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Quiz 079

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]    short curly hair and a big black moustache! You can  _____  recognise him as the same man when you see him in     
[002]  they usually offer few comforts or services and could  _____  be called satisfactory places to stay. Many are horri     
[003]  put a chair under one corner of the bed as a support.  _____  any of the staff in these places were pleasant, few      
[004]     a packet of floppy disks for his tenth birthday. I  _____  knew how to add, subtract, or multiply when I got my      
[005]                      No, they tend to be very busy. We  _____  ever stay in for much of the weekend. Er, you know I     
[006]     where we can be totally detached from our kids and  _____  see them grow up. If you have enough money to live      
[007]        and another could be in the west wing and you'd  _____  see them.  The kids travel everywhere with us.          


	
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[001]    he kept a candle burning all night, even though the  _____  kept blowing it out.   
[002]    a strange noise coming from our tree.  Suddenly the  _____  blew a little stronger, and I watched it crash into      
[003]      with a possibility of thunder and lightening. The  _____  will die out but the rest of the weekend will remain      
[004]      across the sky, and the trees moved wildly in the  _____ .  The rain made a loud noise on the window.       
[005]        I opened my window and put my head out into the  _____  and the rain.  I looked at the other windows in the      
[006]   After two or three hundred years of rain, ice, snow,  _____  and sun the roof-tile fell from its place down into    
[007]                  so we bought horses and rode like the  _____  through the night.  By late afternoon on the next day,  


	
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[001]      machine that threw large stones at the defenders.  _____  of the machines were Roman ideas.  They came from the     
[002]  I have no money to go out with them in the evenings -  _____ ! They know  that if I come out with them to a restaur     
[003]      I ordered the pie, the waitress told me there was  _____  left.  However, as I was getting up to go, I saw the      
[004]               For one or two minutes nothing happened.  _____  of the other passengers moved or spoke.       
[005]   are marvellous technical and human achievements, but  _____  of them involves living independently in space.       
[006]    shouting something, but the noise was so great that  _____  of us could hear him.    
[007]   in this flat at the end of the war?' I asked.  'It's  _____  of your business,' he replied, starting to shut the         


	
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[001] secret of good health, according to my grandfather, is  _____ . He goes swimming every day. He has done since he was    
[002]   comes from doctors in Seattle, showing that vigorous  _____  actually reduces the chances of heart attack.   
[003] ospital stairs- fifteen floors! Next, she asked for an  _____  bike in her hospital room.  The doctors could not beli     
[004]                   You put on simple shoes and did some  _____ .  You could lift  weights,  run, practise fighting or      
[005]          But she kept busy with political work, study,  _____ , and piano playing.  For more than fifteen years,      
[006] every night.  The teacher marks every mistake in their  _____  books, and they have to make all the corrections by      
[007]                 Horse riding is a  marvellous form  of  _____ , both physically and spiritually.     


	
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[001]     was better, but I needed a holiday.  So he did not  _____  my request.  He and Elizabeth suggested that Henry       
[002]                         The workers decided they would  _____  to work until the plan was dropped. The idea of havin     
[003] think that all three solutions were too expensive, and  _____  to pay for them. So the firm's psychologist offered      
[004]        'I don't want to know your terrible secrets.  I  _____  to help you,' Campbell replied.  'But you must, Alan.     
[005] can make you tell what you know to a judge.' 'And if I  _____ ?' 'Good question, Mark. If you were an adult, you coul    
[006]                      'Do try to make him come.  He may  _____ , because he doesn't like me. You see, when his poor      
[007] shouted. "My men are highly trained single fighters. I  _____  to let them die like that.  They will be wasted in    


	
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[001]     the Romans did not just try to win.  They tried to  _____  their enemies.  If they were not successful at first,     
[002] the year 1605, after a man  called Guy Fawkes tried to  _____  Parliament with a kind of home-made bomb.       
[003]    believe that my father was shot." Matthew wanted to  _____  his father's murderers immediately.  Moving quickly      
[004]  jobs for these people.  They needed jobs that did not  _____  the rainforest.  Then he had an idea that worked: Peop     
[005]     small pieces of the rock near his arm.  "This will  _____  my good knife," he thought, "but my life is more impo     
[006] the monster was my creation.  I wanted to find him and  _____  him.  Nearly two months after the death of Justine, I     
[007]  burned quickly.  I watched the orange and yellow fire  _____   the de Laceys' home, then I ran as far away as possib 


	
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[001]  at the enemy lines. They saw elephants, a frightening  _____  for men who had never met such enormous animals before     
[002]   themselves, so it was never served. Soon land was in  _____   beneath us again. When we were approaching the southe    
[003]     the moving water of the stream. He was soon out of  _____ .  Thomas screamed. There was a crash and the sound of      
[004] Buckingham Palace for hours in the rain, just to catch  _____  of her for a moment. Long live the Queen!      
[005]   only the third morning after his arrival, she caught  _____  of him from her bedroom window, riding towards  Longbo     
[006]   really know him very well before that. I knew him by  _____ , but not by name. He came out of his house with a sort     
[007]            New York's bright yellow taxis are a famous  _____ .  There are over 11,000 in the city.  New Yorkers so


	
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[001]  Alaska and it is a state of differences.  The highest  _____  in the USA outside Alaska is Mount Whitney in the ea     
[002]             He looked hopefully up and down the narrow  _____  path, but the mountains were empty and silent.       
[003]                      The two men looked up at Whistler  _____  behind the village.  It looked very beautiful in the      
[004]  was bright, but above the trees there was snow on the  _____  tops. Then suddenly the sun went down behind the mou     
[005]  11 a.m. in Kansas (Central Time), 10 a.m. in Arizona ( _____  Time), and 9 a.m..in Seattle (Pacific Time).       
[006]     Kilimanjaro, lying beneath the snows of that great  _____ , waiting for the tourists who  have never arrived. But     
[007] village! Another has a typical Swiss village high in a  _____  valley. And the scenery behind it all is beautiful for      


	
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[001]      I know how to get the wheel off and get it fixed!  _____ , I meet other  people who do much more  adventurous th  
[002]     He accused me of 'using' him, and a whole lot more  _____ .  The knowledge that this is probably true doesn't mak     
[003]     aren't any nursing homes near Lower Tiveshell, and  _____ , I know Mum would hate it. She'd feel as if she were       
[004]       Yury recorded his dreams and fears in his diary.  _____   recognising the signs of Tonya's condition, he also      
[005] t's no trouble, man. We have all afternoon for tennis.  _____ , the dogs want a ride.' He took his keys out of his po     
[006]      I know how to get the wheel off and get it fixed!  _____ , I meet other people who do much more adventurous than     
[007] injure me, but he knows that I am not afraid of that.   _____ ,  I have my own money; we shall have enough to live we     


	
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[001]          someone said it was getting late and they all  _____  to go home.  Frank took Emma to her carriage.       
[002] ache began to tremble.  'I have a photograph which you  _____  to see,' I said.  I passed the envelope to him and he      
[003]   our ladyship has declared it to be impossible.'  'It  _____  to be impossible, but your skilful charms may have      
[004]    Jennifer is a great sport. Anyway, I think Jennifer  _____  to speak to me. We have been sharing hotel rooms for     
[005]    and some were drunk.  Oliver began to think that he  _____  to run away. But suddenly Dawkins caught his arm, push    
[006]        Why don't you increase your credit limit? There  _____  to be a law to change these things, she told the cou     
[007]             I knew that, with his character faults, he  _____  not to become a priest, and I therefore agreed at once