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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]    She wanted  to call Tom back.  She wanted him to  _____  there and hold her.  To keep her from the cold that       
[002]  thought that I was away.  They knew that they  had to  _____  in the house.  The day of the party was like every        
[003]   hope of that now.  'I hope my new father will let me  _____  at school and get my  certificate,' she thought.       
[004]  eyes.  'Right.'  'Tom-'  'Of course, youre welcome to  _____  here until you're ready.  You don't have to leave just 
[005] times.  Grace  stood next to her mother.  She tried to  _____  calm.  Then Tom got down Tom Pilgrim and walked over       
[006] to eat. As they were eating,  Eleanor  suddenly said: ' _____  still for a moment, you've got an insect  on  your col     
[007] took the letter.  That was too dangerous.  I wanted to  _____  alive.  And I like the  owner of the letter.        


	
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[001]       we know such a lot of people, and my lady has to  _____  all their names in her prayers - every  one. She keeps     
[002]    the game any more. But everyone was too polite to  _____  it. All the  same, I had the feeling that something     
[003]    'Try and remember exactly what he said. Did he  _____  the  letter? How  can you be so sure it  was him?'      
[004]  not know him. But he was so old and so kind - not  to  _____  the strawberries. And it was  her last day, really, he     
[005]  A: I think you're being a  little selfish,  not to  _____  spoiled. Be a bit thoughtful of  others. YOU chose to      
[006]    But if he had  been  in the house, Fred made no  _____  of it. He  seemed relieved when he saw me.  'I thought     
[007] ing to  die and leave me - do you understand?'  At the  _____  of dying Aku-nna was afraid. 'Am I going  to die?' she 


	
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[001]    His  skin became paler, and he looked into empty  _____  for  hours.  He seemed to listen for a sound.    
[002]  When Michael Anderson was a small  boy, he dreamed of  _____  travel.  Years later, before  Columbia crashed in 2003     
[003] mbia crashed in 2003, he was doing scientific tests in  _____ .  His death on Columbia was very sad, but African-Am     
[004] hey're gateways to the stars  and they change time and  _____ .  So now we can travel in  our  spaceships as fast as      
[005]  a new building.  Land  is expensive in Rome and empty  _____  is filled very quickly.  There is no other place in      
[006] d you're welcome to it,' he said.  There was plenty of  _____  in the main living-room,  though it was curved because     
[007]  ball was cut open. Lastly there  was a ten-centimetre  _____  in the very middle, divided by a  large number of very     


	
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[001] ewman shouted, "Pull for your lives." But  they had to  _____  what to do.  The Titanic was gone and hundreds of peop     
[002]   which runs the  National Lottery.  They help winners  _____  how to spend  their money.  But these five old people      
[003] feel strongly about  football, too: if the match is to  _____  who will play in the  World Cup, they feel even more       
[004]  nice time, and all this will be  very nice.  You must  _____  about your accent.  You will have  your foreign accent     
[005]   to her mother and brother. And I  shall have time to  _____  between the oil company and the  university.     
[006]    for me. But when she died after the war, I couldn't  _____  what to do next. I used to lie awake, thinking of the     
[007] friends all wish him to marry someone else?' 'You must  _____  for yourself, and if you consider it more important     


	
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[001]    path.  'Boy,' shouted Danglars, 'bring me a pen and  _____ .' 'It  is a strange thought,' said Caderousse,      
[002]     to go.'  'OK.'  'Well.' He pulled a small piece of  _____  from his pocket.  'Here's my number in Wyoming.  h     
[003]  the broken  glass from the photo of me, two pieces of  _____  slid out  from behind  the picture.  One piece of          
[004]  rules of the game.  'Every player is given a sheet of  _____ . All the sheets except  one are  blank. On the last      
[005]  the  map  looked very unusual indeed. It was on thick  _____  that  looked yellow with age. The writing was very old     
[006]    bottle. The kid was drawing on a piece of  wrapping  _____ .  The woman's hair hung loose. Her face was pink and      
[007]  wooden hut.  At this time of year dry wood burnt like  _____ .  And her body  inside it.  They were going to be   


	
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[001]     But why does Lord Berwick leave the room when you  _____  it? Why does Lord Staveley say that no honest woman      
[002]   different room.  But no one was brave enough now to  _____  the black room.  As the night passed and the fires       
[003] rights and after 1882, they were no longer allowed to  _____  the USA.  But in the twentieth century Chinese people     
[004] new about the portrait. Some nights he would secretly  _____  the locked room. Holding a mirror in his hand,      
[005]   And it's  too late to ask for one.  I do not wish to  _____  into a family disagreement, but I think you should go      
[006]  impossible, but I know we can do it.  We're going to  _____  a tetrathlon team against the Greycoats School team,      
[007] hardly spoken up to now, but he thought it was time to  _____  the conversation. 'You seem very fortunate in your      


	
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[001] knows what could happen if someone does an important  _____  and transfers the wrong gene. Everything is so new      
[002] you doing that?' he asked, surprised.  'It's a special  _____ ,' one of them answered.  'David Wilson asked us to      
[003]      Gruinard was a Scottish island where a government  _____  in  biological weapons had gone very wrong many years     
[004]        drew on the past in a way that did not prevent  _____  and development within a traditional  structure.     
[005]        the lawyer said slowly, 'that there has been an  _____  with some rats.  Some mother rats were given these      
[006] wanted to discover where life came from.  I wanted to  _____  with science as much as possible.  I wanted to create
[007] nows what  could happen  if someone does an  important  _____   and transfers the wrong gene. Everything is so new in     


	
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[001]      night together." I picked up a book that told the  _____   of Ethelred.  It was not Usher's favorite                 
[002]   good look," said the old man, "and then listen to my  _____ ." I did what he asked.  "I and my two brothers,"      
[003]  of wonderful stories. 'Tonight I will tell you a new  _____ ,' she said. 'Hurry and do your cooking now.'      
[004]  guide.  "Here is the best view of the place where my  _____  happened.  That is why I have brought you here."      
[005]      So far everything seemed to prove that the boy's  _____  was true.  Finally the day came when Mr Sandal informe     
[006]     the windows of the large back room on the fourth  _____ .  The house is not very old, and is in a good state.      
[007]            "The policeman went upstairs.  On the first  _____  he heard two loud and angry voices.  One was low and      


	
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[001] the fashionable town of Bath.  People came to Bath to  _____  the waters for their illnesses and to find husbands      
[002]   Teesdale, 'and very sensible. And  anyway, I do not  _____  whisky!'  Suddenly the telephone in the study rang.      
[003]  of wine from the racks of bottles along the  walls.  " _____ ," I said, giving him the bottle.  "I will                  
[004]  people who are sleeping  all around us."  "And I will  _____  to your long life."  Again, he took my arm, and we con     
[005]     but I must eat.'  He ate a little bread and took a  _____  from his water bottle.  Then he returned.         
[006] doctor. I walked here across the hills. I need food,  _____  and sleep.'  'This is not a hotel!' he said. 'Jacob,     
[007] the arena.  She stood next to him while he took a long  _____ .  Then Tom joined them.  He prepared the horse     


	
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[001]                 It's your own room. You don't have to  _____ . It's a single room.  You      
[002] university, nearly all foreign visitors do, and you'll  _____  a room with a Chinese student, which is also very      
[003]   And the beauty is that there  are so few people to  _____  all this money. The population of Brunei is only 230     
[004]     both physically and spiritually.  One interest we  _____  closely is football. We rarely get to see matches but      
[005]    Uzo spoke sharply to Aku-nna.  'Hurry and eat your  _____  of the supper. Your brother will come home       
[006] odbye to Judith there and then, and promised to send a  _____  of the farm profits to her regularly, to pay for her      
[007]  income of a thousand, and of course inherit a larger  _____  upon my death. Many young men would find this an