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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]  for example, the  exploding lavatory, or the kangaroo  _____  in Soho. 'Most of the  key exploits were based on fact     
[002] d  example. The concept of loyal patriots called on to  _____  some  vast alien force has a long history. It brought      
[003] l-equipped troops  to distant places, whether it be to  _____  wars, keep peace,  provide training or do humanitarian     
[004]  militias, fearful that their  real purpose is less to  _____  Islamic 'terrorism' than to repress  the Berber Cultur     
[005]  of its most loyal Algerian supporters, men who would   _____   the FLN guerrillas and whose fate, often as not, was      
[006] biguities of the market economy, on the legacy of the   _____   against Nazism, on European monetary union and the ne     
[007] her parents who have been through the appeal process.   _____   every step of the way and try not to get disheartened     
[008]  he was lying on his  back in the road. Then a general  _____  started, until the  policeman got hold of me. I heard      
[009] was needed, he alone, he felt sure, would know how to   _____  the  wind and the seas. And  as the other boys  talked     
[010] acefully.  Not many men are prepared to continue their  _____  to the  end, when  they find themselves  losing to a m     
[011] d of our love, our trust, our  sadness, our guilt, our  _____  against the darkness.  I won't tell you much more abou     
[012] ed, nothing could touch  him since he had survived his  _____  with evil.  All was silent, all was still in this lost     


	
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[001] ham  something about overseas students in Britain at a  _____   conference. He answered briefly, then shot off into a     
[002] a bit of ajoke.  When it was published, by the Olympia  _____  in Paris, as  part of  a pornographic series, Gainor w     
[003]  Girodias. (Donleavy is now proprietor of the Olympia   _____ .) While his tenacity and stubborn belief in The Ginger     
[004] n and the Aryan Man', due out at end of 1995  from AK   _____ . The Independent COMMENT 13    Article 27  -----------     
[005] his own  Selected Poems  was published by New Writers'  _____  in 1971; a Brian Coffey  Special Issue of the Irish Un     
[006]  as his literary executor, I am now preparing for the   _____ . His first volume, Poems, published by the Fortune         
[007]   . His first volume, Poems, published by the Fortune   _____  in  1939, reflects his fascination with alliteration a     
[008]  original works. This was the gift of  the  Commercial  _____  of Taiwan. Sadly, only relatively minor  support  for      
[009] ical scientist, an honorary  associate of the Rational  _____  Association, an active  socialist  and a devout Anglic     
[010] sked me if I was on drugs. GARY PULSIFER, publisher's   _____   officer: Dame Barbara Cartland turned down my request     
[011] time of his death he had an  article on Poussin in the  _____ . In retirement Humphrey  Whitfield  remained remarkabl     
[012]  at the Greyhound (1931) had  been  one of the Hogarth  _____ 's biggest sellers. Walter Brierley's  Means Test Man (     


	
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[001] r  observation,  others combine it with a standardised  _____ ; some confine the                                          
[002]                                    ; some confine the   _____   toreading, writing and maths, while others also asses     
[003] d play activities.' All  Wandsworth's  primary schools  _____  their new intake during a three- week  period  in the      
[004]  during a three- week  period  in the autumn term. The  _____  consists of two parts: a  'checklist', compiled by the     
[005]  the Linguistic Awareness in Reading Readiness (Larr)   _____ ,  adapted by Wandsworth and published by NFER-Nelson.      
[006]  by Wandsworth and published by NFER-Nelson.  The Larr  _____   takes about 25 minutes to carry out on a group of fou     
[007] ally at least, they were  less positive about the Larr  _____ . 'I think teachers find it hard  to sit back and watch     
[008] blishing director at NFER-Nelson, one of the  biggest   _____  publishers, says demand for baseline tests has  increa     
[009] ncreased  dramatically in the past few years. The Larr  _____  has a  reasonable take-up, but is less popular than th     
[010] tra funding for schools with  low  overall scores. The  _____  itself takes about an hour per child,  which has provo     
[011] grammes  require a GMAT (Graduate Management Admission  _____ )  score in  addition to a good first degree and, prefe     
[012]  be appropriate for  a  British six-year-old. When the  _____  day comes, Pratham sits  down  at a desk for a formal      


	
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[001]  test. 'I think teachers find it hard  to sit back and  _____  their pupils make mistakes,' he says.  Keith  Nettle,      
[002] unity.  Discipline is a big question for many parents.  _____  the way  pupils behave as you go round the school, and     
[003] ndar and flutter away like  leaves; it's marvellous to  _____  the newspaper headlines  spinning  round ('O'Neil open     
[004] oo  much reality. You can't do anything. That's why we  _____   soaps.  You can imagine that everything is rosy.' Yet     
[005] tages  for a parent in having a child who would rather  _____  dust  motes  in sunlight than Power Rangers, and who l     
[006]  managed to calm myself down a  little. I looked at my  _____  and saw that it was half past  ten. I searched the fla     
[007] ve me a room at the back of the house. I asked him  to  _____  out for cars and planes and sat down to work on  Scudd     
[008] 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     
[009]  and I was very cold. My coat, Scudder's  notebook, my  _____  and even my pipe and tobacco were  with Mr Turnbull. A     
[010] st cross the sea, so we still have a chance. You must   _____  the coast and search ships. It is desperately importan     
[011] house was being built,  which might be a good place to  _____  from; and on the  other side the house was empty. Its      
[012] telescope and found a good hiding place from  which to  _____  the house. I watched for a time, and saw an  old man l     


	
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[001] s who has been in  London  to raise awareness of their  _____ , believe that more  international pressure must be bro     
[002] ll be wise to change the decision but to adapt  to the  _____  of different people. This has to be studied and  has b     
[003] ess for  this  understanding of the different cultural  _____  in the  different continents.' It is pure Martini: it      
[004] ring the Fifties because of the suffocating  cultural   _____  of the time. But maybe things haven't changed all  tha     
[005] y are very angry that the  school finds itself in this  _____ . There is a feeling of  helplessness.' Springfield is      
[006] hey want a job that pays well. Emma  saw  her family's  _____  deteriorate in the 1980s amid job loss  and  divorce.      
[007] re keeping our options  open!'  'We are monitoring the  _____  carefully!' 'We are listening  carefully to what you a     
[008] of  India  but with just 2.2 million people - made the  _____  critical,  particularly with the dilapidated power sta     
[009] o bad you could not tell between the  chromozones. The  _____  was quite hopeless. 'I felt if I had  stayed on I woul     
[010] nt to sit in one place and wait.  If I could move, the  _____  did not seem so bad.  I wondered if Scudder had any pa     
[011] , could prefer Mr Dickens to Dr Johnson!  That was the  _____  when I left Cranford to return to my  father in Drumbl     
[012] Jamieson, when she returned,  considered Miss  Matty's  _____  for two or three days. Then she kindly gave  her appro     


	
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[001] is or her vocabulary and  reading skills. Knowing what  _____  different children have  reached enables the teacher t     
[002] od brats vying for the lead; there's a revival of the   _____  adaptation on the cards, a string of Ginger Man pubs       
[003] n from  the  Institute of Legal Executives - the first  _____  of an alternative  route to becoming a solicitor - or      
[004]  I asked him what part Britain had played on the world  _____   and  he looked me straight in the eye and replied 'I      
[005]  (books specially  written to introduce new vocabulary  _____  by                                                         
[006]                                                     by  _____ ) or 'real  books' (learning to read from ordinary book     
[007]  do  something about it.' The class sniggered. 'That's  _____  three,'  said Adrian. 'We are working out what to do n     
[008] 'a gay  coquette', more like Callas than Sutherland on  _____ ? Did  she  take 'sentimental liberties' with all her l     
[009]  work,  I think, before I put on uniform.    Cranford   _____  4  Our society  The first thing to say is that Cranfor     
[010] now everything, don't you? said Victor.  Silas Marner   _____  4  past and present  In the early years of the ninetee     
[011]  be happier than we are!'  The Songs of Distant Earth   _____  4  The Nine Billion Names of God  This is rather unusu     
[012] . Everything in the boat  was wet.  The Unquiet Grave   _____  4  The Picture  For several years Mr Williams worked f     


	
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[001] s. 'You can get on with that if you  like, it makes no  _____  to me,' says Hazel firmly. We're  studying English lan     
[002] radual  growth of the brain and of human language? The  _____  is  not  merely theoretical, because gradualism in evo     
[003] he French,  whose diplomats are well-regarded too. The  _____  would  be  marked. In both cases the information would     
[004] uld have  written most of it himself. 'The substantive  _____  would  be  that I would have believed in it,' he told      
[005] g. When  a  parrot says it, it doesn't. What makes the  _____ ?' Locke  versus Wittgenstein on Mind and Meaning is pr     
[006]  hip,' says one member of the Roman Curia. 'The great   _____   is that this man is a pluralist,' says John Wilkins,      
[007] onument to demolition  itself  demolished. Despite the  _____  in their choffice of subjects  for commemoration, Whit     
[008] cation, says: 'There is  proof that class size makes a  _____  for the youngest  children. The jury is still out on w     
[009] ting looking out  of the window. There is a tremendous  _____  in the kind  of  work he is producing and he is happie     
[010]   primary school: 'Smaller classes undoubtedly make a   _____ .  My little girl started school in a class of 32. When     
[011] change from the boys' school environment. Another big   _____  is that at school the oldest book we read apart  from      
[012] e rules that govern social behaviour. Another area of   _____  is that while the Asperger individual is physically  c     


	
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[001]  in Dublin in 1905. His background  was  academic, his  _____  being Professor of Anatomy and the  first  President o     
[002] paedia given to  Needham by  Dr Lu-Needham Gwei Djen's  _____  are themselves dwarfed  by the  reprint, bound in 1,50     
[003] allpoint pen. 'Ahmed Boutdra, mayor of  Igoujdal,  his  _____  Si Ahmed . . .' And it went on to list 28 other men in     
[004] ulevard Amirouche in Algiers as 'The  Boulevard  of My  _____ ' - who would know all about loyalty and the lack  of       
[005] as brought  up in  East Grinstead in Sussex, where his  _____  owns a vitamin  company. An early fan of US super-hero     
[006] olly, 9 - have returned home from school  and he  is a  _____ . Only after they are in bed does he write. 'I sit  dow     
[007] uctor,  says  Michael Bruce     By MICHAEL BRUCE    My  _____  had been accustomed to managing 3,000 fighting  men  d     
[008] n  for me; a  Chatham hulk that moved, commanded by my  _____  who  seemed like  Captain Bligh reincarnated. The tort     
[009] winded. I  would mutter it under my breath and have my  _____  in the  water  before he knew it, or fetch him one wit     
[010] he start. I  began to hate sailing; I began to hate my  _____ . There was  more  to life than getting cold and wet, b     
[011] lub  with pretensions. One day, a miracle happened. My  _____   was -  unknown to me - courting the woman who was to      
[012] t the boat  away,  bought me a shandy. I could hear my  _____  lecturing his wife-  to-be on her shortcomings as a ma     


	
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[001] ce in the Royal Air Force, training as a navigator in   _____   Africa. He found outlets for his energy by founding a     
[002]  of whom 86,000 are living in  eight  refugee camps in  _____ -eastern Nepal. The refugees are all  from  southern Bh     
[003] irl suffering from malnutrition in Timei refugee camp,  _____ -  east Nepal Faces of confusion . . . boys who have be     
[004]  religious, political, and educational forces  shaping  _____  Wales in the years between the two world  wars. Glyn       
[005] s the wretched condition of the  industrial valleys of  _____  Wales during the Depression, and  later the deprivatio     
[006] hing appointments in the Labour-controlled Valleys of   _____   Wales. His most important novel, which has attracted      
[007]  cost of the  building  - the third and last part, the  _____  Wing, cost more than  dollars  500,000 - came more par     
[008]   overseas trips, for example, on last year's visit to  _____   Africa. Diplomats are urged to do everything in their     
[009] missions(Mr Heseltine in  Saudi  Arabia, Mr Needham in  _____  Africa). In three years at the  department Mr Needham      
[010]   within his own  party. Alan Simpson (Lab, Nottingham  _____ ), secretary of  the  left-wing Campaign Group, said th     
[011] ilot project. Nine Local Education  Authorities in the  _____ -east had earlier formed a  consortium,  the                
[012]           -east had earlier formed a  consortium,  the  _____  Thames Area Recruitment Team (Start) to address  recru     


	
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[001] by controversy since it was  first  launched two years  _____ . Supporters insist that it has brought  good teaching      
[002] nd can do when they arrive at school.  Only  two years  _____ , when the Government was in the thick of the  teacher      
[003] ias, the first of which  was launched about five years  _____ . Together they claim a  total  membership of 3 million     
[004] ng a new openness     By STEVE CRAWSHAW    Forty years  _____ , the subject was more or less banned from  the  school     
[005] e or less banned from  the  school-books. Twenty years  _____ , it was tackled in an  embarrassed  way. Now, German h     
[006] is  politically healthier than the Germany of 40 years  _____ , which  did  not. It would be a pity if some politicia     
[007] ner London Education  Authority,  disbanded five years  _____ . All pupils took a test in their last  year of primary     
[008] e in the same ability group for all  lessons) 30 years  _____  showed that it depressed rather than  raised  standard     
[009]  executives abroad, since taking the job three  years   _____ . The Foreign Office has been spending more on trade  p     
[010] f-effacing  characters. On meeting Lambert a few years  _____ , a well-  known  American conductor exclaimed, 'Ah, th     
[011] .' I edited a collection by women writers a few years   _____   for Virago and included sections from both Little Wom     
[012]  the serialisation of Little Women a  couple of  years  _____ . He said that he had always classified women in  terms