Marsha Chan's Vocabulary Quiz Home

Quiz 026

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?

almost better big boy enough include nothing president read yet
Click words for Dictionary
   1. 
 
   

[001] Shall I say something to her about that case? No, not  _____ .  I want her to like me.' There were also two America     
[002] ready writing postcards.  And we haven't gone anywhere  _____ ' There was also a very beautiful woman with short dark     
[003] day, not a school trip for girls who haven't grown up  _____ .' Helen looked at Angela again.  Perhaps she should s  
[004]  Mrs Dashwood laughed.  'And I'm not ready to die  _____ !' 'Well, perhaps he's not ready to die.  But at his ag     
[005] walked slowly, using her stick.  She was not confident  _____  on her new false leg.  People stopped in the street      
[006]  sudden alarm. He was not ready to confess everything  _____ . Well, sir,' he said, trying to  speak carelessly, it      
[007]   Here she is, nearly fifteen, still at school and not  _____  ready for marriage. What kind of girl is that?'       


	
   2. 
 
   
[001]  I don't need very much sleep.  Four hours a night is  _____  for anyone.  Now, Helen, where did you learn to speak  
[002]  terrible promise! Days passed.  I did not feel brave  _____  to start my work.  I was afraid of the monster's reve
[003] lt too sick to do it myself.  My  arms were not strong  _____ .  I rested my head in my hands.  Just yesterday, Eliza
[004]   'Why can't you take it to  Athens?' 'I haven't got  _____  room for it in my case.  It's a present for a friend
[005] n't find the tickets.'  'Helen, this really isn't good  _____ .' Vic was smiling.  He was enjoying himself.  She was     
[006] orses to ride and poor old Rimrock here is not getting  _____  exercise.  Would you ride him? He's very quiet.'      
[007] 'We had four winners last week,' I said.  'Isn't  that  _____  for you?'  'But if Victor...'  I said, 'I'll ride as         


	
   3. 
 
   

[001] for freedom from foreign rule. Back home, King wanted  _____  Eisenhower to help the blacks in the South.  But the       
[002] ore than 600,000 Americans died.  After the North won,  _____  Abraham Lincoln ended slavery.       
[003]  was a famous politician, campaigning for the job of  _____  of the US.  Coretta was grateful to JFK and accepted      
[004]  House last week released documents showing that Vice  _____  Al Gore made roughly double the number of fund-raising     
[005]  he had missed.  The dancing had ended early. Then the  _____  introduced  the captain of the starship, who, he said     
[006]  his successor,  Biljana Plavsic, the Bosnian Serb  _____ . That operation in Banja Luka, and Thursday's seizure     
[007]  was one of America's greatest leaders.  He was not a  _____ ,  but his birthday is a national day in the US.   


	
   4. 
 
   
[001]   behaviour; some make a greater effort than others to  _____  information supplied by parents. For some schools or      
[002]  more specialist Master of European Business. Options  _____  courses in areas such as comparative accounting, Eur
[003]  Elizabeth, 'your idea of an  accomplished woman must  _____  a great many qualities.'  'Yes, a great many.'     
[004]  'Please write your personal details here. You can  _____  the names of all the children, if they are under eight     
[005]  care,' said Sir Wilfred. In fact, I have decided to  _____  it in the book I am writing on the criminal mind.     
[006] child's needs.  Your reasons for wanting a school may  _____  social or psychological reasons for staying in the    
[007] and the year before. He plays well, too, and we had to  _____  him.  Miss Marian will be angry with me, but it wasn't     


	
   5. 
 
   
[001]  the evening she slept under a tree.  There her baby  _____  was born.  'I am going to die,' she thought.  'I am ve  
[002] was around horses.  His parents often found the small  _____  asleep in the stables with them.  His father and grand     
[003]  I thought.  'Why doesn't he play? He's like a little  _____ .  Perhaps he want  to change the rules.  He's playing     
[004]   down, I could not believe it.  He was a good looking  _____ , all those years ago.  His face was thin but handsome     
[005] of a businessman from Geneva.  He was a very clever  _____  and he read a lot of adventure stories.  I was extreme     
[006] They just thought that I was lazy!  'Why, you lazy  _____ , you,' they used to say. 'Get up and do some work for     
[007] the horse. 'We're all getting  older, aren't we, old  _____ ? We can't go on forever. Everything ends, doesn't it,      


	
   6. 
 
   

[001]  find a garage.  But the bus is OK now - I  hope! It's  _____  midnight and we still haven't arrived in Athens.       
[002]  trees.  There was  a  silence and calm that you could  _____  touch; no bird or animal spoke.  Into this silence cam     
[003] the conversation was just between him and Grace.  Tom  _____  never spoke to her about Grace; when he did,it was       
[004] flew back to New York.  For days the girl did and said  _____  nothing.  But when the horses arrived that August morn     
[005]  intelligent look that she noticed  once before.  Mary  _____  looked like a different person.  There was also a phot 
[006] imply, 'That I love you.' Then he smiled in a way that  _____  broke her heart.  'That's all.'  She put her cup down      
[007] came well known for The Raven and Other Poems.  He was  _____  always poor, though, and he was not often happy.  Poe


	
   7. 
 
   

[001]  are important questions for Sherlock Holmes.  People  _____  Sherlock Holmes stories and books in many different la 
[002]  the Greek exam paper arrived in my office.  I had to  _____  it carefully for the last time, because there can be      
[003] ot up and went to my bedroom.  I sat in my own bed and  _____  a book with the light on.  In my dream, I pulled the      
[004] But I don't know anything about his books.  I haven't  _____  any of them.  In  fact, I haven't seen his books in an     
[005]   She switched on the small light above her bed and   _____  the letter again. Dear Ms Davies, Thank you for coming     
[006] .  I've written everything in pencil and it's hard to  _____ .  If Louis wants to publish these papers, he'll have      
[007]   It is a most extraordinary thing, but every time I  _____  about an illness, I realize that I have it too  - and


	
   8. 
 
   

[001]  'Your servant isn't here now.  Perhaps he's feeling  _____ .  Which chair did he sit on?' 'The chair by the window     
[002]  accident.  Annie wants to help her daughter to get  _____ .  She also wants to save the horse's life.  In Annie's     
[003]  excellent friend to travel with.  My health was much  _____  now.  The blue sky and lovely green fields made me      
[004]  they never disagreed about the ranch.  Frank was a  _____  businessman and knew much more about cattle than his      
[005] or a moment, and then I said slowly, 'I think you had   _____   tell me all about this.  Who shot Mark?'  He hesitate     
[006]   For two days I slept and waited to feel  _____ . On  Wednesday Samantha  asked me, 'Who hit  you?'    
[007]  The woman was surprised, then smiled. 'You'd  _____  come  in,' she  said. 'I'm Samantha  Bergen.'           


	
   9. 
 
   

[001]  but he did not listen to her.  One day there was a  _____  fight between the great men and knights in the country     
[002] King Arthur,' he thought.  So he put Excalibur under a  _____  stone, and went back to the King.  He said, 'I did it     
[003] I went to the window and saw a large woman in a  _____  hat.  She looked up at us.  'Is she coming?' I said.       
[004]  You're in your study all day.  You're alone in this  _____  house.  Then at night you sleep and the next day you'r     
[005]  Six billion of them, packed on to land which isn't  _____  enough to hold them all. Already they're crowding over     
[006]  there remained the mystery and wonder of a world as  _____  as Africa, and still almost completely unknown. Just a     
[007]   People have always argued about the universe - how  _____  it is, where it ends, whether it ends at all,  or goes         


	
   10. 
 
   

[001] ncelot's son.' Sir Lancelot smiled at his son but said  _____ .  King Arthur made Galahad a knight and they all sat      
[002]  many years they looked for the Grail but they found  _____ .  Other knights also left and looked for the Grail.   
[003]   My life was in Julie's hands.  Without her I was  _____ .  I didn't want to meet the world, so Julie brought t     
[004]   switched the light on and off a number of times, but  _____   happened.  So I went to sleep.  The next night I made     
[005] ifted the things out. He was disappointed.  'These are  _____  - just rubbish.'  'Mmm.' I picked up a piece of dear      
[006] died, I was alone.  I shut myself in my house.  I did  _____   except work.  At first, I wrote my books because I      
[007] chair.  His face was white.  'The - the police can do  _____  to me!' he said.  'You're right.  But I'm sorry about