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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] eave the library until closing time.  So I was able to  _____  the book for a good long time.  I got an A in my exam     
[002] but half the students who finish high school go on to  _____  for another two or four years.  Harvard and Yale in      
[003] Harvard is full of all kinds of different people. You  _____  together, you have fun together.  But afterwards you      
[004] school, and been intelligent enough to get a place to  _____  modern languages at one of the famous Oxford college     
[005] books and papers.  His mother had let him use it as a  _____ -room when he first returned to the farm after his fath   
[006]  The figure disappeared. But on the carpet of the  _____  lay a rope.  For a long time nobody spoke. The sweat      
[007]   from the Weather Office, and I'm doing a special  _____  on hurricanes.'  'What's the latest news on Mabel?'      


	
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[001] one day there will be another.  But 800,000 Americans  _____  living in San  Francisco because life there is fun.       
[002]  to help her,' Wyatt said sadly.  They moved on to  _____  their search.  Dawson saw another group of Favel's men      
[003]   Grace was crying at his side.  'He had to choose; to  _____  fighting life or to accept it.'  'You didn't let him      
[004]  hated every minute that I spent  on it.  But I had to  _____ .  After a few months in London, we were invited to vis     
[005]   'Just OK.  OK?'  'OK , but you should always  _____  your music.'  'Of course I will.  I'm going to study      
[006] the same William Wilson of my school days! But let me  _____  with my story.  Until now I had felt afraid of Wilson   
[007] you're so clever,' said Flora. 'Quite amazing. If you  _____  like this, the farm will make lots of money.'  'Aye,      
 


	
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[001]  was Archie's idea.  Mother is finding it difficult to  _____  all the bills at Ash field,'  Agatha told him.  Why do     
[002] other publisher,' he told her.   A publisher who will  _____  you more than The Bodley Head.  You're a good detectiv     
[003] the family in a big house.  Interesting work and good  _____  for the right person.  Phone Greta Ross.  Telephone nu     
[004] ospital, but I don't get much for that.  And I have to  _____  half of it to someone to look after my kids while I'm     
[005] unhelpful.  'It costs  $100 for  half an hour, and you  _____  before we talk,' he told me.  When I gave him the $100   
[006]  lots of different ways of cooking it.  With Jenny's  _____  from school, and our money from our summer work and       
[007]   Suddenly she stopped.  'Are you rich enough to  _____  for a taxi?' she asked.  'Of course.  Where do you wan     
     


	
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[001] the journey home Max decided to ask her an important   _____ .  And when they were back in England, he asked Agatha     
[002]  with you,' the tall policeman said.  I began to ask a  _____ , but policemen never like questions from young men      
[003]  tomorrow with his father, and a judge is going to   _____  them.'  The guard comes back and begins to open the do     
[004] David Wilson suddenly stood up.  'That is a terrible  _____ !' he shouted into the silence.  'You  can't ask a man     
[005]   He did not speak. He did not move.  I repeated my  _____  more loudly, but he still did not  nswer. Then I bec     
[006] I wondered if it was time to let the police  _____  everyone  The answer to everything lay in Boom Boom's     
[007] .  But she couldn't find a good answer to Karen's   _____ .  A week later, when the workers had to vote for the n     


	
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[001]  the two young  people didn't stop talking.  The young  _____  sat down and said in a quieter voice:  Carl, you're my     
[002] wn and be quiet,' their mother said.  She was a  small  _____  with a tired face  and a tired voice.  I don't want to     
[003]  sir.  Here,' Mr Stewart answered.   She's a Tahitian   _____ .  Her name is Peggy , Mrs Peggy  Stewart.  And we have     
[004] ld man had  given him some good advice. 'Never blame a  _____  for  something that happened in the past,' he had said     
[005] at your sister -  she's the same age, and she's a real  _____ . You could  marry her off tomorrow! That Aku-nna will      
[006] ing of Bee as he fell asleep. She was a  lovely, kind   _____  and he loved her for her warm friendliness.  Brat was      
[007] awski's  secretary, will help you.'  Janet was a quiet  _____  aged about fifty, wearing a simple  dress and  no make     


	
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[001] and your wife, and that American - you have money and  _____  and you take it from my people, from us! Do you know      
[002] completely destroyed.  After that, I never forgot the   _____  of the lightning.  I was very interested in electricit     
[003]  I was very interested in electricity, and in the   _____  that exists in all natural things.  I wanted to learn      
[004]  me were wonderful.  I loved  their mystery, and the  _____  of nature made me less afraid.  I  crossed the river      
[005]  that he had deep feelings.  I, his creator, had the   _____  to give him happiness.  'Do you promise that you will   
[006]  here!' Earlier  kings and queens like these had great  _____ .  They could start wars, make laws, and do things in      
[007] rows the food, gets rid of the waste, and provides the  _____ ?'  'The machines do all that, of course,' she said.      


	
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[001]  interest in it now because Marian would soon be a  _____  of the family.  Marcus had told me that she would be      
[002] continued. 'It'll take a day or two for me to become a  _____   of the human race again!'  'Mm,' said Stephen, e     
[003]  and said,  'I thought you said this man was a good  _____  of your department. I don't think I can agree.'  'I'm      
[004]   Afterwards I spoke to Peter Michaelis, who was the  _____  of my team with the job of protecting her. He found      
[005]  incident, when  someone wrongly identified him as a  _____  of the gang and reported their car, registered in      
[006]  He went to Oxford in 1950, and in 1957 he became a  _____  of Parliament for the Labour Party. He has been an MP     
[007]  Briggs, Walters discovered that Anne had been a  _____  for six months.  She hardly ever missed their regular     


	
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[001] ducts delivered to your house without being absolutely  _____  you are getting what you pay for. Do not sign any pape     
[002]  when they're talking. Again, English  people like a  _____  distance. That's the truth. I:  What about your impres     
[003]  as guilty as if I had committed a murder. They  were  _____  to put us away. What was the least number of years       
[004]  of simply paying for your books, you take them to a  _____  sales assistant, and waitin a queue with several other     
[005]  had been hired. Everything had been done to make  _____  that the project would succeed. However, in the end      
[006] I've often asked, but nobody could tell me for  _____ .'  She found it hard to explain. The general feeling      
[007]  and by seven o'clock most of them were up, and, to a  _____  extent, working.  Reuben, of course, had a lot to do      
   

	
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[001]  One cold night in November, I saw the first  _____  of my hard work.  The body of the man in front of me 
[002]  touch the pump without paying cash in advance. The  _____  was that after a very brief improvement, the rest of      
[003]   I learned how bodies are made.  And  what was the  _____  of all my experiments? I discovered the secret of life     
[004]  in prison.  He was famous around the world.  As a  _____  of his peaceful protests, India won its freedom in 19     
[005]  then helped the people who were  ow  homeless.  As a  _____  of the fire, he made new rules for building.  Fires      
[006] versation with Elizabeth produced exactly the opposite  _____  to what she had intended.  'It taught me to hope,' Dar     
[007]   regularly.  However, Heathcliff's visits produced a  _____  which none of us had expected. Isabella, Mr Edgar's      


	
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[001]  years old, smiled at Edwards.  Good morning, sir!  My  _____  is Peter Heywood, I'm a young officer from the Bount     
[002]   'Thank  you very much,' he said.  The old woman's  _____  was Marta.  Her house was very small, but she put so     
[003]  out to him,  'Where are you going?'  Alex said the  _____  of his home town, and the driver said,  'Come on.  I'm     
[004]  said.  She smiled.   And you're twenty-three, your  _____ 's Tom Walsh, you've got blue eyes, and your mum lives     
[005]  at his father.   Who is this man?' he asked.  His  _____  is Pavel Brychta,' answered his father.   Please bring     
[006]   through the front office, greeting several people by  _____ .  Suddenly, we heard a terrible crash.  I felt the      
[007]   . Because of so many, many things - how can I  _____  them all? Because of the way you look at me, because