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Quiz 077

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 city of Detroit has a lot of  _____  (car) factories, and it gave the name 'Motown' 
[002]                         The next night she came on her  _____ -bike to fetch him, took him to her place and began to     
[003]   The car weighed 2500 kilograms. He needed a 30-litre  _____  to push it all down the highway. 
[004]  airlock inside the entrance, and then switched on the  _____  to clear the air from the lock.      
[005]      came running out from the trees.  Clover said, 'A  _____  boat came and took all the Maywits away.       
[006] run nurseries, chosen as much for the intellectual and  _____  skills they claim to teach as for the warmth of the      
[007]    teacher, covering social and emotional development,  _____  skills, language, maths and science;  and the Linguist 


	
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[001]                           Someone touched Helen on the  _____ .  'Hello, Helen.  I'm  Ben, driver number one,      
[002]      and did not notice me.  When I put my hand on his  _____ , he shook again.  Then he spoke words that I will nev     
[003]  Vic picked up his large camera case and put it on his  _____ .  'Yes, thanks.  Angela took it.  Well, see you,      
[004]    Gulliver, the brown horse and looking back over her  _____  at Pilgrim.  .  'Look at him, Grace! He's so funny.'      
[005]     know how he was going to tell her.  Then, over her  _____ , he saw Grace in the doorway.      
[006]             covered in blood and the pain in his right  _____  was terrible.  Aron felt very small and unimportant      
[007]     and ran after his daughter. He took the man by the  _____  and threw him violently to the ground.  'Don't come      


	
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[001]  countries in the world. Its wealth comes from oil and  _____ . Most people think that Brunei is in the Middle East     
[002]     lower it would be much cheaper to heat. I mean our  _____  bills would really go down. J: I suppose you're right  
[003]  an explosion. I don't know how it happened. Maybe the  _____   cooker exploded, or an electrical appliance     
[004]       in Lambourn.'  'It's hydrogen sulphide. A deadly  _____ .'  I breathed painfully and felt ill from the              
[005]                 'No one must enter the house until the  _____  has disappeared.'  'Where did the                          
[006] the gun in his hand. Something exploded - probably the  _____  in the kitchen - and a small fireball flew up      
[007]    robbed three other places that night, but they were  _____  stations. The old man who owned the store came out


	
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[001] Continent  for a  welcome break. See your local travel  _____  for more  details.  A car  fanatic in America wante     
[002]                   Stephen was worried about work - the  _____  had lost an important client that week.       
[003]   it is?' asked Tristan.  'He works for an advertising  _____ . To be honest, I don't know if he does enjoy it any mo     
[004]   and merchants, led by the owner of a local insurance  _____ , says Old Town is the last stronghold in this fight      
[005]      has signed on to do security work for a detective  _____  owned by Anna Lee, herself the heroine of another      
[006]  motorcycle and in at least one car.  The  French news  _____  Agence France-Presse said that police were questioning    
[007]  did you do next, Watson?  You went to a London estate  _____ !'  'What was wrong with that?' I asked.  'Why didn't      
 

	
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[001]   Bring traveller's cheques with you to Egypt. You can  _____  them for local money very easily, but you have to chan
[002]    like a child playing dress up in black. They didn't  _____  words, only glances.  Afterwards, Nudger watched he     
[003] now I felt weak and faint. At the baker's I offered to  _____   my  leather gloves for a small cake, but the baker's      
[004]   for money, well, we have very high inflation and the  _____  rate changes all the time, so it's best to take dollar     
[005]   she told me.  'Then he got a very bad bargain in the  _____ ,' I said.  'He'll find that my body, and the pain, and     
[006]   But the evening passed without any more than a short  _____  of politeness between them, and Elizabeth lost all ho     
[007]    a fortune in gold, and marriage to his daughter; in  _____ , Darius had asked for peace and the return of his wife     


	
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[001] long time before she opened it.  Inside, in a sheet of  _____  white paper, was the loop of rope.  On the paper were     
[002] grave,' another man said.  'Put him in a simple bag of  _____  cloth.  That is enough for a grave at the Chateau      
[003]   A flat, shallow tin 2 eggs, 50 grams sugar, 40 grams  _____  flour, 1 large spoonful of cocoa, 1 large spoonful of      
[004]   at Lowood will do her good. We believe in hard work,  _____  food, simple clothes and no luxury of any kind.'       
[005]        As he passed, he spoke to Mrs Murdoch, a large,  _____ ,  cheerful woman in her late forties, who was direct     
[006]    the mountainside. The river flowed wide across this  _____ , and every centimetre was planted with vegetables      
[007]     the sea, the land was steep and rocky.  Behind the  _____  rose the mountainside. The river flowed wide across       


	
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[001]  now-despised Ptydepe. The saddest aspect of the whole  _____  is that it corrupts his human instincts, tempting  
[002]                         After the preliminary business  _____  was finished Depew arose and delivered the convincing     
[003]      It happened at the St. Patrick's Day party, a big  _____  for a regiment which had gone into battle for over      
[004]      once the Puritans gained power, they climaxed the  _____  by passing the infamous ordinance of 1642 which decr     
[005]     compressed, exquisitely controlled story of a love  _____  in France, and 'Dusk,' a collection of short stories      
[006]   stronger man. But her personality was such that each  _____  lasted only until that lover, too, had been conquered     
[007]                    "Do you think he could be having an  _____ "? Barbara asked, as they heard the front door close.    


	
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[001]   the cake with another piece of greaseproof paper and  _____  it up.  Wait until it is cold. Make the butter cream     
[002]        .  Spread the butter cream over the cake.  Then  _____  it up again.  Spread butter cream over the  log and 
[003]      at Schoeman coldly and accusingly. Tears began to  _____  down her face.  The judge left the court for only fift     
[004]      giving them false hope. We are not just going  to  _____  over and give all this away.'       
[005]     opposition, declared the session open, sounded the  _____ -call and took a vote to elect leaders for two importan  
[006]   - plenty for two to share. Or start with a vegetable  _____ , a pretty presentation in the Japanese style,            
[007]   by Lennon and McCartney.  They recorded the rock and  _____  song 'Twist and Shout' (by Phil Medley and Bert Russe  
 

	
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[001]    was clear, and the blue Atlantic below shone in the  _____  sunshine.  But somewhere, far out above the Atlantic     
[002]   bodies.  They lay everywhere, quiet and still in the  _____  evening sunlight.  Sick and shaken Wyatt and Dawson 
[003]    capital of the island.  It was a beautiful picture,  _____  and clear in the hot West Indian sun.  But this morni     
[004] She was wearing a dress and shoes.  The  moon was very  _____  that night, and I couldn't sleep again.  I lay awake, 
[005]  the 1960s 'hippies' came to San Francisco.  They wore  _____  clothes, had long hair, and wanted a world full of peo     
[006]                         She turned to Hoomey, her eyes  _____  with excitement.  'Well you go on with the competition     
[007]   the others told him  afterwards.  Hoomey's face went  _____  red, and he forgot that he was afraid.  Poor Jazz had


	
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[001]             .  His name was Mr. Allan.  He brought his  _____  young wife with him.  "I'll ask Mr. and Mrs. Allan      
[002] , thin  woman with gray hair.  Marilla wasn't young or  _____ , and she didn't smile very much.  But she had a kind      
[003] rench and Italian.  People tell me I'm intelligent and  _____ .  What am I afraid of? The job won't be very difficult     
[004] telligent.  You have lovely fair hair, blue eyes and a  _____  face.  You're also a good friend.  You're - usually -  
[005]      I'd like a beautiful white dress.  I  never had a  _____  dress.  They only gave us ugly clothes at the orphanag     
[006] e afternoon  sunshine.  Oh father,' said Eppie. What a  _____  home ours is! I think nobody could be happier than we     
[007]  before we reached Magna Charta Island. It was quite a  _____  place and we tied our boat to a big tree.  We were