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Quiz 070

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]  the sky was turning grey, with a cold red over the  _____  hills.  Matt,' Ethan said at last.   What'll you do?      
[002]   kind of American music is 'country' (or 'country and  _____ ') which has its home in Nashville, Tennessee.      
[003]  their language, laws and lifestyle.  They changed the  _____  world.  But who were the Romans? How did they live?      
[004]   line between Italy and modern-day Albania.  When the  _____  Empire ended about two hundred years later, the East
[005] Brazilian sculpture must trace its origins not only to  _____  traditions, but also to the country's diverse culture     
[006]       This might be the age of high technology in many  _____  countries, but for the majority of the world's childr     
[007]   Scandinavia. People there are aware of the direction  _____  society is going in and are much more conscious of      


	
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[001]           speak.  'Why...  why did you...?'  He didn't  _____  the question...  Max spoke, 'I thought you had a     
[002] 9 to 12 'high school'.  About 85 per cent of students  _____  high school and celebrate with a party known as a 'pr     
[003]  be stupid.  We can't do anything about it.  After we  _____  university, you'll go your way and I'll go mine.  You'     
[004] things worse.'  No, I mean like this. The machine will  _____  the job four days from now, and the plane calls in a      
[005]  to a start Saturday as construction crews rushed to  _____  fencing the track, only leaving time for practice run     
[006] top before he heard the crowd shouting for him  at the  _____ .  Just then Gloria hurried up to Nutty.  'They're goin     
[007] top of the hill Nutty saw Nails going fast towards the  _____ .  They could still win.  As Nutty came out of the wood 


	
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[001]   How did the car come off the road? Why was it on the  _____  side of the road? Why was it so far from the road?      
[002]   Why was it so far from the road?  There was nothing  _____  with the car.  Karen Silkwood was a good driver.       
[003]    So it's not dangerous and we're not doing anything  _____ .  Don't worry about it.'  He went out of the door, and     
[004]   it,' said Christine.  'I think nothing can be really  _____  with the world, if they can live here, all by themselv     
[005]  we've got to stop putting them in the river!' 'What's  _____  with them?'   'They're too expensive.'The two men star
[006]      last night...  Ethan was sure that something was  _____ .  By midday the wood was all loaded, ready to take to     
[007] It was loud, excited.  'Our brothers have done nothing  _____ .  They are innocent! They are fighters for the freedom     


	
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[001] .   Sir, I need a scholarship.  I have no money in the  _____ .'  'Mr Barrett, our scholarships are for poor people.      
[002] now exactly what her salary is, or how much is in her  _____  account.  'Mom looks after my                              
[003] ounds,'  she answered.  'Mr  Windibank gets it from my  _____  and gives it to my mother.  I use the money from my      
[004]        Teenager David Bolton has just put 9000 in the  _____ , after only six months of part-time work as a computer     
[005] tine laughed.  What's happened, Dad? Have you robbed a  _____  or something?'  John stood up.  He went into the kitch     
[006]   his back, pulling Christine towards the trees on the  _____ .  He swam for half a minute, then stopped, and blew       
[007]  Danube divides the city into two parts. On the west  _____  there are the woods and hills of Buda and the old      


	
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[001] close, like  Biddy,' he said to Nutty.  'Add it to the  _____ ,' Nutty said crossly.  'It's only one thousand four      
[002] inners and relative losers under the terms of the tax  _____  the president had signed earlier in the month.      
[003] d the Treasury just fine, since the tables showed the  _____  had been changed only in degree and on the margin      
[004] still be, disproportionately, the better-off when the  _____  is fully effective.  In her Aug. 24 Outlook article,     
[005]   been put off for consideration until next year. The  _____ 's authors, Sen. Richard Polanco (D-Los Angeles) and       
[006]  MTA and  Los Angeles County supervisors to defeat the  _____ .   From the turn of the century until 1920, James 'Bl
[007]  Big Top, to the Ballroom.  Among the acts on that  _____  with recent CDs are Banco de Gaia, Grooverider, Empir     


	
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[001]   'My name is John Openshaw.  My father, Joseph, had a  _____ , my uncle Elias, who went to live in America  when he      
[002] to me, "John, I know that I'm  going to  die soon.  My  _____ , your father, will have all my money and my house a     
[003]   excitedly.  'Is it him?  Yes,  it is! Our leader! My  _____  and sister, we have done it! Now, I must welcome him      
[004] the same things.  It was like talking to her favourite  _____ .  In the next few weeks they spent a lot of time to     
[005] ked in  her prison of love.  At that moment the girl's  _____  entered the room: He was a heavy, dark young man, no     
[006]  She danced out of the room, and her mother and  _____  could hear her singing as she ran upstairs.  James Van     
[007]  also nearly had two presidents.  President Kennedy's  _____  Robert hoped to become president but he was killed in     


	
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[001]    when government officials would try to discover the  _____ .  Scientists and lawyers would speak on both sides of   
[002]  'And I will be,' Julie answered.  She was telling the  _____ , but I was still very jealous.  In time, I got more a     
[003]      ...  Why? Because I haven't been able to tell the  _____  to myself, so how could I tell it to you? I haven't      
[004]   so how could I tell it to you? I haven't faced the  _____  for twelve years now.  But the time has come to tell      
[005]  that's not going to help you.  So, please, tell the  _____ .  Say that you're sorry.  You're young.  You can begin     
[006]  make you feel more worried, and people will learn the  _____  sooner or later. Don't worry about not having a  girl     
[007] ymptom, really, rather than the real reason.  The real  _____  is a little different. I think there are two real reas        


	
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[001] ople do want to eat meat, that's their decision. In my  _____ , any killing is cruel. I: And do you raise any anima     
[002]   should be made easier or more difficult, or in your  _____  is the situation acceptable as it is? JS: Yes, it's      
[003]  very different from The Cavern's young crowd.  In his  _____ , the band were a little rough.  But, he has said,       
[004]   said no to Brian Epstein and the Beatles.  ln their  _____ , guitar bands weren't popular now.  Worse news came      
[005]   but not with Pete Best on drums.  In the producer's  _____ , Pete wasn't good enough.  It was a hard decision for 
[006] Helen stopped  herself.  She didn't want to have a bad  _____  of anyone in the group.  She noticed a woman with thi  
[007]   large, it means you are quite confident, with a high  _____  of yourself. If it is filled with light, you are opti     


	
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[001] The USA is such a big country, the time changes as you  _____  from one side to the other.  When it is 12 midday in      
[002]  It happened like this.  Every day I had to  _____  about three miles to the station, where I got my tra  
[003] most important holidays in the year, and people often  _____  many hundreds of kilometres to be with their families     
[004]  two brave men, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, to  _____  across America all the way to the Pacific.      
[005]   line from the west in Utah, so then Americans could  _____  right across the USA by train.  Before the railway,        
[007]  ent lives, as well as museums of history, art and air  _____ .  Some of the city's most beautiful houses are in the      
[007]   Perhaps he came on this tour to learn more about the  _____  business and about tours like these.   


	
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[001]  Daddy died when I was sixteen - I still get a  _____  in my eye whenever I think of him. It was a terrible      
[002]  makes you so bad? I shall never cry for him! Not one  _____ ! He could see my face, hear my voffice! And  he stil     
[003]  And Simon isn't pleased.'  George Peck saw a large  _____  running down her face.  'Come  and sit down, Bee,' he     
[004] some permanent, the police came with whips and burning  _____  gas, forcing the men into police buses and moving the     
[005]    of the boys wore an ear-ring in one ear. They would  _____  their shirts or jeans to make them look  'interesting'     
[006]    foot of the mountain, the weather was bad enough to  _____  his new mountain tent to pieces, so he moved into a 
[007]    two. You must keep your shoulder still, so that the  _____  on the muscles is rested,' the doctor said firmly.