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Quiz 019

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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[002] and he shouted out, 'Who is that? Who is mad enough to  _____  games with us, and with death, in this way?  
[004]  suitable person for me to gamble  with! I started to  _____  cards with him often, and for some time I made sure       
[008] s, Rossiter?'  'I want to go and watch Northend United  _____  football on Saturday, sir.'  'And that's your life's      
[012] afternoon, and then we swim in the river.  At night we  _____  music and dance.  I have a house, food, and many frien     
[017]  very happy.  "Boys'," he said, "go home.  Go home and  _____ ." "What- now?  Go home?" they said.  "Yes.  It's a be     
[006] known all over the  world, and people write, sing, and  _____  jazz in many countries.  But New Orleans, where it al     
[018]  hope for prettier hair.  Please  can I go outside and  _____ ?" "Yes, of course," said Mrs. Lynde.  "Find some flow     


	
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[001]  wrote down the address. Satisfied, he drove away. His  _____  was ready.  Morse was surprised to discover that he     
[002]         and she was dead. So they carried out the same  _____  as earlier in the week, when it was in fact Conrad      
[003]  ley and his wife laughed loudly, delighted that their  _____  to separate the two young people seemed to be succeed     
[004] thcli looked scornfully at his son.  'I don't think my  _____  will ever succeed, Ellen!' he whispered  to me. 'Who      
[005]     to find that Flora was determined to carry out her  _____ .  'I think it's terrible, Flora,' cried Mrs Smiling.      
[006]    of mine, a Mr Preston (who had no idea of my secret  _____ ).  Eight or ten other friends were also invited.  In      
[007]       Bruce McCullough and Father Kani helped Woods to  _____  his escape: he told no one else. One day in December     


	
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[001]       After two years his sight began to return in one  _____ . Now he can see a little, and when our first child wa 
[002]     in some fields near the school, under the watchful  _____  of one of our teachers.  On Sundays we went out twice     
[003] ost them in Level Purple.'  'OK. But you can't keep an  _____  on four people with six men.  I'll let you have eight     
[004]  something on a piece of paper on the table caught his  _____ . He glanced at me, then tore off a tiny piece very      
[005]     he said.  'It's because of the low pressure in the  _____  of the hurricane,'  Wyatt  explained.  He looked up at     
[006]  terror of dark, still water, and saw again the empty,  _____ -like windows of the house and the dying trees all arou 
[007] of a police line up,' Nudger  reminded her.  'So what?  _____  witnesses often make mistakes.'  Nudger had to admit      


	
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[001]  boys were coming along the street towards them, and a  _____  of children on bicycles started riding round and round     
[002]  yatt and Causton walked down the long room to a small  _____  of men at the far end.  Wyatt and Dawson were marched     
[003]  book by James Fenimore Cooper, shows the sad end of a  _____  of Native Americans in the eighteenth century.       
[004]   Mark's.  You know I have to be at the hotel with the  _____ .' 'Oh, of course. You're the tour guide.  I'm sorry.'     
[005]   for the rights of black people.  One large religious  _____  is the Latter Day Saints, or Mormons, who live mainly     
[006] th me?'  'With pleasure,' he answered, bowing, and the  _____  moved towards the piano. This was the moment for me      
[007]     thing or two about looking after herself.   A dark  _____  of bushes stood between her and her car. She walked        


	
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[001]  believe.  But perhaps he did murder her.  One strange  _____  is true. William died on the date that Julie died: Jan     
[002]  lives of important people.  In 1985 Evans turned from  _____  to  fiction.  Since then he has written and produced      
[003]    go away?  I've asked myself this question too.  The  _____  is, I can't.  I've often thought about it, but I can't    
[004]   and she used to buy me many animals as presents.  In  _____ , our house was always full of animals we had birds,       
[005] ange.  When he spoke, he could never speak loudly.  In  _____ , he never spoke above a whisper.  Wilson was quick to      
[006]  bed.  Then the knocking stopped.  I wasn't afraid: in  _____ , I laughed.  Then the knocking began  again: it moved      
[007]  ght if only you'll be honest with me. As a matter of  _____ , I'm not very interested in whether they have souls      


	
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[001]      since our last meeting! He had the same pale thin  _____ , the same eyes, large and clear, and the same thin li     
[002] ere to die.  I cried as I did this terrible thing.  My  _____   was wet with tears and my heart was black and  heavy.     
[003]     and liked giving orders. But she had the prettiest  _____  and the sweetest smile you've ever seen. I could forg     
[004]  and threw itself in front of me.  I almost fell on my  _____  and, mad with anger, I took hold of an axe and tried     
[005] and dull. There was always an angry expression on  his  _____ , and he did not even try to keep himself dean and tid     
[006] nock on the door... Edgar Linton entered, his handsome  _____  full of delight at receiving Catherine's unexpected      
[007] ht him, he  found himself looking  into the frightened  _____  of a young constable.  'Oh, it's... it's you, Inspect     


	
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[001]     to move them.  Twenty minutes later Favel gave the  _____  to leave the city.  From the back of Favel's army ca     
[002]   and turned on the kitchen light.  The kitchen was in  _____ .  William lived alone, but he was a very tidy person.     
[003] nts to publish these papers, he'll have to put them in  _____  and type them again.  I think he can sort them out ve     
[004]   was born on a farm in Kentucky but he worked hard in  _____  to learn as much as he could.  Lincoln made the Repub     
[005] dom of other black people.   He had understood that in  _____  to be free he needed to learn to read and write and he     
[006]   book was rather better than most people's, who could  _____  dinner without embarrassment and in an acceptable      
[007] Henry.  My eyes were full of tears.  'Come  with me to  _____  the horses.' I travelled to Geneva alone, and my journ     


	
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[001]  player from the first team tries to hit the ball and  _____  round a big square from corner to corner.  The player     
[002] powder is very old and he only has one eye.  He can't  _____  very quickly.  Do you want him?" he asked.  "Yes, plea     
[003] lowly along the road.  By now the boys had started to  _____  towards them, and the children on bicycles, still goi     
[004] Australia.  Shall I go and look for a job near him?' ' _____  after him, you mean?' 'Er - no.  Not exactly. .' Jill  
[005] ard us, and sent the dogs after us.  We were about to  _____  away, when a great fierce dog caught  Catherine's leg     
[006] nt east, up into the  mountains.  I hope they haven't  _____  into another battle.' He sounded very tired.  Dawson      
[007] the shooting, then the four-minute swim, the two-mile  _____ , and the riding.  In each part, only the best three      


	
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[001] so that I would not be seen so easily at night. Then I  _____  my alarm clock for one o'clock in the morning, got in     
[002] gether, looking our over the water. The sun had almost  _____  and the moon was rising over the sea, round and full.     
[003] 's beginning!' Well,  we camped that night and we then  _____  off again the next day. We got some lifts, and met a     
[004] rald agreed.  'We certainly are.  The Government won't  _____  those two men free.  They tried to put a bomb on a      
[005]  In  February 1952, the Queen  arrived from Entebbe to  _____  foot on British soil for the first time as monarch.       
[006] that's different.  B: And don't forget some candles to  _____  a nice romantic atmosphere. Hey  - we could serve the     
[007] d obviously told the servants that he had accidentally  _____  fire to his room by knocking over a lighted candle.      


	
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[001] ople of the Southwest are the Hopi and the Zuni.  They  _____  sheep, make pots, and  also make beautiful jewellery      
[002]         Then more and more.  Soon it was wide open.  I  _____  my clothes in the wardrobe.  I haven't got many clothe     
[003]   quietly.  'That's OK.  Don't let her push you away.   _____  trying, Annie.'  She watched them walk away into the      
[004]  back.  She wanted him to stay there and hold her.  To  _____  her from the cold that was falling once again over th     
[005]   wasn't much.  Then he tried to read, but he couldn't  _____  his mind on his book.  He walked to the window and loo     
[006]  'It was  my imagination, just my imagination.  I must  _____  calm.  Now, what was I doing? Yes.  The plug.  I was      
[007]  I did not hurt it in any way, but  I  always tried to  _____  as far away from it as possible.  I knew one reason