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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?

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[001]   game between the British teams Stoke and Aston Villa  _____  1891.
[002]     newspaper.  Somebody wanted us to go to an address  _____  London.  Mother and I went there, and we met two men
[003]     the power of the lightning.  I was very interested  _____  electricity, and
[004]    He  looked at the student.  'And I hope you do well  _____  South Africa, Gilchrist.  Come, Watson.  It's time for
[005]    much money.  Then, one day, we saw an advertisement  _____  The Times newspaper.  Somebody wanted us to go to an a
[006]  some time people realized what was happening.  He was  _____  big trouble and was soon out of the football world
[007]   my life.  Elizabeth became very ill and her life was  _____  danger.  My mother did not want to leave Elizabeth's


	
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[001]    the game, William.' 'The game?' I cried suddenly.  ' _____  game?  Who told you about the game? What do you know
[002]  crying, so she didn't.  Someone had to stay calm.'   ' _____  leg is it?' 'The right one.'  'How much of it are 
[003]  broken boxes, trees, and barrels.  I tried to guess: ' _____  things will fall the fastest?' I was wrong every time
[004] Here was the chance of a lifetime.  No - two chances.   _____  one should she take? Then she realized: 'I've found 
[005]    I was far away from the island.  But I did not know  _____  way to sail the boat.  I was lost on the water and I
[006]    the door and came in.  'You have destroyed the work  _____  you began.  Why did you do that? Are you going to bre
[007]   up her good leg.  Her weight moved to her false leg,  _____  could not hold it.  'Oh,' she said, clearly in pain.


	
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[001]   Miss Smith,' he said.  'You don't have the grey face  _____  a city person.  You live in the country?'  'Yes, near     
[002]    red.  'Yes, but I'm going to marry Cyril at the end  _____  the summer.  I'm  not interested in other men.  Mr Car
[003] your mother every Saturday and  Sunday." 'That's a lot  _____  money for a music teacher, Mr. Holmes.  So I went down
[004]    and hit Mr Carruthers in the face! That was the end  _____  Mr Woodley's visits,
[005]                                   Mr Woodley's visits,  _____  course.  Mr Carruthers was very sorry.  "It will      
[006]  ometres it goes between a park and the trees in front  _____  Charlington House.  You don't usually meet anybody on
[007]     and he stopped.  Next, I turned quickly at the end  _____  the road and waited for him.  But he didn't come.


	
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[001]  you to the station."'The horse and trap didn't arrive  _____  week, so I went to the station on my bicycle again
[002]     week, so I went to the station on my bicycle again  _____  morning.  And there was that man again! I don't know
[003]       The people of Charlington can tell you all about  _____  man Williamson.  The name tells me nothing.  He's an
[004]    It is now very  difficult far me at Chiltern House.' _____  gets more and more interesting, Watson,' my friend sa
[005]   interesting, Watson,' my friend said.  'I'll go down  _____  afternoon.' When he arrived back at Baker Street 
[006]        Woodley did not sleep here, but I saw him again  _____  morning in the garden.  I am afraid of
[007]                 morning in the garden.  I am afraid of  _____  man, but all will be well after  Saturday.'I hope she'


	
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[001]    the exam paper.  Yes, I sat on the notebook and hid  _____ .  Yes, I called Mr Gilchrist after Mr Soames left the
[002]     do well in South Africa, Gilchrist.  Come, Watson.  _____ 's time for breakfast!'   Sherlock Holmes and the Dang
[003]   Carruthers and  Mr Woodley to find my mother and me.  _____  was very strange.  For year, my uncle never wrote to
[004] visits, of course.  Mr Carruthers was very sorry.  .  " _____  will never happen again," he told me.  'Every Saturday
[005]  and the road is very quiet.  For about two kilometres  _____  goes between a park and the trees in front of Charlin
[006]    on the same road! And the next Saturday and Monday,  _____  happened again.  He didn't come near me or speak to me     
[007]    again.  He didn't come near me or speak to me.  But  _____  was very strange.  I told Mr. Carruthers and he said,


	
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[001]       there was a man on a bicycle.'  I wanted to know  _____  about him, so I went slowly.  He went slowly, too.
[002]  I can see that it's you,'  Cabinda said. 'There's one  _____  thing. You need a visa. It's ten dollars. You can pay
[003]      still very cold. The strong sunshine made me feel  _____  hopeful about the future, now that I had told Andrea
[004]  difficult.  It's a wonderful chance to travel and see  _____  of Europe!  Italy!  Greece! Turkey! I can't stay here
[005]      'Helen, we're young.  We're intelligent.  Life is  _____  than marriage and children.  Perhaps you should think
[006]  friendly smile and a joke about good friends bringing  _____  friends. I introduced him to Andrea, then we took our
[007] ings went well. I didn't have the dreams at night  any  _____ . And I didn't visit Felkautca and the bar every night


	
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[001]  I listened, then I said to him,  "You're a fine young  _____ , Mr Gilchrist.  You know that you can't take the exam
[002] ed for a week, and he  tried  to kiss me.  "I'm a rich  _____ ," he said.  "Marry me and you can have everything." 
[003] behind me.  About two hundred metres away, there was a  _____  on a bicycle.  He was about forty or forty-five and 
[004] efore I got to Farnham, I looked behind me again.  The  _____  wasn't there.  'When I went back to Farnham on Monday
[005]    to Farnham on Monday, he was there again!  The same  _____  on the same road! And the next Saturday and Monday, 
[006] on my bicycle  again this morning.  And there was that  _____  again! I don't  know him, but he's always a long way      
[007]   a hat.   'About two hundred metres away, there was a  _____  on a bicycle.'  I wanted to know more about him, so I


	
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[001]  called to him after Mr Soames left his room.  Why?'  ' _____  worked for Mr Gilchrist's father,' Bannister answered,
[002]  Jabez was always good to me.  When he lost his money,  _____  found work here at the university.'  'And you watched
[003] you could,' Holmes said.  'Yes, Mr Holmes.  Yesterday,  _____  saw the notebook on the chair and
[004]                      saw the notebook on the chair and  _____  thought, "That's Mr Gilchrist's notebook!"
[005]             thought, "That's Mr Gilchrist's notebook!"  _____  quickly understood about the exam paper.  Yes,
[006]        quickly  understood about the exam paper.  Yes,  _____  sat on the notebook and hid it.  Yes,
[007]                  sat on the notebook and hid it.  Yes,  _____  called Mr Gilchrist after Mr Soames left the room.


	
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[001] , told me to forget everything  that I already knew.  ' _____  you want to become a real scientist,'  he  said, 'you
[002] lied.  'You do not  need to thank me.  I will be happy  _____  you are well.  That is enough for me.  But promise me
[003]   trouble for you.  And I will not hurt anyone again.   _____  you refuse,  I will kill all your friends! 'You cannot
[004]  The law says that a person  can defend himself.  Even  _____  he is guilty.  Please listen to my story.  Then you 
[005]   reason for me to like humans.  They do not like me.   _____  I cannot have love, I will create fear.  I will take
[006]    The monster  looked very angry when he spoke.  'But  _____  you agree, I promise  to leave you alone.  We will go
[007] monster was waiting.  'He will be  angry,' I thought, ' _____  his wife is not ready soon.' I lived in fear.  The mon


	
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[001] am going to marry Cyril at the end of the summer.  I'm  _____  interested in other men.  Mr Carruthers was older and
[002]  He's working in Coventry.  The man  on the bicycle is  _____  Cyril, Mr Holmes.' 'And no other man is interested in
[003]     I ran across the road.  I could see the house, but  _____  the man.  In Farnham, I asked questions about Charlin
[004]   a man  with a white beard.  Two: he was a vicar, but  _____  now.  Three:  there are usually visitors to Charlingt
[005] you? What do you want?'  come up to  London and I will  _____  go back to Chiltern House.  Mr Carruthers has a trap  
[006] rruthers has a trap now, so the road to the station is  _____  dangerous for me.  But I cannot stay.  Mr Woodley cam
[007]      But I cannot stay.  Mr Woodley came again.  I did  _____  meet him, but I saw him through a window.  He has a