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Quiz 066

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]  countries.  He is best known as the writer of English  _____  courseslike New Concept English (1967), Look Listen      
[002]  not hear the voice clearly.  He believes that the  _____  was Spanish.  He described the room and the bodies as     
[003] voice of a foreigner.  And nobody could understand the  _____  that was spoken.  "The voice was very unusual, but      
[004]  capital of England, and English is the international  _____  of business.  Do you enjoy working in the City?  Yes,     
[005]   French people came first, and French is the first  _____  of many  Canadians today.  But Britain ruled the count     
[006]  going to spend a year in China soon, studying Chinese  _____  and history at university, and I wondered if you      
[007]   the time that he was a small boy.  He understood the  _____  of horses.  He knew their thoughts and feelings.        


	
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[001]      the orang-utan and sold it.  Dupin and I told the  _____  of Police everything.  The mystery was solved, but      
[002]  it had only received about 20 calls from schools. Its  _____  executive, Nick Tate, said: 'The mark schemes have      
[003]    Stephen Tumim is not having his contract renewed as  _____  Inspector of Prisons. Lord Justice Woolf's groundbrea     
[004]    with the greatest clarity by Jonathan Aitken, the  _____  Secretary. But it has also, most colourfully, capture     
[005]    to reduce each class by one child, according to one  _____  education officer. Some  research suggests that money      
[006]   responsible and dishonest seaman. Behind him was the  _____  engineer, a tall, thin man, and the second engineer,      
[007]  In 1944 the American Army bought thirty thousand, the  _____  reason being that soldiers could write with them out  


	
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[001]                    Gucci has new designs every spring,  _____ , fall, and winter.  Of course, the company wants custo     
[002]          Well, it's quite popular with tourists in the  _____ , but I would guess there will be none in this season     
[003]             I work near hot ovens (especially awful in  _____ ). I have to lift fairly heavy loads up off the floor     
[004]      and I am interested in coming to your school this  _____ . I have studied English for three years but I have no     
[005]   "An old man, Mr Williamson, is staying there for the  _____ ,'  a man told me.  'I can't tell you anything about      
[006]               It was mid-afternoon on a hot day in the  _____   season, and very quiet. There was no traffic on the  
[007]                 'Really I am a student, but during the  _____  holidays I work to pay back the money that I owe for     


	
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[001]             I put my arms round him, and held him.  We  _____  like that, and we talked quietly. He told me he had      
[002]           We soon realized that she was dying.  As she  _____  in bed, close to death, she took my hand and Elizabeht
[003] outside my window.  The cat was crying like a baby.  I  _____  under the dark shadow.  I knew it was the shadow of      
[004]  in my  room quietly.  It was 'there' all the time.  I  _____  in bed and listened, but the room was silent.       
[005] to their friends and loved ones, or make wreaths,  or  _____  bouquets on the bier. Such a gesture is part      
[006]   to jump out of bed, but couldn't mow in my fear.  I  _____  there and the thin black cloud came nearer and nearer     
[007] rallying cry?  'Nursery school works!'  Many observers  _____  some of the blame for our present parlous penal poli     


	
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[001]       to and from their place of work, never mind the  _____  of that, and the stress it can cause.  I mean, the      
[002]       cloths,' said Dusty.  Well, we must buy more. No  _____  must be spared.  Pennyfeather, as soon as you have the     
[003] not a bad thing in itself, but it should not be at the  _____  of teaching time.' 'The responsibility for learning      
[004]       Domini Social Equity, an index fund whose annual  _____  ratio of 0 9 percent far exceeds the 0. percent       
[005]   so far, it has said no.  The reason given is that of  _____ . As the past ten days have proved, class size is so      
[006]      but added that this should not be achieved at the  _____  of a broad curriculum. Policy-makers, he argued,      
[007]      and a half has been largely ad hoc, bought at the  _____  of any coherence between the institutions and the off    


	
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[002] the tall green trees.  They ate and they talked.  Then  _____  came.  'Now let's go home,' the Queen said.       
[003] alked a long way and began to feel very tired.  In the  _____  she slept under a tree.  There her baby boy was born.  
[001]   helped them.  One day he came to a great wood.  When  _____  came, King Arthur was not out of the wood.       
[007]   I'll invite him to this fIat at six o'clock tomorrow  _____ .  Before that, I hope we'll have some answers.      
[018]  she thought, 'I don't know who's doing what! But this  _____  we're going to the Herod Atticus Theatre, under the       
[014] he invited me for dinner.  I told him my plans for the  _____ , with the group.  But just then, a little boy came      
[006] uiet man, a kind man.  He liked to walk with me in the  _____  when there weren't many people on the street.'     
[009]   years old.  He sat down in the nearest chair.  'Good  _____ , Mr Windibank,' Holmes said.  'Good                      


	
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[001]         That's why I like travelling around Europe.  I  _____  visiting different cities.  I photograph old building     
[002] little in hard cash. Everyone owns things he would not  _____  losing and would miss if a burglar took them      
[003]       the open air and hate crowds! In summer, you can  _____  bathing from miles of smooth, calm, sandy beaches.       
[004] taking people unhappy on this trip.  Everyone wants to  _____  themselves and you're being -well- difficult.'     
[005]                   were always very, very bad.  I don't  _____  Tuesday evenings now.  I'm afraid of Tuesday  nights.      
[006] talk to the  scientists who worked there.  I wanted to  _____  our visit, but one thing was always in my mind?     
[007] love! You do not know what I have suffered.  But let's  _____  this beautiful day together and not be sad.' 'Be happy   


	
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[001]    and told me to fix something up.  Another gave me a  _____  of rope and told me I could tie the door shut.       
[002]       of being a thoughtful speaker - she can speak at  _____  on almost any subject - and a good listener.        
[003] mpatient. They explained that they were annoyed by the  _____  of time they had to wait to catch the lift.       
[004]    London, he called it 'the city', and walked Pam the  _____  and breadth of it. But the peace did not last,      
[005] diately followed by another paragraph, of almost equal  _____ , about civilian killings by the Russians.      
[006]    on 'her full lips, the dark brown eyes and shoulder- _____  dark  brown hair. In my mind I replayed her light kiss     
[007]  imus and Commodus stared at each other, just an arm's  _____  away. The crowd was quiet now but they could not hear    


	
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[001]  products.  The company started in 1921 with one small  _____  in Italy.  Today, there are Gucci stores in many of   
[002]  1953 and gave the company to his sons.  They opened a  _____  in New York.  Rich and famous Americans wore Gucci's      
[003]    is the world's most famous and expensive department  _____ . It has departments selling  verything from food to      
[004]  saw the bedroom.  She left me there and went into the  _____  for the medicine. I could hear her talking to herself     
[005]  of the items offered as evidence of the body in the  _____  of forensic evidence kep  for research purposes. The     
[006]   lucky.  Technology has made it possible to collect,  _____  and retrieve almost limitless amounts of personal in     
[007] rsonal information about every aspect of our lives and  _____  it on tiny disks that weigh only a few ounces.     


	
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[001]  if you don't bring them flowers in hospital, and they  _____  pleasure when you do. But failure to make the gesture     
[002]     that seem  made for love. I don't suppose he could  _____  himself very well, but there are moments when our      
[003]    and going for country walks, and not being asked to  _____  opinions about things (like love). So then she said,  
[004]  was my ministry. He had provided this forum for me to  _____  the gospel. That gave me aggression and enthusiasm to     
[005]    she could hardly speak, she had recently managed to  _____  a wish to see me. And so my cousins Eliza and Georgia     
[006]   past as a racehorse, and went over the jumps like an  _____  train, nearly frightening Hoomey to death.       
[007] post was carried across the country by the famous Pony  _____ .  Horses and riders waited at different places;