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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]   pond with a large pile of white feathers beside him.  _____  then he heard a shout. The farmer had jumped over     
[002]    even thought that it was murder.  This was probably  _____  a wild story, but there was still a mystery      
[003]   like bridges, but for most of their length they were  _____  cut through rock.  The water ran slowly downhill.  
[004]   Hadrian's Wall is thirty years old, and the army has  _____  taken Dura-Europos.  Rome is the strongest and larges     
[005]   for a swim in the open air pool.  The baths were not  _____  for washing and exercise.  The large ones had beautifu     
[006]    liked to walk in these and talk to their friends or  _____  think.  There were also libraries, religious building     
[007]          The first war Carthage was in modern Tunisia,  _____  outside Tunis.  Its people travelled a long way by       


	
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[001]                                   Daniel wanted to lie  _____  in front of the fire and go to sleep for a long, long     
[002]         in the empty space where a building has burned  _____ .  Already, they are clearing the ground for a new buil     
[003]   It tried to be fair to all citizens.  It was written  _____ ,  but judges could make their own decisions in special 
[004]    Romans completely destroyed Carthage.  They knocked  _____  the walls and the buildings and nobody was able to      
[005]   attack by foreign ships.  But Roman ships could sail  _____  the river to the sea and carry things to other place     
[006]                    We walked into Henry's room.  I sat  _____  in one of Henry's large chairs in front of his wooden     
[007]            Also, his knees were weak, so he often fell  _____ .  But when he became emperor, he was suddenly much     


	
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[001]                         Constantine became a Christian  _____  he died.  Christianity became the main religion       
[002]       Henry was in love with her for about seven years  _____  they married.'  Seven years!'  Yes, it took a long ti     
[003]     Now, you're reading a book written in the old days  _____  the war. The characters become hungry and go to a sea     
[004]           Marilla had a beautiful old brooch.  The day  _____  the party, she couldn't find it.  "It was on top of      
[005]     After some weeks, Anne's hair looked prettier than  _____ , and it wasn't as red. One day in the summer, Anne       
[006]   was wrong and he knew it.  He paid most of the taxes  _____  his trial.  He was eighty-two years old, and he was 
[007]   room to room, and each room was richer than the room  _____  that.  There were beautiful things everywhere.  Queen      


	
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[001]                                  It was 120 kilometres  _____  and six metres high in  places.       
[002]     others say that she wasn't.  But she had beautiful  _____  black hair, and the most wonderful black eyes.        
[003]               At that time, warships were built with a  _____ , sharp piece of wood at the front.       
[004]        So how did she become the King's wife?'  It's a  _____  story.  Do you want to hear it?'  Yes, please,'      
[005]    heard it on the television or radio at the end of a  _____  night's work, and it seemed that it couldn't possibly     
[006] the enemy, but they can hurt ordinary people too for a  _____  time after the war because they don't always know whe     
[007]  three pages - on my desk, but I locked my door.' 'How  _____  were you out?' Holmes asked.  'For about an hour,' Mr         


	
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[001]      God took from us our other children.  I wanted so  _____  to give you a son, but God's plan for us was different     
[002]    in Kentucky but he worked hard in order to learn as  _____  as he could.  Lincoln made the Republican Party strong   
[003]            I am only twenty years old now.  You are so  _____  older than me, and you understand      
[004]                                  But he loved Matty as  _____  as Matty loved him.    
[005]  reason for the small windows.  The Romans did not use  _____  glass.  They could make window glass, but only in sma     
[006] stopped completely.  Why did Romans enjoy the games so  _____ ?  At first, gladiator fights followed the deaths of      
[007]        lake had become his own.  He also believed that  _____  of his sadness was because his dear sister was seriou   


	
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[001]     it's sometimes difficult for me, as a father on my  _____ .  Christine's a young woman now, and she hasn't got a   
[002] work across the city.  Often the workers sold in their  _____  shops the things that they produced.  And every nine       
[003]       large baths used a lot of water and each had its  _____  aqueduct.  There were also hundreds of smaller, local     
[004]   dream, I got up and went to my bedroom.  I sat in my  _____  bed and read a book with the light on.  In my dream, I
[005]    end marriages.  And, like all men, he could end his  _____  marriage.  In Rome this was very simple; a man had     
[006]         He has done nothing  wrong.  Let him go to his  _____  place.'  He is a man,' cried Shere Khan    
[007] New York of the 1960s, where he began to come into his  _____  sexually, creatively and intellectually. 'The Beautiful     


	
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[001]            But the three lines still did not work very  _____ .  Roman soldiers were defeated a number of times, and     
[002]            Mrs. March said, "Good night, girls.  Sleep  _____ !"  It was a happy letter. 
[003]             They talked quietly.  "Is Amy going to get  _____ ?" Jo asked.  "Yes," Mrs.  March said.     
[004]   liked to pay for chariot races.  It made their names  _____ -known and it kept the people happy.  The Roman writer      
[005]   yes, that's the capital of the province of Shandong.  _____ ,  you'll live in the university, nearly all foreign vis     
[006]    William.  Was she really a witch?' asked Margaret.   _____ , she was a strange woman,' said Uncle William.            
[007]   Parker-Bowles.  Charles and Camilla were friends, as  _____  as lovers.  They were the same age, and they were in         


	
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[001]       And it was coming nearer! A little boat with two  _____  in it.  He held the rock and stared at it.    
[002]              but he agreed to move to West Ham.  Eight  _____  met in a hotel at Heathrow and finished all the busine    
[003]      1838 Mr Darling and his young daughter saved nine  _____  from the wreck of the Forfarshire.  The storm lasted     
[004]  What's happening down there?'  Hundreds, thousands of  _____  were moving slowly along the valley.  'They must be   
[005] problems with landmines after the wars there.  She met  _____  who lost legs or arms from these landmines     
[006]             Soon telephones were ringing in Britain as  _____  heard the news and phoned to tell their friends and      
[007]          But he was also a man with a big secret.  Few  _____  knew the real person.  Who was he? What is the true          


	
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[001]               His friends thought he was not safe.  He  _____  stay with the army.  His family told him to return to     
[002]   't forget that you're in a Muslim culture and so you  _____  dress modestly in public - long sleeve shirts and      
[003]     not to pay them.  Now his daughter agreed that she  _____  pay taxes to the nation again.  Elizabeth also decided     
[004] ther girls my age have soft, fluffy, curly  hair. What  _____  I put on my hair to make it like theirs? Help!     
[005]  is on 7 December.  For forty days before this, people  _____  not eat meat.  On Christmas Eve everybody goes to chur     
[006] Your mother is probably a very busy woman. I think you  _____  cook for yourself. Baked potatoes are very easy!        
[007] accident could develop into something more later.) You  _____  ordinarily report to your insurance company fairly so       


	
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[001]                          Mr Ferrars didn't say much.' ' _____  were they going?'  'They came from London, and they we     
[002]  me quietly back into the room and got into her bed.  ' _____  hav  you been?' I asked her.  She was very angry, bec     
[003]                           He smiled and left the room.  _____ 's the necklace?' asked Margaret.  'I can't find it,'    
[004]  These were often on the ground floor of the buildings  _____  people lived.  People  also sold from tables in the st      
[005]   know what happened to Anita?' I asked.  'Do you know  _____  she went that night? The night she went away?' Marta      
[006] long time after the war because they don't always know  _____  th  landmines are. By the middle of the first      
[007]                     Men are working in the empty space  _____  a building has burned down.  Already, they are clearin