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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] who found the running difficult.  So winter passed and  _____  came.  More people started coming to the swimming poo     
[002] on  a soft afternoon just like this, with a whisper of  _____  in the  air.  And all the days between then and now ca     
[003]   was impossible to travel and I had to wait until the  _____ .  The month of May arrived.  I waited for a letter fro     
[004] nnie was looking out of the window at the perfect late  _____   afternoon.  She turned back to them and pulled a joke     
[005] ed Mrs. Smiling, and Charles came too, with a bunch of  _____  flowers which he nearly forgot, but put into Flora's      
[006]     So I looked at the other window.  It had a similar  _____ , and the nail in it seemed as strong as the other one     
[007] the second piece of the nail back.  Then I pressed the  _____  and opened the window.  The first piece of the nail s      


	
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[001]   have become ill, but not many.  There's nothing very  _____ .  Mary read the results carefully.  She didn't like th     
[002]   'Oliver,' said Doctor Sheppard, 'the problem is more  _____   than that.  Jenny is very ill.  She has a  blood dise     
[003]    wears special clothing.  We haven't had  - a single  _____  accident in three years.'  I'm pleased to hear it,' sa     
[004] u like to hide  your true feelings.'  'Oh, don't be so  _____ , Basil,' smiled Lord Henry.  'Let's go into the gard     
[005]    words are very amusing, of course, but you laugh at  _____  things.  Don't take him away from me.  He's necessary 
[006] pector Holm.  'I  told you,  Prime Minister, this is a  _____  mistake.'  'Be quiet, man,' said Colonel Carter.  'I      
[007]  said so,' replied Causton.  'There's going to be some  _____  fighting soon.  I'm waiting here for news.  But what       


	
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[001] er  where life came from.  I wanted to experiment with  _____  as much as possible.  I wanted to create life.  But f     
[002] ng happy, friendly,  young people.  He had enjoyed his  _____  studies and wanted to become an engineer.  But after      
[003] ,  people were also learning a lot of new things about  _____ .  They were, for example, discovering something  very      
[004] t  to play children's games.  I read a lot of books on  _____ .  The most interesting subject to me was chemistry.  I     
[005] ngs.   I wanted to learn more about different kinds of  _____ .  So, I started to study these subjects with even mor     
[006] ut I want to teach you  chemistry.  That is an area of  _____  that is growing.  We  are discovering new things all      
[007] re really ghosts? These are some of the mysteries that  _____  has no answers for.  They frighten and excite us.  Som    


	
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[001] ody 'gives' blood, they just 'lend' it. They are quite  _____  to get it back one day. And we don't keep your blood,     
[002] have ever seen a  psychiatrist all this information is  _____  to be on record somewhere. On record, and, in our inc     
[003]   cargo can be delivered at one time, and less time is  _____  to be wasted on the way. Cargo goes straight from A t     
[004] e loves dancing!  Everybody knows that means he's very  _____  to fall in love!'  As politeness required, Mr Bingley      
[005]  been terribly disappointed, especially when it seemed  _____  that Nancy could have no more children.  Nancy's relig     
[006] think of behaving as Adam feared. But it was even less  _____  that he would want to marry her. Young country gentlem     
[007]  reasonable - they were  nonsense. He guessed the more  _____  reason the workers were annoyed was that they waited     


	
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[001] in the USA. Many people who have never been to the USA  _____  it from films and TV programmes.  Then there is the wo     
[002] Half the name's  missing, you see. I don't suppose you  _____  the house, do you?'  No, I don't,' said Mr Binks. It's     
[003] urrounding Luord Abbey - every child in the room could  _____  the place. There was a horrible creature in white fol     
[004]    I can grow a beard,' said Dunning, so that he won't  _____  me. But who knows when the end will come?'  I think I     
[005] wearing glasses, and felt sure that Karswell would not  _____  him. He noticed that he no longer felt himself to be      
[006] esses so richly.  An older, more experienced man would  _____  all the good things in her character, and would find     
[007] h her aunt had quietly left.  For a moment she did not  _____  him. He was forty-five years old, fatter, with thinni  


	
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[001] atever books you intended to buy, if they have them in  _____ .  Then, if the price is reasonable, you decide to buy      
[002]   in fresh produce and meat - and don't even bother to  _____  toothpaste or soap. The company also has two conveni     
[003]     prompting some pundits to say that one of the best  _____  market runs in  history was over. The Dow finished tha     
[004]     companies, excluding Japan, listed on the New York  _____  Exchange went to 30 this year from 2  in  1988, and Am     
[005]      on that issue.   With the 10th anniversary of the  _____  market's 23 percent plunge coming up in just a few w 
[006]    rous and irresponsible fashion?   Ten years after a  _____  market crash marked the beginning of the end of an era     
[007]  in Texas in the 70's when oil prices were soaring and  _____  and bond prices were plunging.  "It's important that      


	
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[001] the war yet.  Serrurier's army is already beginning to  _____ , from the west and the south east.  Favel has only      
[002] y black  people in front of his house.  They wanted to  _____  the white policemen.  Bravely, King told them, "I wan     
[003] reasons.  Rome was in the centre of Italy, so it could  _____  to the north  and the south.  And Italy was a safe cou     
[004] said.   I can't fight any  more.  And the monkeys will  _____  us again.'  They will not move until I tell them to mo     
[005] after this,  but the people in the north continued  to  _____ .  Others crossed from north Africa to                      
[006] tres   from Rome to the sea, so the city was safe from  _____  by foreign ships.  But Roman ships could sail down the     
[007] ed  in and nearly killed King with a knife.  After the  _____ , King was weak for some months.  But he forgave the w   


	
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[001]   her hair across her face, and some books fell on the  _____ .  In the grey morning light,  Grace looked out across     
[002] ted angrily.   He pushed her away, and she fell to the  _____  and lay there like a broken bird.  'Dorian, please don     
[003]  With  angry fingers he dropped the photographs on the  _____ .  'She said that you didn't have the list... She said      
[004]  hear nothing - only the  drip, drip of blood onto the  _____ .  Alan, in a locked room upstairs there is a dead body     
[005]   into a long, low  room.  Men were lying on the dirty  _____ , a sailor was asleep on a table and two women were dr     
[006]  I cried.  'And did you see the bed? It's fixed to the  _____ .  She can't move it.  It must stay under the rope,      
[007] a 'cheap' flat near the university.  It was on the top  _____  of an old house and was actually very expensive.  But   


	
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[001] joy. I can't see how I'll ever be able to leave it - I  _____  the education for anything better. But I still have      
[002] they are always full of friendly people.  You'll never  _____  someone to talk to in a B&B -  even if you come alone,     
[003]    cold, because you're alone. You're ill, because you  _____  love. And you're a fool, because love is near you,       
[004]  prices charged are quite reasonable.  There's never a  _____  of enjoyable ways to spend time, even if the weather     
[005] n,  looking in vain for work. I was now very weak from  _____  of food, and I  began to  wonder why I should struggle     
[006]  Bennet and her other daughters apologized for Lydia's  _____  of manners.  Mr Collins. was not a sensible man, and      
[007]  yourself poor. When have you ever suffered because of  _____  of money?' 'Well, perhaps I haven't really suffered  


	
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[001]  great  amount of money. He is so rich that he can buy  _____  he wants. A few years ago he built the biggest palace     
[002]     be in a hurry, or you'll go crazy. First, you find  _____  books you intended to buy, if they have them in stock     
[003]  of  thing. We've never met the boyfriend or fiance or  _____  he is  - Tony, his name is. He doesn't have a job.     
[004]  the ground with a spade or chopping wood with an axe.  _____  it is, the exercise should leave you out of breath.      
[005] t  by the river and watched it go, on its way back to   _____  corner of the universe it came from. This was about t     
[006] ress.  Do you want me to go?' Godfrey asked Nancy.  Do  _____  you like,' replied Nancy, trying to sound cold  again.     
[007]  sorry it was one of my family who stole it from  you.  _____  I can do for you, I will, to repay what I owe you, a