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Quiz 068

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]      Now, on their way to Narragansett Bay, the rivers  _____  unobstructed past gleaming office towers, parks, It     
[002] rs poured down her face like rain water.  She let them  _____ . It was quiet and private under the orange  tree. She      
[003] nd of her piece of sewing.  Mattie's  warmth seemed to  _____  along it towards him.  Could she feel the answering w     
[004]  to the side of the road so as not to obstruct traffic  _____ ,  especially on a crossroads. Allow movement to retur     
[005] e other plate.  When they connected, electricity would  _____  along the wire to the box that would set off the expl     
[006]  is the first authoritative estimate of the net annual  _____   of illegal Mexican workers into the United States, wh     
[007] s you I have to thank...'  I spoke quickly to stop his  _____  of words. 'Stein was helped when he was young, and no     


	
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[001] 'There's a storm coming.  Will you do that  for me?'  ' _____ , of course, Mrs Walsh,' said Matty.  'I'll go now.'  M     
[002] e farm.  Do you understand?'  Matty found his voice.  ' _____ ,' he said.  'You'll have to work hard, you know.  Sixt
[003] nt for you!'  'You've cut off your hair?' asked Jim.  ' _____ .  I cut it off and sold it,' Della said.  'But don't y     
[004] to  the shop window.  Soapy looked at the  policeman.   _____ , he was still watching.  Then he spoke to the young       
[005]  out her  hand to me, and I took it for a second.  'Oh  _____ , you remember,' she said, with a sweet, unhappy smile     
[006]  had some money, perhaps?' asked Sherlock Holmes.  'Oh  _____ , mother had a lot of money, so my stepfather wasn't  p     
[007] d.   'I begin to understand! What a terrible crime!'  ' _____ , this doctor is a very clever man.  But we can stop hi     


	
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[001] hen, the bedroom, the bathroom.  The kitchen was very ' _____ ', and when the men opened the fridge, the noise from     
[002]   - seven goals to zero.  After the match I lay in the  _____  bath and thought with pride about the game.  I'd scor     
[003] ater to drink.  Next to Arizona, New Mexico is another  _____ , dry state, where farming is difficult and the ordina     
[004]   It was a beautiful picture, bright and clear in  the  _____  West Indian sun.  But this morning Wyatt had no time      
[005] With those words he left the house.  He could feel the  _____  blood beating in his head, as the anger burned inside     
[006] orning, we read that it was going to be sunny and very  _____ .  So we dressed in light clothes, and we went out.      
[007]     then we started to prepare supper.  We needed some  _____   water to make tea, so we put the water on the stove a     


	
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[001] osed, and  he had lost all his money.  John had had to  _____  his beautiful house in the country, and move to this     
[002] ines, the paint will have to  cost more,  and we won't  _____  so much.'  'But - we've got to do it,' said John.  'Th  
[003] I'm going to see what I can find in the West.  You can  _____  the farm and saw-mill and keep the money  At that wor     
[004] .   Mr Moneybags sells houses and castles.  'I want to  _____  my island and my castle,' Duncan says.  'OK,' Mr Money     
[005]   learned about money and customers.  But he wanted to  _____  leather products, so he found a new job.  This compan     
[006] Er - yes - I send my photographs to a company and they  _____  them to different magazines.  American ones.' 'What's     
[007] till happening.  I'm not a famous writer, but my books  _____  quite well.  I have the money to live in this nice ho     


	
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[001] Hispanic people are poor.  The money in the USA is the  _____ , which contains a hundred cents.  Some coins have spe     
[002]   counted the money again.  There was no mistake.  One  _____  and  eighty-seven cents.  That was all.  And the next     
[003] ing, popcorn, and  spaghetti sauce, now a multimillion  _____  business, goes to charity. He is more than just a mo     
[004]     of US American dollars.  Nice, new dollars.  Fifty- _____  notes in big packets.  A lot of money.  My mouth open     
[005] e, about $10,000 a  year in property taxes per million- _____  home. Mr. Colonnese is also a golfer, though he migh     
[006] ess you don't have much money, do  you?' Mark pulled a  _____  from his pocket and handed it to  her. 'This is all I     
[007] was pleased to come.' 'Well, you'll never  get another  _____  out of me,' said Rhett.  Be looked down at the baby. '     


	
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[001] from the kitchen.  Fried fish and chips.  The food was  _____  and didn't taste very good.  But he didn't say anythin     
[002] es,  you know!'  'No, of course not.' John's mouth was  _____ .  He took a drink of water,  and felt his hand shaking     
[003] walls and narrow windows.  I looked around at the thin  _____  grass and the old dying trees, and an icy hand seemed     
[004] ands  he pulled  the door to pieces.  The noise of the  _____  wood  cracking and breaking could be heard all through     
[005] elf.  The poor man was completely frozen.  We gave him  _____ , warm clothes.  Then he ate some soup and  slept.  Now     
[006] ou want us to believe you. And sit down by the fire to  _____  your clothes. You're very wet.'  That's right,' said      
[007] y am...  He put a hand on her shoulder as she tried to  _____  her eyes.  'I haven't helped you much lately, have l?'     


	
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[001] ts  to see you at home every other weekend.  Now go to  _____  again and get well.'  The next time Matty woke up, Joe   
[002]   answered.  'Please go on,' said Holmes.  'I couldn't  _____  that night.  It was a very stormy night, with a lot o     
[003]n y time, when she was not at work, it was difficult to  _____ .  She  was afraid all the time.  She often felt that p   
[004] ?'  'He was driving home from Doncaster and he went to  _____   and ran into  a tree.'  'Is that all?'  I thought. 'W     
[005] appeared.  As I looked at her, my eyes felt heavy with  _____ , and I  had a strange feeling of fear.  I looked  acro     
[006]      train and feeling very uncomfortable after a long  _____ .  I sat back in my seat and I tried to think.  After     
[007] night we had a fire in our house.  I was woken from my  _____  by loud shouts of 'Fire!' when I opened my  eyes, I      


	
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[001] alian,' said a man at the table next to  hers.  'Can I  _____  you?' Helen was feeling lonely.  She was also angry
[002]       of course, the rooms for great parties or dances  _____  each other end to end.  In this way, when the doors a     
[003]  after that it was hard for the armies of the South to  _____  together and fight the North.  After the war, Sherman     
[004] newspapers.  During the Civil War he told black men to  _____  the army to fight for the North and after the  war he      
[005]      that Jazz was invited by the Greycoats teacher to  _____  a competition swimming team.  And Jazz was very pleas     
[006]  Epstein called Ringo on a Wednesday and  asked him to  _____  the band.  By Saturday, Ringo was the new drummer.  S     
[007] ttle black boys and little black girls will be able to  _____  hands with little white boys and little white girls a     


	
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[001]   of the Corbury road.  On one side was the tall white  _____  of the church, on the other were the dark shadows of       
[002]   then I saw it - a huge cat.  Not a real cat, but the  _____  of a cat outlined in the white bedroom  wall.  It was      
[003] t this was a very reasonable  explanation, the strange  _____  on the wall still worried me.  I thought aboutthe cat 
[004] till too dark to see clearly, but I could just see the  _____  of a young man.  He was as tall as I was, and was we     
[005] st.  The double bed was against the wall.  There was a  _____  under the bed clothes.  There was a pillow at the top     
[006] hundred  metres away, he saw the black and frightening  _____  of the  rock where the Chateau d'If stands.  The priso     
[007] hat was the use of riches unless they could be used to  _____  one's dreams?  So Shervane wrote to Brayldon, now an a     


	
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[001]  second biggest in the world.  Even today, most of its  _____  lives in the south of the country, near the United Sta     
[002]  probably cover some of the lower areas of  land.  The  _____  will double every forty years in the  future.  So the      
[003]     Under British rule, the city's business grew.  The  _____  grew, too.  By 1750, there were 16,000 people there.      
[004]   there are so few people to share all this money. The  _____  of Brunei is only 230 thousand. There is no hunger      
[005]  river water was not clean and people became ill.  The  _____  fell from more than a million to about fifty thousand     
[006] urnalist, he had contact  with members of the criminal  _____  of London. Later he used what he learned in his books     
[007]   city of Gaza after a two month siege. The whole male  _____  was killed. Then Alexander tied the feet of their dea