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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]   Heywood.'  Bligh stood very near them, but he didn't  _____  quietly.  All the sailors could hear him.   I'm the       
[002] boys are men, they have wives too .  .  .'  Do you all  _____  English?' Captain Pipon asked.  Yes, sir.  English and    
[003]   was white too.  He opened his mouth, but he couldn't  _____ .  He stood up, and carefully moved to the door.        
[004]     minute later she was in Alex's arms.  They did not  _____  for a long time.  Then they talked quietly about their     
[005]   could dance all night.  He was clever, too; he could  _____   five languages.  Will people remember him like that,      
[006]   I myself will teach  him.'  We need another voice to  _____  for him,' said Akela.  Silently, another animal jumped     
[007]    to the police station. Oliver was too frightened to  _____ .  'There is something in this boy's face that interest     
    


	
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[001]  I said quietly.  Let's go to the hospital and see the  _____ .'  Oh no!' cried Susan.  The hospital! Is Tim going      
[002]  die?'  No, no.  Tim's going to be all right.  But the  _____  must look at this cut on his head,' I said.  
[003]     I'm afraid she's ill very ill.'  Listen,' said the  _____ .   She had a bad hit on the head in the accident,     
[004]     It was funny really because my wife, Claire, was a  _____  herself, at one of the biggest hospitals in Washington     
[005]          and held out her hand towards the child.  The  _____  put the child in her arms. She pressed her cold  white     
[006] come from work and saw Ricky she had called the family  _____ . He had called an  ambulance immediately. Now they wer     
[007]  its face, and then fell back. 'She is dead,' said the  _____ .  'Yes, poor dear,' said the old woman, as she took    


	
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[001]       goes for long walks over the hills. She's a very  _____  person. Either she's making something, or mending      
[002]    This means a lot to me, because I've always been an  _____  type of person.  I: So the early mornings don't bothe     
[003]   same word - 'act,' 'actor,' 'actress,' or adjective ' _____ ,' adverb 'actively,' noun 'action'. That I think is   
[004]   created South Street Seaport in New York. It is more  _____  with commercial liners, container ships and brightly      
[005]             Most of the people I know who are sexually  _____  tend to be in steady relationships. One of my friends     
[006]      foreign policy? We are used to Britain playing an  _____  role in world affairs. The expression is often used      
[007]      remained remarkably energetic and mentally agile,  _____  in both garden and study. His wife, Joan, whom he     


	
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[024]            I know how much you love your daughter, and  _____  me, sir, I love her too.  You've been worried about   
[004] Anna smiled.  'Yes, Sarah,' she said quietly.  'Yes, I  _____  you.'  She went through the door and the man went      
[005]         It's not a very good story, you know.  I don't  _____  it, and I don't think the jury believes it,     
[023] 've always wanted to do that, you know.'  He could not  _____  how lucky he was.  He had a good job at last, a fine     
[010]  'I'm a fool. You said you liked it here, and I didn't  _____  you. But you meant what you said, didn't you?        
[015]   his body and my client hid it in my garage.  Can you  _____  it?  Right there, under my boat!' Mark smelled the air     


	
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[001]      and studied in New York and Paris.  When he was a  _____ , he wanted to design buildings.  But then, one day,      
[002] unhappy, too.  At the time of the plane crash, I was a  _____  at college.  I enjoyed the work and college life very      
[003]  Frome had not always been so quiet and lonely.   As a  _____  he had liked being among happy, friendly, young peoplw     
[004]         .  In my second year at University I met a new  _____  called  Glendinning.  He came from an old English fami    
[005]        'The exam papers are, of course, secret.  Every  _____  would like to see them before the exam, so we are      
[006]   his only friend.  That's because I knew him from our  _____  days. .  I knew him before he met Julie.  I knew him     
[007] in Chicago.  There he met Rachel, a fashionable  music  _____ .  Eighteen months later, he was back at his parents'     


	
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[001]      pleasures.  As the first morning light started to  _____ , I suggested a new evil amusement.  Then I noticed      
[002] in front of him, and at last saw the first thin clouds  _____ .  He pushed a button and spoke into the radio.       
[003]     we have simply not raised standards high enough. I  _____  to be more worried about standards than he is.'       
[004]   in the world of Lillian Hellman. Sometimes she would  _____  in several plays in one season. She also appeared on      
[005] lowers.  Stories about him and his adventures began to  _____  in the fourteenth century, but the facts behind the       
[006]   week, 'but  I'm sorry to have to say that he doesn't  _____  to be interested in either painting a picture of his      
[007]  over the national test results for 14-year-olds which  _____  to show that pupils were being marked far lower in   


	
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[001]     Mr Crewe, 'has some mines in northern India, and a  _____  ago his workers found diamonds there.  There are thou     
[002]    at our favourite restaurant?' she said.  During the  _____  of October 1974 Karen told nobody about her secret,       
[003]   come here to see you, sir.  I'm getting married next  _____ .  We're  both going to work during the summer.       
[004] erful voice!  'Well, it's only a short story, Lynn.  A  _____  later we decided to marry.  We planned to live in a      
[005]        at 311 colleges and universities published this  _____  in a Random House guidebook ranked the University of     
[006] For the last five years I had worked about 200 hours a  _____ .  That's eight hours every day for six days with two      
[007]    man and a woman are talking.  The woman holds a six- _____ -old baby boy in her arms.  She is excited, but she is      


	
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[001]  and scrape but get nothing.' Law  and  order is a big  _____ . 'Everyone is getting away with  everything,' complain     
[002] his  particular  educational policy. 'There is growing  _____  that some  ethnic  minority children will no longer ha     
[003] ntine  has an unsavory reputation. But perhaps of most  _____  for  Valentine and the Mets is that the pitcher and ma     
[004] ate of the 1997-98 crop surplus. Wheat prices rose on   _____  that El Nino, a climate change associated with  higher     
[005] nt but  this fall I will. I abandoned the sport out of  _____  about  wounding and losing deer. Too many folks in my      
[006] n society. But it is the  details which give cause for  _____ . Are there really no  moral  differences between contr     
[007]  the earlier ones,  they do not demean a life in which  _____  for the written word was paramount but never to the  e     


	
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[001]      have a car and more than 75 per cent of Americans  _____  to work.  They also use their car to go to                
[002]   was out of date. 'Did you know that it is illegal to  _____  a vehicle in this country without a seatbelt on      
[003]    It's the last house along this road.  But you can't  _____  there tonight, with this tree across the road.'      
[004]  was Juliet.  She got out and came up to us.  You must  _____  more carefully, Nick!' she said angrily.  You nearly  
[005] to borrow your car for an hour or two.'  I enjoyed the  _____  we had that evening. As we drove through the valley,      
[006]   these young women, and those in Birmingham, is their  _____  and determination. These girls are strong, mature and     
[007]  -C. I. O. training thousands of union organizers in a  _____  to reverse a quarter-century of declining membership       


	
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[001]                we saw a dark passage. We walked slowly  _____  the passage until we came to another door which opened     
[002]   sat down and went to sleep.  The two girls came back  _____  the corridor and looked into the carriage again.       
[003] it's OK,' he  said  quickly.  'You can get out of town  _____  the river.  Follow the back of the houses.  Nobody goe     
[004]   someone from the village.'  I felt afraid, but I ran  _____  the road very quickly.  'Help! Help!'  I called to the     
[005]  good look at me and then we'll be  friends. We'll get  _____  wonderfully.' And yet, Yury left the room feeling col     
[006]      for now he was too weak. And so the happy couple,  _____  with Lara's daughter, Katya, enjoyed a short time of  
[007]                Now  it is time for our breakfast. Come  _____ , Watson.'  As we left, Holmes turned to Gilchrist.