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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] Hollywood.  Goodbye,' she said, with a big,  beautiful  _____ .  Then she turned and  walked quickly away.  Nick sat      
[002]  an opened the door.  He looked tired and there was no  _____  on his face.  Hello, I'm Cathy Wilson,' I began.   I'm     
[003]  when you meet  her the first thing you  notice is her  _____ . Her face is a  little wrinkled now, but I think she i     
[004] paper.  She could  not see his mouth,  but there was a  _____  in his eyes.  Quickly, she looked down at the  newspap     
[005]  punished? I try to  keep my mouth closed tight when I  _____  or laugh, but  the effort  is killing me. Who will eve     
[006]  brown eyes.  She watched me  carefully but she didn't  _____ .  The weather changed and the sun was warm.  In the  a     
[007] nose were like holes in the face.  The face  could not  _____  or laugh or look angry or sad, because the  skin could     


	
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[001] he  American people.  Every man has the right to enjoy  _____   service and the right to vote, he said.  It was time    
[002] s knights sat at a  round table so that they were  all  _____  - nobody was sitting at the head of the  table. Many o     
[003] dren are so well behaved? G: Oh no - there are roughly  _____  numbers of boys and girls in  every class, at least th     
[004] ther  King speak about the need for black people to be  _____  with  white people.  He began with these words, which      
[005]  USA The  government of the USA has three separate but  _____  parts:  Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court
[006] id Mr Darcy politely, holding out his  hand.  But with  _____  politeness Elizabeth refused again, and turned  away.       
[007]  'Jane,' he said, 'I ask you to be my wife. You are my  _____ ,  Jane.  Will you marry me? Don't you believe me?'  'N   


	
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[001]  more slowly.  Then he heard a new noise .  Water.  'A  _____ !' he thought.  'The dogs can't follow me across water.     
[002]    straight into the sky and disappeared. I sat by the  _____  and watched it go, on its way back to  whatever corner     
[003] his  eyes. He brought the boat over to the side of the  _____ .  'They have real houses,' April said.  'We'll see abo     
[004] r said.  He drove the boat to the opposite bank of the  _____ , to keep  us away from the village, and ordered us to      
[005] ed over.  The level of the water was very low, and the  _____  was just a  stretch of mud.  The crowd outside shouted     
[006]  he hit a police car, and the police car went into the  _____ ! What a story! His father bought a new car for the p     
[007]   he said quickly.  'You can get out of town along the  _____ .  Follow the back of the houses.  Nobody goes there.       


	
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[001]  Unroll the cake and take  off the greaseproof paper.   _____  the butter cream over the  cake.  Then roll it up agai   
[002]  chest, his head lay on his other arm and his hair was  _____  over the pillow.  They looked at him in silence. Then     
[003] n prisoner and sold as slaves.  The terrible news soon  _____  around Greece. No other city-  state was interested in     
[004] East and West for the first time, and after his ideas,  _____  more freely between countries. Although he lived more     
[005] ed.  The crisis began in Thailand this spring, and has  _____  throughout Southeast Asia, felling currencies and mar     
[006] ner  promptly  adopted. Since then, his interests have  _____  to video,  where he  has amassed an impressive array o     
[007]    continue the violence.  Having ended its mission to  _____  revolution abroad,  Cuba's  military is undertaking a   


	
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[001]   pity  Oliver, a poor hungry boy, with nothing to eat  _____  a bowl of  thin soup every day. And we are angry with      
[002] the door shut.  In one room, there was nowhere to wash  _____  a broken wash-basin. Another had a kitchen sink in 
[003]  his London houses has the biggest garden in the city,  _____  for Buckingham Palace.  With all  this, is he a happy      
[004]   public demonstrations. They were always out of work,  _____ , of course,  that they  weren't looking for work. Some     
[005] not allowed to take any cash out when you leave Egypt,  _____  coins for souvenirs. The  best place to try the local      
[006] hool. I was five and everyone in the school was white,  _____  for one Chinese boy and me, and the others called us      
[007] d,  terrible anger filled me, and I could feel nothing  _____   burning  hate.  Slowly I took a knife from my pocket,     


	
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[001]  art clubs, English  clubs. And of course the American  _____  of baseball, Japanese  students, at least the boys, a     
[002] r, with the sea and moors  for scenery, you can play a  _____  of golf on  superb golf courses.  Or just enjoy ordina     
[003] l are  popular.  American football is a very different  _____  from  European football; players carry the ball more t     
[004]  I replied.  'On Thursday nights my  wife and I play a  _____  of cards, and on Sundays she  reads me her weekly lett     
[005] aid Harald.  'Your wife isn't stupid, you  know.  This  _____  has not ended  yet.  Sit still, and be  ready.'  The o     
[006] , so you won't understand it.'  'What is it? A special  _____  for little boys?'  'It's a very difficult competition      
[007] ers, not to take  them.  I  always wanted to win every  _____ , every  fight, and  to be first in everything.  All th     


	
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[001]  west because of the strong west wind.  So they sailed  _____  to South Africa, Tasmania, and Tahiti.  There were th     
[002] est there was beach and the  Mediterranean Sea; to the  _____  there were mountains. The fighting area was too narro     
[003]  see much of the sun:  cloudy all day, I'm afraid. The  _____  coast of England will see the best of today's weathe     
[004] utch.  By 1770, there were thirteen colonies along the  _____  coast of North America, and they were all governed by     
[005] wind  was very strong.   About thirty kilometres south- _____  of St Abbs Head is a group of small rocky islands not     
[006] r way. He has  travelled a lot,  especially in the Far  _____ . He has seen the Taj Mahal in India and the Pyramids  
[007] o a lot  of work  abroad, and I often go to the Middle  _____ , which is my  specialist area, so I often fly to Saud  


	
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[001] ondon Marathon has become the biggest British sporting  _____  -  overtaking the boat race and the Derby in the numb     
[002]  ies and gentlemen sat down to enjoy a special musical  _____ . The musicians were the best in the city, but the mus     
[003] rowing more and more discontented. A serious political  _____  seemed to be just around the corner. Yury's  dreams -      
[004]      But in all of this excitement, the most important  _____  for Yury was  meeting his son. Yury had been called in 
[005] has mushroomed into South America's most important art  _____ , a world-class show rivaling those in Italy and Germa     
[006]      and is devoted to educating the public about that  _____ . It achieves that task through its permanent and chan     
[007]  the reason why a marriage breaks down. It's really an  _____  that brings out the reasons why a marriage has alread     


	
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[001] said Janey.  She was silent, then asked,  'How did she  _____ ?' 'She fell through the ice, out on that lake.'  He lo     
[002] f Avalon to get better. We  understand that he did not  _____ ,  but lives on and will return when his country  needs     
[003]    survive. In Africa and Asia, ten per cent of babies  _____  before they are one year old. Average life expectancy     
[004] for instance flowers need water and attention, or they  _____ . I  must  say, though, I think it's better to end a re     
[005]    Oh no!' cried Susan.  The hospital! Is Tim going to  _____ ?'  No, no.  Tim's going to be all right.  But the doct     
[006] possibility of  thunder and  lightening. The wind will  _____  out but the rest of the weekend will remain wet.  Not     
[007] . 'Don't  say anything about her to me.' 'What did she  _____  of.' asked  Noah.  Of a broken heart, some of our old   


	
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[001]   are large companies.  About 3,000 British businesses  _____  more than 500 people.  Of the top 500 European  compan  
[002]  nts, say, an airport or  a bridge or a hospital. They  _____  a consultant engineer to design it and prepare all t     
[003] panies have taken advantage of cheap communications to  _____  data-entry clerks in Barbados, paying them $2 an hour     
[004]    future a British firm in for example, London, might  _____  clerks in Belfast, or a Paris company could have the     
[005] t 75% of British jobs are in service industries;  they  _____  over twenty million people.  Many British companies h     
[006] on't know what I'll do after the inquiry.  Nobody will  _____  me as an officer again. I haven't any money to go an     
[007] ace prejudice, but is aware of t he abilities she  can  _____  to overcome this handicap. Likewise, Shola is hardhead