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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] n't you hear it?"  I laughed and said, "I sleep better  _____  you do." So Julia went to her room, and locked the 
[002]  'He came with me and Joe - he knew what to buy better  _____  we did.'  And when Mr Doolin came home, he had another
[003] I am only twenty years old now.  You are so much older  _____  me, and you understand much more about the world.  
[004]  bored.  They couldn't stay in the same place for more  _____  a minute, and after a while Mr Walsh came up to them.
[005]   question, she was very surprised.  'That's much more  _____  you get when you work on a farm,' she said.  Then she
[006]   Suddenly the mist came down again, colder and wetter  _____  ever.  'I must go back,' thought Matty, afraid.  'I'll
[007] angry, are you?"  "Why, no.  I love you ten times more  _____  before." And I did, Lynn.  Can you understand that? 


	
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[001]  Fine young man and I was in love with him.  We talked  _____  getting married.  Then I got a letter from King Henry     
[002]      he nearly sent me to the Tower.  I said something  _____  the Church of England, and he didn't agree with me an     
[003]  ried some more, and said I didn't understand anything  _____  the church.  I only talked to help him forget his bad     
[004]             and he was the King of England!'  And what  _____  his three children?'  I felt sorry for them.  They had     
[005]  said,  It's true, I still like Thomas.  I often think  _____  him.  Some people say he's only interested in two thin     
[006] uages, and he's  only nine years old.  But I'm worried  _____  him because he's often ill.  England needs a strong      
[007] ooked at Margaret and said, So, now you have heard all  _____  King Henry and his six wives, and one day you can tell     


	
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[001]    she cried.  Della lived in this poor little room, in  _____  York, with her husband, James Dillingham Young.  The     
[002]     and closed it.  He looked very thin and he needed a  _____  coat.  His eyes were on Della.  She could not underst     
[003]          Give me your watch, Jim! Let's see it with its  _____  chain.'  But Jim did not do this.  He sat down, put hi     
[004]                  Soapy sat on a seat in Madison Square,  _____  York, and looked up at the sky.  A dead leaf fell on     
[005]               Soapy decided to change his life and be a  _____  man.  'Tomorrow,'  he said tohimself, 'I'll go into      
[006]     Son, from Missouri.  You're going to the meeting in  _____  York, of course? What's your name?'  I had to reply     
[007] oney left, Matty lay back and thought happily about the  _____  life in front of him.  'It all began because of Nelso     


	
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[001]   group of seal families.  The mothers come here every  _____  to have their babies.'  They sailed closer to the san     
[002]     company had.  'We borrowed ten million pounds last  _____ , and we employed four hundred more people.  Think how     
[003]  you stay with us, you will be paid twice as much next  _____ .  And no one will ever be hurt, because no one will ev     
[004]  ott needs the girls' money, because he only has 750 a  _____  from his dead wife.  I found that out this morning.       
[005]      about the weather.  The winter storms at sea that  _____  were worse than ever, and so the Star never arrived in     
[006] veryone felt better.  'She looks as happy as she did a  _____  ago,' thought Susan.  'A pretty, happy girl, who like     
[007]      But I'm afraid the skin there will stay red for a  _____  or two.  They're nasty chemicals, Mr Duncan, you know     


	
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[001]  at the door.  Come in!' I called.  A young man walked  _____  the room.  He was holding some beautiful red and gold      
[002]       She looked at them, putting them back one by one  _____  the box.  Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded     
[003]      said Akela.  Silently, another animal jumped down  _____  the circle.  It was Bagheera the panther, black as      
[004] ends wrote it all down in a letter, and put the letter  _____  Henry's hand when he was in church.'  Oh dear,' said      
[005]    Mowgli up a wall and pushed him over.  He fell down  _____  a dark  room  which had no doors or windows, and he      
[006]   ten metres long, heavy and strong.  He went silently  _____  the crowd of monkeys  around Baloo, and he did not nee     
[007]   Mowgli.  Let us go.' And the three of them went away  _____  the jungle.  A python's dance is dangerous to watch,'      


	
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[001] Jessica,' she said.  'Now, sit down, and we'll get you  _____  tea.'  It was a large farmhouse tea, and the hungry      
[002]       and I was only a stupid woman.  And then I cried  _____  more, and said I didn't understand anything about the     
[003] 't love him.'  No, I didn't, but I learned to like him  _____  of the time.  He was a clever and interesting man,      
[004]      A young man walked into the room.  He was holding  _____  beautiful red and gold flowers.  These are for Catheri     
[005]   true, I still like Thomas.  I often think about him.  _____  people say he's only interested in two things: women      
[006]   with me.'  He dropped the fire-pot on the ground and  _____  of the fire fell out.  The wolves were very afraid an     
[007]    put your tents up and then come to the house to get  _____  milk.  And perhaps Mrs Walsh will have                     


	
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[001] Henry, I didn't know what I was doing.  Remember, I am  _____  twenty years old now.  You are so much older than me     
[002] said I didn't understand anything about the church.  I  _____  talked to help him forget his bad leg.'  And was that      
[003] homas.  I often think about him.  Some people say he's  _____  interested in two things: women and money.  But I don     
[004]    to hunt.'  Shere Khan has a bad leg, so he can kill  _____  cows.  In the village near him the people are angry.      
[005]  to me.  Give him to me!'  Akela did not move but said  _____ ,  Look well! Who speaks for this man-cub? Two voices,     
[006]  his father and mother, must speak for him.'  There is  _____  one other animal who can come to these wolf-meetings     
[007] the long 'ssss' sound, which was like no  other noise,  _____  the noise of a snake.  Good,' said Baloo gently.      
 

	
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[001]     in 1867 for 7.2  million dollars and it became the  _____  of Alaska in 1959.  The American flag, known as the     
[002] thirteen states, and a star was added every time a new  _____  joined, so there are now fifty  stars.   The last star     
[003] here are a hundred people in the Senate (two from each  _____ ) and they are elected for six years.  There are 435 pe     
[004] entative.  The President is elected by votes from each  _____ .  A                                                        
[005]                                                      A  _____  has  the same number of votes as the number of its re     
[006]  wrong.  As well as the government in Washington, each  _____  has its own  government.  Laws can be very different      
[007]   own government.  Laws can be very different from one  _____  to the next.  They say very different things about,         


	
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[001]  thing then, but a few days later his soldiers came to  _____  me away.  'Oh no!' said Margaret.   What did you do?     
[002] Mogli, the man-cub!' came the reply.  Watch where they  _____  me, and tell Baloo and Bagheera.'  I will,' called      
[003] g him fruit.  But they started fighting and  forgot to  _____  any fruit back to Mowgli.  Mowgli knew that he was in      
[004] time comes,  go to the men's houses in the village and  _____  some of their Red Flower.  That will be a stronger      
[005] beside  it.  That meant that another wolf could try to  _____  Akela's place.  Shere Khan was there, too, with all      
[006]           Yes, he is thin, but he looks like my son.'   _____  him to your house, Messua,' the villagers said.         
[007] them there until we come down.  Akela, you and I  will  _____  the buffaloes round to the top.'  They drove the buffa     


	
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[001] reading the letter,  Margaret was silent.  Perhaps she  _____  hear Katherine Howard's cries and see her white face.     
[002] ooked at  me, and the questions came all at once.  How  _____  you marry that terrible man? Weren't you afraid? Why
[003] her Wolf.  And there in front of them stood a baby who  _____  just walk.  He looked up at Father Wolf and laughed.      
[004] eater of cubs! Go!'  Shere Khan went.  He knew that he  _____  not fight Mother  Wolf in the cave.  But I will have      
[005]     and will not attack them.  When the four wolf-cubs  _____  run a little, Father Wolf took them and Mowgli and Mo     
[006]     and started hitting, right and left, as hard as he  _____ .  The monkeys screamed angrily, but then one of them       
[007]   to a dark room which had no doors or windows, and he  _____  not get out.  Stay there,' shouted the monkeys, until