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Quiz 072

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]      makes agriculture impossible. All plants need the  _____  to shine on them - no plant can grow in the dark       
[002] our degrees mark. I don't think you'll see much of the  _____ :  cloudy all day, I'm afraid. The East coast of Englan     
[003] coffee, looked up into the blue sky, and felt the warm  _____  on  his face.  Nick Lortz was a happy man.  The waiter     
[004]  the village.  It looked very beautiful in the morning  _____ .  Do you travel a lot, then?' asked the waiter.        
[005]  after him.  Nick ran through the trees.  There was no  _____  in here, and it was half-dark.  And there were no peo     
[006]  year or two younger.  He was tall, and brown from the  _____ .  He wore a white shirt, white trousers, and white sh     
[007]     but she didn't smile.  The weather changed and the  _____  was warm.  In the afternoon I walked with the children    


	
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[001]  Ellis Island is the Statue of Liberty (liberty means ' _____ ').  On it are these famous words: 'Give me your tired    
[001]   money traveling first class, but you get comfort and  _____   instead, and you are sure of getting home at a suita     
[002]  with the reality of driving them. Cars are symbols of  _____ , wealth, and masculinity. But when you are stuck in a         
[019]    As a result of his peaceful protests, India won its  _____  in 1947.  On January 30, 1948, Gandhi was murdered.       
[020]  very close to his African brothers in their fight for  _____  from foreign rule. Back home, King wanted President E 
[007]    his people have their rights: the right to life, to  _____   and to happiness.  The day of the Declaration of Inde     
[009]   countries of Eastern Europe, hoping to find jobs and  _____ .  America kept an 'open door until 1924 and about 27     


	
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[001]        such as a TV, video player, three telephones, a  _____  that seats twenty, a solar deck, and a swimming pool.     
[002]  he thought.   I need a drink.' He went into the hotel  _____ , got a drink and sat down at a table.  So what do I do     
[004]   a few days after she started the job.  In the coffee  _____  she and Susan were laughing together at a story in   
[008]   asleep on a table and two women were drinking at the  _____ .  As Dorian hurried up the narrow stairs, the sweet,     
[012] They finished their meal and moved back into the hotel  _____ .    Causton bought them all drinks, and then asked,       
[007]      summer with a major renovation of the first floor  _____  and restaurant and other minor alterations.     
[014] with a police station, two post offices, a hospital, a  _____ , two sports clubs, a disco, a cinema, and a swimming     


	
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[001]    long piece of wood in the fire and the end began to  _____  brightly.  You are the leader now,' said Bagheera soft     
[011]  a light for the lamp from the fire.  I didn't want to  _____  any important papers, but I remembered a piece of pla     
[016] metal and made a discovery.  They couldn't break it or  _____  it.  There was also strange writing on it in a languag     
[017]   after the house.  But if you make him angry, he will  _____  your house down.  A rusalka is the ghost of a young      
[018]   or butter on burned skin, and this in fact makes the  _____   hotter; or they wrap tape of some kind on the             
[019]          hotter; or they wrap tape of some kind on the  _____ ,  which ends up pulling the skin off.      
[020]   decide first of all how bad it is.  If it is a minor  _____ , the best thing to do is put the burnt area under the      


	
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[001]    lost my balance and slipped off the edge of a steep  _____ . I landed at the bottom of a cliff. I hurt both my kne     
[005]  climb the rockface during the night, just like modern  _____   climbers. They climbed to a position above me Sogdian     
[003] saw a great wave of white water.  It broke against the  _____  in front of the boat house, and white water crashed a     
[004]  house, she helped her father tie the boat down to the  _____ .  They tied down the oars, too, so that  nothing could 
[015] arthquakes usually provide the first indication molten  _____  is moving toward the surface, often followed by venti     
[002]   he was my brother.  When Al was eighteen, he began a  _____  band, Wild Boys.  He sang, and played guitar.  At firs     
[020] hings I like  doing with my life too. Uhm, I play in a  _____  group and I'm also a keen photographer. Well, I suppos     


	
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[001]   People eat all day. They have snacks in the morning,  _____  an omelette and a beer, and then have their main meal     
[002]   catch on to is eating it afterwards with chopsticks!  _____  it will come with practice. I often think that if I      
[003]    tickets, he said. I wanted to check them. I thought  _____  I'd win $10 or something. On Sunday, Mr  Murphy bough     
[004]  lash and  an explosion. I don't know how it happened.  _____  the gas  cooker exploded, or an electrical appliance      
[005]      is the most powerful of all the animals on earth,  _____  of all the animals in the whole universe.      
[006]     some shopping, entertainment, a museum exhibit, or  _____  an important football game? Don't forget that travel     
[012]  I don't know I learn new words. I see a new word six,  _____  seven times, and then I know it. And the stories are     


	
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[001]  I do not feel it.  You are my enemy and I want you to  _____ .  Now it is winter, and it is very cold.       
[001]     death is certain, it's also very possible you will  _____  a disability during your working life. Statistics ind     
[002]     he said to  he captain.  'I was stupid, and I must  _____  for my mistake.  Leave me a small amount of food and a     
[004]      Even today, sixty years later, people continue to  _____  from  the results of the A-bomb.  As Oe thought about      
[005] talking about. And the tragedy is  that the people who  _____  first are the deprived people, the people who are      
[006]        One in  four Third World children can expect to  _____  malnutrition. In developing countries nearly three q  
[009]    to aches and  serious pain, or if you find that you  _____  from  deep tiredness that you cannot shake off, then    


	
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[002]       . Well, just undress down to your waist- you can  _____  your shirt on the hook here - and stand over here      
[010]                  None of the rooms provided a place to  _____  your clothes, except one room we looked at,      
[005]                Again 1 felt afraid.  The air seemed to  _____  over the house and grounds, and it smelled of death.      
[009]           These are called 'Trees of Light'.  Children  _____  up their stockings.  They hope that Santa Claus      
[001]  I see.  OK, I'll call back at one o'clock. I have  to  _____  up now. Tell her Bob called.  Goodbye.      
[003]     Yes, those orrible wooden posts from which they  _____  men by a rope around the neck!   As each day passed    
[004]  talk sweetly to him.  'You're too clever to let them  _____  you,' she said. 'You'll find a way to get out,     


	
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[001]   I am sorry now that she did not.  Then suddenly her  _____  changed, and she became very calm.  'Oh, I know your      
[002] told  me there was no apple pie by mistake? Seeing the  _____  on  my face, she came over and explained, with a seri 
[009]   I saw Mrs Jamieson eat three pieces, slowly, with an  _____  not unlike a cow's.  After tea, the ladies played card     
[011]     away from mine.  Suddenly I saw from his delighted  _____  that he had reached the heart of his impossible world     
[012]  of Patusan and the dangers involved.  I watched the  _____  on his face change from tiredness to surprise, intere     
[006]    pleasure in simplicity and directness, freedom of  _____  and lack of artifice, which gives Little Women     
[005]  central concept to creative compositional thought and  _____ , a quality that is present in the music of all his      


	
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[003]   chair.' He looked at me, smiling.  'Would you like a  _____  of water, sir?'  'Yes, please,' I said.  Then I looked     
[008]   , my dear.' 'Come in,' said Sikes. They both had a  _____  of wine, then sat down to talk about business.      
[019]   She stared at the small animals under the magnifying  _____ .  'Baby rats with no eyes, no ears, six legs! Oh John!     
[020]    On the table were cakes and fruit in a bright red  _____  dish, and the cat was lying lazily in front of a warm    
[015]  rafters. Skylights, swirling overhead fans and an all- _____   greenhouse extension have added sophistication.      
[004]  flowers from  Lucy's neck, and on the floor there was  _____  from the broken  window.  Van Helsing looked down      
[005]  different.  In the middle of the room there was a big  _____  case.  A cold blue light came from inside it.