reformists most by joining
[021] women's event went to Bev Nicholson, another athlete _____ for Auckland. ’Ä¢Sport Page 32 891002 Rugby Union: We
[022] d the Rangers striker Kevin Drinkell - now Coventry- _____ - but chairman Doug Ellis was apparently reluctant t
[023] two points, before Mike Kuiti, a second-row forward _____ for Leeds after the tour, laid on Sherlock's saver.
[024] would never again rise, suddenly made an unexpected _____ , after having been struck by a tremendous sea. As if
[025] to give the word. At that moment a dog sprang with a _____ into the car. It was Top, a favorite of the engineer.
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[001] st continent, which new generations will inhabit and _____ in their turn." "That will take a long time," said Pe
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[001] scrumptious, and Toodle Williams and her all-lesbian _____ ". "Hi, Buzz", Owen said. "I went over to the Will
[002] was found before his open safe wearing the speckled _____ . The grocery the youth worked for soon tired of his
[003] pon 4 was promoted with a song by a local heavy metal _____ called "Beyond." Shots from the movie were mixed with
[004] eyond." Shots from the movie were mixed with clips of _____ members even though the
[005] members even though the _____ does not appear in the film and the song is not inclu
[006] l and spontaneous. John Nelson and the Covent Garden _____ provide sensitive accompaniments. Favorable audio r
[007] of them of a depressing nature. But in the past, the _____ has offered music that was vastly more exciting and
[008] er education today, the new tax act seems more like a _____ - Aid than a bold initiative. Its $6 billion a year i
[009] a process called a "light shift" removes the infrared _____ of light, which is redirected to help warm the buildi
[010] at a respectful distance by Doolittle's seven- piece _____ , written for with a sure ear for tonal balance and a
[011] nnot reproduce all the subtleties of a recording, the _____ was drilled to precision and communicated the necess
[012] ck in lurid purple, orange and red, and reducing the _____ to shadowy figures looming out of a fog, he put so m
[013] e were about as dangerous as the average heavy metal _____ . Still, the level of maturity achieved in the studio
[014] t long dead) chicken episode which lost him half his _____ , the time he wore the Cambridge Rapist's mask . . . T
[015] oll; and, proving that they are probably the only pop _____ ready for the single European market, there is an EC
[016] midway through the first song, only the size of the _____ dissuaded you from buying a round to speed up the pro
[017] arted to get funny around four songs in, just as the _____ began bringing the stops off cleanly and ending in th
[018] Victoria in Newcastle- under-Lyme as an Italian town _____ , with Chorus in a red hat and sash beating the bass
[019] patrick's apparently authentic, and certainly suitable _____ music. The whole cast performs with similar versatili
[020] has to be tightly targeted to cope with quite a narrow _____ of frequencies. Even tuning your radio can be done o
[021] ers were once Jesuit seminary students. The terrorist _____ they formed has, over the past 15 years, claimed more
[022] s an old woman, too sick to move. The SNM is a ragged _____ of fighters with little political ideology beyond the
[023] of the waves and the dashing of the surf. The little _____ then continued their march forward, searching into ev
[024] wild or rock pigeons. I recognize them by the double _____ of black on the wing, by the white tail, and by thei
[025] came him, and he slept. At half-past five the little _____ arrived at the precipice, and a short time after at t
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[001] d have missed the sounds of bees buzzing against the _____ door in early June; or the smell of thick tomato pas
[002] icker swings and screeched with the rusted hinges of _____ doors. Even the stable-garage, which housed nothi
[003] grotesque cry of war. She was moving through a _____ of hemlocks, in among the white birch and maples. Th
[004] ap. Victoria, I want you to ..." Quint closed the _____ door quietly so Maggie wouldn't be scared. "Hurry up
[005] Letch simply did not project. He was laughed off the _____ . At the same time, however, I availed myself of the
[006] slob"! (Norman Mailer), but no one can deny that the _____ crackles with electricity whenever he is on it. Soar
[007] soars like a golden tone. She comes leaping off the _____ , a small, voluptuous figure of infinite allure. Perha
[008] had the pleasure, Tamagotchis are toys that have a _____ on which a creature appears and that fit in the palm
[009] and that fit in the palm of a small hand. Below the _____ are three small buttons that, when pushed in various
[010] cans. In the toys sold in Japan, the creature on the _____ eventually dies. For Americans, who don't like unhap
[011] rote early in O'Hara's career, 'is to be shown on the _____ of a fluoroscope gradations of social prestige of whi
[012] 'made a myth of his own life, building a thick smoke _____ of wealth and possession to cover a multitude of cri
[013] reflexively repeated in the unfolding debate over on- _____ smoking. The Clinton administration has begun meeting
[014] on we will see television's merger with the computer _____ . Gutenberg print is being transferred to CD-ROMs rea
[015] television set. It can then control the action on the _____ . Now an advanced type of glove allows supermarket sh
[016] he glove, which will electronically penetrate your TV _____ , and pick up, for example, a bottle of Heinz ketchup.
[017] n and price are indicated in an upper corner of your _____ . You "drop" the purchase into your electronic cart and
[018] You wear a headband holding a tiny mono color video- _____ about four inches in front of and to the right of you
[019] r. That's the purpose -- to provide a nonexistent TV _____ that appears to be located about two feet in front o
[020] tual Vision Sport, which allows people to view large- _____ TV images through sport sunglasses. The unit consist
[021] tellite dish, or cable TV. The viewer perceives a big- _____ TV image floating in space. This virtual image is ge
[022] pensive seat in the top of the stadium and watch big _____ color images through portable, five-ounce eyeglasses,
[023] mobile personal computer that will project a display _____ , larger in size than a standard computer display, ins
[024] ty. Will some larger companies see the writing on the _____ and follow these leaders of relatively small business
[025] hat can produce an image of the ticket on a computer _____ . This enables the city to hold neighborhood hearings
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[001] himself. She no longer wanted anything about him to _____ her of the circumstances of their meeting that first
[002] was reasonably certain that Francesca had wanted to _____ me of our town meeting the next evening, and how imp
[003] here numerous research and popular magazine articles _____ us that "creativity is not, after all, a reflection
[004] n the robot's computer memory. Automatic recall could _____ the robot of oranges, originally green on the first p
[005] obvious to him where his power exactly lies, let me _____ him of the television viewing figures that have occu
[006] yramidal ventilators on top of the Blackfriars scheme _____ Outram of "the frilly dresses on Minoan goddesses". H
[007] affair, but calls for a return to classicism can only _____ Berliners of the architect manque who led them into
[008] es from our country," said the reporter, "which would _____ us of America." "Yes, for the principal ones," then s
[009] U.N.# _TO THE EDITOR OF THE INQUIRER:_ Just to _____ the Communists that the bombs dropped on Japan were
[010] hington Square seems not part of a free land. It may _____ one of Russia, China or East Berlin; but it can't
[011] one of Russia, China or East Berlin; but it can't _____ one of the freedom that Washington and the Continent
[012] Catholics, especially when these Irishmen offer to _____ their Christian brethren of this good. ## ONE OF T
[013] merical strength would have warranted. We do well to _____ ourselves that from men and women of New England anc
[014] had mounted it on velvet and hung it over my desk to _____ me always to use the power of the paper in a Christi
[015] dit for the invention". It is hardly necessary to _____ students of covered bridges that Timothy Palmer was
[016] that some of the children, in spite of their color, _____ him of children he has known and loved, perhaps even
[017] out of its wits. Newspaper punditry was inspired to _____ everyone that Judas, too, had been able to smile.
[018] incapable of being youthful of mind. But I will also _____ them that I have always been inclined to skepticism,
[019] y and arrogance they believe they are called upon to _____ the gentile continually of pogroms and ghettos. Some
[020] om gets messy. But she cleans it up very well when I _____ her". _MEASUREMENT OF ANXIETY_ Castaneda, et al
[021] ounter to Fromm's theory of alienation. Or, he might _____ Fromm that the 41 per cent figure is really astonish
[022] himself. She no longer wanted anything about him to _____ her of the circumstances of their meeting that first
[023] was reasonably certain that Francesca had wanted to _____ me of our town meeting the next evening, and how imp
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[001] ing about in that department". "There's plenty of _____ money", Ham Richert added, "but not for anything thi
[002] can create extra competition for food, as well as the _____ that social foragers will be exploited by others with
[003] . Here too, a positive correlation exists between the _____ of parasitic infestation and the size of cliff swallo
[004] ment therapy (ERT) does not significantly elevate the _____ of breast cancer in women with histories of benign br
[005] ings of vegetables a day can signficiantly reduce the _____ of prostate cancer. During office visits, doctors oft
[006] basis of this assent, enroll them in certain minimal _____ studies. In its view, persons are capable of assent i
[007] mplicate pregnancy. These abnormalities increase the _____ of illness and death in the newborn and illness in t
[008] ss emotions during stressful times may be at greater _____ for health problems, a UA associate psychiatry profes
[009] ss emotions during stressful times may be at greater _____ for health problems, a UA associate psychiatry profes
[010] diagnosis. Both incidences greatly exceed the cancer _____ faced by the general population. Among both groups o
[011] more, evidence of negligence and foreseeability of a _____ does not permit a jury to infer causation. Allowing a
[012] kids who initiate substance use early are at greater _____ for having problems with these substances later on,"
[013] s that add little to their bottom lines. Despite the _____ that some of their efforts will flop, the dozen or so
[014] lization that having one idiot boss is a much higher _____ than having many idiot clients. Employees will flee
[015] make couples tough it out. Fur? Wear it at your own _____ . The list goes on, and the lecturing has grown loud e
[016] me to take a trip. If there are no complications, the _____ of pre- term labor is slight and there is generally
[017] ion of the third trimester. Many specialists cite the _____ of miscarriage and undiagnosed complications in the f
[018] lved that mystery. The Redskins will still run the low- _____ , run- oriented attack that features Terry Allen and p
[019] are rarely enforced. If we really want to reduce the _____ of dangerous dogs, we need to educate dog owners abo
[020] WE are often reminded by health care, insurance, and _____ management experts that managed care is the wave of
[021] the apparent link. He made this decision even at the _____ of alarming people about Maryland's treasured waterw
[022] gue that doing so is worth the financial cost and the _____ of alienating Russia. Reasonable arguments do exist. A
[023] in growth companies; diversify investments to reduce _____ ; and invest only in companies with at least a five-
[024] urse, The Tunnel was a wonderful thing. Nobody had to _____ life and limb in traffic, and there was no need for a
[025] ucts, because the compound poses 'a potential cancer _____ to people who use this ingredient at higher than reco
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[001] jacket with the feeling that he might be putting it _____ for good. But it was a hopeful sign, he told himself
[002] ubs of branches she had broken, those she had pushed _____ ; and she walked easily now, and more slowly, until s
[003] enthusiasm at the idea. "But not immediately". I put _____ my empty cup. She smiled all the way to her wise, sa
[004] t up, standing uncertainly for a moment, then moving _____ to let go past her, talking, a group of young men. T
[005] ar mind of his. "No, you cannot", I said, pushing _____ the water jar he offered to me. I pointed to the spl
[006] is audience may well be imagined. The incident, _____ from reflecting on Welch's political career, had all
[007] y environment that adults create. 4 Parenting styles _____ , parental attention is important in the social develo
[008] nistry of Forestry will help fund a local plan to set _____ 200,000 sq km (77,220 sq miles) as a nature reserve i
[009] San Francisco to root out abuses in its minority set- _____ program, but to note that most minority- and female-o
[010] the proviso that 20 percent of the apartments be set _____ for low-income tenants while the remaining 80 percent
[011] group of four or more. We didn't deliberate very long. _____ from two salads, appetizers consist of five cheese fo
[012] since we were asked, and others were asked, to step _____ , and I think the community deserves a status report-
[013] r economic development of the region. But that topic _____ for now, there is actually some good business news for
[014] at times even buoyant, with police officers brushing _____ the taunts of demonstrators. But by nightfall the pol
[015] rtner of Dr. Karadzic, after NATO forced him to step _____ because he has been indicted by an international wa
[016] The wooden plow displaced the stick. The musket shot _____ the bow and arrow. The cavalry replaced many an infan
[017] al considerations on both sides put that possibility _____ . The concept is surprisingly simple. Hook up the Amer
[018] n has brought rumblings from traditionalists. Leaving _____ questions of pique, personal rivalry and murmurs of a
[019] ll house the new town library and more shops. Setting _____ the fact that Bath needs more shops like the Duchess
[020] les of, say, thirteenth- century Paris; but anecdotes _____ , he has also been refining the presentation and prog
[021] under discussion in the City as of March this year. _____ from the technological requirements of the new syste
[022] gest building society, also disclosed that it had set _____ a £20m provision against its loans to the collapsed
[023] , 13 per cent and 28 seats. Mr Mitsotakis, who stood _____ for one of his backbenchers, Tzannis Tzannetakis, to
[024] eat the title holders a year ago, and they were swept _____ in a second- half torrent of scoring. With full- bac
[025] f to 10 of the new Grand Prix tournaments next year, _____ from the four Grand Slam events. Ten, including the
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[001] f Oyajima- which was not very far from Yokusuka. And _____ she would take time to shop for the kimono her mothe
[002] roaches with ethyl chloride, and gave no thought for _____ . He was doing thirty years, and the Navy would take
[003] in Memphis today for the wedding rehearsal and then _____ he would marry just like everybody knew he would, ju
[004] I'll get an elegant pair of thin-soled Italian shoes _____ , Carla". "And I don't know why you want to go o
[005] he'd creep back to bed, proud of himself, thinking: _____ , for sure, I'll go down to the rock and keep my prom
[006] ters be reliable! "I have to get up early for church _____ ", she went on. "I didn't know it was going to be thi
[007] ot care if all of Europe were to sink into the ocean _____ . It never registered with them that I had time to re
[008] Pyhrric victory over the tourists. "Fine, day after _____ ", she added. "I hope so", he said. "I've got this
[009] than weatherproof. As for its being fine, day after _____ , he had the unhappy conviction that it would never b
[010] ave saying a thing like that? "Springfield's in _____ ", Frankie said. "Talk to Whitey Jackson". He ju
[011] Phil nodded. "Sure", he said. "Springfield come in _____ "? Frankie nodded. "I'll speak to Whitey".
[012] o lies dying in Romeo and Juliet he says, "Ask for me _____ and you shall find me a grave man," with two meanings
[013] march in his fifth West Indian American Day parade _____ , taking part in a buoyant festival that for the most
[014] 'm concerned about. I'm concerned about running well _____ afternoon, and when I leave here, I'm concerned about
[015] rt of my career... but... the bottom line is how I run _____ and next week, not what I've done in the past. A doze
[016] s and kings, and now presidents and prime ministers. _____ ? Seemingly endless mountains of information, accessi
[017] company stands a good chance of being out of business _____ ". Bee Technology Seventeen years ago, when my houseb
[018] d and fabricated molecules are part of today's -- not _____ 's -- technology. As Drexler works toward building the
[019] ith nanotechnology as a popular segment. Once again, _____ has arrived on our doorstop today. Electronic Publish
[020] m a futurist today, if I don't continue to change, by _____ I will be a historian. Flexibility is the key to
[021] I will be a historian. Flexibility is the key to _____ . Constant retraining will be essential.
[022] . Constant retraining will be essential. _____ will be the age of task forces, a time when groups wi
[023] here, they become outcasts because they are resisting _____ , grounded in the past. The devastating net result wil
[024] eryear, there is still action in the growth fields of _____ . Most of this new energy starts on a small scale. Oft
[025] rds. The same applies to salable personal skills for _____ . The difference between the "knows" and the "know-no
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[001] buying a home or otherwise making more of what they _____ . Over all, union workers are paid about 20 percent m
[002] ublic health at Harvard University, where he hopes to _____ a master's degree in one academic year. Ms. Kroll, 36
[003] ion Statistics. A high school graduate can expect to _____ $812,000 in current dollars over his or her lifetime
[004] her lifetime, while a college graduate can expect to _____ $1. 42 million, according to the report, 'Education
[005] heir most valuable asset is usually their ability to _____ a living - and this is what disability insurance prote
[006] le almost everywhere depended primarily on farming to _____ a living. Even in North America that was 98 percent
[007] al confidence to go almost anywhere on the planet and _____ a comparable income. They are highly mobile, flexible
[008] ive to sixty-nine have $1 in $3 clawed back when they _____ more than $10,200. (It's much, much worse in Canada.
[009] s. "It will make everyone concerned to spend less and _____ more. Right now, in order to improve our standard of
[010] te the whitewash with a straight- sets doubles win to _____ Britain a second-round confrontation against Austria
[011] made in the five years since he left Blundell Park to _____ fame and fortune with Norwich City and Rangers. Spee
[012] ing off tomorrow on a 56 day world trip which should _____ her even greater acclaim as director of entertainmen
[013] otherwise would. Idea is to let these countries _____ their way as much as possible. ## @ At the same
[014] ould cost close to $3,000. Consider what you have to _____ to be able to spend the $3,000 and your building tim
[015] artists and discerning collectors. Mason had to _____ the privilege of devoting himself exclusively to pai
[016] of, etc. Says Clarence Thompson: "We dealers must _____ our mark-up by performing a service for the builder
[017] They get all the glory and most of the pay and don't _____ ten cents apiece on the average, the drunken rascals
[018] ; and I have heard many say that they are content to _____ a half or a third as much as they could up North bec
[019] he return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would _____ a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me d
[020] nt respect from ourselves or others, we will have to _____ it. First, let us realize that whatever good this se
[021] iterary form. The orator of this period, in order to _____ a reputation, had to pay close attention to the form
[022] unteers obviously should not be paid what they might _____ in comparable activities in the United States. Nor w
[023] Nonresident aliens living in Canada or Mexico who _____ wages in the United States may be subject to withhol
[024] ) #2. MINORS MINORS MUST ALSO FILE RETURNS IF THEY _____ $600 OR MORE DURING THE YEAR.# A MINOR IS subject
[025] n his own return regardless of how much money he may _____ . _EXEMPTION ALSO ALLOWED PARENT._ If your child