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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] Quietly. 'But please excuse me.  I think I must go and  _____  down.'  Upstairs in his room Dorian's body shook with   
[002] Grace said.  'Isn't he hurting enough?'  'He's got to  _____  down, Frank said.  Pilgrim was making terrible noises      
[003] broke the rock into smaller pieces.  They often had to  _____  on their backs or their sides to do the work.  Sometim     
[004]   In Europe people are either honest with you or they  _____  to you; in  England people almost never                    
[005]  old, and Jason hit him - a little baby!'  'That's a  _____ !' said Jason.  'I didn't-'  'Oh yes, you did!' Fiona      
[006]  fifty dollars from Andrew Hale?'  He remembered the  _____  he had told the day before.  I guess that was a mistak     
[007]  thousand,' said Jason.  'Why do you want me to tell a  _____  to the police?' asked Lily.  'What did you do on Satur  


	
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[001] It's not possible, Angela,' Ben said.  'It's a company  _____ .  The tour guide must have a single room.  For a numbe 
[002]  hard on clubs and players who did not keep to this  _____ .  When Fulham's George Parsonage was starting with      
[003] he started his first peaceful protest against British  _____  in India.  Then he led a boycott of British cloth and     
[004]  and after seven years the country was under Roman  _____ .  Caesar took his soldiers to Britain, too, but had      
[005]  Romans.  We will find out how this city was able to  _____  so much of the world.  The beginning The Romans belie     
[006]   class grew out of the lower classes.  They did not  _____  like the upper class but they had a lot of money.  By     
[007] nkers and writers must live too.  Their ideas mustn't  _____  their lives.'  Louis looked at his watch.  'Mmm,' he  


	
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[001]  is now,' she said to herself.  She was looking at a  _____  of Miss Rosalie Ray, a very beautiful young woman
[002]   he had to hold the side of the table.  There was a  _____  of Christine, standing up in a boat near the factory
[003]  laugh at me,' replied Basil, 'but I can't exhibit the  _____  in an art gallery.  I've put too much of myself into
[004] ine's very independent, isn't she?'  I said, drawing a  _____  in the sand with my finger.  Ian lifted his shoulders.
[005] ill steal my beauty from me.  I will grow old, but the  _____  will always be young.' And his heart grew cold with  
[006] ied. 'Now, a crossbow looks like this,'  and he drew a  _____ .  'It's an old weapon that people used to use hundreds
[007] nted chin and  very pale skin. A Japanese girl. Then a  _____  of an African man, sitting on a wall in front of a big


	
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[001]   Adler.   She's a beautiful woman, but she can be as  _____  as a man.  She was angry when I left her, and so she
[002]  didn't say anything.  Then he smiled.  It was a cold,  _____  smile,  and it  made John feel uncomfortable.  He rem
[003]  was a new paint for cars.  It was a very strong,  _____  paint which nothing could and damage.  Mary and her 
[004]   Simon, Christine said, was kind, intelligent, very  _____  working.  He liked sailing and riding, and he wanted
[005]    Immediately Holmes jumped up and hit the bell rope  _____ .  'Can you see it, Watson?' he shouted.  But I saw not
[006]  to hold a conversation with twelve people and work  _____  at the same time.  And all the men wanted to take
[007] the men stood up.  Miss Ray did not have to try very  _____  to find work in the theatre.  After two years of thi 


	
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[001] heatre and when I returned to my hotel, a quiet man in  _____  clothes was waiting for me.  'Mr Pinkhammer,' he said,  
[002]  but Juliet! Oh, Harry, she was about seventeen, with  _____  brown hair and a face like a flower.  She was the
[003]   It was a grand house, large and white, with tall  _____  trees outside.  Although  it was clear that the Varnum
[004] door opened, and Ethan saw his wife.  She stood in the  _____  doorway, a tall thin woman with a  blanket round her
[005]  away, or starve myself to death.  Gradually it became  _____  outside. The rain was still beating on the windows,
[006]   The  police said that he was walking home in the  _____  when he fell down a hill.  He was badly hurt, and he
[007]  hair.  He had an open, honest face.  There were no  _____  secrets in that face.  Lord Henry could understand 


	
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[001]  out of the water and then took the sword below the  _____ . Arthur was then taken to the Isle of Avalon to get      
[002] tne room we saw had been cleaned properly. Every hard  _____  - shelf, table - was dusty enough to write your name     
[003] eir red sails full, moved slowly over the mirror-like  _____  of the lakes." Wow! You can write! Is this where you      
[004]  the fish under the raft were afraid and came to the  _____ . I caught them with my hands,' said Mr Carter. About 
[005]  to keep the most important things hidden under the  _____ , waiting for the intelligent reader to discover them.     
[006]  living, I've surprised myself by  making what on the  _____  at least, seems like a smooth transition from being      
[007] lions of other people on the same part of the Earth's  _____ , but then they were not rocket engineers; they had      


	
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[001] ms and John Quincy Adams, were father and son, and in  _____  times the Bush family has had two presidents.
[002] uthern cities are old.  Atlanta in Georgia is big and  _____ , with one of the busiest airports in the world.
[003] aska.  There are still cowboys who work there, but the  _____  state of Texas, like Alaska, is rich because of its
[004] ived there after three days.  The  house was large and  _____ , with beautiful trees round it.  Marianne enjoyed walk
[005]  this poor man.  I could give him the best help that  _____  medicine could give him.  I told my uncle what I wante
[006] .  They know that many animals are in danger in the  _____  world.  We should protect them.  We should not cut do 
[007]  world with more Egyptian art is in Cairo.  Museum of  _____  Art (MoMA) This museum has more than  100,000 works of  


	
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[001] a long line of wooden houses with children playing in  _____  of them, and whole families sitting on their  
[002]  was a portrait of a very beautiful young man, and in  _____  of it stood the artist himself, Basil Hallward.       
[003] ving the laboratory.  First Karen checked her hands in  _____  of the scanner, and then a minute later Susan checke     
[004]  first home!'  I carried her up the five steps to the  _____  door.  'Why did you stop?' she asked.  'This isn't our     
[005] himself .  'Mr John Duncan, please!'  He walked to the  _____  of the room.  As he sat down, he saw David Wilson       
[006]           of them, and whole families sitting on their  _____  steps.  I felt like a stranger in a strange land as      
[007]  dishes from London's best restaurants, had been  _____ -page stories every day.  After all this, the trial its  


	
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[001] more than  half  a million farmers came to live in the  _____ , where they made  new farms and grew food.  One family     
[002]  made  new farms and grew food.  One family that moved  _____  was  the Ingalls family, whose daughter Laura Ingalls   
[003] n the USA.  The  Chinese immigrants who arrived in the  _____  of the USA also  found prejudice.  Many people came to     
[004] d States  Navy?' he asked.    'I'm not English.  I'm a  _____  Indian,' explained Wyatt.  'My  family has  been in th     
[005] .   You can also find excellent American wine from the  _____  coast, particularly California.  But Americans are not     
[006] ams tells the story of a farmer from Iowa in  the  mid- _____ , played by Kevin Costner, who dreams of the  Chicago W     
[007]  one year! In the 1880s, Buffalo Bill started his Wild  _____   Show, a kind of travelling theatre, with the famous c    


	
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[001]  plaintiffs, their attorneys and other current and  _____  workers may seem relatively small. From the standpoint     
[002] der to win, win, win. Now I spoke to Allan Baker, the  _____  British Athletics coach, and he had this to say.       
[003] bly shied away. It was only because her father was a  _____  senior  policeman that he was able to discover the rea     
[004] the referee, who they thought was being unfair to the  _____  champion. In a discussion with reporters afterwards, 
[005]  an ambassador. His voice was loud and clear.  'The  _____  Soviet Union had tens of thousands of nuclear weapons     
[006] year the Princess had taken highly publicized trips to  _____  war  zones like Angola to conduct her high-profile ca     
[007] It was only because her father was a  _____  senior policeman that he was able to discover the rea