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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]         the lake?' 'I don't have any skates.' 'You can  _____  my hands,' said the girl.  'I can...  pull you.       
[002]   I talk to? I think my brain just isn't big enough to  _____  very much. We hav  exams soon, and I know I'm going  
[003]   thin, and held it.  'No, Oliver,' she said.  'Really  _____  me.  Put your arms round  me.'  Very, very carefully      
[004]    because they could look at her.  Aileen knew how to  _____  a conversation with twelve people and work hard at      
[005]  ards, lifeless, and she was not breathing.  He caught  _____  of her face then, put his mouth over hers, and blew     
[006] elt my friend's  terror, his deep gloom, slowly taking  _____  of my own mind.  About seven or eight days after we      
[007]  who's had a break-in in their apartment, or hear of a  _____ -up in a shop. All the people in my neighbourhood know     


	
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[001]     animal rights. Now I have become a vegetarian. My  _____  is that my parents are furious. My mum doesn't cook       
[002]    he's said is exaggeration. It's not just a distant  _____  somewhere on the other side of the world.  DA: What      
[003] and yet we are guilty of no crime. Let's not hide our  _____  from society -  et's tell people what awful jobs we'     
[004]   should be, too.  Don't put it off - look after this  _____  now. If you are not sure that you are doing everythi     
[005]  in. Cities and towns all over the  world have a huge  _____ , and no government really knows what to do. For once       
[006]    in their food and drinking water.  There's no real  _____  yet. One or two have become ill, but not many.  There     
[007]    but insist on cash instead. This can be a terrible  _____ ,  especially on the week-ends when banks are closed.      


	
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[001]  to prevent anyone from getting in. Put in a security  _____ , so that neighbour will hear an alarm bell ringing      
[002] estern product you can think of. The public transport  _____  in Budapest is one of the best and cheapest in the      
[003] ked for six months and couldn't find the bug in their  _____ .  David finished the job in five days. It is because      
[004] isfactory in every way. Why don't they use the normal  _____  of  payment, like the rest of the bookshops in London     
[005] ust a minute, not in handwriting please. Our computer  _____  reads the form directly and it doesn't understand     
[006]  of the accepted labels to explain it. So the present  _____  is a bit dishonest you might say. I: And is it true      
[007] days to get one, he doesn't do the job very well, the  _____  is so old that he can't get the parts to repair it,      


	
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[001] words but I don't know I learn new words. I see a new  _____  six, maybe seven times, and then I know it. And the      
[002] lie.  And she never talked to him.  They didn't say a  _____ .'  People don't always need words, young man,'      
[003] y them from the storeroom. In between times I use the  _____   processor and other office equipment to send letters     
[004] rds in two or three times a week. I write the English  _____  first, then  the translation, and a short sentence as     
[005] I like to find different parts of speech for the same  _____  - 'act,' 'actor,' 'actress,' or adjective 'active,' ad     
[006]   and cried.  I told him that I agreed with his every  _____ ,  and that he was my teacher and I was  only a stupid      
[007]  photograph to anybody.  I need nothing more than her  _____ .  There is no danger for me now.  How can I thank you     


	
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[001]    to his feet and took a few steps. Tom told Grace to  _____  him straight to the water at the side of the arena.       
[002]      what I liked best was that I could work and still  _____  a normal life. I mean, the shops are open till 10 o'c     
[003] handling each item individually. Containers would soon  _____  to an improvement in the company's position, the mana     
[004]   professor at Columbia. But the man who is trying  to  _____  that conversation during the next year, President  Cli     
[005]   London.  But the others felt that Paul was trying to  _____  the band again.  Yellow Submarine  In July 1968, there     
[006] the right man for the job, he asked himself.  Could he  _____  a civil rights campaign? The next few years proved th     
[007] ixed  messages?' he asked me after a while. 'When they  _____  you to believe something and then they do the opposit     


	
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[001]      or his body.  He had an enormous black hat on his  _____ , like a big box.  A grey cloth came down from the ha     
[002] olice - but there is something you can do: scream your  _____  off.  The burglar will probably be frightened and run     
[003] Street,' he said.  Do you know  her?'  Nick turned his  _____  and looked.   No, I don't.'  Well, she knows you, I      
[004]   that they were all equal - nobody was sitting at the  _____  of the table. Many of  the stories in the legends are     
[005]       so if the Queen is writing a letter to a foreign  _____  of state he can also translate her letter into any of     
[006]   He's joined me in our studio with June Fisher, who's  _____  Teacher of Catford County School, that's a girls'       
[007]  in Caldwell now, and I want you to leave Caldwell and  _____  northwest on the B6274. Some way along there, not      


	
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[001] ey would not allow. They did not trust the manager to  _____  the needs of the workers. The manager attempted to      
[002] it seemed at first.  The project leader had failed to  _____  the traditional power structure of the village, and 
[003] w louder, he will be forced to listen; he is going to  _____  the feelings of black people.'  Judge Regter was still     
[004] everal cigar ends have been found in the boot-room. I  _____  this an extremely serious matter. What boy has been s     
[005]    asked me to dinner twice at her house! Some people  _____  her proud, but she has only ever been kind to me. She     
[006] ding, I do not mind meeting people in the evenings. I  _____  some relaxation and amusement is good for everybody.'     
[007] sisters, there isn't a woman in the room I would even  _____  dancing with. You are dancing with the only attractive     


	
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[001] Ever seriously considered making it his future career.  _____ , afer graduating, he immediately started working in      
[002]     especially on the week-ends when banks are closed.  _____ , these hotels are mainly quiet and clean, they tidy      
[003] out ten minutes, and it stops the heat from  preading.  _____ , if it's a bad  burn, what we call a third  egree burn     
[004] baseballs, bats, and of course American baseball caps.  _____ , their holiday isn't really very long.  They have the     
[005]     This proved that it was better. Three years later,  _____ , the program leader was surprised to find that only      
[006] he manager a suitable amount of money.  Unfortunately,  _____ , the plan was never put into practice. This was beca     
[007]   a very good reason for working harder at a marriage,  _____ , and so stopping a bad situation starting in the first         


	
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[001] cyclist, met his second wife while he was travelling  _____  France by bike. He and his second wife, Eleanor, have     
[002]  fields near Bethlehem, three shepherds were sitting  _____  a fire.  Suddenly, there was a great light, and an a     
[003] Christmas dinner in Germany.  And in other countries  _____  the world ...  In Norway, pork is the usual meat for   
[004]  who in fact was rather unattractive, flung her arms  _____  his neck and cried, 'I love  you'! Ending 2: The man      
[005]  be grateful to you. Discourage crowds from standing  _____  to watch what's going on - it's not safe.  Tidy up any     
[006] ture, human rights, things like that. Always walking  _____  with a thick book under her harm, with a title like '     
[007]  'bell-bottom pants,' or long skirts, and often went  _____  in bare feet. These jeans, of course, were covered in


	
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[001] l ocal people, and explained it in great detail. Every  _____  aspect of the project had been completely explored      
[002]     only then, if you're lucky. Technology has made it  _____  to collect, store and retrieve almost limitless amount     
[003]  do this I had to get into it by the window.  This was  _____  because his room was just below my bedroom, and there 
[004]    then do not fail to report to the police as soon as  _____ , but no later than 24 hours maximum after the acciden     
[005]     a rest in a nice cafe afterwards outdoors - hardly  _____  in London!  I: Okay - anything else about the people?     
[006]  is that people  actually want to live as far away  as  _____  from where they work. By that I mean they don't want      
[007]       boats for hire, etc, every type of entertainment  _____  - and the children really enjoyed it. Amusing cartoons