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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] le the amount of fuel.   Because of the five-hour time  _____  between the USA and Britain, it is possible to travel      
[002]   between the two  countries? T: Obviously the biggest  _____  is the people.  The average Englishman is cold and not     
[003]  many bad things before, so one more  didn't make  any  _____ .  'I said that our waste products don't make the river     
[004] very evening?  But Sam Sylvester was worried about the  _____  between  the two schools.  He wanted Hawkwood  to be a     
[005]  man about the music.  All  these decisions made a big  _____  to her world.  There  are other worlds where the woman     
[006]   primary school:  'Smaller classes undoubtedly make a  _____ .  My little girl started school in a class of 32. When     
[007] gradual growth of the brain and of human language? The  _____  is  not  merely theoretical, because gradualism in evo  


	
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[001]  Many Romans died young.  When  people  were  asked to  _____  for the empire, they did.  At the games,  gladiators u     
[002]  Later, pairs of slaves were given swords and  had  to  _____  to the death.  Prisoners of war were killed in the sam     
[003] e.  Antony's  army  moved north but the armies did not  _____ .  Antony sailed to  Egypt  with his ships and fought O     
[004] ed it.  He liked  to  hurt slaves and watch gladiators  _____  and die.  Tiberius did  not  try to stop him.  When Ti     
[005]  there, and the  fighting  pairs were chosen.  After a  _____ , the winner was given gold  or  silver.  The losers co     
[006] e royal family.  And it was not the first or the  last  _____  in the family between love and duty.  Chapter 3  The Q     
[007] t stop trying when things seem  hopeless.  Some people  _____  terrible pain.  Some people  are  courageous in war an    


	
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[001] he show in 1995.  He  asked Tom Hanks to come onto the  _____ .  The actor had to  help with a dog trick! A lot of pe     
[002] , asked the band to play.  Some movie stars  danced on  _____ ! The person with the envelope Some actors  and actress     
[003] narrator the Narrator/Angel stands  at the side of the  _____ .  When he/she is talking to other  people, the Narrato     
[004] lot of names.  I'm so nervous! 8:00  P. M.  Behind the  _____ , I talk to reporters and television  people from aroun     
[005] sted the show six times.  One year, he  rode  onto the  _____  on a horse.  (He was in a cowboy movie that  year!) Th     
[006] th I.  At the start of the show, Whoopi came onto the   _____  in Queen's clothes.  She changed her clothes eleven  t     
[007] we finish playing. They send a  little girl up to  the  _____  with an armful of roses for the musicians - it's  wond     


	
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[001] tball.  The Olympic Games began in  Greece a long time  _____ .  The Games usually begin when a  runner brings in the     
[002]  world The first skyscraper was built around 100 years  _____ .  Before that, tall buildings were not possible.  Each     
[003] very old English family.  They became rich a long time  _____  as sheep farmers, and the  family goes back to King Ch     
[004] e  Princess of Wales, and we were students not so long  _____ .  It  was quite a surprise.' But not everything was pe     
[005] hese were  made by the Nazca people thousands of years  _____ .  Scientists have travelled to Peru to study these sha     
[006] earlier ?' 'I know,' he said.  'She died thirty  years  _____ .' Janey looked at him.  'You mean ...  she was ...  a      
[007] istmas for the past twenty years.  Why?' 'Twenty years  _____ , a seventeen-year-old boy fell through the ice and die  


	
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[001] ppeal.' The  following  are some sample questions from  _____  papers. 1. Write about  an  incident in which you had      
[002] n.  Nobody answered.  A doctor arrived and checked the  _____  again.  He  shook his head.  'Where were you last nig     
[003] r  answers the same as the first time? After this last  _____ ,  immigrants were free to go into the country.  Inform 
[004] told  us babies  can swim around in other places, like  _____  tubes. Other  scientists again have suggested to some      
[005] d play activities.' All  Wandsworth's  primary schools  _____  their new intake during a three- week  period  in the      
[006] ation.  He was a very busy man now.  All day he had to  _____  different  types of  paints, and make sure they were s     
[007] eople can't.  But this  is difficult for scientists to  _____ .  Do you believe in ESP? What  do you know about it? A   


	
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[001] d.  Fortunately, most reasonable people understand the  _____  and  give blood  regularly. But there are still people     
[002]  courage eventually to  bring to an end an intolerable  _____ . More specifically, the  woman's reasons are that she      
[003]   harder at a marriage, however, and so stopping a bad  _____  starting in the first place. But if the atmosphere is     
[004] erican). So he hired a group of engineers to study the  _____  and make recommendations for improvement. The  engine     
[005] he benefits and freedoms that might come with this new  _____  but  we also want to warn people now of the risks. LD:     
[006]   ways, this was useful.  She could change to suit the  _____ .  She loved her work, and she was good at it.  But  si     
[007] ess for  this  understanding of the different cultural  _____  in the  different continents.' It is pure Martini: it      


	
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[001] eed an  advertising campaign on  television and in the  _____ . I really  want to push this project. John, would  you     
[002] bledon, the tournament, the Wimbledon crowds,  and the  _____  reporters.  Doing nothing but sport is just too  narro     
[003] reporters may have  been goaded into attendance at the  _____  conference by one  of  Wolf's typically reproachful, g     
[004]  as his literary executor, I am now preparing for the   _____ . His first volume, Poems, published by the Fortune         
[005] e prices rise much more  than  expected, an Associated  _____  poll shows. More than half of  those  surveyed say the     
[006] g, and an accountant played  with the  giant hydraulic  _____  in the jewelry studio, making dies for  earrings and p     
[007] h century. Then  when Gutenberg developed his printing  _____ , the paper  explosion  really took off. Today paper is       


	
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[001] .  During the cold winters in Wisconsin,  she loves to  _____  movies.  Can you win an Oscar? How much do you  know a     
[002] d grew.  Now over 100 million people  around the world  _____  the awards.  Many see the show as it  happens.  Others     
[003] to Jerusalem on 1 January 2000,? they said.  'You can   _____  it on the Internet!' 'Christ will be born again in  Ca     
[004]  You can take  a boat out on a lake or you can sit and  _____  the wild animals  and birds.  The place is Central Par     
[005] famous Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.  Americans  can  _____  the parade on television all around the country.  Worl     
[006] k is also the home of MTV.  If  you are lucky, you can  _____  interviews with pop stars in their  Manhattan building
[007] t's better than the end of my life!'  He looked at his  _____ . 'I'm in a hurry, but my house is  very near. Let me g 


	
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[001] nother  war.  This was between states in the north and  _____  of the  country.  Soldiers from New York fought on the     
[002] Park.  Around 100 years ago, African-Americans in  the  _____  of the United States started to move to cities in the      
[003] summer  in 1997.  She visited her brother, Charles, in  _____  Africa.  She  spent her birthday there, and enjoyed a      
[004] tain Machu  Picchu in the Andes.  The old world of the  _____  American  Inca Indians will also come back to life at      
[005]  the heart of the city's financial area.  It is in the  _____  of the island, in lower Manhattan.  Visitors  can  tak     
[006] s of Corsica and Sardinia,  the west of Sicily and the  _____  of Spain.  The Carthaginians were good sailors, but  m     
[007] e Greenwich  Village.  SoHo got its name because it is  _____  of Houston  Street.  Many artists moved to SoHo, but t  


	
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[001] t  to do.  Life at home was changing again because her  _____   had a new wife.  Her name was Raine, and she was the      
[002] much wanted her children to live  with her.  But their  _____  was against the idea, and so they  stayed at Park Hous     
[003] t alone.  She was very sad  when her grandmother - her  _____ 's mother - died in 1972.  Her grandmother was a very k     
[004] t  to do.  Life at home was changing again because her  _____   had a new wife.  Her name was Raine, and she was the      
[005]  Edward, was the next in line to be king.  Elizabeth's  _____ , Albert, was only the second child, born in 1895.  Whe     
[006]  in Dublin in 1905. His background  was  academic, his  _____  being Professor of Anatomy and the  first  President o     
[007] .  She was nine when she acted  in Paper Moon with her  _____ , Ryan O'Neal.  Who has won the most  Oscars?  The answ