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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] eir team is good in every way, but this is not always   _____ .  People want to make money.  There are always some  p     
[002] s more important than  that!' In this book you'll read  _____  stories about football from  around the world.  You'll     
[003] people knew the real person.  Who was he? What is the   _____  story of Grey Owl? Vicky Shipton is from Michigan, in      
[004] ltic  now  play at a new stadium.  But if the story is  _____ , there is still one  player who comes to the old pitch     
[005]  &  see our  photos.  They'll prove what I'm saying is  _____ . But I'm warning you -  they'll make you jealous! It w     
[006] case  upon.  Many  of us find it difficult to know our  _____  feelings, our emotions,  and  it can be even more diff  
[007] on did the right thing in ordering the recall.  That's  _____  even though no one knew whether that much meat  was in

	
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[001] t  success.  But they needed a new organization with a  _____   leader to continue the boycott.  All of the black lea     
[002] making a new life for  herself when she died.  She was  _____  and healthy now.  She  loved her two young sons and he     
[003] l game'.  But it is also a crazy game.  It brings out   _____  feelings in both players and fans.  'Some people think     
[004]  The other children at Ana's new school  were tall and  _____ .  But Ana's body was changing.  She  stopped growing t     
[005] to be uncomfortable.  They think  that this makes them  _____ .  Only weak people from Europe  live in comfortable, p     
[006] NCC in 1961 as a  Freedom Rider.  He spoke with clear,  _____  words.  "Black  is  beautiful," he told America.  His      
[007] iterature were all important.  The English  nation was  _____ ; its powerful navy won the war at sea with  Spain.  Qu      


	
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[001] amous.  She also helped the band's look.  One day, she  _____  Stu's hair.  At first, the others in the band laughed     
[002] modern world.  We should protect them.  We  should not  _____  down all of our forests.  More and more people  think      
[003] ef climbed on to the roof of a  building in Oxford and  _____  a hole in it.  Then he climbed down  through the hole      
[004] ies.  But Diana got worse, not better.  She  sometimes  _____   herself with a knife, and tried several more  times t     
[005] saw  that the  empire was too large.  So he decided to  _____  it in two, on a  north-south line between Italy and mo     
[006] up the Student Loans Company. Last year,  grants  were  _____  by ten per cent - the first stage in a 30 per cent  re     
[007] an three  months yesterday on fears that El Nino would  _____  overseas  crop  production and on the expectation that 


	
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[001] ter the accident, even if you do not intend to  make a  _____   for repairs. If the accident happens when their offic     
[002] n it. The question  is: do you agree with Mrs Morgan's  _____  that she should  not take part in the draw, or should      
[003] settle all of Europe. Not quite as catchy as Clinton's  _____   that enlargement will 'erase the artificial line in E     
[004] en as much for the intellectual and motor  skills they  _____  to teach as for the warmth of the carers. But  nursery     
[005] hich  was launched about five years ago. Together they  _____  a  total  membership of 3 million. Their first platfor     
[006]  round her neck. Two years later, a couple  arrived to  _____  her, bearing the other half of the coin.  Nothing  mor     
[007] on than  an academic judgement. It would be foolish to  _____  that even  now  all former polytechnics are entirely e    


	
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[001] is  business.  And a lot of people were jealous of her  _____ ,  so  it was dangerous to leave the office.  She rente     
[002] ilgrim never took his  eyes  off Grace.  Even from her  _____  on the outside, Annie knew that  something was wrong.      
[003] ed like a giant computer to make predictions  from the  _____  of the sun, moon and stars? This is the  most popular      
[004] s action.  Who is brave enough to put  himself in that  _____ ?" "The thief is a government minister,  Minister D--.      
[005] them  out. India is trying to move into a more central  _____  and its  people prize education above all else. The As     
[006] rs would soon lead to an  improvement in the company's  _____ , the manager believed.  True, there would  be an initi     
[007] w  ideas.  How did four boys from Liverpool reach this  _____ ?  What was so special about the Beatles? And why did i       


	
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[001]  low noise.  He looked up quickly at the mountainside   _____  him - but he was too late.  Large pieces of rock were      
[002] lock.  He lived and  slept on a narrow wooden platform  _____  a busy road for  weeks before the Millennium.  Every h     
[003] hem.  Some  roads  were  as high as a metre and a half  _____  the land.  For many  hundreds of years, the roads work     
[004] 1984, a 'ball of light' flew  through a Russian plane,  _____  the frightened passengers.  It  then broke into two pa     
[005] an and  became officers as a result of hard work.  But  _____  them  were  men from rich families.  They were often y     
[006] s presidents, or goes to the moon. There is one  thing  _____   all that makes people and animals different. People l     
[007]   with a sore throat, cold, and fever - three degrees   _____  normal  body temperature. This winter, however, I'm no   


	
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[001] I want to leave.  Then you can work in an office.  My   _____  has a job for you.   But...  This is boring! One day,      
[002]   morning when you are still trying to sleep.  If your  _____  brings  you a cup of tea and you wake from your sweete 
[003] tly frightened.  A few seconds  later  I looked for my  _____  but I couldn't see him anywhere.  At last  I  saw that     
[004] is book.  "Do you think that I can write?" he  asked a  _____ , sitting at a fire one night.  In fact, Archie wrote       
[005] . We were at the airport waiting for the  plane and a   _____   of mine who lived near the airport had come to see us     
[006] ing an important lesson-how to  change an enemy into a  _____ .  After this, King was voted  class president.  He was     
[007] eel like it. Now I tell everyone that I  have a girl-   _____  in France, but I don't think they believe me. What  sh     


	
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[001] enly there was a sound inside the house.  They heard a  _____  on the stairs and saw light under the  door.  Then the     
[002] n the wild  mountains was too dangerous.  Each painful  _____  took him  closer to help.  But the walk was very long
[003] dbye to his friends and his country.  It  was  a brave  _____  toward an unknown future.  But Matthew was a  strong m     
[004] .  "I am going to do it," he told  himself.  "Just one  _____  at a time..." Aron started walking.  He  had to reach      
[005]  a success of it. The leader had  guided them at every  _____ .  The size of the first season's crop  proved the hybr     
[006] I went back to the flat.  Jenny was sitting on the top  _____ .  I was too tired to cry, too  glad to speak.  'I forg     
[007] A college degree is wonderful, but it is only a single  _____   along a journey of lifelong learning,' said Edward Si    


	
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[001] writing the movie Titanic,  he wanted to show the rich  _____  of the ship and its many  true stories.  He soon becam     
[002] and listen to live music.  American Museum of  Natural  _____  This is the largest natural                                
[003] . C.  and gave  one  of the most famous speeches in US  _____ .  This protest  march was the largest demonstration in     
[004] s.  She has also written about calendars, horoscopes.   _____ , Russian art and many other subjects.  Cherry often  v     
[005]  going to happen in the future.  From the beginning of  _____ , people have tried to count time  from the movements o     
[006] t out into  the  streets.  They wanted to be a part of  _____  as it happened.  Other people preferred to stay quietl     
[007] oo.  Often they want to learn  more about their family  _____ .  More and more of Ellis  Island's old information is    


	
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[001] s father's records from  the US.  At school, he sat in  _____  drawing pictures of guitars.  When he did get his guit     
[002] r  me. I don't understand them, but the others in the   _____  know what the teacher  is talking about. I'm starting      
[003] my head for enrolling in this  weeklong surface design  _____ . Sure, I had tie-dyed some T-  shirts  in the '70s (ha     
[004] her is in sales and marketing, took a summer  biology   _____  to lighten his course load during the year and make  r     
[005] e an enemy into a friend.  After this, King was voted   _____  president.  He was growing from an angry boy to a  for     
[006] ants arrived by boat.  On some boats first and second   _____  passengers were checked and let into the city.  The  o     
[007]           became stronger.  As time passed, a  middle   _____  grew out of the lower classes.  They did not rule like