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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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2. WORDS
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[001] arn to exert ourselves. My other worry about service _____ is it is too dependent on government support and fund
[002] e the structural change needed because of "the whole _____ mentality which implies passivity - bureaucrats have
[003] - and because Mr. Read does not want to take actual _____ of live pigs and 42- gallon drums of oil - the fund
[004] of Gutenberg's brilliant invention, the cost of the _____ vehicle has progressively increased to far exceed the
[005] ulation. In medicine ferrofluids may be the new drug- _____ system. A ferrofluid carrying a site-specific drug co
[006] bilities, because of dramatically low production and _____ costs, allow sampling on a scale no traditional publ
[007] lower cost than the natural way of the past. Postal _____ , which once dominated the day's office work, is fast
[008] stationary workplace means more traffic from package _____ or mail- order companies and less business for downto
[009] and bike messengers delivers free around the clock. _____ anywhere else in North America and fifteen other cou
[010] sing plant! Home Shopping for Groceries Home grocery _____ is already a standard feature in most large cities, a
[011] gerator would lock after being loaded by the grocery _____ person. Coded credit cards would open it when you arr
[012] ing couples waste as much food as they eat. Frequent _____ of smaller quantities would reduce waste, though do
3. WORDS
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[001] figuratively. With some, it's not figurative. 'White- _____ boot camp,' summarizes Douglas Troutman, 27, a forme
[002] g the leading exponent of what Macintyre calls 'wing- _____ crime. ' He never disposed of his most famous theft
[003] r close to it. People on the factory floor are "blue- _____ workers," paid an hourly wage. Office workers are "wh
[004] ers," paid an hourly wage. Office workers are "white- _____ " or "pink-
[005] " or "pink- _____ " workers and receive a fixed salary. Engineers and c
[006] es (25 percent in Canada). Those highly skilled blue- _____ workers from the Industrial Age, because of downsizin
[007] d developers. Third, people should get hot under the _____ when presented with dreary architecture. When the de
[008] ook Top's head between his hands, and unfastening the _____ which the animal wore round his neck, he broke it in
[009] t!" Two hurrahs from the sailor was the reply. Top's _____ was made of a thin piece of tempered steel. They had
[010] ding had nothing but the two steel blades from Top's _____ , and yet he was so clever, and his companions aided
[011] s wished to know. It was folded and fastened to Top's _____ in a conspicuous position. "Top, my dog," said the en
[012] lacey open weave shoes have a luster finish, braided _____ and bow highlight on the squared throat. At right is
4. WORDS
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[001] roducts of greatness. At the Be Hop Barter- Exchange _____ o' Pancakes, I have to provide something of value i
[002] By PETER DORMER FROM personal experience I prefer a _____ to a council house; as a child I lived first in one,
[003] as a child I lived first in one, then the other. The _____ , ex-army and made over as temporary housing after th
[004] too close and there were no trees on the estate. The _____ had disadvantages: having to pee in a bucket was one
[005] was agreed that the little colony should camp under a _____ of branches, so that the important operation could be
[006] hour, on the edge of the forest, among the trees, a _____ of branches interlaced with creepers, and pasted over
[007] . Supper was prepared, a good fire blazed before the _____ , the roast turned, and at eight o'clock, while one of
[008] to a confused mass among the trees, exclaimed,-- "A _____ !" All three immediately ran towards the dwelling. In t
[009] open by Pencroft, who entered with a rapid step. The _____ was empty! Chapter 14 Pencroft, Herbert, and Gideon S
[010] think that it would be well to pass the night in this _____ ." "You are right, Pencroft," answered Gideon Spilett,
[011] in the least surprised, notwithstanding all that the _____ revealed of abandonment, and they had their hands rea
[012] y reasonable, and it was nearly certain that, as the _____ was deserted, and the tools, utensils, and weapons wer
5. WORDS
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[001] woes. Having lost market share to competitors such as _____ Inc., J. Crew and Guess Inc., Esprit is making a maj
[002] ile the world's capital markets will duly bridge the _____ between Britain's domestic savings and investment, th
[003] you raise private savings to close the other kind of _____ . This point should not be pushed to perversity: the IM
[004] ll- established to have even begun to close the trade _____ ; but the structural change is welcome. There is a th
[005] e Mountains honour. Only on the final climb of Sally _____ did he clinch victory as his rival, Gary Baker, was s
[006] y JIM HILL Llanelli ...27 Leicester ...8 GOING for the _____ took on a painful new meaning for Steve Bowling when
[007] y, but an English Classic success after a five- year _____ would come like manna from heaven. Silk Slippers cer
[008] striker, has been recalled by Wales to help fill the _____ created by the suspension of Ian Rush and Mark Hughes
[009] game - landed two conversions. When Pugh closed the _____ with his second penalty, the North Midlands' respons
[010] ikely to occur when the thyroid is removed. The _____ between the bookshelf and the record cabinet grows s
[011] accato to pastel all the way from the Delaware Water _____ to Cape May. _SOUTHEAST._ During the first half
[012] s fascinating and the second disillusioning as the _____ between sound and substance became clearer. Other in
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[001] a literary hybrid, a vivid and variegated book. Part _____ , part memoir, part social and sexual history of the l
[002] ost involuntarily urged by his conscience, a terrible _____ escaped him. On the 10th of November, about eight o'
[003] r than you think, Pencroft." And, indeed, the day of _____ was near. On the 10th of December, a week after his r
[004] also admitted killing Mrs. Hengesbach. However, the _____ , which was the only evidence against him, was retrac
[005] evidence. She said the jurors agreed that Pohl's _____ was valid. The jury asked Judge Cash to send in
[006] 't want to talk to anyone. I'm angry". By his own _____ , Maris is an angry young man. Benched at Tulsa in 19
[007] ed sex relationship unbearably monotonous. This _____ serves to make clear in part what is behind this sex
[008] ch other and in the last scene make an extraordinary _____ of guilt in the twentieth-century manner. Grigo
[009] seek an audience with the great Pope and to give her _____ . Mother and son recognize each other and, in Mann's
[010] in Mann's version of this legend, make a remarkable _____ of guilt to each other, the
[011] of guilt to each other, the _____ of unconscious motive and unconscious knowledge of t
[012] tand his inhabitation and town privileges, without _____ and reformation of his uncivil and inhuman practices
7. WORDS
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[001] ween two variables, x and y. A graph consists of two _____ called the x (horizontal) and y (vertical)
[002] called the x (horizontal) and y (vertical) _____ . When Mendel formulated his laws of heredity, he po
[003] the White House raking in millions from Asians with _____ to grind. The D. C. Public Charter School Board, est
[004] dog sleds groaning under the weight of tents and ice _____ and boxes of dried beef. It connects me to the Okies
[005] not having tools they must begin by making hammers, _____ , adzes, saws, augers, planes, etc., which would take
[006] ashioned, were also manufactured; blades for planes, _____ , hatchets, pieces of steel to be transformed into saws
[007] -- Tools:--3 knives with several blades, 2 woodmen's _____ , 2 carpenter's hatchets, 3 planes, 2 adzes, 1 twibil
[008] e only tools the settlers took were the two woodmen's _____ , which they could use to cut a path through the thic
[009] iged to cut a path through the thick wood with their _____ . But soon the flow completely failed them, either the
[010] make the passage of the Mercy. He and Neb, armed with _____ , chose two trees near the water, and began to attack
[011] o cut off its retreat if necessary. They ran with pick- _____ and iron- tipped poles in their hands, passed over th
[012] d to the dockyard. They returned with shovels, picks, _____ , and by means of banking the earth with the aid of fal
8. WORDS
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[001] ierce a door as windows, and to establish an exterior _____ . Harding made known his ideas to his companions. "Th
[002] w shall we get in?" asked the sailor. "By an outside _____ ," replied Cyrus Harding, "a rope
[003] ," replied Cyrus Harding, "a rope _____ , which, once drawn up, will render access to our dwel
[004] the right, an entry with a door, which would meet the _____ ; then a kitchen, thirty feet long; a dining-room, me
[005] any further delay to the fabrication of a strong rope _____ , which, once raised, would render Granite House compl
[006] ld render Granite House completely inaccessible. This _____ was manufactured with extreme care, and its uprights
[007] in understanding, but in performing everything. The _____ was finally fixed on the 28th of May. There were not
[008] ade a sort of platform, to which they fixed the first _____ , of which the oscillation was thus diminished one-hal
[009] ised to the level of Granite House. As to the second _____ , it was secured both at its lower part, which rested
[010] e settlers soon became habituated to the use of this _____ . They were light and active, and Pencroft, as a sailo
[011] properly performing his ascents, and soon mounted the _____ as readily as his brethren in the circus. It need not
[012] ulty that their hands could hold to the rounds of the _____ . In consequence of the intense cold, their fingers fe
9. WORDS
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[001] d television come with a promise to love, honour and _____ ? Any risks are far outweighed by the benefits," Pasco
[002] depend upon them. Is it not so, my friends?" "I will _____ you in everything, captain," said Herbert, seizing the
[003] t, captain--" answered the sailor, little disposed to _____ . "I beg of you, Pencroft," said the engineer. "Very w
[004] lieve this. "Eve was disobedient; for she did not _____ when as yet she was a virgin. And even as she, havin
[005] standards of equity that they would like "to have to _____ ", but in support of which none had been willing to g
[006] re, Roman Catholics believe that they are obliged to _____ those laws, not frustrate or mock them. Let it
[007] efused to move from white lunch counters, refused to _____ local laws which he considers unjust, while in other
[008] a sense of self-righteousness in such obedience. To _____ the moral law is just ordinary common sense, applied
[009] gain calm and protective, exhorting her to trust and _____ him as God's spokesman- and the chromatic scale desc
[010] n really would have to settle down to love honor and _____ , and she'd have to quit drinking. He'd come East for
[011] ant mast till Philip Spencer had given the signal to _____ . Then, with disappointment evident upon their face
[012] d television come with a promise to love, honour and _____ ? Any risks are far outweighed by the benefits," Pasco
10. WORDS
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[001] rated and nonrated bonds, the bottom of the junk bond _____ . The appetite for junk's junk has been huge: at $9 bi
[002] ck on the works of the English baroque, felt able to _____ praise upon much contemporary design. In writing of t
[003] ck on the works of the English baroque, felt able to _____ praise upon much contemporary design. In writing of t
[004] - and is - that the working class is like a compost _____ : they like to live on top of one another for pig warm
[005] turns black By STEVE BALE EACH new indignity in the _____ visited on Welsh rugby seems worse than the last. The
[006] , the discharge had worn away a passage, and a large _____ of lava had spread to the narrow jaw which formed the
[007] ricated in the pottery kiln, was established near the _____ of ore. Using the mechanism which consisted of a fram
[008] ruised pyrites were arranged so as to form an immense _____ , the exterior of which was covered with earth and gr
[009] most listened to, and who teaches the best. When the _____ of pyrites had been entirely reduced by fire, the re
[010] of the Mercy and a perpendicular line traced above the _____ of rocks which formed the Chimneys. Thus the winds f
[011] pper, and then just before they lay down to rest, the _____ of wood piled at the entrance was set fire to. Immedi
[012] ow with their blood. Jup was found in the midst of a _____ of colpeos whose broken jaws and crushed bodies show