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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] the eight named plaintiffs, their  attorneys and other  _____  and former workers may seem  relatively small. From th     
[002]    Sussex coast just before she was setting out on her  _____  venture,  another wander around America, Canada and Me
[003]  ls still seem good.  " Mr. Sorensen said  that in the  _____  environment investors might consider  stocks  with mod     
[004]  disaster for "pay as you go" pension systems that tax  _____  workers  to  finance the retirement of their elders. T     
[005]   lake washed the last plants away. There was a strong  _____  in the lake now. Our boat-house was starting to shake     
[006]    tying another rope, so that the boat was out of the  _____  and close to the bank. 'They speak English?' he  cried     
[007] d us up, and our boat-house  became a true boat.  'The  _____  will take us to the coast,' Jerry said, 'and then I'm      


	
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[001]   en I'm anywhere near them I start to get nervous and  _____  things. Yesterday at school I finally managed to ask     
[002]    open up underneath him, and he had watched the body  _____  down into the black hole below. He had looked down an     
[003]     that a poltergeist is a playful ghost. It likes to  _____  things on the floor; it likes to make a noise; it lik     
[004]   ng the afternoon, and on the hills temperatures will  _____  to below freezing, minus four or five, and on the hi     
[005] dn't stop them?'  He lifted his shoulders and let them  _____  again. 'It takes a strong stomach to face a machine      
[006]   him and thought carefully.  It was an eighteen-meter  _____  to  the valley floor, but it was the fastest way back.     
[007] d.  I saw the frightened horses on the edge of a steep  _____ . I saw the valley fifty feet below us. The coach sho     


	
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[001] es to show  them.  'Higher up, the  warm wet air meets  _____  air, and the water in the warm air  starts to  fall as     
[002]  , but without success. It was December and a bitterly  _____  east wind was blowing. Snow  was beginning  to fall fr     
[003]   !' Roxanne says.  'This castle is old, dark and very  _____ .  There's no electricity, no food and no hot  water.       
[004]   children.  They don't have any food and they're very  _____ ." She looked at her daughters.  Then she  said, "It's      
[005]  '  Walters wondered if he could see fear in Jackson's  _____  eyes. The man  hesitated.  'Well, yes, she did. I did     
[006] me away.' Isolt stood by  the lake and looked into the  _____  water.  She heard the sound of a horse and turned roun     
[007] , but without success. It was  December and a bitterly  _____  east wind was blowing. Snow  was beginning  to fall fr     


	
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[001] Joe, my brother's boy.'  'Hello, Joe.  How are you?'  ' _____ .'  'What a beautiful place,' she said, looking around.       
[002] verything.  I listened, then I said to him,  "You're a  _____  young man, Mr Gilchrist.  You know that you can't tak     
[003]  the family worked hard and 90% of their products were  _____ .  Of course, the store had to close for three months.      
[004] going to say hello to the group.  Then we can start.' ' _____ , Helen. You're the boss,' said Stan, and picked up he     
[005] shape of the coach with its driver on top and its four  _____  grey horses. I jumped forward and shouted and waved.      
[006] Sir, there's an office where you should go and pay the  _____  immediately. The oicials there receive a copy of the       
[007]  y Lewis returned with the information  that a parking  _____  for a blue Rolls  Royce, parked on the corner of Cana    


	
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[001] darker than the first one.  He waited for fresh air to  _____  the room.  Then he went in.  There was a dark corner      
[002]  the boat  deck. "Come Quick!" While the crew began to  _____  the lifeboats, radio operators Jack Phillips and Haro     
[003] the best, Annie thought.  She had all kinds of jobs to  _____  the day and the coming week usefully.  But it wasn't s     
[004] .  I've discovered a way to avoid it. Every morning, I  _____  a basin  with boiling  water, put a towel over my head     
[005] ossible to mistake it.  Those two words were enough to  _____  me with fear.  Before I could look into his face, he      
[006] Customer: Bill.  Clerk: OK, Mr Smith, could you please  _____  in this form for our records. Uh - just a minute, not     
[007] .' The woman  smiled at her kindly. 'Don't worry. Just  _____  in this form. I'm  sure  we'll find it. It will probab    


	
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[001]   New York is the most exciting of all.  Neither Tokyo  _____  London is quite as exciting as New York, musically. L     
[002] okyo, but London has the most parks.  Neither New York  _____  Tokyo has as many parks as London. There are  five in 
[003]  , was about thirty, and her face was neither sensible  _____  pretty.  They were playing with Lady Middleton's child     
[004]  hall window, high up.  It was never hot in the summer  _____  cold in the winter.  But now  Now it was different.  I     
[005] can escape from real life, which is often neither tidy  _____  comfortable.  Agatha Christie died on the 12th of Jan     
[006]  so when she died, he was in despair. He neither cried  _____  prayed. Instead he swore at God and man, and drank hi     
[007]  on  the table in front of her. The bed was not  made.  _____  had she  brushed her hair, which hung around her face  


	
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[001]  se men with bullets and with bombs.  And they want to  _____  me and my men.  Why shouldn't I let the  hurricane         
[002]   up.  'You have the gun. You decide. Are you going to  _____  me?  You decide.  Here and now, in front of your daugh     
[003]   w, and Julie closed her eyes.  'It won't help if you  _____  us both in an  accident.'  'Sorry.' Wyatt smiled and s     
[004]   be 30,000 deaths in St Pierre.  If the wind  doesn't  _____  them first, the flood  waters will    
[005] ys. Much cheaper.'  'Just tell me, did the Scott woman  _____  herself?'  'Morse, I only look at the body, and tell y     
[006] re you going to tell me  who you are? Or am I going to  _____  you?' 'I do know a lot about  you and I know a lot abo     
[007] o  tell  her about you! You must understand me.  Don't  _____  me! Not now!' , 'You want to change?' Fairhead asked.     


	
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[001] still something different about him.  'Perhaps there's  _____  with his mother,' Elinor thought.  'She wants me to b     
[002]  I should say sorry, Wyatt.  Next time I start to make  _____  for you, you can hit me  over the head first.'  Wyatt 
[003] od.   I will never see you again.  I will not make any  _____  for you.  And I will not hurt anyone again.  If you re     
[004] l bad  weather coming.  I'm a newsman, and I can smell  _____ , but  I often  can't explain why.' He  looked towards      
[005] he could always do what she wanted.  I  was  always in  _____ .  So I said nothing.  'Then Rafael went away  to work      
[006] The Beatles knew  nothing about business.  'We were in  _____  then,' said John.  Ringo has described the band as 'ch     
[007]  that she needed to see him, that she was in desperate  _____  and needed money.  She mentioned that  she had kept al    


	
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[001] there was a piece of silver in  the wood.  There was a  _____  on the silver - the                                        
[002] red into Flora's face in silence.  'Have I got a dirty  _____  on my nose?' Flora wondered. And  then she realized wh     
[003] lopes, and that his  bloodstained thumb had made a red  _____  on an envelope  addressed to her in Charles's neat han     
[004] n herself to him! When she was an hour old, in  made a  _____  on her milk-bottle with water-vole's blood. She was       
[005]   began to nod. "That's a new land. A man could make a  _____  there. two men, together   like us, we could do someth     
[006]   aste line and the main tub drain is set at the 2-1/2  _____  on the drain gauge. When all of the rinse water has      
[007]     as indicative only.  Generally, it is necessary to  _____  distances on  a specimen (or garment) in both lengthw     


	
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[001] one all the hotels in all the countries and ask for  a  _____  room for you.' Angela looked at her.  'I can have your     
[002] .  'It's a  company  rule.  The tour guide must have a  _____  room.  For a number of reasons.' Angela looked at Ben      
[003] and then through her working life, she was driven by a  _____  purpose - to show them that they were wrong.  When Gr     
[004] e.  In the rack were five or six visiting  cards and a  _____  letter.  The letter looked old, dirty, and  unimportan     
[005] John joked, 'Who? Who?' The  band recorded their first  _____ , 'Love Me Do', at Abbey  Road in September 1962.  It w  
[006]  the year 2020 there will be fewer married people than  _____  people.  In the past,  people got married and stayed m     
[007] Britain are born to  unmarried parents.  The number of  _____ -parent families in  Britain is increasing.