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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] it the android in the head and the android's brain box _____ . The Nexus-6 controls blew into pieces which fell on
[002] ndroids an experience similar to Mercerism. The door _____ open. What a flight!' Rachael Rosen cried. Less than
[003] red at her as her eyes begged him not to. The android _____ and parts of it flew towards him; he covered his face
[004] s with her boyfriends.' The boys all laughed. Aku-nna _____ into tears and the boys laughed louder than ever. 'W
[005] e?' thought Aku-nna. 'I thought she liked Chike.' She _____ into tears. Then Chike was standing beside her. His n
[006] e said. 'What are you going to call it?' 'A Aku-nna _____ out laughing. 'Whoever heard of christening a bed?' s
[007] ou may not like Niels, but he is my lover.' I gave a _____ of mad laughter. 'Why should I care about you and Gra
[008] out of the room without saying something to him. She _____ into tears, like a little girl. 'Forgive my hat,' she
[009] her head and closed her eyes. Suddenly, her landlady _____ into the room. 'There's a letter for you, Miss Moss.
[010] her a little girl threw herself down on her bed and _____ into tears. Why did he have to ruin it all? 'I say, y
[011] hild and a yellow sheep dog. The horses found a final _____ of speed, and Jo began singing, 'I don't care, for do
[012] nside her chest, it grew like a plant after rain, and _____ painfully into leaf. 'Feeling better? All right, are
[013] I had nothing but donkeys on my mind. I felt I would _____ if I didn't tell someone; and there was no one to tel
[014] to doing things for myself now.' Oh, madam, I almost _____ into tears when she said that! I couldn't stop myself,
[015] e to see the bank blown up. Listen!' We heard a wild _____ of mixed gunfire. 'That will be the general arriving
[016] anger flooded her ancient body, and sometimes names _____ from her green lips. 'Amos... Elfine... Urk...' No
[017] ertson, one of the journalists on the Daily Dispatch, _____ into the office and threw a bundle of photographs on
[018] biggest illegal meeting I have ever seen!' The crowd _____ into laughter. Woods recognized Biko's voffice immedi
[019] the face. When she reached Biko's face she suddenly _____ out crying, putting her arm around him, her head down
[020] ewriter in his study. A few minutes later, the police _____ into the house. That is how Woods first learned that
[021] r what Evalina said? Go and wash your hands!' Duncan _____ into tears. Later that night, Wendy went to kiss Dunc
[022] kly as you can.' After all her control, Wendy finally _____ into tears. 'He's there!' she said to Jane and Dillon
[023] t. Paul watched him walk into his classroom, where a _____ of clapping greeted his arrival. Dumb with terror, Pau
[024] beautiful as a love poem. The green glass seemed to _____ into flower under her feet as she passed from the lif
[025] damn!' said Crammond as the policeman waiting outside _____ into the room. 'He'll never go to prison now.' Mayb
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[001] or Latchetts. I hated him, if you want to know.' He _____ himself another glass of champagne and drank it. 'It'
[002] the curtain and fetched her mother's best glass. She _____ some water from the big water cooler and gave Uncle
[003] boys. By this time the room was full of people. They _____ in from all over Lagos. Each new arrival looked at th
[004] e end of the school field, and cried and cried. Tears _____ down her face like rain water. She let them flow. It
[005] and ordered him and her son to leave. Tears of anger _____ down Nna-nndo 's face as he left the hut. Okoboshi's
[006] ed the new bed in front of their new home, the driver _____ a little whisky over the mattress. 'There, I have chr
[007] ompany. He remembered their escape together and tears _____ down his face. Someone touched his shoulder. It was N
[008] the windows, not cut the steering cable.' Grafalk _____ me some more sherry. 'How much do you know about Mar
[009] lock, falling down into the forward gates. Wet grain _____ out of the holds, covering everyone with gold mud. T
[010] dates when Pole Star had lost contracts to Grafalk. I _____ myself a drink. Boom Boom had called me about hi i i
[011] I call you that, do you?' He sat down opposite and _____ himself a glass of whisky. There was an expression of
[012] ngly. Oh yes. And then you killed Phillips.' Grafalk _____ himself some more whisky. 'Mattingly did most of the
[013] wearing a grey dress and a heavy pearl necklace. She _____ me a glass of wine. 'Now. I must hear what happened.
[014] you here, and an old man ready to look after you.' He _____ some wine into the pink glasses, and his hand shook a
[015] o the pink glasses, and his hand shook a little as he _____ . It was very quiet in the room. She said, 'I think I
[016] She knelt down, put her arm under the boy's head, and _____ brandy between his lips. It ran out at the sides of h
[017] here was no reply. Then they broke down the door, and _____ into the great dining room. The Doctor was the first
[018] y lay a rope. For a long time nobody spoke. The sweat _____ off the doctor's face. The chaplain was whispering p
[019] e's tiny wrist against the broken glass so that blood _____ down on to the bed. As soon as the cold fingers let g
[020] he house on fire. But that depends how I feel' And he _____ himself a drink. 'Don't drink any more, Mr Hindley!'
[021] indley. The knife cut into Hindley's wrist, and blood _____ out. Heathcli jumped into the kitchen through the win
[022] can't breathe if you kiss me! I want a drink.' Cathy _____ him a glass of water. 'And are you glad to see me, Li
[023] d two glasses on the bar. 'I was expecting you.' Al _____ two drinks. We drank, and he leaned across the bar. '
[024] tle in our milk,' Nicky went on. 'Like this?' Lucille _____ a bit into each glass. The children gasped with pleas
[025] because probably she would not have seen him. She _____ some gasoline on a corner of the house, rolled the ta
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[001] er o. 'My little water-vole,' they heard him murmur. _____ and shouting broke out, in which Aunt Ada could be se
[002] or Paris by air in less than half an hour.' There was _____ again as the Starkadders expressed their shocked surp
[003] its reason? Surely this will always be here, when the _____ and panic of modern life has been forgotten? Surel.'
[004] his was a terrible moment for me. In the struggle and _____ that was going on in my heart I knew that he loved m
[005] , Mr Bennet, we 'need you urgently! We're all in such _____ ! You must come and make Lizzy marry Mr Collins!' Mr B
[006] visit Elizabeth, and found the family still in great _____ . The younger girls were quite excited by the news of
[007] dearest Lizzy, that you have been spared some of the _____ and worry we have been experiencing, I cannot help be
[008] in his room. He looked at her - and she saw fear and _____ in his eyes. 'What will I do?' he said. 'I can't live
[009] Reggie crawled back. It was another hour before the _____ ended. Police came to the house next door. More shout
[010] diers in the neighbourhood. There is an impression of _____ and desperation everywhere. Have I told you that I d
[011] ther, neither army knew where the other one was. Such _____ is hard to imagine today, in a world where cameras in
[012] rsians were trying to follow the king as well. In the _____ , Hephaistion and many of Alexander's other friends we
[013] lmost undefended. Soon Porus's army was in a state of _____ , and many fighters used their elephants for protectio
[014] oxane's baby and Arrhidaeus. There were many years of _____ in the empire that Alexander had built. The story of
[015] afe point after, the Wolfpack could see the fear and _____ in the eyes of the Syracuse defenders. That made the
[016] ion in Timei refugee camp, south- east Nepal Faces of _____ . . . boys who have been forced from their ho. . . T
[017] sed to the idea that it was bound to entail domestic _____ . As a result, MacNeice was able to switch his attent
[018] er o. 'My little water-vole,' they heard him murmur. _____ and shouting broke out, in which Aunt Ada could be se
[019] or Paris by air in less than half an hour.' There was _____ again as the Starkadders expressed their shocked surp
[020] its reason? Surely this will always be here, when the _____ and panic of modern life has been forgotten? Surel.'
[021] his was a terrible moment for me. In the struggle and _____ that was going on in my heart I knew that he loved m
[022] , Mr Bennet, we 'need you urgently! We're all in such _____ ! You must come and make Lizzy marry Mr Collins!' Mr B
[023] visit Elizabeth, and found the family still in great _____ . The younger girls were quite excited by the news of
[024] dearest Lizzy, that you have been spared some of the _____ and worry we have been experiencing, I cannot help be
[025] in his room. He looked at her - and she saw fear and _____ in his eyes. 'What will I do?' he said. 'I can't live
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[001] hit her in the mouth. Then he was on top of her. She _____ and scratched, but he was too strong for her. Then su
[002] blood rolled down it to my hand. In the dining room I _____ over a cupboard with glasses in it. The cupboard cra
[003] . I forced myself to breathe deeply, to stay calm. I _____ off my shoes, then reached into the water and pulled
[004] den path. The yellow dog lay across the door, and she _____ it out of the way. 'The place isn't tidy. Had no time
[005] stomach, with one arm across his face. 'Get up!' She _____ him in the shoulders. He didn't move. 'Oh, my God, I
[006] cli, by telling Hindley that 'that devil' had hit and _____ him when he was unconscious. And I told Heathcli to h
[007] arm caught his legs and he came down on top of me. I _____ him once, caught his gun arm, and had just decided t
[008] of the trap for the last twenty-five years was being _____ out into the road by a small foot with an attractive
[009] nd the room by my hair, then beat me to the floor and _____ me. I still refused to swear to something I had not d
[010] shall die if you keep me here - . .' I screamed and _____ as she held me. 'Silence! Control yourself!' She push
[011] left hand rockets fired once, but they shouldn't have _____ the way they did. Send someone outside to have a look
[012] uth. She moved the fan towards the water. Then Monika _____ him hard from behind. He fell forward into the water.
[013] it? Monika tried to remember where the room was. She _____ open the door of room 613. Empty! Room 614. Empty!
[014] ready to shoot. Then there was a loud crash as Monika _____ down the door. The man turned and pointed the crossbo
[015] the face. She fell to the floor of the coach. Vitjord _____ her hard. 'Now, my little Swedish friend,' Vitjord s
[016] aid. 'I've been watching you. You look really sad.' I _____ the ground with my walking boot. 'Oh,' I said, pulli
[017] ll work under me. Open the windows, you lazy boy.' He _____ Oliver, and entered the shop. Noah was a poor boy, bu
[018] d Dianne and Klickman tried to pull Mark away. Dianne _____ Klickman and there was more screaming and fighting.
[019] werful black warhorse, but it was wild. It jumped and _____ and turned. Nobody was able to ride it. When Philip
[020] sat with me, not saying much, until the painkillers _____ in. It was such a loving thing to do. She's very perc
[021] red. boots did not look like a workman's boots, so I _____ them against the rocks to make them look older. The
[022] t hesitated as he jumped. Perhaps he felt my anger. I _____ him at the wrong moment, and pulled at his mouth. I
[023] I felt light, empty. He stepped through my door and _____ it shut behind him. 'George Millace was bad,' he sai
[024] n I fell on the ground, they used their boots. They _____ my arms, legs, back, stomach, head. Everything went
[025] ved and stopped for us. We packed our things into it, _____ two of Montmorency's friends out of the taxi, and st
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[001] er 1 Shooting in Stockholm The woman standing on the _____ of the Boeing Steadman plane was wearing dark glasses
[002] twenty-six years old. Monika watched the woman on the _____ of the Boeing Steadman. It would be an exciting job,
[003] 'I've just sent a fax to. MI5in London. I think right- _____ terrorists in Britain and Sweden might be working tog
[004] ch - both from Gothenburg and both members of a right- _____ group. We'll have to check.' 'But what was Chapman do
[005] excitedly. 'He's the leader of a South African right- _____ party, now thought to be living part of the time in M
[006] 47 took off for Johannesburg. She looked out onto the _____ and remembered the woman standing on the
[007] and remembered the woman standing on the _____ of the Boeing Stearman plane at the Water Festival. S
[008] s. The 737 turned and came in to land. She was on the _____ of the plane again, she thought. Living dangerously.
[009] s and fell asleep. She dreamed she was walking on the _____ of the plane. When she woke the plane was landing. 'W
[010] o Marina. The butterfly hit the window first with one _____ and then with the other as if he really was sending a
[011] ounced on Friday, to invite the I. R. A.'s political _____ , Sinn Fein, to take part next month in full- fledged
[012] mittee, and that all of them were made from his West _____ office. They offer a new glimpse at the mechanics of
[013] coming the leading exponent of what Macintyre calls ' _____ -collar crime.' He never disposed of his most famous
[014] kid, but Nell Parr of Lawrenceville took me under her _____ , explaining the different kinds of games they play n
[015] aded her to invite Sinn Fein, the I. R. A. political _____ , to the talks, she said. Sinn Fein, which like the I.
[016] ormally invited the Irish Republican Army's political _____ to join peace talks in Northern Ireland beginning ne
[017] be up in the attic and another could be in the west _____ and you'd hardly see them. The kids travel everywher
[018] s a managerial interest in politics, not just a right- _____ vision. THE COLLECTED THOUGHTS OF JOHN REDWOOD: On h
[019] owed more to Newman than to industrialists and right- _____ economists. It proposed, among much else, the foundi
[020] been active in the Labour Club. I've always been left- _____ . At school, a group of us had a greeting for each ot
[021] have different identities. Wadham has a liberal left- _____ ethos, so you don't get the rugby boors and boat club
[022] the pace of a top sprinter. As he thunders down the _____ for New Zealand's rugby union team his opponents coul
[023] member of the Sheriff's Posse Comitatus. This right- _____ white organisation campaigned, much as the militias
[024] ore than 400 armed men. It only ended when the right- _____ presidential candidate and US war hero Bo Gritz went
[025] t the survivors. The case created a nationwide right- _____ network of supporters and sympathisers. It was widel
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[001] rhaps I could leave a small bomb in the machine, on a _____ time-switch. Then, after I had transferred, the machi
[002] lad Elizabeth was that their own journey had not been _____ a day! Mr and Mrs Gardiner were enjoying their conver
[003] eded each other. But the storms of the rainy season, _____ the ships after Alexander's army had already entered
[004] hospital, but no one was seriously hurt. Trains were _____ for the rest of the day. The cause of the accident w
[005] Sunday Frances had telephoned me. The boat had been _____ . She begged me not to wait, but to go to Crete and s
[006] rhaps I could leave a small bomb in the machine, on a _____ time-switch. Then, after I had transferred, the machi
[007] lad Elizabeth was that their own journey had not been _____ a day! Mr and Mrs Gardiner were enjoying their conver
[008] eded each other. But the storms of the rainy season, _____ the ships after Alexander's army had already entered
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[001] e me strength. I fought back as hard as I could. My _____ surprised him, and he shouted for help. His sisters r
[002] g biography of Faubus that this 'first bold symbol of _____ ,' early as it was in the long struggle for black civi
[003] ture them on morals for moviemaking. But Hollywood's _____ to past, often politically motivated tirades against
[004] r urban communities. One response has been organised _____ . The refusal to pay federal taxes and the state's he
[005] craved action, was a case which justified not merely _____ , but actual retaliation against the federal authoriti
[006] centration camp was filled only with heroic Communist _____ fighters. East German history-books needed to do som
[007] t is quoted, in order to prove: 'The excuse that 'all _____ is pointless' does not work.' Another textbook, quoti
[008] e me strength. I fought back as hard as I could. My _____ surprised him, and he shouted for help. His sisters r
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[001] '. Flora began to write her letters, taking a certain _____ in varying the style in which each letter was written
[002] Seth, as he sat at the other side of the table in the _____ of casual manhood, with a good many buttons undone.
[003] d an' his heart out o' his body an' his soul an' his _____ ...' 'Really?' said Flora, looking in her sewing-box f
[004] We have got to fill the black community with our own _____ - not something the white man gives us, but something
[005] ay of Steve Biko's funeral, the System in their white _____ have turned away thousands who wanted to come here, s
[006] !' Again, the crowd exploded, but this time there was _____ and determination mixed with their anger. The speaker
[007] with each of the men in my care. I want you to take a _____ in your prison and in your work here. What is this ma
[008] sympathy or pity. And above all she had her mother's _____ and hardness. Other eyes apart from mine saw all thes
[009] Miss Ingram's feelings?' 'She only has one feeling - _____ . Were you jealous, Jane?' 'Never mind, Mr Rochester.
[010] n to understand that God has been punishing me for my _____ and my past wickedness. Last Monday night, in a mood
[011] ere in Hertfordshire. Everybody is disgusted with his _____ . You won't find him praised by anyone.' 'I can't prete
[012] o respect that promise.' 'How strange that Mr Darcy's _____ has not made him help you! Surely he's too proud to w
[013] acter or common sense. It was this, the worst kind of _____ , which had destroyed for a while every hope of happin
[014] not only of love that he spoke. He also talked of his _____ , and his sense of her social inferiority, which had
[015] berately, and I hope the pain will not last long. The _____ which, you tell me, has long prevented the expression
[016] ght not have considered these oences of mine, if your _____ had not been hurt by my honest confession of my reaso
[017] guise of any sort. Nor am I ashamed of my feelings of _____ , which are very natural. Could you expect me to deligh
[018] accept it. The moment I first met you, I noticed your _____ , your sense of superiority, and your selfish disdain
[019] vent his friend marrying her sister. But his terrible _____ , his shameless confession of what he had done to sepa
[020] ays been so proud of my ability to judge people! That _____ has led me blindly into making a stupid mistake. Flat
[021] asure and pain. Mr Darcy had thought so little of his _____ that he had spent considerable time, eort and money o
[022] matter of honour, he had been able to conquer his own _____ . She was . even rather pleased, if a little regretful
[023] ving daughters. It may be guessed with what delighted _____ she afterwards visited Mrs Bingley and talked of Mrs
[024] ed him to forgive his aunt, who eventually forgot her _____ enough to visit them at Pemberley. There remained a c
[025] Pattana Clinic, Hu,' said Hu's father. He was full of _____ for his daughter. 'She wants you to sing in their new