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Quiz 071

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] kiss?' Of course she knew them. 'Well, there's a young  _____  living there, Scott he's called, he's got a horse and     
[002] . It's a lovely opportunity to do something  for  your  _____  man. Insist that your friends join you. It's the leas     
[003]  was a horrible thing, though,' said Mr Sheridan. 'The  _____  as married, too. Lived in one of those  cottages dow   
[004]   was a sudden silence before one of them, a tall thin  _____  with black hair, threw open her door.  'We invite yo     
[005]   years. I  used to know the husband well. A fine, big  _____ . And she worked in bars on the West Coast - she was      
[006]   discussing changes in the agricultural system with a  _____  author, and Yury wandered around, listening to the  bi     
[007] sonify the typical reaction to Fela, as he is known, a  _____  Nigerian and a chief architect of contemporary Africa     


	
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[001]  ouring abroad we usually rent a house and make it our  _____  so we can return to the kids each night. We're all      
[002]  dislikes him. Yet the Piedmontese cardinal has a wide  _____  of support. He is a former rector of both the Gregor   
[003] m  recurred this morning, the backup data from the air  _____  were  relayed promptly after the initial disruption a     
[004]    about the hurricane.  His office was in the US Navy  _____  at Cap Sarrat on the island of San Fernandez.  From       
[005]  contractors.  Every person will be a microbusiness. I  _____  this prediction on two forces. The first is economic     
[006] hir in the west and Urgup in the east.  Visitors often  _____  themselves in or near Goreme, which lies near the ce     
[007]  contributed to a 4-3 Yankee defeat. But Sanchez's two- _____  throwing error at second last night, on what would h     


	
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[001] er loved a beautiful  woman, Igraine, and he wanted to  _____  her.  But she did not  love him and he was very sad ab     
[002] atrina and he  wanted her father's farm.  "Maybe I can  _____  Katrina," Ichabod said.  "She's beautiful  and her fat     
[003] ot dressed.   If a  poor girl like her has a chance to  _____  a smart boy  like Denis Eady, I ain't going to stop he     
[004] dult.'  'Stop talking like a lawyer, dammit!'  'If you  _____  her now, you will get nothing from me.'  'Father, you'     
[005]  on his shoulder,  you must  love me very much. I will  _____  you as soon as you want!'  My dear good girl!' he crie     
[006] ng man stared at her. Do you advise me to do that?  To  _____  her without her father's consent?'  She was a little f     
[007] ose  between us.'  I have chosen you,' she said.  Then  _____  me next week!'  She stood staring at him. Isn't there      


	
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[001] perfect husband is young and handsome, loves music and  _____ , and is good at dancing.  More importantly, he has pl     
[002]   Roman paintings were good, but not wonderful.  Their  _____   was also good, but writers were not very important to     
[003] ing  ideas. I've been reading a lot of novels, classic  _____ . I  am on Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Hitchhiker's G     
[004]   a 'golden age' for England.  Art, science, music and  _____  were all important.  The English nation was strong; i     
[005]    she's a bit too serious for me. You know, politics,  _____ , human  rights, things like that. Always walking arou
[006]  appeared in Italy in 1957 and won the Nobel Prize for  _____  in 1958.  Because of his problems with the Soviet gove     
[007] ould not hide food in them.  Alexander loved music and  _____ , but his favourite hobby was hunting. He hunted with  s  


	
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[001]   you give us some general advice on what to do at the  _____  of a car accident? Dr C:  Yes. Three things. First  of     
[002]  th my dream. My dreams usually jump suddenly from one  _____  to another, and seem quite unreal. I was convinced the    
[003]  wished I'd brought my painting equipment with me; the  _____   would make a lovely picture.  But as I didn't have my     
[004] h Beaumont, Barbara Billingsley,  Tony  Dow..."    The  _____ , filmed last winter, is one of the climaxes of the su     
[005]  iousness. I thought that he was trying to imagine the  _____ .  I said, 'Sometimes we sit together, after dinner per  
[006]   movies alone, of course, especially not back to the ' _____  of the  crime'. But he was away, and now she knew a th     
[007]   at the final preparations. Mrs Holding looked at the  _____  and felt  a fierce, hopeless hatred for the ship and a     


	
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[001]  called the air hostess.  'Excuse me.  What time do we  _____ ?'  '11.30 p.m. local time, sir.  That's about half      
[002]    Carl looked through the window and watched the cars  _____   at the  airport building.  There  were a lot of cars      
[003]   for  them.  Large numbers of immigrants continued to  _____  from  all over the world until the middle of the twent     
[004]  ut in the twentieth century Chinese people started to  _____  again and  now the cities of the west coast have large     
[005]    there with the guns, and Uncle Bean and Biddy would  _____  at lunchtime with the  horses.  When they were ready t     
[006]   but everything was silent.  Suddenly, I heard a boat  _____  at the beach.  Someone was walking towards my hut.  I      
[007]  snow and freezing temperatures.  Europeans started to  _____  in Canada in the 1600s.  French people  came first, an     


	
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[001]   sharply at Aku-nna. 'Child, you're bleeding! There's  _____  on your dress.'  She turned round quickly and saw the      
[002]  gain.  The murdered man's head fell forwards, and the  _____  ran slowly across the table, and down onto the floor.     
[003] ened.   He could hear nothing - only the drip, drip of  _____  onto the floor.  He went to the window and looked dow     
[004]  horror.  One of the hands in the picture was red with  _____ .  For Dorian, this was more terrible than the dead  bo   
[005]  those words he left the house.  He could feel the hot  _____  beating in his head, as the anger burned inside him.      
[006] in the penalty box  while the team manager cleaned the  _____  off my face.  I was ashamed to look out onto the ice.     
[007]   groaned and held his mouth with his hand.  There was  _____  in his mouth and one of his teeth was broken.  Then      


	
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[001] ew he was on the way back. Fred had lifted his gun to   _____  me when he grabbed him.  Suddenly I found I was crying     
[002] ckly.  'Keep quiet,' said the man.  'If you move, I'll  _____  you.'  'You're crazy.  What have I done to you?'  'You     
[003] as you can see,  we have our  guns and we know how  to  _____ .  So  please, sit quietly in your seats and do what we     
[004] Colonel Carter spoke.  'Inspector, why didn't your men  _____ ?  That girl was in the doorway for nearly fifteen seco  
[005]  wanted to score this goal myself.  But before I could  _____ , two big Dartmouth men were after me.  In a moment we     
[006] ere not able just to decide the problem with a penalty  _____ -out.  Before the 1970  World Cup in Mexico, the Engli     
[007] .   Sometimes I bring the camera or video recorder and  _____  some  pictures. And then in the evening we sometimes      s


	
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[001]  sed to say, 'because of this fear.  I'm not afraid of  _____ .  What frightens me is fear itself.  At the moment I      
[002] o return,' I told him.  'I  cannot take them into more  _____ .  I must return to England.  I had a dream, and I do      
[003]  job, his  life study, and he  understood too well the  _____   of flying into those terrible, violent winds.  The cl     
[004] ack.  Please continue, Mr Wyatt.'  Wyatt explained the  _____   of floods.  'There could be a tidal  wave  from the se     
[005]   life.  Elizabeth became very ill and her life was in  _____ .  My mother did not want to leave Elizabeth's bedside     
[006] d.   "We cannot live here now.  My father's life is in  _____ .  My sister will never forget what we saw.  We must l     
[007] again.'  I was young and healthy and I was soon out of  _____ . But while I lay in my bed I thought about the accid     


	
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[001] .   But if you kill my husband, or anyone else, then I  _____  you that your brothers will die, on the tarmac in fro     
[002] y  face hasn't changed in all that time.  It's true, I  _____  you.'  James Vane ran to the corner of the road, but     
[003] e  happy if you are well.  That is enough for me.  But  _____  me one thing.  Please write a letter to your father a     
[004] hools.  Instead every morning American students make a  _____  to the American flag.  But over 80 per cent of Americ     
[005]   I shall marry Sybil Vane.  I'm not going to break my  _____  to her.'  'Marry Sybil Vane!' Lord Henry stared at Dor     
[006] r?'  'Harry! I'll tell you all about her, but you must  _____  not to  laugh.'  Lord Henry listened and smiled.  Dori     
[007] great success.  Gary could swim well,  and Jazz showed  _____ , but the swimming teacher shook his head.  'This is g