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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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[002] redit cards, and she  uses all of them right up to the  _____  every month. Fortunately, her husband is loaded! 
[003]  was limited because of thick fog. The normal speed  _____  on motorways is 70  miles per hour under normal condit  
[004]   it always said: Why don't you increase your credit  _____ ? There ought to be a aw to change these things
[001] 911, it has had the right under New York State law to  _____  water pollution. But for decades the main goal of city 
[008] would be lowered when circumstances allowed. The legal  _____  was revoked in 1959.  During the Eighties, declining      
[007] Rab Butler's 1944 Education Act imposed a  _____  on class size of 40 in primary schools and 30 in seco     
[010]   Sweden has just abandoned its national  _____  so that class size can be decided locally.    


	
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[001] hecked, all the time.  It's a  big river, and we only  _____  a few hundred litres of the waste products a day.  A     
[002]  that produced music and films.  The Beatles began to  _____  other musicians.  Paul was most interested in Apple's     
[004] Much later, in the 1860s, English printers started to  _____  thousands of cards.  By 1880, the Post Office was ask     
[005] is even more serious than in the areas that actually  _____  the pollution'. Some of the experiments will look int     
[002] rket. The company also has processing operations that  _____  bakery goods and fresh entrees, some of which Harry's     
[005] he child, teachers will be tempted to do things which  _____  a good score for  the  school in terms of value added.     
[010]   here. Ursula thinks that every weekend we ought to   _____  some really useful work. We welcome busy people to ouR 


	
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[005]  said  Marilla.  Anne washed her hair.  But the green  _____  didn't go away.  "Oh, Marilla," she said.  "What shall     
[014] more awards.  They gave different technical awards to  _____  movies and to black-and-white  movies.  This only ende     
[004] loset and got the bottle.  The cordial was a dark red  _____ .  Anne wasn't thirsty, but Diana drank a  big glass of     
[011] s  in the city are called "brownstones" because of the  _____  of the local stone.  Apartments can be very expensive     
[001] beautiful white flowers," said the  girl.  "I love the  _____  white.  I'd like a beautiful white dress.  I never ha     
[015]  serious.  He made a movie of Alice Walker's book The  _____  Purple.  Whoopi Goldberg  and  Oprah Winfrey were in      
[002]  But one thing makes me sad.  Look at my hair. .  What  _____  is  it?" "Isn't it red?" asked Matthew.  "Yes," said  


	
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[019]   A lot of people came in, and she saw a man and his  _____ .  'Perhaps they're Hassan's father and  mother,' Anna     
[004] them, but somebody saw them last year.  A man and his  _____ .  They were very unhappy about  it.  But what can I do     
[006]  room Jan put the red flowers on the bed and took  his  _____ 's hands.  Oh, my love, are you all right?' he said.       
[021]  one of the chambermaids went to see Mrs Taylor, the  _____  of the hotel manager.  Mrs Neele looks like the woman 
[008]   But you went away,' Pavel said angrily.   Your  _____  died, and you left the country.  You went away      
[011] on on her back, and the guards shot him too.  Your  _____ , and your son, are dead.  Your friends' came and told     
[015] are in the house.'  'But his children are with his  _____ 's sister.  We know that,' Felix  said.  'So ...'      


	
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[001] olicemen came into our carriage, a tall thin one and a  _____  fat one.  They looked at everybody carefully...      
[002] to this country,' the fat policeman said.  He had very  _____  grey hair and little black eyes.  He didn't smile once     
[003] 'Help me to find her.  Help me.' Winter came, with its  _____ , dark days, and the attic rooms were very cold.  There     
[004] Sara was taller now, and her old black dress was very  _____ .  Her shoes were old, and she had no warm coat for the     
[008]   The housekeeper was a little woman with  _____  hair.  She went up the stairs, and my mother and I      
[014]   maybe only a few hundred of them.  We only live a  _____  time, like birds, you know.'  'Yes, I see,' I said.     
[005]  eleven years older than Agatha, and sometimes wrote  _____  stories for magazines like Vanity Fair.  I don't think    


	
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[001]  direct correspondence. Our first aim is to provide a  _____  education and, where needed, food, clothing, and medic
[002] faced with a crisis. So, you know, why not learn about  _____  first aid? I: Dr. Clarke, thank you very much.
[001] ely, the  government did not keep its promises to give  _____  rights to all Russians, and a growing number of people
[008] Apart from my academic work, I've picked up some  _____  skills. The first year it was wierd trying to work a 
[011]  She claims overcrowded classrooms and shortage of  _____  course materials at Luton University, Bedfordshire, 
[017] esperate for a shower.  The tour bus is unbelievably  _____ ; forget air conditioning, half the windows don't even     
[003] t in science may be asking a student to describe the  _____  principle of wave motion or the relationship between   

	
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[001]  He borrowed Causton's notebook and began to  _____  pictures to show them.  'Higher up, the warm wet air     
[003]    She could read and tell stories, sing and  _____  pictures.  I couldn't.  I was small, fat and stupid.      
[005]  new shapes.  They are so perfect - too difficult to  _____  on paper.  How can someone make these beautiful shape     
[002] Yes, Lisa said.  'You like travelling, so I'd like to  _____  another chart for you.  This will be a map of the worl     
[007] rean visitor around the office; another time I had to  _____  maps and illustrations for a new museum guide book,      
[013] 1843.  Cole asked John Calcott Horsely, a painter, to  _____  a Christmas card.  Then it was printed.  The words on      
[002]  of free-lancers and staff artists who occasionally  _____  cartoons. In some respects, editorial cartoons have     


	
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[006]   a lot of people in the shop, and he waited quietly  _____  them.  People looked at him, and a man went out quick     
[008]  hour away, and  Felix found Adam in a quiet street  _____  the house.  They sat in Adam's car and talked.  
[010]   'Goodbye, Chief.'  He went out and closed the door  _____  him, for the last  time.  The trees were a hundred met     
[014] of a hotel.  She waited, and then she heard a car  _____  the hotel.  The car doors opened and closed.  She wait     
[020] y name,  I went through a big  door and saw the judge  _____  a table.  Judge Bromley was rich and important, but       
[023]   This was Mr Ross's office and he was  sitting  _____  a desk.  I was surprised.  He was a young man, about      
[021]  she looked very tired.  Yes, of course,' said the man  _____  the hotel desk.  There's a nice room on the first floo 

	
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[001] Hey, Jan, look at this! Carol said.  She had a  _____  in her hand and took it across to her husband at the   
[004]  yellow.  Pavel opened it and began to  read.  The  _____  was in Czech, and it was his grandmother's  writing.      
[008]  little letters back to him.  One day a very exciting  _____  arrived.  Everybody in the school talked about it for     
[009] irst day in the Indian gentleman's house, Sara wrote a  _____  to her, and Ermengarde carried the         
[012]   He read Agatha's novel carefully and wrote her a  _____ .  Some of your writing is very good, so I am sending      
[015]  Agatha wrote to Reggie Lucy.  It was a difficult  _____  to write, but Reggie wrote a very kind                    
[020]  the island.  He does all his work by telephone and  _____  and computer.  He invests money in companies 


	
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[001] but sometimes they come out and drive up and down the  _____  for a time.  So you must be careful, and  ou must       
[002]  there and go fifty metres.  When you come to the  _____ , go across it quickly and run down the hill through      
[003] the trees the woman turns right and soon she is at the  _____ .  She does not see the black car under the trees,      
[004] quiet again.  The woman's body lies in the snow on the  _____ .  Now the only sound is the crying of the baby.  
[015] atched him.  Then Alex began to walk quickly along the  _____ .  He stayed near the houses and looked behind him a     
[024]   was followed by a small green bicycle, ready for the  _____ .  A green bicycle! It was a lovely thought, but there      
[025] here would be a birthday cake too.  We had reached the  _____  to the village. A boy on a red bicycle was coming tow