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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]  vote in American elections.  There are two important  _____  parties: the Republicans and the Democrats.       
[002] oner in your own home." Suu continued to organize her  _____  group from her prison home.  The army watched her      
[003] religion. We try to get fair and early trials for all  _____  prisoners, and we oppose the death penalty and tortur     
[004]  everyone knew the real situation. The army held the  _____  power in Rome, and the real ruler was whoever the arm     
[005] asleep - were about Moscow, about his work, about the  _____  situation and about Tonya and Sasha.  Yury woke up      
[006]  excited because it was so direct and honest. But no  _____  system can stay pure, and now we see things happening     
[007] refuses. This is not just an industrial strike. It is  _____ , because we are fighting for the right of the working  


	
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[001]  A few minutes later the plane was in the  _____ , the No Smoking sign had gone off, and sure enough,      
[002]  the roads won't be so crowded, and cars pollute the  _____  more than trains. One characteristic of people of the     
[003]  rushed forth and met the first line of Romans. The  _____  was filled with the sound of screaming as more arrows     
[004]   They came because they had smelled the smoke in the  _____ .  Fire meant there was something to be found and taken     
[005]  his arm and they talked together into the cold night  _____ .  "This is a pleasant fiction, she said, smiling at hi     
[006]  we didn't have any servants.  He also put in that  _____  vent on the wall between his room and this one.       
[007]  the deepest sea beds, and circled the earth in hot-  _____  balloons. Some of them have even left the earth and   


	
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[001]  over the next few years whether they want a union to  _____  them. From a pocketbook perspective, workers are       
[002]  Interpretation: Now read about what the dream images  _____  and try to analyse your answers. The house is your      
[003]   The people who believe in roads say that cars  _____  a personal choice to travel when and where you want.     
[004]  government.  A black woman like Condoleezza Rice can  _____  the American government in other countries and perhap     
[005] ingly, cases in which employees believe their offices  _____  a hostile  work  environment because of some form of      
[006]  of course, I'd like to go to the next Olympics and  _____  Great Britain, and of course I'd like to win a gold      
[007]  representatives of the unionist parties, who largely  _____  the Protestant majority, left open whether the two   


	
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[001]    to help us. Citizens and police officers must work  _____  to reduce the number of crimes! It is seriously wrong    
[002]   longer and he soon saw that they could all be happy  _____   and it was really quite a good plan. 'Perhaps in 'a y     
[003]  cardboard,' said Mr Carter. 'I tried to tie it back  _____   with bits of rope, but it just kept on breaking up'.      
[004]  Upon the Desert.  It was really two long stories put  _____   to make a book.  When it was finished, Agatha sent it    
[005] house he met Harriet again.'The family were going out  _____  that evening and they asked Robert to join them.      
[006]  for an old man and his daughter to look at the moon  _____ . Let us pretend that you are a loving daughter and I     
[007]    "Don't call me that," he said. 'We have to talk  _____  now.  Very simply, just as men. Can we do that?"       


	
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[001]  am very lazy! I don't do anything special at all to  _____  new vocabulary. But I read a lot. I always have an       
[002]  Nick.   You know everything now.  And it's better to  _____  it now, and not later.  50,000  dollars later.' A nice     
[003] oximo never missed training for the new boys. He could  _____  so much about them.  The more experienced gladiators      
[004]   Then Rhett decided that the time had come for her to  _____  to jump, and he built a low gate in the back garden.      
[005] ing that he suggested.  'Why not?' he said. 'You must  _____  how to use a gun. This one will hurt your hands a lit     
[006] telling secrets.  If you listen, it's not difficult to  _____  things.'  So was Jane a nicer person than Anne?'  
[007] the place as Proximo's School. It was not a place  to  _____  Latin, Greek, or mathematics. It was a school where       


	
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[001] ught for a while.  Yes, he had to know.  He lifted the  _____ .  There was no mistake.  The portrait had really chang     
[002]   'But look what I found,' Father said. He pulled a  _____  off a  tank of petrol. 'Some fool had left it in the      
[003] embered that the portrait was uncovered.  He turned to  _____  it, then stopped and stared in horror.  One of the ha     
[004]  The noise was loud and terrible, and Ethelred had to  _____  his ears." Again, I stopped reading.  I was sure that     
[005]  A moment later she came back and said: 'Now I must  _____  your knee.'  'But you've already done it!' I said.  '    
[006]  Lakes Erie, Ontario, Huron, Michigan, and Superior  _____  244,108 square kilometres ? more than any other group
[007] ng and I') and Ruben Blades  ('The Capeman'). CNN will  _____  the event.   Ask most writers what they like most abo


	
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[001]   At first he said nothing, but then he spoke.  His  _____   was very strange, but I listened to him carefully,      
[002]   'Thank you, doctor,' he said, in his strange low  _____ .  'But it's not important.  Everyone laughs at me.  I     
[003] his mouth open.  Then he spoke, in his strange, slow  _____ .  'How...  how do you do, Your Majesty,' he said.     
[004]  talked and talked.  He had a big red face and a loud  _____ .  He talked to Bill because Bill liked to talk too.       
[005]  She was a small woman with a tired face and a tired  _____ .  I don't want to sit down,' the little boy said.   
[006] My mouth opened, and stayed open.  I couldn't find my  _____ .  I was suddenly a very interesting person, and a lot     
[007]  quiet man.  He wore quiet clothes, and he had a quiet  _____ .  He did not like noisy people and loud voices.  


	
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[001] promise,' I said.  'It's a bicycle.' Bicycles are very  _____  now, and most children have one.  But in the year 190     
[002]  metal containers  was less expensive and quicker than  _____   traditional methods. There would be less damage and      
[003]  wanted to lie, but he said,  'Yes, sir.'  'kids' is a  _____  word for 'children', 'cop' is a                             
[004]                         word for 'children' 'cop' is a  _____   word for 'policeman'  'Well Mark, let's go and get      
[005]  if they're not, give artificial respiration. The most  _____   injuries in car accidents in fact are fractures and      
[006]  'He can't be,' cried Yury. 'What do you have  in  _____  with such a man?' 'I don't understand everything he      
[007] cident where generally we get it wrong, we follow our  _____  sense but it lets us down, and we do the wrong thing


	
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[001]  read a lot of books on science.  The most interesting  _____  to me was chemistry.  I was interested in the secrets     
[002]    But until then, I will say nothing more about this  _____ .' We returned to Geneva a week later.  Elizabeth welco     
[003] randparents.  Business is also changing fast.  Another  _____  in this book is British food.  Visitors to Britain do 
[004]  happier.  One day, he spoke to me about an important  _____ .  'My dear son, I have always hoped that you and  Eliz     
[005] her thought that I was still not well.  He changed the  _____   of our conversation.  He never spoke about Ireland ag     
[006]  had a very comfortable way of life that was often a  _____  of wonder among the Greeks. They had soft carpets on      
[007] imagining strange things.  But I returned to the same  _____  again and again.  He realized that it was not a dream      


	
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[001]   stepped out the door two minutes ago to go to work.  _____  I run out and try to catch  her? B: No, never mind.      
[002] never mind. When does she get back? A: At lunch time.  _____  I have her call you? B: I'll call her at work. What's      
[003]  Is there any coffee?'  It's cold now,' said Carol.  _____  I make you some more?'  Thank you, my dear,' he answer     
[004] ry well,' he said.   Would you like to sit  down? And   _____  I call a doctor? There's a doctor in this room here.     
[005] was not a pleasant laugh.  'All right,' he said. 'What  _____  I bring you back from England?  A ring? What kind do      
[006] ing to be our money!'  Sally smiled, happily.  'Colin,  _____  we get a new car? A  Mercedes, perhaps?'  Remember Mir     
[007] ely,' he said, and smiled.   You need some  friends.  _____  we meet in Cromer one day and have dinner?'  And so