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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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[012]  dressed very carefully, never went out in the evening  _____  a jacket and tie. He was a bit careless of his health     
[002]  also seeking shelter from the rain.  She had come out  _____  her umbrella. The dog was quiet and friendly, and ne     
[003]  and discipline is quite strict.  Students never speak  _____  permission - they put up their hands and wait.  They      
[004]     he speaks and they write, for more than 30 minutes  _____  the students complaining. P: The teacher sounds bossy  
[005]    the people beautiful and intelligent? Did they live  _____  war? Were their lives more wonderful than we can ima     
[006]     to save someone's life? How do people walk on fire  _____  feeling  pain? What is the mind?  Science is still not      
[007]  ring the door.  DO NOT allow strangers into your home  _____  proper authority. In these times of danger, anyone co        


	
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[001] ailing near Newfoundland, Canada, when suddenly a very  _____  whale jumped out of the water.  It was fighting with      
[002]    over five years, in one expert's opinion.  The very  _____  top stones fit into the smaller  standing  stones.       
[003]  ing Tutankhamen's body was kept.  In 1923, he found a  _____  room filIed with gold and other beautiful things.       
[004] ship Titanic on the night that it happened.  She saw a  _____  ship with many people on it.  Suddenly, she heard a l     
[005]  Semenov was eighty kilometres away, but he saw a very  _____  light in the sky and felt terrible heat.  It almost bu     
[006]    Was it a car accident? As he drove nearer, he saw a  _____ , egg-shaped 'machine' about five metres long.  It had     
[007]      statues and roads.  The Nazca Lines In Peru, very  _____   'drawings' of animals and 1,300 kilometres of straigh     


	
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[001] indow.  He then flew back into the building through an  _____  window in another room.  Asian countries have many st     
[002] ing and closing, heavy footsteps.  But the door didn't  _____  or close and they found no one.  All the sound equipm  
[003] rk and still lead a normal life. I mean, the shops are  _____  till 10 o'clock.  I: All shops?  Sheila: Yes, everythi     
[004] iving back here in Britain. I think Americans are more  _____ , they, you know, they speak their minds, so if they      
[005] rvival equipment, but I only had a little penknife to   _____  a tin of beans with!  It was too blunt to do the job.      
[006]   wrote poetry about freedom and nature. They attended  _____ -air pop concerts, where some of them danced naked,  a     
[007]  nals look for lonely older people who they think will  _____  the door to them.  Don't trust anyone - you could reg     


	
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[001]  but they were not successful.  Communist rule did not  _____  until 1989.  Budapest is very unusual because it has       
[002] was destroyed in a fire in 1939, that seemed to be the  _____  of the story.  Then local people began to talk about      
[003]  he shouted.  Janey put out a hand and reached for the  _____  of the coat.  A minute later, she was pulled up out o     
[004] true, it can't be true that this will disappear by the  _____  of the century.  And so I looked into the question as      
[005]  that if I come out with them to a restaurant, they'll  _____  up having to pass round the hat to pay for my meal.      
[006]   wife has found the courage eventually to bring to an  _____  an intolerable situation. More specifically, the  wom     
[007]  ple on it.  Suddenly, she heard a loud scream and one  _____  of the ship went up into the air.  The ship then disa     


	
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[001]  it was so cold.'  Mr Carrisford watched her face with  _____ .  'That was kind of you,' he said.  Sara looked at Ra  
[002] walking about the city, and Agatha listened with great  _____ .  She soon decided that she wanted to see Baghdad for     
[003]   sleep, and he felt better about it.  But he had lost  _____  in the competition, and didn't care that he had no      
[004]  in the group, but nobody except Helen ever showed any  _____  in her.  'I've just got to talk to Angela about someth
[005] illage of Staines in 1944.  It was a place of historic  _____ .  One of the most important Anglo-Saxon temples is   
[006] form of exercise, both physically and spiritually. One  _____  we share closely is football. We rarely get to see      
[007] 'I don't want to know  anything about it.  It doesn't   _____  me.'  'But it must                                         


	
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[001] el when and where you want.  But on trains and buses -  _____  transport -  you have to travel when the timetable sa     
[002]   long disability. Our aims are to educate the general  _____  and  to provide the care that the mentally handicappe     
[003]  a Muslim culture and so you should dress modestly in   _____  - long sleeve shirts and blouses. If you want to see      
[004]  best way to get to Giza, where the pyramids are,is by  _____  bus - buses are crowded beyond description. The best      
[005] ll the newspapers.  Now her life began to change.  The  _____  wanted to know all about her, and paparazzi followed      
[006] for the photographs, the television recordings and the  _____  appearances.  Several times, they had to answer the q     
[007]   ly, everything turned out well for the suffragettes.  _____  opinion changed. Many members of Parliament now wante


	
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[001]    your field,' said Mr Walsh.  'Bring your things and  _____  me.' He went through a gate into the nearest field,      
[002]  kind of  accident where generally we get it wrong, we  _____  our common sense but it lets  us down, and we do the       
[003] id quietly,  Yes.'  Why?' asked Nick.  I wanted him to  _____  you, and not me.'  Why?' Nick asked again.  I think he     
[004] oise.  Water.  'A river!' he thought.  'The dogs can't  _____  me across water.  Where is it? Quick!'  Soon he found      
[005] the work?'  'Oh, I see.  Of course, Mr Bailey.  Please  _____  me, Miss  Silkwood.'  When the office door closed, Mrs     
[006]      Dorian turned away in horror.  Bad luck seemed to  _____  him everywhere.  People began to walk back towards  
[007]   quickly.  'You can get out of town along the river.   _____  the back of the houses.  Nobody goes there.  Good luck     


	
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[001]  tall and the best way to see it is by boat.  It was a  _____  from the people of France for the hundredth birthday      
[002]    gave them to me for Christmas.' 'An early Christmas  _____ ,' thought Janey.  'There are two days  before Christma     
[003]         'Will Volkswagens be made again in Europe?' At  _____ , they are not.  Surely there is a market for them -  
[004]     time. We have a sense of past and future, not just  _____ . We are the only species that can change the world,       
[005]  find one of the accepted labels to explain it. So the  _____  system is a bit dishonest you might say.      
[006] him all about me.  Here is a piece of my hair, a small  _____  from a dying mother to her baby son.  I am too ill to     
[007] viewer: Dr Clarke, when an accident happens the people  _____  are much more likely to be people of the general pub     


	
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[001]     Oe stood in silence for five minutes, then it came  _____ : first, the high sound of a bird singing, and then      
[002]    Hill was frightened, so her husband started driving  _____ .  Then they suddenly felt very tired.  The Hills woke     
[003]  Then the phone went dead.  The planes were never seen  _____ .  More than a hundred ships searched for them, but th     
[004] ky, the  plane's equipment immediately started working  _____ .  He looked back but he could only see clear blue sky 
[005]i on asked by many people is: 'Will Volkswagens be made  _____  in Europe?' At present, they are not.  Surely there       
[006]     the house a few days ago. We probably won't see it  _____ , because we're going to sell it this winter and buy       
[007] aney was walking on to the ice.  The girl was laughing  _____  ? a strange, high sound that seemed to come from far      


	
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[001]    she is still rather attractive.  She is the sort of  _____  you can always go to if you have a problem. She liked     
[002]     for long walks over the hills. She's a very active  _____ . Either she's making something, or mending something
[003]    opened his black doctor's bag and began helping the  _____  nearest to him.  The problem was much too big for one 
[004]   Sometimes a silver coin is hidden inside.  One lucky  _____  will find this, if they don't eat it first! Mince pie     
[005] during the first and second courses, she speaks to the  _____  on her left, and then she speaks to the                    
[006]   There have been many terrible examples of this.  The  _____  is burnt to death very quickly, but nothing around      
[007]    believe Zamora's story.  He was usually a very calm  _____ .  There were also other reports of a strange thing of