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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]   and Yale in the east and Berkeley in California are  _____  America's famous universities.  Most Americans enjoy     
[002] in California after gold was found there in 1848, and  _____  them were 300,000 Chinese.  Many of the Chinese stayed
[003]                       As a student he had liked being  _____  happy, friendly, young people.  He had enjoyed his      
[004]              'Welcome to the conversation,' he said. ' _____  the topics we shall be covering this evening, if con     
[005]      the home of a different type of Native American.  _____  the people of the Southwest are the Hopi and the Zuni
[006]       But nursery or playgroup is just the beginning.  _____  the privately run classes available to toddlers of      
[007]       According to their peers, British diplomats are  _____  the best in the world. They work hard, they are well  


	
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[001]                        I have a lot of good friends. I  _____  my Mum and Dad very much, but I don't want to live at     
[002]  country appreciates theirs as we do ours.  We British  _____  our Queen, partly because she is so much like us,      
[003]                 As they say, 'It's a thin line between  _____  and hate'. Well, adultery is something you can actuall 
[004]     beautiful and valuable the cup, the more important  _____  is in your life. You are a romantic person.      
[005]       than most Bruneian girls, and the Sultan fell in  _____  with her. He married her, too, and now has two wives     
[006]    of the world is so tiny by comparison to yours! I'd  _____  to travel around with an orchestra, but unfortunately  
[007] never been to Poland, but we might go this summer. I'd  _____  to meet my Polish relatives.            


	
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[001]    usually rent a house and make it our base so we can  _____  to the kids each night. We're all vegetarian,      
[002]       went out and drove away in her car.  She did not  _____  home that night. On Saturday morning, a woman      
[003] accident and death, Ethan had to leave his studies and  _____   ome.  Life was hard for him, working alone      
[004]     here I am, looking for the North Pole.  I will not  _____  home until I succeed.  'You have  hope,' he said to me     
[005]  we spent the summer together happily and I decided to  _____  to Geneva at the end of the autumn.  I was ready to      
[006]       from my father before I decided on a date for my  _____ .  While we waited, Henry and I went on a holiday.    
[007]           say you found it in my bedroom.  Ask them to  _____  it to me if they find me.'  Three minutes later    


	
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[001]  most has been the huge speed and scale of change that  _____  beings are inflicting on the world. A powerful symbol     
[002]            What we're talking about is the survival of  _____  beings, of men, women and children. It is happening 
[003]    But first I had to understand death.  I studied the  _____  body.  I also studied dead bodies.       
[004]    too serious for me. You know, politics, literature,  _____  rights, things like that. Always walking around with     
[005]  few days only. All these are marvellous technical and  _____  achievements, but none of them involves living indep     
[006] But this monster is  stronger and more powerful than a  _____ .  We cannot follow him across glaciers and mountains.     
[007]   the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 and the United Nations  _____  Rights Prize in 1978. Each year we handle, on average   


	
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[001]                  Make them regret it! There's no valid  _____  for not giving blood.  Fortunately, most reasonable      
[002]      She must never be disturbed at this  time for any  _____ . She gets very unhappy if there is any disturbance      
[003]              How could  the project fail? What was the  _____ ? Whose fault was it? The answer was simple: the farm     
[004]       eyes were small and bright, and for some strange  _____  he had a newspaper in his hand.  John began to feel      
[005]           I must tell you, however, that I had another  _____  for sending him away. I was about to go home to Eng     
[006]       drink tea with us that evening, I'll have a good  _____  to refuse.'  I saw Miss Pole's expression change.       
[007]    see files kept about you. Even when you have strong  _____  to believe a file contains wrong information, you hav      


	
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[001]   are to educate the general public and to provide the   _____  that the mentally handicapped need. About one in  
[002]   there was no money for me.  There was nobody to take  _____  of me.  So Miss Minchin put me in the attic and said      
[003]      was publicly and privately provided for in health  _____ , even though he had no wish to re-open that debate      
[004]   But according to Penelope Leach, author of the child- _____  manual Baby and Child and more recently Children First     
[005] ucation and, where needed, food, clothing, and medical  _____ .  Over the years we have helped more than half a milli     
[006]      crisp breads to the United States because I don't  _____  for their bread very much. And I take biscuits because     
[007]  football fan,' says Phil.  'But in this game, I don't  _____  what the score is, even if it's 20-nil; I'm just happy     


	
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[001]       or adjective 'active,' adverb 'actively,' noun  ' _____ '. That I think is very useful - see, 'use,' 'useful,'     
[002]         hire new employees who could put the idea into  _____ .  The bank was prepared to support the plan, and agree     
[003] terribly important and you can save lives if the right  _____  is taken.  I'd say that ninety per cent of first aid      
[004] make a very different kind of movie - one with lots of  _____ .  He was interested in the true story of William Wall     
[005]   he stressed the duties of citizens and urged tougher  _____  on truancy and noisy neighbours. But his approach wa     
[006]   He produced a piece of hair to prove his story.  His  _____  caused some bitter arguments, and many people became      
[007]      that Biko would have called his book 'non-violent  _____ '.  After three months, Woods finished writing. Then he 


	
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[001]   SPORTS  A recent New Scientist article reported that  _____  five years most Western countries will be issuing      
[002]  a maniac, complete maniac. He seemed nice enough, but  _____  a few minutes he was driving at about a hundred miles     
[003]   these two activities in turn  for a couple of miles.  _____  a few weeks I could jog half way round Hampstead Hea     
[004]    in 1982 I realized that if I trained for it, it was  _____  my reach. After a slow, six- month build-up, I managed     
[005]       that technology has advanced so ar that soon, or  _____  a few years, many people could work at home instead of     
[006] the stereotypes of growing up female, learning to live  _____  those boundaries or reject them. For me, Jo denied       
[007] world. I think there might have been a kind of despair  _____  me there: that the world outside would be too much       


	
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[001]     have an English book in my bag. There are a lot of  _____  books, you know? Stories in easy English, they have      
[002]   I've already described the good games.  They're very  _____  and always fun.  I'm happy when I'm playing good game     
[003]     Agatha often sang to her father.  Their lives were  _____  and good.  'But I saw my face in a pool of water.       
[004]  your way in a moment or two.  But there are also less  _____ , more complex methods of paying, that take a bit more     
[005]    report to the manager, the psychologist suggested a  _____ , inexpensive, unusual, but powerful idea. The manage     
[006] explored; every reason for using it had been given, in  _____  language that the farmers could understand. The farme     
[007]  crime rate is going up in nearly all areas. This is a  _____  fact.  The police are doing their part to keep it down   


	
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[001]                All my friends' teeth are beautiful and  _____  but mine are a sort ofunhealthy yellow colour!     
[002]        can choose the kind of bread they want - brown,  _____ , or a roll - and then all sorts of salad and meat or     
[003] the other side of the hedge he saw a pond with a large  _____  duck swimming round and round on it. The tramp had     
[004]          The man was tall and thin, and had very short  _____  hair.  He walked quickly away down the street, and      
[005]      a host of others. An album of very fine black-and- _____  photographs of Cioran by Irmeli Jung, accompanied by      
[006]        has been a powerful grassroots force throughout  _____  rural America. It has flourished against a backdrop of     
[007] social historian, whose books are a record of the male  _____  middle-class generation to which - for better or,