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Quiz 057

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] sailors laughed and shouted.  It was only a very small  _____  and white bird, but it was food!  Good food!  I caught     
[002] ive minutes, he looked behind him.  The road was busy,  _____  cars, white cars, red cars, green cars.  Maybe Vicker     
[003]    There's a tree across the road.' Juliet had long  _____  hair and dark eyes.  She was Miranda's sister.  Miran     
[004] ly hit Cathy then.'  She wore a beautiful red coat and  _____  trousers.  Her dark eyes were angry, but they looked      
[005] oliceman said.  He had very short grey hair and little  _____  eyes.  He didn't smile once.  But I didn't bring them,     
[006] ould not see his face or his body.  He had an enormous  _____  hat on his head, like a big box.  A grey  loth came       
[007] said quickly.  She opened her bag and took out a small  _____  recorder.  She checked the recorder and tied it to Mar   


	
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[001]  to the plane.  But if you kill my husband, or anyone  _____ , then I promise you that your brothers will die, on      
[002]  pay rise, because he says he can easily find somone  _____  to do my job when there is so much unemployment in      
[003]  you.' Carl changed the time on his watch.  'Anything  _____ , sir?'  'No, I don't think so.  Oh, wait a minute -      
[004]  'useful,' 'useless,' a word family! And something  _____ . I always put a mark with my pencil next to the word     
[005] and in the States only the banks are  shut. Everything  _____  stays open, so it makes life much easier. You could d     
[006]  and face!  What can I do to get rid of them?  Nobody  _____  seems to have these spots. Why can't I have nice skin     
[007] old woman, 'she and I were alone.'  'Was there no one  _____  near?' asked Monks. 'No one who could hear you? '  


	
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[001] ildren in the theatre.  He was like a child.  For him,  _____  in the story was true.  Once he was very afraid, beca 
[002]  want to live for long in a space settlement where  _____  - people and equipment and the eggs they were trying     
[003]  She was the first martyr for the cause. Gradually,  _____  turned out well for the suffragettes. Public opinion     
[004]  and ill to care for it. When she died, she left him  _____  in her will: her money, the house, yard and gardens,     
[005] case of the hiccups for seventeen years.  'I've tried  _____ ,' he said, 'but I can't get rid of them. Drinking from
[006]  yes,' said the policeman.  'I understand.' He wrote  _____  down in a little black book.  'Did you see the man's      
[007] .  From the beginning.'  So Emma told the lawyer  _____ , and he listened carefully.  When Emma finished, he      


	
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[001] dependently in space. They are all connected to planet  _____  in important ways. The Russians need food and even oxy 
[002] ave sent people to spend restricted lives orbiting the  _____ . During the next few weeks, for instance, the US space     
[003]   I was interested in the secrets of the sky and the  _____ , of the natural world.  My friend Henry was interested     
[004]  noticing me.  She seemed so strange, and not of this  _____ .  Looking at her, I was afraid again.  My friend crie     
[005] irlpool made a screaming sound, like no other sound on  _____ .  The mountain  shook under our feet.  I threw myself     
[006]   And on the table I found a little ball of soft black  _____  mixed together with sand. Isn't that strange? I can't     
[007]   now fell around me.  The rivers were frozen, and the  _____  was hard and cold.  I only travelled at night.  I did     


	
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[001] heera was trying to climb up the tree, but he was too  _____  for the thin branches.  The monkeys, shouting and laug     
[002]   about a foot below him.  One of her legs was under a  _____  rock, and she couldn't move.  'Quiet, Betsy.  Quiet,'      
[003]  shed against the rock with an oar.  The boat was very  _____  now, with all these people in it.  William pulled hard     
[004]    bags out of the boat.  The bags were small but very  _____ , because they were filled  with building cement.  Pet     
[005]  he seemed to go slowly, so slowly.  The water seemed  _____ , and held him back.  For the rest of his life he would     
[006] usually sleep on his back.  His enormous head was very  _____ , so he usually sat up in bed with his arms round his      
[007]  I walked toward the television. My feet were  _____ , my, heart was cold, my mouth was open in shock and      


	
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[001] gether,  like that. Or colours together - purple with  _____  and violet; or kinds of clothes together; or things      
[002] hind him.  The road was busy, black cars, white cars,  _____  cars, green cars.  Maybe Vickers was in one of them.      
[003]  books.  The  Queen gave him a little book, and some  _____  flowers, before she left.  After her visit, Merrick      
[004]  'Thirty thousands pounds, was it?'  Jason's face went  _____ .  He wanted to hit Sally.  She looked at his              
[005] was in his early fifties, with a grey beard  and round  _____  glasses. Be shouted something about a file to Sofia      
[006] It was an Exxon lorry,' he said. 'He didn't stop at a  _____  light.'  'Great,' said Gill Teal.  'I've got money fro     
[007]  After a time we arrived at a large old house built of  _____  bricks.  'That's Ridling Thorpe Manor,' said the drive     


	
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[001]        told us how to achieve it".   He said he favors  _____  increases for workers - "but manufacturers are caught     
[002] ave some money, because she was paid a very reasonable  _____  as Lipa's teacher, and she was also able to continue      
[003]     with fairly traded brands the workers get a decent  _____ . So you can make a difference just by changing your      
[004]  why should people working at home be paid a lower  _____ ? LD:  Well, indeed, but we've done surveys that show      
[005]  working women in Britain earn less that the minimum  _____  of �108 a week.  Well,  I'm one of them and would like     
[006]   ate's income is less than 85 per cent of the average  _____  (about pounds 14,500).  From  September, a student liv     
[007]      having difficulty competing with imports from low- _____  countries.  Among the highest-paid workers in      


	
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[001]  full-time study and requires an A-level or equivalent  _____  of education for entry - although the teacher-trainin     
[002]  25 OECD countries are about the level of the  average  _____  of living. Only in six - Finland, Germany, the Irish      
[003]  We will have the same number of children and the same  _____  costs for the  building.  So where do we make another      
[004] some academics saying that students'work is not of the  _____  it used to be.' He admits all degrees are not equal.       
[005]  the job in five days. It is because of work of this  _____  that in  the short period he has been in business Dav     
[006] ddle said he believed in reincarnation - not exactly  _____  Christian doctrine - and in February this year he tol     
[007] everything when I spoke on 2nd  August, 1892.' Evening  _____  (a London evening newspaper)  The most interesting th     


	
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[001] you can't.  You're a woman.  There are no women on the  _____ .  The men won't vote for you,' said  Susan.  'Perhaps     
[002]   week later, when the workers had to vote for the new  _____ ,  most of the women voted for Karen.  And a lot of  
[003]      don't laugh, but he's asked me to be on the Union  _____ , and I'm going to try it.'  'But, Karen...  you can't     
[004]  that safety at the factory was getting worse.  The  _____  decided to write to the Union leaders in Washington a     
[005]   foundation in the Thirties, and he had served on its  _____  and started to publish work in its Journal before war     
[006] uccessful, your appeal will be heard by an independent  _____ , comprising members of the local authority (or governm     
[007] A former chairman of the three-member Pulitzer Prize  _____  for Fiction, McConnell said he would have fought vigor     


	
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[001]         I felt ill, and the smell in the room was very  _____ .  'Yes, sir,' said the shopkeeper.  'Sit down, Merrick 
[002]   'Hi,' Colin said.  'Did you have a good day?'  'Not  _____ ,' Sally said.  'I'm working on a very interesting case     
[003] going up river in that boat!' I said, 'Emily, we're in  _____  trouble. We must get to the coast.  Can you help us?'    
[004] think of a single thing more to say. A: Oh, I see. Too  _____ . Well, I'll put the kettle on to boil and we'll talk     
[005]  well.  His legs were very big and fat, and he had a  _____  back.  He could not walk far without a stick.       
[006]     staff at home? Now, we think the future looks very  _____  for these people.  For example, we've found that in      
[007]    way back down the river, Father was silent and in a  _____  mood. That night in Jeronimo, I heard Mother talking