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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]   colours.  There was a table with a telephone on it.   _____  to the telephone there were business cards from restau    
[002]  buggy ready for Marilla.  Marilla drove, and Anne sat  _____  to her.  "Is it a long way to White Sands?" asked Anne     
[003]   but I did and he didn't like that either.  "You were  _____  to the guy when he got shot," he said unpleasantly, a     
[004]  Sunday.  She wanted to take Anne with her.  But the  _____  Sunday, Marilla was sick.  "Can you go to church witho     
[005] chool." "Oh," said Anne.  Suddenly, she felt sad.  The  _____  morning at breakfast, Anne watched Matthew's face.       
[006]  buy their expensive clothes and jewelry there."  The  _____  day, Liz and Jim went to Fifth Avenue.  There, they sa     
[007]  just introduced me to her again. And when I saw her  _____ , I looked at her closely.  Marian was very tall, and     


	
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[001] at school in itself. I think it stems partly from my  _____  as a teacher. At school I was quite successful, I      
[002] clock. We don't like to say that, but based upon our  _____  in the past... we've had a bit too much trouble, so       
[003]  With gravity, life in space can be based on our  _____  on earth.  We can have farming and factories and hous     
[004]  side of the road.  At work one day, I had an amusing  _____ . I was approached by an American mother as she guided     
[005] can be with each other. Growing up was a very painful  _____   for her. She was embarrassed every time anybody look     
[006]  still, their great joy was their love. Most people  _____  love without noticing how remarkable it is, but Yury      
[007]  us as well as the general one. Now, people intend to   _____  a new life, not in books and pictures, not in theory,     


	
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[001]  so that we can communicate through time. We have a  _____  of past and future, not just present. We are the only     
[002]   a making notes for it.  This gives the book a strong  _____  of place.  Important storylines run through the book.      
[003]  much I want you.'  She cried in his arms and lost all  _____  of time and place.  When she could cry no more, he cle 
[004]  Jane Austen's books describe,  with a quiet but sharp  _____  of fun, a world she knew well:  middle-class families      
[005] to read some of Heston's  lines.  Not all of them made  _____  when they were read by a different actor. Actress Who     
[006]   I'd say that ninety per cent  of first aid is common  _____ , and only ten per cent is specialist knowledge.      
[007] g Pilgrim.  The horse looked  beautiful.  He seemed to  _____  that this was an important moment.  Tom rode him slow


	
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[001]   'What did she do?' Logan asked.  'She got into a  _____ .  And they drove away.' 'They?' asked  Logan.  'She wa     
[002] sn't the driver,' said Tommy.  'There was a man in the  _____  too.  He was the driver.' 'What about him?' asked Loga  
[003] restaurants, a hotel, taxi companies and a card from a  _____  rental company.  Kerr and Logan sat down.  Grant stood     
[004]  very quickly when  we  walked across the street.  The  _____  didn't stop and it hit my  mother, father and Joanne.      
[005]  She turned off the main road and stopped the  _____ .  She could feel Grace's eyes on her back, but she did     
[006] an old road, which nobody used any more. A long, black  _____  appeared on the road and  came slowly across the rough     
[007] always wanted me to be a lawyer, like him.  I rented a  _____  at Memphis airport and drove east to the rich part of


	
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[001]  by the sea about forty kilometres east of Edinburgh,  _____  the town of North Berwick.  'How did she die?' asked  
[002] late, my love," Silvia said.  Afonso walked to the bar  _____  his house and had a drink with his friends.  They were     
[003]   You decide.'  A  candle in the darkThe priest stood  _____  the door of the church with a candle in his hand.  Al     
[004]  old Mr.  Laurence.  You see him  sometimes - he lives  _____  here."  "Yes, but we don't know him!" Meg said.  "He      
[005]  "Let's go!" they said.  The Van Tassels' house wasn't  _____  the school, and Ichabod wanted to get there quickly.      
[006] he jumped off the top. I  knew then that the river was  _____ .  'This place is private,' Denys said. 'That man shoul     
[007]  perhaps.'  'You sit together,' he repeated. 'Are you  _____  enough to give her something?'  'Give her something?     


	
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[001]  The world of air travel has developed into a huge   _____ . The airports themselves are remarkable places: Paris     
[002]  and it is offering many  interesting  contracts. The  _____  it most wants to develop is tourism. China is trying      
[003]  is simply  more supply than there is demand in this   _____ . Even the Navy isn't buying any new ships nowadays. 
[004] have been such enormous advances in the communications  _____ ,  with mini and micro-computers, and, of course, now      
[005] hazards and polluted water. And people in the building  _____  said that the cost of having a disposal professional     
[006]  the lower Pocomoke. And he plugged the local seafood  _____ ,  which has been reporting sagging sales in the face      
[007] terviews with executives, and reviews of economic  and  _____  trends. Decisions are ultimately made in accordance


	
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[001]   parts of Africa, these aren't accidents. These are  _____  consequences of what we are talking about. And the      
[002]  either through reports on progress at school or  by  _____  correspondence. Our first aim is to provide a basic       
[003] earned, though we've been much more happy to leave the  _____  teaching of it to a later point in their lives than   
[004] see no signs of illness. Her look was still sharp and  _____ . We did not feel as comfortable as we had felt for th     
[005] the code for Rome, Italy please?  O:  Are you dialling  _____ ?  D: Yes. O: One moment. It's 010  396,  followed by      
[006]   It reflects sunlight on to smaller mirrors  that  _____  it into the ring, through shutters that fix the day      
[007] rollers lost part of the radar service that helps them  _____  arriving and departing flights. While the controllers      


	
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[001]  This museum has more than 100,000 works of modern  _____  from around the world.  There are paintings by famous     
[002] John D. Rockefeller, Jr.  The center has many works of  _____ .  In the 1950s, television companies and radio station     
[003] makers, an Oscar is a sign that they are making great  _____ .  After they have won an Oscar,  actors and actresses      
[004] got time to teach you about taking pictures.  It's an  _____ .  And I'm on holiday.' 'Oh, sure.  I didn't mean.  .      
[005]  studies at university.  She loved French and Italian  _____ .  But very soon she felt that she was talking too muc     
[006]   The Ushers were not like other people.  They loved  _____  and music.  They were very rich, and gave money away      
[007]   He wanted to build a  bridge that was "a work of  _____ .' But it was a long, hard job.  Around 600 men worked


	
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[001] was kind and good, but people were unkind to me.  The  _____  says that a person can defend himself.  Even if he      
[002] the US government finally passed a very important new  _____ .  Segregation in all US schools became illegal.     
[003] and higher.  In the end, the government had to pass a  _____ : buildings could have no more than five floors.       
[004] ence with peace.  Gandhi was born in India and studied  _____  in England.  In 1919 he started his first peaceful pr     
[005]  boat.  Why didn't it help?  Maybe it was breaking the  _____  by being in the area.  "Well boys, do your best!"     
[006]  in all their cities.  Slavery was not against the  _____  in European and North American countries until the      
[007]  fast, you'll tire yourself,' Yury told his father-in  _____ .  'Let's have a rest and a talk. We've cut a lot of       


	
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[001]   'You're right,' I said.  'There is something on my  _____ . .  It's this new Filbert Wiley story.  It's on my       
[002]  time.  It's a story about a game.  The game's on my  _____ .  I'm sorry I spoke  like  that a minute ago.' 'That's     
[003]  to be mine forever.  Then an evil idea came into my  _____ .  I thought: 'I can kill Julie and she'll be mine.       
[004] the dancing ghost.  The music continued to play in my  _____ .  The young men continued to watch nIl'  and to laugh     
[005]  her beauty. It was mainly, perhaps,  her quickness of  _____ . She seemed to know our thoughts  before we spoke them     
[006]  Mother thinks you might not be interested. Do you  _____  staying here?'  'Of course not; I replied. I remembere     
[007] things can be a birthday present. His mother  wouldn't  _____  that, I'm sure. When is your birthday, Leo?'  'It's...