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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] t's  been dark and cloudy - a real winter's day.  I'll  _____   today for a long time.  During the day, while writing     
[002]  My story has been  on my mind all day.  I've tried to  _____  every detail.  I've  tried to tell you every detail.       
[004] oldy' and he didn't want to tell me anything.  Do you   _____ ? In his book he says there was a knocking sound  from      
[005] liam's imagination.  In one of these stories (I can't   _____  the title) Filbert Wiley is a prisoner in a haunted  h     
[006]  Wiley is a prisoner in a haunted  house.  Perhaps you  _____  the story.  I thought of it when  I  read this book.       
[007] room was quite dark.  It was very cold in the room, I   _____  - but other parts of the house were warm.  I began  to  
[009] t's very warm in here,' said Dr Greenway. 'Now do  you  _____  seeing the big black car?' 'Yes,' said Ricky  quietl


	
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[006]  answer this letter if it is painful.  My  uncle  will  _____  me news of your health, and we will meet soon.  I  hop     
[009] .  He stopped at the island of Elba.  We  are going to  _____  a letter to an officer of the government.  We  will wr     
[011] uestion the men who threw me  into the sea.  They will  _____  boats of soldiers to find the  escaped prisoner.  Ever     
[007] s about Pilgrim,' she said slowly.  'I think we should  _____  him back.  Back to Kentucky, where you got him from.'     
[010] d the governor is asleep.  Tomorrow,  perhaps, he will  _____  you to another place.  There is bread  and water and s     
[006] up a stick. 'You want to get help? You would  like  to  _____  for the police perhaps? We will soon stop that.' He  h     
[012] p Mark Sway in custody for the weekend.  Tonight we'll  _____  papers to call Mark to New Orleans. The  courts are cl     


	
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[002] s later as the book Frankenstein.  The book  was a big  _____  for the young writer.  People were very  surprised tha     
[002] ways his father, King Philip, was responsible for his   _____ .  When Philip became king of Macedonia, he threw all h 
[003]   eyes open.  He breathed and moved his arms and legs.  _____ ! The  body was moving.  After years of work, here was      
[006]   The world's most  expensive movie became the biggest  _____ .  It earned over $1 ,600,000,000! Work on  Cameron's T     
[008] out the  United States.  Many English stars looked for  _____   across  the Atlantic before the Beatles, but failed.      
[007] ack.  Some people  tried to find the ship, but without  _____ .  in 1985, Robert Ballard and Jean Jarry were looking      
[001] They continued to search for the two men, but without   _____ . The next day Mr Giles was sent to all the inns in the 


	
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[005] nding  bay, the seafood industry is no longer the sole  _____  of the  economy.    It was just a hole bored beneath a     
[003]  thief of the 19th century, could  have  furnished the  _____  of a great novel. No need though: In 'The  Napoleon of     
[004]  uncertainties of operating [in China] on a day-to-day  _____  are very, very high,' said Denis Simon, head of  the       
[006] er harassment, abuse and  discrimination on a personal  _____  -also are delighted by the  memorial. They see it as a     
[010] n  maybe we  have done something . . .' So what is the  _____  for the  authority  claimed by religious leaders in an     
[011] ike Michael Portillo, agonise publicly about the moral  _____   for  their politics, they tend to end up by stressing     
[012]  view, and has shown that genetics has a  mathematical  _____ .  He's been able to show  what genetic  arrangements a  


	
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[006] omething.' Hope  shone from Annie's eyes.  'Now wait a  _____ .  I said perhaps.  But I need to know  something first   
[005] ter's evil hands  were on her neck.  I looked up for a  _____ .  The window was  open, and the yellow light of the mo     
[001] in  the shadow of death, but I'm still alive.  At this  _____  I'm in  my  study and I'm writing this story.  It's on     
[002]  00 p. m.  but I'm  very  tired.  I didn't sleep for a  _____  last night.  The shadow didn't hurt me.  When the morn     
[004] ster.  I  hated thinking about the job.  I hated every  _____  that I spent  on it.  But I had to continue.  After a      
[008] rs  from  Europe canceled trips to Mombasa at the last  _____ . A  charter  jet from Italy, for instance, landed in M     
[011] y was covered  by a great storm cloud.  In less than a  _____  the storm reached us, and in less than two minutes  th 


	
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[004] st, my father has given me  permission to study at the  _____  here.' For the first time  in  many months, I felt hap     
[002]  spent the last evening with us.  He could not come to  _____  with me, because his father  wanted his son to work wi     
[003] cellent teacher and I met the  other scientists at the  _____ .  I worked on experiments in  the laboratory all the t 
[009] omsgrove, England, in 1950.  He studied law at Oxford   _____ , and then he began writing for a newspaper in  Newcast     
[001] ge of seventeen, my parents decided to send me to the   _____  of Ingoldstadt.  But before I left, a terrible thing       
[010] the surprise of his family, Tom then decided to go to   _____  in Chicago.  There he met Rachel, a fashionable  music     
[011] bout many things.  Poe studied for a short time at the  _____  of Virginia.  But  he had to leave school because Alla 


	
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[002] heir lives sweeping the palace's  enormous floors. The  _____  cost of the palace was $400 million.  But when the  Su     
[010] mpanies he regulated as Secretary of  Agriculture. The  _____  value of the gifts was small, under $40,000, but the     
[006] y adds  them up and gives you a bill for  the sum, the  _____  amount you owe. But you  don't simply pay up and leave     
[003]  begin to recover from the war. Since  war's  end, the  _____  economic output in the Muslim-Croat Federation has d     
[003] g wife number two? No one asks her  that. The Sultan's  _____  wealth is more than $25 billion. He a businessman as      
[004]  or more appreciated.   This year we are looking for a  _____  sum of over �7 million -  please give generously.
[001] ountry was getting very  nervous.  In the year 1960, a  _____  of 70,000 African-American students demonstrated.       


	
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[003] the next day. Every student's work is reviewed twice a  _____  by the school principal,  and if the work is not satis     
[004]  have  their examinations at the beginning of the next  _____ ;  therefore, they have to  revise right through the ho     
[001]  when she was only seven.  She lived  there during the  _____ , and came home in the holidays.  In  1974 she went on      
[002] ps and  containers would be borrowed.  But in the long  _____  they would reduce the  losses of recent  years. it was     
[004] on Statistics released the latest  version of its long- _____  trend assessment: analyses of tests  in  science, math     
[002] . Lyons, 55, who  is  in the third year of a five-year  _____ , has faced mounting  criticism over allegations that h     
[012] d pressed a subordinate to alter a  document. A  three- _____  congressman before becoming agriculture  secretary,  E 


	
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[004] In  shallow  water, this will be worse.  The  sea will  _____  by more  than fifteen metres.  The highest place on Ca     
[005]  the money-managing professionals. If  interest  rates  _____ , the value of those bonds fall. They may then need  to       
[006] short term, just as they buy stocks hoping prices will  _____  before they need to cash in. All  this is prelude to m     
[007] mbition, ability and education,  individuals can still  _____  far and fast.'  'There's a lot at stake for African-Am    
[009]  of reducing  teen-age smoking unless cigarette prices  _____  much more than  expected, an Associated Press poll sho     
[008] es tribunal on genocide charges.  Indeed, she owed her  _____  in the governing Serb Democratic  Party  to Dr. Karadz     
[004] nse high rises at the center, less dense and less high  _____  at the edges. Our own city, Los Angeles, looks like     


	
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[011] Officer: Welcome to Britain,  Mr Brown. May I know the  _____  of your visit? Traveller: I'm a doctor, and  I'll be       
[001]  through her working life,  she was driven by a single  _____  - to show them that they were wrong.  When Grace was b  
[006] eaver was the Canadian forest.  And  so he found a new  _____  in life. He decided to fight for the beaver and Grey O
[008]   children,  and asks them to show they understand the  _____  of  reading and  writing, and technical terms such as      
[009] ch.  They shouted happily when Rustin spoke  about the  _____  of the march.  They wanted no more  segregation in sch     
[002] e the game.  The  Liverpool players decided to lose on  _____ .  Then the  players all put bets on Manchester to win.     
[008]   rude.  After two weeks, you will not feel bad if, on  _____ , you stand o  the foot of somebody you do not like as