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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]                   Susan piled two tomatoes and a fried  _____  on to her bread so that she could eat it like a sand     
[002]    And they all watched in amazement as she beat a raw  _____ , some brandy, milk, and ice in a cup, and gave it to     
[003]               Through the window, he saw her buying an  _____ . She took it carefully out of the basket - a brown        
[004]      the local newspaper.  The edges touched his fried  _____ . 'That just proves what I've said. You should         
[005]   the biological world: how does the single fertilised  _____ -cell develop the highly  specialised limbs, organs,      
[006]      , steak and kidney pie, a double hamburger and an  _____   sandwich. I feel like crying, it feels like a holiday     
[007]    a car accident? As he drove nearer, he saw a large,  _____ -shaped  'machine' about five metres long.  It had four     


	
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[001]  By dying  young,  I'll avoid suffering. I am going to  _____ .'  'Does                                                   
[002]    Day comes, when God decides who among us will go to  _____  or to hell!'  Paul complained to the Governor.       
[003]   you again, Helen, when I die?'  'Yes, you will go to  _____  too, Jane.'  I could not quite believe that                
[004] world knowledge, peace, freedom, religion, the hope of  _____ ! That is what I live for, and what I shall die for!'  
[005]        some tea and toast. For a while I felt I was in  _____ , eating and drinking in the warm, pretty room, with      
[006]       he had such power to make me happy that I was in  _____  listening to him.  'Did Mrs Fairfax tell you I've bee     
[007]    Helen Burns, who was so sure her spirit would go to  _____ .  Would my aunt's spirit go there too?       


	
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[001]                            An English newsman  came in  _____  with some story about a hurricane.  He says you're 
[002]          'And your wife left your flat about lunchtime  _____  afternoon and she still isn't home?' Grant made it       
[003]    one glove. I had two gloves at the Laurences' house  _____ ." "There was only one glove in the box," Beth said.       
[004]   children," she said.  "Daughter, I don't understand.  _____  you were a child, and now you're not.                     
[005]      "All right, Matthew," said Anne.  "I wasn't sorry  _____ , but I'm sorry now.  I'll do it because you asked me.     
[006]      the best of today's weather. It'll be warmer than  _____ , no  winds, and sunshine, so quite warm for the time      
[007]     waters of the river Ganges flowed over their banks  _____  causing one of India's worst floods this century.      


	
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[001]    work of the artist Edward Hopper, whose pictures of  _____  American people, streets, and houses, in the city and     
[002]t he artist Norman Rockwell tell stories of the life of  _____  families from the 1920s to the 1970s.        
[003]  T' (1908) was the first car that was cheap enough for  _____  people.  'Anyone can drive a Ford,' they said, and by     
[004] atch television.  Nearly all families have a TV and an  _____  family watches more than seven hours a day.  There are  
[005]     hot, dry state, where farming is difficult and the  _____  people are poor.  But many artists have also come from     
[006]  Afternoon tea is a small meal, not a drink.  Now most  _____  British families do not have time for afternoon tea      
[007]  so anxious about her.  For a few days, it was just an  _____  cold.  But then Marianne got much worse.  She had a      
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[001]   later, before Columbia crashed in 2003, he was doing  _____  tests in  space.  His death on Columbia was very sad,      
[002]     below about minus 30 degrees. 'We will do a lot of  _____  experiments to see how much pollution there is in      
[003]  and the greenhouse effect'. This will involve sending  _____  instruments up into the atmosphere by balloon,      
[004]  her children had large gaps in their understanding of  _____  and historical concepts. A study of nursery-school ch     
[005]           But a world where we need years and years of  _____  and engineering work just to make life possible;     
[006]    would do something extraordinary with his brilliant  _____  mind. But Ashton concentrated on his business, and      
[007]  holes in the ground to study the rocks, using strange  _____  tools that the islanders had never seen before.      


	
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[001]        I went out on the lake in my boat.  The sun and  _____  air calmed me.  My father noticed that I was happier.     
[002]       animals, plants, and birds.  Most of the world's  _____  water is here, and the forest plants clean the Earth's     
[003]   it's less than 250 grams.  People prefer chicken and  _____  fish.  And more people are interested in  healthy eati     
[004]    all kinds of tins and packets.  There were boxes of  _____  fruit and vegetables outside the door.  
[005] provide a diet similar to that on Earth, but with less  _____  meat. The farms will be arranged in terraces with fis     
[006] found him.  There was dry blood all over his face, and  _____  blood was pouring from a large hole in his chest.       
[007] igent, and he read many books.  His mind was alive and  _____ .  I liked him very much, and he became a good friend      


	
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[001]     at the end of the autumn.  I was ready to go home.  _____  arrived, and there was a lot of snow.       
[002]  Life for these farmers was very hard, particularly in  _____ .  The farms were very lonely, but soon the railways   
[003]  by boat from Seattle.  Most visitors go in summer; in  _____  it is very cold, and it is dark for most of the day      
[004] of the things visitors enjoy here.  You can also enjoy  _____  sports in places like Aspen, where  there is a lot of      
[005]    little food, and many of them died during the first  _____ .  Then Pocahontas, the daughter of a Native American      
[006] them - pictures and heavy tables, chairs and beds.  In  _____  the castle is very cold and dark.  Duncan puts on a       
[007]  at my desk in my study.  I'm writing this story.  The  _____  sun is shining through my  study window.  It's a beaut     


	
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[001]        'They've just left the road and walked into the  _____ .'  We all followed them into the trees.      
[002]  so I decided to help them.  At night, I went into the  _____  and cut wood for the family fire.  I left piles of woo
[003]  was a fire ranger again.  In the winter, he protected  _____  animals from people who hunted without permission.       
[004]   years, the tree watches all the living things of the  _____  around it.  Then people arrive and everything changes.     
[005] ife and nature.  In their world, all the things in the  _____ -animals, trees, plants, and rocks-had souls, like peop     
[006]           Now there was some hope.  Dawn in a tropical  _____  is not a peaceful matter. Everything that walks or      
[007]     this morning, I was standing at the edge of a rain  _____  with my eyes closed. The smell of the warm, wet leaves     


	
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[001]   not poor.' 'Well, we're not rich! We're making a new  _____  garden, and of course we had to buy more furniture.       
[002] after mile of coarse grass, with the occasional purple  _____  or grey-green bush.  Jo rode ahead. He wore a blue      
[003]   when I was younger. But I never did. He had a little  _____ -shop.  Funny, wasn't it? I've always loved flowers.       
[004]   not interested in anything, and she was dying like a  _____  without water.  She was growing weaker every day.       
[005]  old young people, 'If you go to San Francisco, wear a  _____  in your  hair'. San Francisco is also famous for the G     
[006]     with her immediately.  He called her his beautiful  _____  and sent her many expensive presents, gold and jewel     
[007]      and felt happy.  'The trees are just beginning to  _____ . And the first foals are here.  I hope you will think     


	
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[001]   There were three smaller boxes inside.  In the first  _____  there were gold coins from many different countries.      
[002]   was on the table.  The chess pieces were in a wooden  _____  next to the  board.  'That's strange,' I thought.       
[003] s' house  yesterday." "There was only one glove in the  _____ ," Beth said.  "Were you with Mr. Brooke yesterday?"      
[004]    us things.  I saw a bottle of black hair dye in his  _____ , so I bought it.  But it made my hair green!" "Go and     
[005]   vacation, Anne went home and put her books away in a  _____ .  "I'm not going to study in the vacation," she said      
[006]    herself over to the medicine cupboard and got out a  _____  of Band-Aids.   She was going to do her own repairs.      
[007] here were things still in it.  There was a small metal  _____  under the bed.  It was open, but there were only lette