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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]  him. 'How long have you been in England?' I said. 'My  _____  of arrival was 1991,' he said. 'I came here from Wars         
[002]  calendar; this calendar calculates the years from the  _____  of Jesus Christ's birth.  So the year AD 1000 was the     
[003]  in Russia there are eleven different time zones.  The  _____  changes by one day at the International                   
[004]   a real line ? you can't see it or touch it.  But the  _____  in countries west of this line is always one day  earl     
[005] rrible things for the white men in 1891.  'After this   _____ , we'll get our land back,' Wovoka told his people.  Th     
[006] djectives but the dictionaries are all a little out of  _____ .  A modern Englishman uses the word 'clever' to mean  
[007]   reduce the losses of recent  years. it was the up-to- _____  way to move cargo around the  world.  The plan was wor  


	
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[001] s were  helping the injured  villagers. I recognized a  _____  face under a uniform hat -  Sergeant Roche of the har     
[002] his own feet now walked across the stones. He felt the  _____  roughness under his feet and smelled the bitter air o     
[003] nx. " But we're watching individual players." It was a  _____  feeling. Earlier in the afternoon, the Lady Bruins  h     
[004] effort.  He makes an impression by turning a strangely  _____  world upside down. Seen from the ramp leading down to     
[005]   were covered with dust, but it felt good to feel the  _____  ground under his feet. He found a small area of half- 
[006]  walked into the room,and Komarovsky spoke to him in a  _____  manner. 'My dear young man. As you know, I was a grea     
[007] uggested Ralph Pent-Hartigan, taking Flora's hand in a  _____  but rather pleasing way. But Flora had to go and help    


	
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[001] fire quickly reached her skin.  Ana's body burned with  _____  and pain.  She fell heavily to the floor.  The doctor     
[002]   went home and started running outside, but the sun's  _____  was too strong for her.  Her skin was weak and it bur     
[003]   Immediately! I'm going to study the use of the sun's  _____  to  warm houses and factories! I have to go to London      
[004] e saw a  very large light in the sky and felt terrible  _____ .  It almost burnt his shirt off his back.  Suddenly,      
[005]     of water there? seas and rivers.  Some people like  _____ , so they live on drier planets.  'We've made Space Gat     
[006] the kitchen. L: Yes, but think how expensive it is  to  _____  our house at the moment, and that's partly because the     
[007]    the ceilings were lower it would be much cheaper to  _____ . I mean our gas bills would really go down. J: I  supp 


	
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[001]  brought different styles of building.  There were two  _____  reasons for each new style? builders skills and city
[002]  true -  for lots of reasons, but I think there is one  _____  reason. P:  What is that? G: I think it's the Japanese     
[003] ng,  maybe an omelette and a beer, and then have their  _____  meal at lunchtime, and then 'tapas,' which are lots      
[004] e than 300 bus lines and 4,200 buses.  They run on the  _____  streets and usually travel north-south or east-west.      
[005] ?  Sometimes it is not easy to decide.  Is someone the  _____  actor in a movie, or just a supporting actor? The act     
[006]   391  AD, under Theodosius I, Christianity became the  _____  religion of the empire.  Today, the Roman Catholic C     
[007] ght) are easily available and often close to  London's  _____  areas of theatres, movies, museums, and other popular     


	
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[001] .  From the beginning of history, people have tried to  _____  time from the movements of the sun, moon and stars.       
[002] endar.  In the Christian calendar, for example, people  _____  the years from the birth of Jesus Christ.  But the we     
[003] Thursday, for example).  Great periods of time We  can  _____  bigger periods of time too.  These are often part of    
[004] them out every evening to look at them, feel them, and  _____  them. The coins shone in the Firelight, and Silas lov     
[005] care of the house, or the horse, or himself.  He  lost  _____  of the days and forgot to eat or sleep. He drank vodka     
[006]         other out-of-town competitors.   By the latest  _____ , there are 58 million working women in the United Stat    
[007]     was 500,000 -  very  bad.  The days when the death  _____  from AIDS rose every year everywhere are gone. So are  


	
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[001] went to Digby, Nova Scotia, and he joined the Canadian  _____  on May 6, 1915.  He gave his real name, Archie Belane    
[002] mportance.  Rome was a dangerous enemy.  Later, as its  _____  grew bigger, Rome went to war with  neighbouring peopl     
[003]   were sold as slaves.  Businessmen travelled with the  _____  and bought prisoners from the Roman soldiers.  In the     
[004] ection, so Rome went to war again.  Hannibal moved his  _____  north through Spain and east towards Italy.  He want     
[005] r England as a soldier.   When he arrived, he left the  _____  for two weeks.  He wanted to visit his two aunts in       
[006] society. There were peasants, soldiers from the German  _____ , churchmen, students, disappointed politicians and tr     
[007] dered by many people  to be the true spirit of the Red  _____  during the Civil War.  They were known for being untra  


	
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[001] him, ask me!' Fiona said.  'He's my husband, and I can  _____  it.  I'm going to get a good lawyer, and I'm going to     
[002] o, rather  than for  an especially long time. Could he  _____  it? In his report to the manager, the psychologist su     
[003] nia weather. You must come and see our photos. They'll  _____  what I'm saying is true. But I'm warning you -  they'l     
[004] There are no names on lottery tickets.'  'So she can't  _____  that it was her ticket,' said Jason.  'She can't take 
[005] ing so fast?   What excuse did we have? None. He could  _____  that we were criminals in any court of law in the  lan     
[006] could not say who the real criminal  was.  We tried to  _____  that Justine was not guilty.  Justine did not know w     
[007]  their fight for  independence now. Everyone rushed to  _____  that they were Alexander's greatest allies.  At last      


	
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[001] club, Hall cannot talk, but he can sit in the room and  _____ .  Hall is an interesting man.  He wears strange cloth     
[002] You must rest," her friends told her.  But Ana did not  _____ .  Every day she walked a little farther.  She refused      
[003] the crowd waited  without a sound.  They were there to  _____  to one man.  At last, the speaker was introduced.  T     
[004]  people will think you are clever, polite and amusing.  _____  to the weather reports on the radio and you will hear 
[005] me  with me.  Oh, Alex!  Of course I'll come with you.  _____  to the people shouting.  The new Millennium has begun     
[006]  of music in the city's hundreds of clubs.  Or you can  _____  to music in churches, on the streets, and in the subwa     
[007] arhol.  Visitors to the museum can also  see films and  _____  to live music.  American Museum of Natural History Th     


	
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[001] rk.  Because of  this, they wanted to live quietly and  _____  money.  Then, one day, they could live as free men a     
[002] very year more animals were killed.  But could one man  _____  the land that he loved? How could he send this messag     
[003] eace in the world,  or will there be more wars? Can we  _____  our environment, or will we destroy our planet? Of co     
[004] r.  They took  her to hospital, where doctors tried to  _____  her life.  But it was no good.  She died at about fo 
[005]   Havana's Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital worked hard to  _____  their famous patient.  People all over Cuba listened      
[006]   about the things that we buy today.  Our actions can  _____  the rainforest.  Chico's brave fight must continue.       
[007] bodies? How can an ordinary man suddenly lift a car to  _____  someone's life? How do people walk on fire without fe     


	
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[001]  the movie: "I'm king  of the world!" He later joked, " _____  does matter!" Everything  about Titanic was big.  It w     
[002] n the centre of Rome.  But  we  know its shape and its  _____ .  We can also imagine what it looked  like.  There is     
[003] ern Ireland.  It is about 250,000 square kilometres in  _____  and 1,000  kilometres from north to south.  The Britis     
[004] ut 29,000  square miles in a year.  That's an area the  _____  of the whole of Scotland  disappearing every year. Tre     
[005] of it. The leader had  guided them at every step.  The  _____  of the first season's crop proved the hybrid corn's a     
[006] nt.  You'll need a pair of good running shoes, and the  _____  should be right. Too tight or too loose leads to sore
[007]  Australia have tried to address the question of class  _____ . Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece and Norwa