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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] heep was chewing calmly, just like a normal sheep in a  _____   of grass. The neighbours, of course, never asked  if      
[002] vily  under a big orange tree at the end of the school  _____ , and  cried and cried. Tears poured down her face like     
[003] .  From this  time,  fewer people died on the football  _____ , but modern football  can still be dangerous.  Most fo     
[004] got there, we stopped for lunch.  We were sitting in a  _____  near the river, and we were just  going to  start eati     
[005]  in the sunlight.  One  afternoon we walked across the  _____  and  down the hill to the beach.  Susan ran in front o     
[006] he  author  is not the least bit embarrassed about the  _____  he works in.  'Comics are something that happen in the     
[007]  much I'd like to do, especially  in the  photographic  _____ , but I hate to leave the life I lead in the  country    


	
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[001]  they told him to go to a  shop and  buy a candle. The  _____  of the beds in these cheap  hotels was terrible.  Most     
[002] ollution'. Some of the experiments will  look into the  _____   of the local inhabitants, including the  Eskimo peopl     
[003]  only on the stage  at a concert. 'It is  in such good  _____  because it has been  kept in a special case,' said Yos     
[004] s a local ship, as old as the hills, and in very  bad   _____ . Her captain was a  German whose home  was in Australi     
[005] to  switch his  attention more confidently between the  _____  of the world around him and the state of his personal      
[006] y to learn from anyone who could help him  improve the  _____   of the farm. He had never forgotten that it was Flora     
[007] .  Penny had even more doctors than I had because her   _____  was worse  than mine, but  Ogilvie and Lumsden had  br   


	
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[001]  it a big mistake.  "It is ugly!" they said.  "It will  _____  down!" "It looks like the front of a ship!" But now t     
[002] im that the storm  wanted?  What would it be like, to   _____  into that cold water  and drown?  'Send the lifeboat o     
[003] cky, people will try to get on your bus  and they will  _____  off when you drive away.  It is very amusing  for the   
[004] ep only in this room or your bedroom.  You must  never  _____  asleep in any other room in the castle.  You will be       
[005]  love in her life  too - she would find her prince and  _____  in love.  She would  become the new Princess of Wales.     
[006]  waited. I was breathing fast, bones  aching from  the  _____ . Nothing  broken. Just another                             
[007] still did not enjoy family life.  He left again in the  _____  of  1925.  The next spring, Angele had another daughte             


	
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[001]  stay? Most  people took between two and five hours to  _____  through Ellis  Island.  In the station's early years,      
[002] ilt round open squares, so light and  fresh  air could  _____  into the house.  But houses could also be cold  in  wi     
[003] ear, he wanted to join the foreign office, but  didn't  _____  the  exams. He went back home, and was living with his     
[004] higher and higher.  In the end, the  government had to  _____  a law: buildings could have no more  than  five floors     
[005] itting alone at the old man's  bedside. Time seemed to  _____  slowly in the quiet, dark  room. But suddenly he reali     
[006] planet,  of course, but it's their only hope. You must  _____  on this  message, and tell them what to do.'  But no o     
[007] g about all  over the place like this. You must have a  _____ , so we know  who is coming and going".'  Woods smiled,   


	
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[001] sually ate at home.  They  only went out for a meal at  _____  times, like for somebody's  birthday.  But today, many  
[002]  is  another great period of time.  There is something  _____  and  important about the number 1,000.  There were man     
[003]  about  King and the civil rights campaign.  They have  _____   classes on African-American history.  They prepare pl     
[004] ment made a  new law.  Indians could only live in some  _____  areas.  More  laws made these areas smaller and smalle     
[005] sily.  Sometimes people went on religious  journeys to  _____  places.  The first hospitals were built  along  these      
[006] ,' Morris Townsend replied.  But I fear that I have no  _____  talents.'  You are too modest,' said the Doctor. I kno     
[007] spends  more  than half her time helping children with  _____  needs. The  school has pounds 1,576 to spend per child     


	
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[001] n to live  with her.  But their father was against the  _____ , and so they  stayed at Park House with him.  Other wo     
[002]  rule together.  But  the young king did not like this  _____ , so Ptolemy and Caesar  went to war.  Ptolemy attacked     
[003] on.  The church and the  government didn't welcome the  _____ .  It was an important  ceremony - it mustn't become pu     
[004] s that did not destroy the rainforest.  Then he had an  _____  that worked: People must stop cutting  or burning the      
[005] he building. I thought about this problem, had a  good  _____ , went to bed, and slept for two hours.  I got up at fo     
[006] l asleep about 4am,' he says.  Although he has a rough  _____  of where he wants to go before  he  starts writing, he     
[007]   recruitment problems in their area. The consortium's  _____  to  recruit French nationals to their schools received      


	
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[001] w minutes nobody  said anything, while Silas tried to   _____  his breathing. Then the landlord spoke.  What do you w     
[002] ow to turn off the  pull of gravity, and once you can   _____  gravity, you can move anything heavy, even houses,  th     
[003] oses all the time.' He seemed calmer  now, and more in  _____  of himself.  On Earth,' he went on, we spend our whole     
[004] ly.  Hastings took a deep breath and got himself under  _____   again. He began to speak with icy  calmness, and his      
[005] in 1945 the city was in ruins and the Communists took   _____ . In 1956 the people tried to free themselves. They pul     
[006] ,  and the  ceiling were all black. I couldn't see any  _____  or  instruments, but  there was a central column going     
[007] etly, waiting to be free.  Helen Sandberg stood by the  _____  room window, staring  at the plane.  'Come on,' she sa   


	
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[001] are clogged with mud, so  it then floods, so then  the  _____  area is under water, people lose their farm  land and      
[002] ld  be for you to make a nice vegetarian meal for your  _____  family,  instead  of waiting for your mother to do it    
[003]  friends or  girlfriends, so they give their sport the  _____  of their life.  But they're so young that they can los     
[004] ked tomatoes fried, vegetarian  sausages, cereals  and  _____  wheat bread. During the bread strike  Paul baked the m     
[005] ad to go to the  Royal Ballet School in London for the  _____  day, and this morning  we got a  letter saying that sh     
[006] an  roads - it's a law of nature. How long  before the  _____  system  breaks down? By 2010, the number of cars on th     
[007]  million people. One out of  every  five people in the  _____  world is Chinese. It's the third  largest country,  sm   


	
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[001] English people do and say ?  the things that make them  _____  from other Europeans.  In  this book you will learn ma     
[002] er is going on  tour.  A tour is a trip to a number of  _____  places, usually  other countries, where the team plays     
[003] nd Luke  needs me.  Please!  I'm sorry, but things are  _____   now. When you left me, it was the end of the world fo     
[004] rmain, thought of one way of doing this.  He  made two  _____  groups of tickets for games.  He sold one  group in th     
[005]  everybody was an alien so I did not think I was very   _____  or unusual.  Then I came to England and learned that       
[006] s.   What is amusing in a  four-year-old may seem very  _____  in a teenager. And as Ben  himself gains awareness of      
[007] nd be good at technology and I may prefer  music.  Our  _____  aptitudes are reflected in the way we divide the  curr   


	
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[001] id.  For me?' I said.   Who are they from?'  There's a  _____  here.' He gave me a piece of paper, smiled,  and left      
[002] iece of paper, smiled,  and left the room.  I read the  _____  quickly.  Dear Catherine, you are my true love.  You a     
[003] police station in Farnham,' he said.  He wrote a short  _____ .  'Williamson and Carruthers, carry Woodley into the h     
[004] never she thought about Mr Dobson with his  five-pound  _____ , she said, she felt so  dishonest! She was sure the ba     
[005]  he's gone to  Brighton for the weekend.  I'll leave a  _____  asking him to see me as soon as he returns.  Meanwhile     
[006]  'And now we'll send for the police.  Peter, take this  _____  to the  police station in Farnham,' he said.  He wrote     
[007] what  happened. But now I had a better idea. I wrote a  _____  to  thank the young man for his help, opened my window