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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]   Your report will get a mark out of ten. Be ready to  _____  up and read your work aloud to the rest of the class.     
[002] hen back to old England!' He looked at Peter.   Don't  _____  there, boy! Get to work! Look at all our beautiful br  
[003] he ship, and looked at the sea.  It was  difficult to  _____  on the deck, because the wind was so strong.  The  sh     
[004] one and ten metres tall and have similar faces.  They  _____  by the sea, facing the land.  Why did the people of  E     
[005]  Am I boring him? The reason was, you see,  Americans  _____  closer when they're talking. Again, English  people l     
[006]        you can hang your shirt on the hook here - and  _____  over here against  the X-ray machine.  We'll have a lo     
[007]   night.  Eats, breathes, and dreams horses.  I can't  _____  her.  She's everything I don't like in a woman. She's     


	
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[001]   kind of toy.  In December, you often have to wait in  _____  outside the doors.  Tom Hanks danced in the toy store     
[002] ifficult to talk about them. As they say, 'It's a thin  _____  between love and hate'. Well, adultery is something      
[003] but they had a piece of string they used as a  fishing  _____ ,  and a machine to make salt water into drinking water 
[004]  's speech, he held up the Oscar and repeated a famous  _____  from the movie: "I'm king  of the world!" He later jok     
[005]   so radioactive.  There's no other answer.' The phone  _____  went dead.  Karen looked at Drew.  You and I are going     
[006] iver.'  Jenny lived on Hamilton Street.  It was a long  _____  of wooden houses with children playing in front of      
[007]    night the four eyewitnesses had picked him out of a  _____  up. Their description of the car matched the one drive


	
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[001] ulations than Brooklyn.  There are three big airports  _____  to the city.  Newark Airport is in New Jersey.  John F     
[002] ess money each year to some 'royals' who are not very  _____  relatives of the main royal family.  The difficult      
[003] she did not have the envelope.  She told the crowd to  _____  their eyes and think very hard about the winner.   
[004] losing, heavy footsteps.  But the door didn't open or  _____  and they found no one.  All the sound equipment in      
[005] s life.  His son was born seriously disabled.  He was  _____  to death.  Oe loved his baby, but part of him almost     
[006]     All that day the heat was terrible. The wind blew  _____  to the ground, lifting the white dust from the road      
[007] e ship were very frightened.  They didn't want to get  _____  enough to take photographs.  These giant squid are      


	
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[001]  five nominations for each Oscar.  This is given very  _____  in the morning - around 8:00 A.M. in New York.      
[002] he often played with them, and helped them with their  _____  lessons.  But it was important that they met other      
[003]  that night her daughter, Cathy, was born, two months  _____ .  That's the young lady you saw at Wuthering Heights,      
[004] outed Joseph, as he walked out. 'If he doesn't arrive  _____  in the morning, Heathcliff  will come for him!'  Heathc
[005]   you?' She was a tall, slim, attractive woman in her  _____  thirties.  'Delighted!' said Morse. They talked about      
[006]  ways says, 'Goodnight, Ellen. Sleep well and wake up  _____ !'  Oh dear, I sometimes think whatever would I do      
[007] or Best Picture or Best Director in 1988. Spielberg's  _____   movies were exciting.  But in the 1990s, he turned to     


	
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[001]    156 miles (231 kilometers) north of New York.  The  _____  and the rest of the state are like two different worl     
[002]  voice from the TV.  A woman is standing in a strange  _____ .  The buildings are round, like domes, and they arep     
[003]  Manhattan is the place where you can see most of the  _____ 's famous buildings and sights.  It has the Hudson Riv     
[004] ce a tall blonde woman stood in the crowd outside the  _____  Hall.  She was wearing blue shorts and a yellow shirt,     
[005] an inquest. Then he flew to Johannesburg, the largest  _____  in South Africa, using a false name, to catch the eve     
[006] ike Munich,' said the old man. 'Munich is a wonderful  _____ .  Museums, pictures, theatres, shops - you can find e     
[007] have always done. This area, in the north-west of the  _____ , between Walton Street and the canal, is called Jerich     


	
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[001]  the sad truth is that the demand for blood will only  _____  and become more urgent in the coming years, as the      
[002] ta to be collected on more aspects of our lives, and   _____  both its rapid retrievability and the likelihood of      
[003]  used the desert's most common resource, sunlight, to  _____  its greatest necessity, water. In other words, it tur     
[004] ot a monthly statement  it always said: Why don't you  _____  your credit limit? There ought to be a law to change 
[005] he manager believed.  True, there would be an initial  _____  in debt load, because the money to borrow the ships      
[006]     Islington-Haringey. In this area, crime is on the  _____ , as much as 15% yearly, sometimes involving the use      
[007]    spending restrictions mean they cannot finance the  _____  and schools will have to sack staff to pay the rest      


	
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[001] ill just happen.' 'No, Jack,' says Arindata.  'You can  _____  the future in some ways.  Your actions are very impor     
[002] but they continued to give awards.  The awards did not  _____  much for fifteen years, but they  became more and more     
[003] of the more serious side of her life.  Diana wanted to  _____  things in the world, and she helped many people      
[004] ames, wanting to make them more "American." They could  _____  money for US dollars.  Then they could begin their new 
[005]  eing outside all day, and had not bothered to wash or  _____  his clothes. His face and hands were black with dirt.     
[006] riously to the doctors.  "This  was the most important  _____  of my life," he said later.  "I  began to do something     
[007]   next few weeks, however, I noticed Cathy's behaviour  _____ . She was always writing on little pieces of paper,      


	
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[001]   our environment, or will we destroy our planet? Of  _____ , we don't know the answers yet.  But we must all thin     
[002]  fallen, the number of serious crimes is going up.  Of  _____ , tourists must be careful in a big city.  In New York     
[003] aid the old man.  'You have been in Germany before, of   _____ ?'  'Oh, no, this is the first time I have ever been      
[004]    Now the city is growing again.  Apartment Life:  Of  _____ , there are not many houses in Manhattan.  Most people     
[005] he felt very unhappy.  This  happens to many women, of  _____ , for a short time after they have babies.  But Diana      
[006]   gifted golfers were playing this most difficult golf  _____ .   It is almost axiomatic that golfers who dominate      
[007]   a passage through the noble trees it devoured in its  _____ , reached the borders of the lake.  At this point ther     


	
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[001]     The first hospitals were built along these roads to  _____  sick travellers.  It was a dangerous world, and you      
[002]    people in Africa have eye problems which doctors can  _____ .  The club is giving money for the doctors.       
[003] read and write.  We have better medicine, and computers  _____  us more in our work.  At the  end of 1999, scientists 
[004]    father,  and wanted to look after him.  She liked to  _____  in the house too, and to look after her animals.  She     
[005]      You've got to go. I've got nothing for you!'  'God  _____  us!' said Jo heavily. He pulled me to one side.  'Gone     
[006]   flowers in their hair.  New York was different.  With  _____  from artist Andy Warhol, a new ban, The Velvet Unde     
[007] times to kill herself.  She was probably crying out for  _____ .  Outside, she was still the perfect Princess of Wales 


	
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[001] good  place to stop, with fresh water and grass.  They  _____  sticks in the ground at the corners and along each sid     
[002] ped at a door and took a key out of her purse.  As she  _____  the key in the lock, he ran up to her.  Blushing redde     
[003]   rich man sometimes bought the land cheaply.  Then he  _____  up  another building.  And sometimes an owner started      
[004] an newspaper.  Some old men were horrible, but he . He  _____  down his newspaper. 'Do you speak German,  Mademoisel     
[005] s, don't .'  'What, mother?'  No, it was better not to  _____  ideas into the child's head.  'Nothing! Run along.'  I     
[006] he park's hills.  Half a million trees and plants were  _____  in the ground.  Paths and beautiful stone bridges wer     
[007]  years and completely changed the army.  The men were  _____  together in groups of eighty.  Six of these groups