MULTI_CONC
Quiz
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 )
barber
canal
cupboard
electricity
grammar
parcel
rotten
rubbish
scissors
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2. WORDS
barber
canal
cupboard
electricity
grammar
parcel
rotten
rubbish
scissors
[001] china but the wrong table silver, they opened every _____ door in the kitchen and pantry. While she was settli
[002] kettles, covered with rust, and an overthrown pot. A _____ , with a few moldy sailor's clothes; on the table a t
[003] re than eighty. Some furniture, a bed, table, bench, _____ , and chest were manufactured, and a gun, ammunition,
[004] ike being with the boys. So she fishes around in the _____ and hauls out a chocolate cake. It's a matter of bor
[005] china but the wrong table silver, they opened every _____ door in the kitchen and pantry. While she was settli
3. WORDS
barber
canal
cupboard
electricity
grammar
parcel
rotten
rubbish
scissors
[001] lk when he also chose the breakfast hour to have the _____ come in and trim his hair while he ate. Mama said th
[002] Fifty yards away from the barn he dodged inside a _____ 's shop and came out at the back. Here he couldn't be
[003] e said. "Why don't you paint it red and white like a _____ pole"? "Because maybe I won't have to wear it alw
[004] er his name. The most recent of those, "In Memory of _____ Mack, " which is expected to be released this fall, w
[005] ably wide receiver Ike Hilliard and running back Tiki _____ , (Jim) Fassel said: "I can't be afraid of playing ro
[006] sive work has been with the rookie running back Tiki _____ and the rookie wide receiver Ike Hilliard. Unlike for
[007] n ozone layer over Antartica getting bigger By DAVID _____ WELLINGTON - The hole in the ozone layer over Antarc
[008] ar, according to New Zealand scientists, writes David _____ . It is already as big as the previous record in 1987,
[009] it has consistently opposed in the past. Rep. Mac _____ of Commerce is asking the House in a privilege resol
[010] funds be received and expended" as state funds. _____ , who is in his 13th year as a legislator, said there
[011] im to offer the resolution. The resolution, which _____ tossed into the House hopper Friday, will be formall
[012] as a batting coach. #SQUAD CUT NEAR# Pitcher Steve _____ joined the club one week ago after completing his hi
4. WORDS
barber
canal
cupboard
electricity
grammar
parcel
rotten
rubbish
scissors
[001] decorating? If the house is not wired adequately for _____ or if plumbing or a central heating system must be
[002] In the physical sciences, these achievements concern _____ , chemistry, and atomic physics. In the life sciences
[003] even though her husband disapproved of the waste of _____ . Mama was now the first maid to Mrs. Coolidge, be
[004] eneficial hurdles to progress are the lack of water, _____ , and telephones. At Sounion there is a group of
[005] titles the consumer to a very small amount of gas or _____ with no further payment. But the really controv
[006] lls were up seventy per cent. #@ ELECTRIC POWER# _____ plays such an important part in community life today
[007] y, intending to use its surplus power for generating _____ . Manchester then had two competing power companies u
[008] Corporation. The latter now furnishes the area with _____ distributed from a modern sub-station at Manchester
[009] on but the air suddenly fills with a high charge of _____ . Why she married him I do not know. I myself was
[010] e advanced on them, and abruptly there was a shocked _____ in the car. Ernie was screaming inside himself: No,
[011] ), but no one can deny that the screen crackles with _____ whenever he is on it. Soaring to stardom along with
[012] Sixty-nine thousand volts surging through that line. _____ . Poisoned juice. Silent death. Kelly can't forget. Hi
5. WORDS
barber
canal
cupboard
electricity
grammar
parcel
rotten
rubbish
scissors
[001] display an intensive and accurate knowledge of Latin _____ , logic-rhetoric, ethics, physics or natural philosop
[002] f this development in him go back to the opposing of _____ school, and probably if it had not been this occasio
[003] mplicit nature of these arguments play a role in the _____ of language. Some psychologists suggest that much
[004] mplicit nature of these arguments play a role in the _____ of language. Some psychologists suggest that much of
[005] Sutton Manor (2-0), Hampton (2-1) and Dr Challoner's _____ School (4-1). In Blackburn, when Queen Elizabeth and
[006] 1). In Blackburn, when Queen Elizabeth and Clitheroe _____ schools meet for their annual contests, the fierce b
[007] day in their yellow raincoats to finger-paint at the _____ school. Getting to and from school was no probl
[008] y involve only simple mathematics that are taught in _____ school arithmetic classes. However, it is essential
[009] display an intensive and accurate knowledge of Latin _____ , logic-rhetoric, ethics, physics or natural philosop
[010] f this development in him go back to the opposing of _____ school, and probably if it had not been this occasio
6. WORDS
barber
canal
cupboard
electricity
grammar
parcel
rotten
rubbish
scissors
[001] provide us with amusing samples. "Officials Meet on _____ . Many Shapes in Bathtubs. Son and Daughter of Local
[002] stedly at Ruth, "you talk of life and death and other _____ - because you have a future". In a finale the police
[003] 009 Out of Angola: Market socialism on the edge of a _____ dump By KARL MAIER LUANDA - A small crowd rocks with
[004] ughout Portugal's former African colonies, sits on a _____ dump on the northern edge of Luanda, the capital of A
[005] ilipino lorry drivers to clean up a decade's worth of _____ . (They have not yet succeeded.) The 14-year-old civi
[006] seem to recall a London gallery exhibiting a pile of _____ , which was considered valid art by the proprietors an
[007] limited time. Employes of Pawtucket's garbage and _____ collection contractor picketed the firm's incinerato
[008] our newspapers, suggesting investigation of a common _____ disposal area to service the Potowomut and Cowesse
[009] fare, DPW and sanitation. Negligence in garbage and _____ collections and alley cleaning is great. He sho
[010] provide us with amusing samples. "Officials Meet on _____ . Many Shapes in Bathtubs. Son and Daughter of Local
7. WORDS
barber
canal
cupboard
electricity
grammar
parcel
rotten
rubbish
scissors
[001] ters' success in their two-week strike against United _____ Service, and with the A. F. L. -C. I. O. training tho
[002] the union's victory in its strike against the United _____ Service, Teamster President Ron Carey seems the favor
[003] August, two years later, the Teamsters stunned United _____ Service, winning wage increases and promises of mor
[004] Carey led the teamsters in the strike against United _____ Service. Mr. Hoffa had earlier filed a complaint acc
[005] soon choose whether to sell USEC in one piece, or to _____ out shares in a public offering. That has touched off
[006] up from £156,000. HTV is also redeveloping a 21 acre _____ of land close to its studios at Culverhouse Cross wh
[007] s in the Philippi area that it has become a part and _____ of the war story. So frequently has pictures of the
8. WORDS
barber
canal
cupboard
electricity
grammar
parcel
rotten
rubbish
scissors
[001] tion project comparable in magnitude with the Panama _____ , but in 1917 time was in short supply; in three mont
[002] the machine shop, and along the Delaware and Hudson _____ , and northward to Brooklyn, below Point Peter, he co
[003] g loss by blocking the route of sound through the ear _____ . Finally, like all organs of the body, there is an ag
[004] tasks of tending to both ends of a virtual alimentary _____ . Poor caregiving is punished with the pet's virtual d
[005] a hygienist. They were less troublesome than a root _____ . After this successful personal test of current high-
[006] n the foreground a steam engine, a brightly coloured _____ barge or a red and white striped deck-chair. The latte
[007] Bush had approved an order to the US commander in the _____ Zone to remove General Manuel Noriega using covert f
[008] evision sport in France, where the satellite station _____ Plus is noted for its quality of production - and the
[009] ittle bridges which must be constructed, one over the _____ which I propose to dig, the other across to the left
[010] t might be raised by means of a counterpoise, as some _____ bridges are managed. This was certainly a considerab
[011] the 21st of November, Cyrus Harding began to plan the _____ which was to close the plateau on the west, from the
[012] y the shock of a torpedo placed at the bottom of the _____ , who saved Herbert from certain death by bringing th
9. WORDS
barber
canal
cupboard
electricity
grammar
parcel
rotten
rubbish
scissors
[001] e tilted up and drank, and then I drank. It's really _____ to drink good cognac like that, but I hadn't cared b
[002] said, his voice pitched low, quivering. "That was a _____ thing to do". "For God's sake", Mike said, waving
[003] s only a few hours or days away from collapsing into _____ , unhealthy matter. As a result, disgust is never too
[004] hape itself as the party of the center, rather than a _____ core, and convince Mexicans it represents an alterna
[005] races of the hand of man; but the trees were becoming _____ , and had been felled many years ago; the marks of the
[006] e tilted up and drank, and then I drank. It's really _____ to drink good cognac like that, but I hadn't cared b
[007] said, his voice pitched low, quivering. "That was a _____ thing to do". "For God's sake", Mike said, waving