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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]   were demonstrated by a Japanese violinist before its  _____  by auction yesterday. The demonstration attracted a      
[002]  then the shop is busy - like when they have a special  _____  on - they make lots of unnecessary mistakes because      
[003]       a crowd of music-lovers who were waiting for the  _____  to start, many of whom had never actually heard such      
[004] ese  books some fifteen years before they appeared for  _____ .  Two more books followed: Mansfield Park (1814) and      
[005]   and Rick saw the end of his laser gun.  It's not for  _____ .' Luba Luft looked at Rick and the colour left her fa     
[006] le.  The story of his life, How to be Seventy, went on  _____   in bookshops on his seventieth birthday in 1982.  He      
[007]  prices. There are no bargains, and nothing is ever on  _____ . The Queen does most of her shopping there. However,       


	
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[001]   him even more when he did this.  Today, of course, I  _____  that his advice was always very good and sensible.  
[002]   he spoke in a low hurried voice.  He did not seem to  _____  that I was there.  I pu my head close to his to cat     
[003] olding a dead child in her arms.  She did not seem to   _____  that the child was dead.  'We can't do anything to he     
[004]   Why didn't I see you before I left? I'm so sorry.  I  _____  I was selfish.  I promise I won't be selfish again.       
[005]   game.  I was almost happy while we played.  I didn't  _____  that this was a joke -  an evil joke.  At the beginnin     
[006]     like that, you know. As you get older you begin to  _____  the things that are important to you.  Of course you b     
[007]  'At first you were just a friend, but then I began to  _____  my feelings for you.  Yes, it was dangerous ? I had to  


	
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[001]   let's go this morning after breakfast. I need half a  _____  of tea. We can buy that, and choose the silk for my      
[002]  was always shy when a man entered the shop. Give me a  _____  of those things,' he said, waving at some sweets.      
[003] ses to the area urgently.  Please give all you can. No  _____  or penny will ever have been better spent, or more a     
[004]  in a tank because I'm small. I could pick up those 90- _____  shells without any trouble.' The Navy has the most      
[005]  a neighbour finally chose a shawl and held out a five- _____  note.  The shop-boy looked at the note. Town and Count     
[006] ways standing here, but you wouldn't have change for a  _____ , would you? It's for the phone box. Second Man: Here     
[007]     job clubs, have already sent nearly 8,000 women to  _____  the pavement with resumes and newly fired dreams, th  
 

	
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[001] was talking to an older man with short grey hair and a  _____  face.  Julie introduced him as John Causton, an Englis     
[002]   work on plans for the new house. Something clean and  _____ ,' had been Mrs Beste-Chetwynde's instructions, and t     
[003] decided to go to the big police station in the central  _____  of the city, and hoped that he would find  Wyatt and     
[004]    he could still hear the guns.  At the corner of the  _____  he saw an army car with a tall, fair haired man next     
[005]   first team tries to hit the ball and run round a big  _____  from corner to corner.  The players from the second      
[006]  Ontario, Huron, Michigan, and  Superior cover 244,108  _____  kilometres? more than any other group of lakes in the     
[007]  n, where 200,000 Navajo people live, is nearly 65,000  _____  kilometres.  The Navajo make wonderful coloured blank     


	
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[001] loud.  The men followed the noise to the sandwich.  'I  _____  she made this last night,' said one of the men.  'Stup     
[002]   school, Christine?' he asked her.  'Oh, all right, I  _____ ,' she said.  She didn't look very happy.  'I've  got 
[003] s  for the  local newspaper.  He's a nice young man, I  _____ .  But  every time I speak to him, we argue.  And then     
[004] l, I hope you gave him some,' he said, then  added,  I  _____  Zeena got to the station in time?'  Zeena's name broug     
[005] rock group and  I'm also  a keen photographer. Well, I  _____  for me the most important thing is enjoyment. If, if     
[006] ually.  I: Which was the worst? J: The worst?  Well, I  _____  it was while I was at university... my girlfriend Su     
[007] red if  he was feeling desperate about something.'  'I  _____  you'll go on asking questions until you get an answer     


	
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[001] can drink as much coffee as you want, all for the same  _____ .  In fact, you can drink coffee all day in the USA.       
[002]  Houston  Street.  Many artists moved to SoHo, but the  _____  of apartments became very high.  The prices were bett     
[003]     her guests a free cooked breakfast included in the  _____  of the room. Cheap hotels (those that charge �20 and      
[004] ght a ticket to South America today.  At a really good  _____ .  Oh! What about us, Alex? Isn't our relationship imp     
[005] ded to buy, if they  have them in stock.  Then, if the  _____  is reasonable, you decide to buy them.  Now, instead      
[006]  places people give a 'tip'- extra money on top of the  _____ .  Without this extra money, many workers do not have       
[007]  Americans a way to protest.  But they paid a terrible  _____ : violence and many deaths.  Peaceful protests grew mo    


	
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[001] his neck.   Do that again, Captain Bligh, and you're a  _____  man!' he said quietly.  At the front of the ship, Pete     
[002] y  asked.  It sank,' Bligh said.   All our friends are  _____ .  We need food and water.'  The islanders laughed.  I  
[003] thing out of his pocket.  It was a  photograph of  his  _____  wife, Jan's mother.  He spoke very quietly   not to  J     
[004] ht?  I just wanted to know that.  I was afraid she was  _____ .'  The doctor smiled.  Would you like to see her? She     
[005] he guards shot him too.  Your  wife, and your son, are  _____ .  Your  friends' came and told me yesterday.  You ha     
[006]  son.  Get out there and find him.  And bring him back  _____  or alive!'  At the door Felix turned and looked at her     
[007] shoulders. He didn't move. 'Oh, my God, I believe he's  _____ .'  She knelt down and rolled him onto his back. She      


	
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[001]    not,' replied Karen.  'But what about you? Will you  _____  for me? Do you know how many women work for this fa    
[002]  to beat and murder black people.  Black men could not  _____  until 1870, and even after they got the right to           
[003]  from Puerto Rico do not pay American taxes and cannot  _____  in American elections.  There are two important polit     
[004]    man had no answer.  'Very well, gentlemen. We shall  _____  on it. The question is: do you agree with Mrs Morgan'     
[005]       until 1870, and even after they got the right to  _____ , they often did not use it because they were frightene     
[006]   the President, and the Supreme Court.  Women got the  _____  in 1920 and all Americans can now                          
[007] demanding that party leaders be selected by democratic  _____  rather than appointment by a governing clique. If th e  


	
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[001]  great problem of education is to train young minds to  _____  between right and wrong, not just to learn self-contr     
[002]   left, Dorian uncovered the picture again.  He had to  _____  between a good life and a bad life, he thought.  But     
[003] other and daughter change and grow.  The mother has to  _____  between her work and her family, but she also has to       
[004]  more people are interested in healthy eating, so they  _____  foods that are better for them or they decide to  stop     
[005]     all over the world you can go to a coffee shop and  _____  from a very long menu of coffees.  What else can you      
[006]  travel company.  He asked me to work for them.  I can  _____  the tours that I do.  He offered me more money than G     
[007] for the mugger to grab, push and run. He won't usually  _____  a victim who looks as if she might fight back.'  Ano      


	
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[001]  Orient Express!' said Agatha.  I've always wanted to   _____  on that famous train.  I'll go to Baghdad, not the Wes  
[002] the park. You can visit the castle of Sleeping Beauty,  _____  on a river boat, or have an Indiana Jones or Tarzan a     
[003] he said, in a frightened voice.  'But I can't swim, or  _____ , or shoot! I can't do any of those things!'  'You can     
[004] form!' she said, and banged the window shut.  'Can you  _____  a horse - drive a car - dive - fly a plane - shoot?'       
[005]    - well, I wanted more than anything in the world to  _____  on a donkey's back!  Of course, I couldn't. I had to     
[006] leigh down  here waiting for us? Come on, let's take a  _____ !'  The girl said nothing, but stood still, watching, w     
[007]   much explosive. Why had Bledsoe offered to give me a  _____   on his plane, if Mattingly was going to use it? I did