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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] her which does not. Modern  computer capabilities also  _____  the  issue of what is known in  the jargon as 'total d     
[002] . In my opinion, any  killing is cruel. I: And do  you  _____  any animals yourself, here in your  house? J: Yes, I       
[003] t earn  much money being a dancer. We tried so hard to  _____  her to be a  sensible girl, who would either get marri     
[004] for the seniors' team in a  charity  football match to  _____  money for the hospital's transplant  programme.  'I ha
[005] ieve that the ring belonged to Hu,  but she managed to  _____  the price. Finally the man said that  she was robbing      
[006] Emperor  himself;' he said.  "When the Emperor enters,  _____  your spears in salute when  you salute him, speak toge 
[007] years, lives over near Raleigh,  where he and his wife  _____  horses and a daughter. His novel  takes readers on a l    


	
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[001]  on helping me. In the weeks that followed, I began to  _____  on that bird-like little figure for my happiness and     
[002] s hand. He was like a lion guarding something.  'Can I  _____  on you?' he said.  'Of course you can,' I answered. Hi     
[003] ad a  report from my school. It said that anyone could  _____  on  me.'  'Yes, but can I be sure of you?' he said, sl     
[004]  but then he would change it back again.'  But I can't  _____  on that,' said Morris.  Do you want to                     
[005] s too excited to  feel the heat.  Everything seemed to  _____  on Marian being there. She  made me think of a bright,     
[006] ing useful for the first time in his dull life. Others  _____  on me now, he thought as he stepped  through the dirt 
[007] ,  but if my daughter married him, her happiness would  _____  on whether he was a good man  or not.'  Yes, I see tha     


	
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[001] t's your name?'  'Mary Dawson,' she said.  'This is my  _____  Simon, and my daughter Sarah.'  'Isn't your husband  
[002]  the third wife and the  mother of Henry's only living  _____ .  He is now our King,  Edward  the Sixth.'  Was Jane S     
[003] oo?'  No, Henry divorced Katherine because he wanted a  _____ ,  and she only gave him a daughter, Princess Mary.  Y     
[004]  You see, it was very important for the King to have a  _____ , to be King after him.  There has only ever been one Q     
[005] d many others are poor. I, for example - I'm a younger  _____ ,  you know, and won't inherit my father's fortune, so      
[006] ppelganger was trying to tell a woman not to drive her  _____   to school one day. She didn't understand and that sam     
[007] d looking at the spaceship, and looked  instead at her  _____ -in-law, who was sitting in the seat in  front  of her.    


	
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[001] ed the door softly and  went into the room.  How can I  _____  what we saw? The bodies of two women  , Lucy and her m     
[002] each other. I say 'kind' because there are no words to  _____  our love and happiness together.  After the summer we      
[003] window changed the room into something too horrible to  _____ .  In that strange  light,  faces became wild and frigh     
[004]  was most unwelcome to  me.  It is difficult for me to  _____  my feelings towards Wilson.  I didn't hate him, but ne     
[005] ocked and then ran back  towards  my enemy.  How can I  _____  what I saw at that moment?  During those  few seconds      
[006] t her.   Then he took out his photographs and began to  _____  the churches.  Helen smiled  back.    In BasleHotel du     
[007] he  room.  It was a strange knocking sound.  How can I  _____   it? Well, it was like someone with a wooden leg.  It      

	
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[001] pe you've all got warm  clothes  on - it's freezing! I  _____  we have a look round the village  and take any picture     
[002] e rhis  evening, anyway.' 'OK,' Jennifer said, 'then I  _____  we do  something really nice with the day; forget abou     
[003] by the middle "of  the next day he was at the field to  _____  another plan to  Emma and her father.  'What do you th
[004] hat it was the other person's fault, or insist or even  _____  that you are in the  right and he is in the wrong - e     
[005] y don't  - it has to  be their own choice. We can only  _____ , persuade, and remind.  Remember, no one really 'gives     
[006] thfulness of my description of  these circumstances, I  _____  you speak to Colonel  Fitzwilliam.  As my cousin and c     
[007] so-'  'I know, Mother, but on his birthday-'  'Can you  _____  anything, Denys?' she asked.  'No, Mother, it isn't my  


	
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[001]  something may happen to help human beings continue to  _____ .'  I did not reply to this, because I suddenly realize     
[002]  e the immense reserves of expertise and goodwill that  _____  in a community once you start  trying to dig it  out.      
[003]  I didn't used to believe in UFOs, but now I know they  _____ .  I  think governments are trying to hide something, b    
[004]  just like  Filbert Wiley.  He isn't real.  He doesn't  _____ .' 'Oh, but he does   
[005]  enforcing the numerous dog-related laws  that already  _____ . Third, when we talk about passing laws to  seize and      
[006]  fellow  officers," I said.  "Police corruption cannot  _____  unless it is  at least tolerated at higher levels in t     
[007] That's an interesting point,' Louis said.  'Things can  _____  in  the mind or in the real world.  So the character i    


	
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[001] n he sees me?'  At seven o'clock the dinner was nearly  _____  and Della was waiting.  'Oh, I hope he thinks that     
[002] espite that, he asks me to marry him!' So I said, 'I'm  _____  to go with you to India, but as a sister, not as a  wi 
[003] ,' said Pete's soft voice in Washington.  'When you're  _____ , I'll take you to meet an important man  from the New      
[004] the rain, it took them fifteen minutes to get the boat  _____ .  Three times the  waves nearly broke the boat on the      
[005] oked at the clock. 'They've had time to get everything  _____ . We must put the ship straight now.'  He turned away a         
[006] d the sound of hammers.  They were getting the coffins  _____  for a journey , perhaps  to England! I remembered the      
[007] sed the  door behind them.  Her mother had warm drinks  _____  for  them.  'Go to bed now, father,' Grace said.  'You 


	
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[001]  time, he was looking for potatoes to buy in  order to  _____  his family.  Like most people around them, the Zhivago
[002] tions, say his  doctors.  Andrew is able to sit up and  _____  himself. He can get out of bed  but  he can't walk yet     
[003] ng down behind the mountains.  Then  she drove down to  _____  the dogs.  They happily led her to the  place where th     
[004] t. B: Glad you remembered! S: Let's see, what will  we  _____  them this  time? We can't do an Indian curry again, we     
[005] gently on the wound. "Don't die," said Juba.  "They'll  _____  you to the tigers. They're more expensive than  we are     
[006] lf since Mother  died. And there are thirteen of us to  _____ , and we never have  enough to eat, or warm clothes or      
[007]  something very strange  happened. Some sharks came to  _____ , and the  fish under the raft  were afraid and came to    


	
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[001] fferent ideas.  There are just three  countries now in  _____  America ? Canada, Mexico and the  USA ? but there were   
[002] hey travelled south and became the Native Americans of  _____  America and the Maya, Aztecs, Inca and  other peoples      
[003]  chinburi road more or less cuts the park in half from  _____  to south. We're in the eastern half. So we must walk       
[004]  St Abbs Head, in  Scotland.  The ship  was travelling  _____ , from Hull to Dundee.  But the wind  came from  the        
[005]  big,  comfortable, modern ship.  There  was a strong,  _____ -east  wind that afternoon, but at first no one was afr  
[006] s no Richard - killed  two years ago while fighting in  _____  Africa.  'Dad!' shouted Gareth. 'We're home. What's fo     
[007]  Maryland, Rhode Island, Connecticut,  New  Hampshire,  _____  and South Carolina, New Jersey, and  Pennsylvania.  Ge   


	
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[001]  t behind me when I got to the cart.  I jumped from my  _____  onto the cart,  and while Jack and Arthur fought the d     
[002]  e good times, too.  He was clever at so many things ,  _____ -riding and tennis,  writing and playing music.  He wro     
[003] utside.  I looked out of the window and saw a man on a  _____ .  He had  grey hair and was wearing Fine clothes.  It 
[004]  do, Mary?' Christine asked.  Mary put her hand on the  _____ 's neck.  'I'm not sure,' she  said.  'I  think you sho     
[005]   Thornfield on a frosty winter afternoon. And when my  _____  slipped and fell on the ice, a  little  figure appeare     
[006] y with the movement of the  boat - a bit like riding a  _____ , Anna thought. Once or twice,  when the boat went into     
[007]  g used that day in the fields. So Jane set out on her  _____ , while her  mother called cheerfully after her, 'I do