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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]  years, and your doctor for fifteen years.  Elwyn,  _____  to  remember.'  'You say you're a doctor,' I said.  H     
[002]   he's young - only twenty.  Don't change him.  Don't  _____  to influence him.  Your clever words are very amusing     
[003]  are not here at two o'clock, he  will die.  If you  _____  to help him, you will die too.'  'Jesus,' Carl said      
[004] , all the men stood up.  Miss  Ray did not have to  _____  very hard to find work in the theatre.  After two year     
[005]   and just afraid of hard work.  'You can do it if you  _____ ,' she told them.  She went with the boys to the first      
[006]  arrange a meeting place.  We thought it was best to  _____  and persuade him to go to the Italian police and expla     
[007]  morning.  The room felt cold and she got into bed to  _____  to keep warm.  She was tired but her mind was still      


	
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[001]  or by direct correspondence. Our first aim is to   _____  a basic  education and, where needed, food, clothing,      
[002] could always order it in cafes, but they were unable to  _____  us with any. We could only get that powdered coffee      
[003]    suggested three alternative solutions: either to  _____  more lifts of the same type, or to replace the existin     
[004] ne Way to explore. The  clear, clean  lakes and rivers  _____  some of the most wonderful trout and salmon fishing      
[005] a good meal.  Hotels, inns, guesthouses and farmhouses  _____  a wide choice of accommodation. And 'Bed and Breakfast 
[006]  Our aims are to educate the general public and  to  _____  the care that the mentally handicapped need. About o     
[007] grateful to all our wonderful life-saving friends who  _____  us with the blood  we need. According to last year's      


	
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[001] land this  morning.  They will never come back to this  _____ .'  'What?' cried Holmes, his face white and angry.       
[002]  here  for one or two hours.  The  Government of this  _____  has two of our brothers in a prison near this airport.     
[003]  feeling excited and keen to find  out all about a new  _____ : the busy, colourful streets of wooden buildings; the     
[004] stepfather, Dr Grimesby Roylott, near a village in the  _____ .  His family was once very rich, but they had no money     
[005]  back at lunch time.  We then went by train into the  _____ ,  and took a taxi to Dr Roylott's house.  'You see,'      
[006]  wheel and drove quickly across the road and down a  _____  lane. There was a loud sound of a horn and flashing       
[007] girl in a village.  A very beautiful girl, an honest,   _____  girl.  She loved me, and was ready to come away with     


	
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[001]  me my bill,' I said to the man behind the desk, 'and   _____  down  my suitcase in half an hour.' That afternoon I      
[002]   I'm a little tired of it all now.  Go and  _____  my wife  Marian in now.  But, oh, Doctor,' I said with 
[003]  She turned towards them.  'Yes.  Colonel Carter,   _____  your men here, immediately.  Meet me in ten minutes      
[004]  Send the car in fifteen minutes, then.  And  _____  me some coffee!  Goodbye.'  She put the phone down an     
[005] two small  planes.  'These are for  my sons.  I always  _____  something back for them.'  'How old are your sons?'      
[006] it and the other states.  Fishing and hunting used to  _____  money to Alaska, and gold was found there too.       
[007] mpany in Bangkok, her mother and father allowed her to  _____  one thing to  remind her of home. Hu chose to              


	
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[001] and she followed me to the  front  door.  She did this  _____  day.  She took from my coat a hair which was not the     
[002]  Cornopolis, Kansas.'  He was reading a newspaper, but  _____  few minutes he looked up from it, to talk to me.  I      
[003]  a very short skirt and she was sitting on a swing.   _____  night in the theatre she went high in the air on her  
[004]  do we hear the alarm now?  More and more often.  And  _____  time we hear it, we know  that someone is in danger.'     
[005]  their jobs.  The story will be on the front page of  _____  newspaper.'  Karen looked unhappy.  'Will it? We only     
[006]  Mr Duncan, and of 'I'm  writing a full page article  _____  week on the environment.'  course, Christine and I won     
[007]  not angry, Very carefully, he had questioned Hu  for  _____  detail of her problems with Mr Stanyer. Like a good       


	
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[001]  There are twelve tables in the room, six  on  each  _____ .  Bogle himself sits at the desk by the door and takes     
[002] to Julia's.  The rooms all have  windows on the garden  _____  of the house, and doors which open into  the corridor     
[003] the accident.  The  small  white car was found on  its  _____  by the bridge.  A river ran underneath the road there     
[004] id the car come off the road? Why was it on the wrong   _____  of  the road? Why was it so far from the road?       
[005] inside a big glass box.  There were holes in the  _____  of the box - just big enough for hands.  Everyone look 
[006]  him a dream  a picture of life with Mattie at his  _____ .  He wanted to load the wood quickly and then drive it     
[007]  story is coming  out already. You need to tell your  _____  of the story.' Hu covered her face with her hands and     


	
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[001]  and I was very worried.  "No, they'll laugh at me.   _____ 's just forget about it," he replied.  'Three days later     
[002]  Dorian doesn't know  about my feelings.  And I  can't  _____  people see the portrait, because it shows what's in       
[003] plied.  'Yes, but I'd prefer to come with you.  Please  _____  me,' said Dorian.  'I  want to listen to you  talking     
[004]  For the first time he put his arm around Mattie.  She  _____  it stay  there, and they walked up to the farmhouse.       
[005]  and he cried out:  You can't go, Matt! I'll never  _____  you go!'  Go...  go?' she whispered.   Must I go?     
[006]  to answer it. He wanted some peace and quiet. So he  _____  it fall into the toilet. The phone continued to ring      
[007] Sean Payne was always in trouble. Once he  _____  out the air of the tyres on the principal's car.    


	
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[001] put it carefully on the  large, expensive table in the  _____  of the room. He had five  or  six red sticks around      
[002]  really looks dead." They pushed the boat out into the  _____  of the river, and ran to the bridge.  The river was      
[003]  television.  Patrizia Reggiani Marintelli was at the  _____  of the trial.  She was Maurizio's wife from 1976 to      
[004]  up by two big towers that stood  in the river.  The  _____  part of the bridge was for walkers.  The parts on the     
[005] two even taller  skyscrapers, those of the World Trade  _____ , because on  11 September 2001 two planes flew into      
[006]  also visit Walt Disney World  and the Kennedy Space  _____ .  Florida has the Everglades, an area which is not      
[007]   during a single evening in 1984 at the National Arts  _____  in Ottawa. Although Mr. Vickers's performance is typci     


	
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[001]  Miss Ray suddenly left the theatre and went to  _____  in the country.  And seventeen minutes after Miss D'A     
[002]   A month later we decided to  marry.  We planned to  _____  in a little house near the church, with lots of flow     
[003]  was falling on the sandbanks where the seals used to  _____ .  Soon it would be falling on the  town.  John Duncan     
[004]  said Harmon.   But  Fromes don't die young.  Ethan'll  _____  to a hundred, probably.'  He looks like a dead man alr     
[005]  all thought he wanted to  die. He had nothing left to  _____  for.'  Problems at home:  I'm not sure how I walked bac     
[006]  Joseph,  had a  brother, my uncle Elias, who went to  _____  in America when he was young.  He made a lot of money     
[007] ith your parents?'  'No, my parents are very old. They  _____  alone. . .' He looked as if he was going to say some     


	
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[001]  more unwieldy than I had anticipated. Sure, the main  _____  was only 3.3  pounds, but throw in two spare batteries     
[002]  whether a majority of the workers in the  bargaining  _____  want union representation. Before an election is held     
[003] ,000 Mercedes-Benz and a $22,000 time-share vacation  _____ .  And the lead man left standing in all this turmoil     
[004]  for combat in the Seals, the Navy's elite commando  _____ .  She becomes the target both of a sadistic male instr     
[005] The Giants are a team with no fingerprints, a faceless  _____  of interchangeable parts, none of which worked too we     
[006]  also agreed to sell the assets of its Outlook Foods  _____  to the S&J Food Management Corp for undisclosed terms     
[007]  housing. His own early contributions in the policy  _____  included 'popular capitalism' - more home ownership