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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]  from Tom.  Mrs Jones at the post office told me to be  _____  careful when I go to Europe.  She thinks it's a danger     
[002]     One day, when he was not listening, Baloo hit him,  _____  softly, on the head, and Mowgli ran away angrily.   
[003] mbered all the history about Marie Antoinette.  I felt  _____  proud if myself!  I've decided that I like this job       
[004]     And we haven't gone anywhere yet' There was also a  _____  beautiful woman with short dark hair.  She was wearing     
[005]  at the west wall,' Kaa said,  and come down the hill  _____  fast.  Good hunting!'  The black panther ran quickly      
[006]  travels.  We all laughed a lot.  Bill and Maisie were  _____  interested in Eastern Europe.  I realized then that I     
[007]     Also, when we were leaving France, he began to act  _____  differently.  I don't know how exactly.  He was just -     


	
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[001]    she cried.  'I love you better than anything in the  _____ .  Don't leave me!'  Dorian Gray looked down at her wit     
[002] hildren laughing and talking together.  He thought the  _____  was a good place, too.  'It's a group of seal familie     
[003]   frightened wolves.  I  go from you to my people  the  _____  of men.  But first...' and Mowgli went to Shere      
[004]   tried, you know.  I've done my best.  But it's their  _____  now.  They must do what they can with it.'  I don't be     
[005]      and that little village was the best place in the  _____ .  I wanted to live there for ever...  'But one      
[006] give the story to the newspapers, and they'll tell the  _____  about it.  Then the government and the factory manage     
[007]       Perhaps you remember her.  She sailed around the  _____  alone in a small boat.'  'Yes,' said David Wilson, 'I     


	
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[001] have animals.  Remember, if you want something in this  _____ , you have to work to get it.  Do you understand?'       
[002] wonderful thing happened.  Soapy decided to change his  _____  and be a new man.  'Tomorrow,'  he said to  himself, '     
[003] nese families.  The writer Amy Tan tells stories about  _____   as a Chinese American in The Joy Luck Club and other      
[004]   Edward Pinkhammer.  I've never seen you before in my  _____ .'  The woman cried out, 'Oh, Elwyn! Elwyn! I'm your wi     
[005] said to himself, 'I'll go into town and find work.  My  _____   will be good again.  I'll be somebody important.       
[006]     the gardens, the music, the restaurants, the night  _____ ,  the beautiful girls.  And during this time I learned     
[007]  Virginia in 1607.  They hoped to find gold there, but  _____  was very hard for them.  There was very little food,     


	
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[001] d some people...  the  police...' He ran on.  He could  _____  hear the gunman behind him, so he ran faster.  After      
[002]  the snakes replied.   We will not bite you, but stand  _____ , Little Brother, because your feet can hurt us.'     
[003] turn blue and fall off.'  Matty smiled.  'Well, you've  _____  got ten of them.'   That first night the boys could no    
[004]  The sky went black and  everything was very quiet and  _____ .  The boys sat together in one of the tents, and wait     
[005]     in the barn, heard the storm in the hills.  It was  _____  a long way away, but he could hear it clearly.  Just     
[006] urned and  went back into the kitchen.  His mother was  _____  crying.  'Oh, Matty,' she said, 'I didn't want Nelson      
[007]        Helen's Story  At the time of this story, I was  _____  living at my friend Sherlock Holmes's flat in Baker      


	
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[001]      Dupin opened a desk drawer, and took out a pen.  " _____  me a check, please," he said.  "When you sign it, I      
[002]     in order to be free he needed to learn to read and  _____  and he  wrote a book about his life.  After this he      
[003] and shows you the letters, you can say that you didn't  _____  them.'  'But Mr Holmes, she also has my photograph.'       
[004]   problem?'  'It's this book,' said Sarah.  'I have to  _____  about it at school on Friday, and I don't understand     
[005] olmes.  'You are, of course, staying in London? I will  _____  to you to tell you what happens.  And, the money...     
[006] bout Simon's newspaper article.  'Why did David Wilson  _____  to the paper, Father?' Christine asked.  'He's not a      
[007]  he was only fourteen.  At this time Poe also began to  _____  short stories for magazines.  His first book of stori     


	
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[001] his place well,' Mr. Funnell replied.  'Mr Walsh is an  _____  friend, and I love walking in these hills.  Are you      
[002] asking questions all the time.  Where do you live? How  _____  is your mother? What is your father called?  What did     
[003] stood  still, and cried a little.  Then she put on her  _____  brown coat, and her                                        
[004]  money', and the ceremony is about seven hundred years  _____ .  A favourite  tradition is the tradition of the royal    
[005] farmer, met the boys at the station.  He arrived in an  _____  farm truck, got down from it, and stood and looked at     
[006] ystery for over a hundred years.  Here are some famous  _____  stories of ordinary people who disappeared.  Why did the   
[007]              It was a beautiful spring day and 27-year- _____  Aron Ralston was walking in the mountains after a hard    


	
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[001]  the UK different from Britain? Britain is not an easy  _____  to understand.  To visitors, British life is sometimes     
[002]    Scots, they say, are not a very happy or fun-loving  _____ , and they are also very careful with money.  Generally     
[003]    How to be an Alien  The British are traditionally a  _____  of animal lovers.  This is clear from the large number     
[004]      They came from all parts of the country into the  _____ 's capital because they wanted change.  They wanted equ     
[005]    organized a thirteen-year campaign  tat changed the  _____ .  Martin Luther King met Coretta Scott in 1952 while     
[006]  the crowd.  More than 200,000 marchers arrived in the  _____ 's capital; almost one quarter of them were white.  Fo     
[007]  time, white and black Americans stood together as one  _____ .  Just before King gave his speech, America's three       


	
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[001]     I spoke to my employer, and he's going to pay me a  _____  more than before!'  John looked surprised.  'Oh really      
[002] ember how small he is,' he said to Baloo.  How can his  _____  head hold all your long words?'  These words will keep     
[003]      He  thought of the seals, and people fishing, and  _____  children playing on the beach and swimming.  'We've      
[004] kes replied.   We will not bite you, but stand  still,  _____  Brother, because your feet can hurt us.'  Mowgli stood     
[005]    mist was coming down quickly, and he could see very  _____ .  'Fetch .  .  .  Fetch Jessica,' he said to the dog,      
[006]  the morning when help came, but Matty remembered very  _____  about it.  He just wanted to go on sleeping.  And whe     
[007]  thing to do in town.' But they both knew that she had  _____  chance of finding a job.  There were too many people       


	
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[001]             'If I'm not here,' he thought, 'they can't  _____  me to take Nelson away.  And perhaps by this evening      
[002]   got very hot, and Jessica came down to  the field to  _____  them that a storm was coming.  'My father says that it     
[003]  to explain to Mr Walsh what he really wanted.   'If I  _____  him that I want to work with animals,  he'll just laug     
[004]   I  do? A: People of your age, especially boys, often  _____  false stories about their experiences. I'm sure some
[005]   of money, so my stepfather wasn't poor any more.'   ' _____  me more about him, Miss Stoner,' said Holmes.  'Well,      
[006] How did my sister die, Mr Holmes? Do you know?  Please  _____  me!' said Helen.  She put her hand on Sherlock  Holmes     
[007]   'Very well.  And if you're my doctor, you can't  _____  anybody what I say.'  'Of course not,' Doctor Volney     


	
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[001] m sorry,' I said.  'Let me help you.'  I took his left  _____ and began to help him.  My right                           
[002] anger at your door. Get a receipt for any money you do  _____ over. Only a fool gives money to anyone who asks for     
[003]   Potts, couldn't phone the police because he was tied  _____ and foot. The thieves managed to get in and escape  with    
[004] you have just the one case? B: Yes. A: Do you have any  _____ luggage or carry-on  luggage?  B: Just this one case.      
[005] llars,' Madame said, and she touched the hair with her  _____ .  'Quick! Cut it off! Give me the money!' Della said.      
[006] ing with cold.  The  men checked her body again with a  _____  scanner.  'OK.  You're clean now.  Put your clothes on     
[007]       I naturally agreed. As I reached for the child's  _____ , however, he looked nervous and refused to let me touch