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Quiz 047

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]  corn. The native  corn was of fairly poor nutritional  _____  and gave a poor                                            
[002]                                       and gave a poor   _____  of grain,  while the hybrid corn was of excellent          
[003]      of grain,  while the hybrid corn was of excellent  _____  and delivered at least three  times as large a crop a     
[004]  selling  everything from  food to furniture - all top  _____ , all at top prices. There  are no bargains, and nothin     
[005]  while the Swedes have the most doubts about  teaching  _____ . Confidence in teaching in Britain is below  average b     
[006] any  architectural  awards, including a number for the  _____  of the interior  woodwork. The institute houses numero     
[007] student  support and guidance; learning resources; and  _____  assurance  and enhancement. The changes are intended             


	
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[001] Sometimes she cried  with pain and sadness.  "You must  _____ ," her friends told her.  But Ana did not listen.  Ever     
[002] est woman in her  race.  But now it was almost time to  _____  her body and mind.  There was one more important race      
[003] ers find me," Matthew  realized.  There was no time to  _____ .  He left the river, turned  east, and started walking     
[004] appy if there is any  disturbance during her afternoon  _____ . In the  afternoon, the  only way Palace staff can com     
[005] y had pipes from the aqueducts  to  their houses.  The  _____  was for ordinary people, but it only  reached the grou     
[006] don't they use the normal system of  payment, like the  _____  of  the bookshops in London? Someone should recommend      
[007] y, but with only 26,000 men and  three elephants.  The  _____  lay dead in the snow.  The first war  Carthage was in      


	
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[001] in the castle  at Camelot. His knights sat at a  round  _____  so that they were  all equal - nobody was sitting at t     
[002] re  all equal - nobody was sitting at the head of the   _____ . Many of  the stories in the legends are about the adv     
[003]  with a spoon, and  somehow I spilled  it all over the  _____ . It was all a sticky  mess. I tried to clean it up wit  
[014] t  about to put it to a  vote. Noticing a woman at the  _____  beside was reading  the menu,  I kept a watchful eye o     
[005] en.  'I would like to talk to you.  Can we sit at your  _____ ?'  'Yes .  .  .  yes, of course,' he said.  They sat a     
[006] he  Queen folds up her napkin and puts it  down on the  _____ -cloth  beside her plate, the meal is over and everybod     
[007] hat's when they have club  activities - sports  clubs,  _____ -tennis, art clubs, English  clubs. And of course the A     


	
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[001] as seven, it was  my job, before school, to run to the  _____   with his breakfast. I used to love  doing that. Best      
[002] ish  and chips. Dad worked in the fruit  and vegetable  _____  at  Covent Garden. He used to bring home all kinds of      
[003] go into town again tomorrow.  I'm taking some sheep to  _____ .  Would you boys like to  come?'  Of course, Joe and W     
[004] Europe?' At present, they are not.  Surely there  is a  _____  for them - 20 million Beetle owners  can't be wrong! D     
[005] mpting  some pundits to say that one of the best stock  _____  runs in  history was over. The Dow finished that day a     
[006] ooklyn. This is both a sign of the strengthened rental  _____   and a favorable commentary on the Village at Atlantic    
[007]  get their piece of the American dream.  A tight labor  _____  and the fast pace of change in many industries,  parti    


	
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[001] ligent and had many interests.  The land was rich with  _____  and animal life.  The people used  their skills well,      
[002] see  very often.  Mistletoe  Mistletoe is a dark green  _____  with white berries.  If you are  caught under the mist  
[003] ssible. All plants need the  sun to shine on them - no  _____  can  grow in the dark or even  shade for 14 days in a      
[004] iruses, Jane E. Polston, calls an epidemic of a tomato  _____  virus that could endanger Florida's $400 million toma     
[005] wners these days. We'll live in  the modern way. We'll  _____  our vegetables, look after a few  animals and be good      
[006] bidi family were found guilty and the free  men had to  _____  new trees for the slaves, and pay a large  sum of mone  
[007] old! Scarlett imagined it. She could repair Tara,  and  _____  miles and miles of cotton. She could have pretty  clot    


	
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[001] , with fresh water and grass.  They put sticks in  the  _____  at the corners and along each side.  Then the  soldier     
[002] ding has burned  down.  Already, they are clearing the  _____  for a new building.  Land  is expensive in Rome and em     
[003] nted to bring the water  into  the city high above the  _____ .  This meant that it could run  downhill to different      
[004] ck at him.  A  light came from it, throwing him to the  _____ .  He couldn't  move.  After some time he was able to s     
[005] ps  on every street in Rome.  These were often on  the  _____  floor of the buildings where people lived.  People  al     
[006] arder.    THE RECALL last week of 25 million pounds of  _____  beef  sold by  Hudson Foods was a forceful act, but it 
[007] ht up  the gamey flavor of duck breast, and a crust of  _____   hazelnuts  and garlic sealed in the succulence of thi   


	
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[001] oy him more than  the damage to his car.  I started to  _____  what had happened  and persuade him it wasn't as bad a     
[002] re is a long list of  things that science still cannot  _____ .  Is there intelligent life  in other worlds? What pow     
[003] eatest unexplained stories are in this  book.  Can you  _____  them? Do you think we will ever find  the answers? Kat     
[004] a strange cut or blood on your body  that you couldn't  _____ ? 6 Do you ever feel that something  or someone is watc     
[005] peared in the Bermuda Triangle.  People  have tried to  _____  this mystery, but they have different  opinions: It is  
[006] s and  trays, and other baking equipment - which might  _____  the back  pain  I've had lately. Several times every m     
[007]  over,  and has to find one of the  accepted labels to  _____  it. So the present system  is a bit  dishonest you mig     


	
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[001] nd then she saw the last few lines:  'We would like to  _____  you another job with Global Tours.  We  are adding to      
[002]  Pluto and Micky Mouse and Goofy,  come up to  you and  _____  to talk, which the kids thought was great. You  could      
[003] in  a paper bag,  and takes your money. Sometimes they  _____  to  deliver the bag to your house.  Otherwise, you wal     
[004] ve  from  Devon, in the west of England.  He wanted to  _____  her a  house not far from his large house, Barton Park     
[005] o sell TVs and videos, clothes  and petrol.  They even  _____  financial services.  Most  supermarkets open seven day     
[006] the US.  Coretta was grateful to JFK and  accepted his  _____ .  JFK talked to Judge Mitchell on October  27, and Kin     
[007] l  company and.  .  .  ' Helen told Mary about his job  _____ .  'Oh, I see.' Mary took off her glasses and looked aw   


	
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[001] es a lot of people  for dinner, it takes three days to  _____  the  table and three  days to do the washing-up. Every     
[002] .  They employ a consultant  engineer to design it and  _____  all the plans. Then someone  has to build it, and this     
[003]   I hope that he  has a good journey!' 'And now we can  _____  him for his  grave,' another man said.  'Put him in a      
[004]  do now.  Just after midnight, he ordered  the crew to  _____  the lifeboats.  "Women and children  first!"After Smit 
[005] ves are  probably  beginning to wonder how they should  _____  for the 21st  century.  As the nation returns to work      
[006]  center of the site was a key feature of the plan.  To  _____  for it, the city demapped a portion of the existing  S  
[007] xperts tell us that they do, because they  can help us  _____  for the problems of everyday life. The images in our  


	
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[001] ought were  included in the price.  Some hotels try to  _____  you for things  you never got! And some landlords  don   
[002] ory  anything. They just work. A contract employee can  _____  double  the cost of a regular employee and still be a     
[003] e  war a British officer, Major Ivan Hurst, was put in  _____  of the  Volkswagen  factory. Another officer, Michael      
[004] y a fortnight. Then the Provisional Government was in   _____  of the town again.  Finally, there was news of more tr     
[005] time. It's very cheap, you see. You  just  pay a fixed  _____ , two roubles, 50 kopecs a month. I: Ah! So you  don't      
[006] k before, the judge had acquitted  Monsignor Dunn on a  _____  of sexual assault, brought in a  previous case by anot     
[007] f some considerable ability,  was arrested on a felony  _____  of possession of cocaine.  The  police report said he