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Quiz 085

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]    a club to do business.  The player or club pays the  _____  to help them.  The rules of FlFA, the International Fo     
[002]     them from football.  Here is an example of what an  _____  does: Club X wants to sell player A to a British club.     
[003] player A to a British club.  Club X tells the player's  _____  how much money it wants for the player.  If Club X wan    
[004]     'No, he hasn't.  You were just described as secret  _____  James Bond'. 'Thanks, Mary. Now I must get you out of     
[005]       'I think Malcolm has made an important point. An  _____ ,  someone working for the Department, should not be p     
[006]    think it will be difficult. I'm going to the estate  _____ 's this afternoon. Did you know that Joanna, our eldest  
[007]  very good, so I am sending you a letter to take to my  _____ , Hughes Massie. . .  Agatha still only eighteen years     


	
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[001]          Especially, I like to find different parts of  _____  for the same word - 'act,' 'actor,' 'actress,' or adj     
[002]       The person who does the best brand has to make a  _____  after dinner.'  'What!' said Grace.  'So, Grace, you      
[003]   a female teacher.  There he won a prize for the best  _____ .  On the way home they were happily talking when some     
[004] nizers invited important speakers.  King worked on his  _____  all night, trying to find the right words.      
[005]   civil rights bill.  On June 11, he gave an important  _____  to the American people.  Every man has the right to      
[006]     Eighteen days after King gave his "I Have a Dream"  _____ ,  three KKK men bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Ch     
[007]    Americans agreed with their President.  After JFK's  _____  that night, a segregationist shot and killed the famou  


	
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[001]  Well, it's nothing unusual -  just an typical country  _____ . But  it's on a branch of the  ees River, so it must      
[002]          called Whistler, in Canada in a pretty little  _____  in the mountains of British Columbia.  There was a caf     
[003]   straight all the way, until you reach Middleton. The  _____  is just after an old Roman bridge over a little stream     
[004]   A solar pump was built in a poor, traditional desert  _____  in an area where the climate was particularly dry an     
[005]   Eyes are  watching the roads and the fields near the  _____ , because this is Czechoslovakia and the year is 1957.     
[006]  day and night and they carry guns.  In a house in the  _____  a man and a woman are talking.  The woman holds a si     
[007]                   - a  major improvement for the whole  _____ , and all its  people, as well as their sheep and goats     


	
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[001]   songs and dancing of black slaves in the 1830s.  The  _____  Jelly Roll Morton said he was the first to play 'jazz     
[002]  words with Paul.  Things only got better when a guest  _____ ,  American Billy Preston, joined them.  The cameras fi     
[003]   I'm  writing a biography of Leonard Benson, the jazz  _____ .  Journalist: So I suppose you're spending a lot of ti     
[004]    the cities - Tokyo's exciting, but, for a classical  _____ , London is more exciting than Tokyo, and, of course,      
[005]           I've never had another job, I've only been a  _____ . I: And how old were you when you started playing?      
[006]   as the 'Red Strad'. It was bought by 'a professional  _____ '.  In its years in the Mendelssohn family, it was play     
[007] f I had ever learnt to play, I would have been a great  _____ .  But I often tell young ladies, practice is very impo     


	
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[001]   was a lot of snow.  The roads were terrible.  It was  _____  to travel and I had to wait until the spring.       
[002] they do that?' I cried.  'Nobody can follow him! It is  _____ !' Ernest did not understand what I was saying.       
[003]   recalls, 'Kimora was an unhappy child. It was almost  _____  for her to relate to other girls of her age, and there     
[004]     to let the tiger eat its lunch.  That night it was  _____  to sleep! I kept hearing that roar and seeing that      
[005]                      Some people think that my plan is  _____ , but I know we can do it.  We're going to enter a tet     
[006] Thanks for the compliment you are paying me, but it is  _____  for me to accept your proposal.' 'Of course I underst     
[007]                                which makes agriculture  _____ . All plants need the sun to shine on them - no plant      


	
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[001]  stood there for a few moments. Then he telephoned the  _____ .  'I've just had a telephone call,' he said. 'Can you      
[002]  n you tell me where the call came from, please?'  The  _____  checked, and gave him a number. To Teesdale's surprise     
[003] mistake, Doctor. We haven't telephoned you.'  'But the  _____  says you did, about five minutes ago.'  'The               
[004]           says you did, about five minutes ago.'  'The  _____  must be mistaken, Doctor. Sorry.'  'Very strange. Well     
[005]    softly, and I could only hear whispers. I asked the  _____  where the call came from. It came from the prison. I 
[006] .  Others jumped, hoping to  swim to a lifeboat. Radio  _____  Harold Bride was one of the men who were trying to fr     
[007] y're all dead."  "My name's Harold Bride.  I'm a radio  _____ .  The Carpathia is coming to help." "I hope she arriv     


	
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[001]         eat alone every few hours all through the day.  _____  foods, like pies and ice-cream, are very popular too.     
[002]  cuisine is rightly famous in the whole world. I mean,  _____  and sour sauce, beef and green peppers, garlic...     
[003]      It is usually meat or fish with green vegetables,  _____  potatoes, and corn bread, perhaps with pie afterwards     
[004]  swimmer, she decided.  She stood up and went to get a  _____  from the pocket of her coat   
[005] in the wood.  In the middle was a small icy pond, with  _____ -smelling trees all around.  It was a quiet, secret pla     
[006]   Mattie! Ethan could not think of it.  Her voice, her  _____  smile, her gentle arm in his arm during those night      
[007]        ; we had to live for the future.  Elizabeth was  _____  and kind to us, and I loved her very much.       


	
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[001]        As Lisa shouted - very loudly - I watched every  _____ , including all the hummingbirds, fly away into the for     
[002] ith a fish in its bill. The fish was so heavy that the  _____  seemed to be having trouble flying, and I watched unti     
[003]   you will be safe in the jungle, because no snake, no  _____ , no animal will hurt you.  You do not need to be afrai     
[004] farmhouse. He heard a child laughing somewhere near. A  _____  flew onto the branch of a tree close to him and they      
[005] uddenly, the sound of shouts and horses frightened the  _____  and it flew up into the air. The noise broke through      
[006]    in a golden mist, and each morning as he dressed, a  _____  seemed to be singing in his heart.  Paul, dear,' she      
[007] s don't bother you?   L: No, I've always been an early  _____ . I used to help the milkman when I was at school.


	
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[001] called the 'Windy City' because of the cold winds that  _____  in from Lake Michigan.  The first really tall building     
[002] and thick grey cloud, and a cool wind was beginning to  _____ .  It was half past four in the afternoon.  She turned     
[003] in the cave.  Then the wind grew stronger and began to  _____  the water into the cave.  Several times they were      
[004]    window had not been open long enough for the air to  _____  the candle out.'  'Of course,' said the Inspector.  
[005]  could get to him in time.  He didn't want to shout or  _____  his whistle because he knew what shock or surprise     
[006] ed the stewardess. 'Oh God,' I thought, 'he's going to  _____  up the plane'.      
[007] ldiers died.  At four o'clock Favel ordered his men to  _____  up the big guns.  There was no time to move them.         


	
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[001]       St john's face looked sterner than usual and his  _____  curled in disapproval, as he lifted his handsome head   
[002]     her face, truly a noble and pure face, only with a  _____  salve which made her lips glisten but no redder than     
[003]   at the week-old blond mustache shadowing Dan's upper  _____ .   "But honest-to-Betsy, I've seen more hair than that     
[004]          thumb-or finger-sucking, tongue-thrusting, or  _____ -sucking- but it's important to remember that there's     
[005]     had to come to her.  He could see Grace biting her  _____ .  She held her hands out below the horse's nose.    
[006]  that Dronk boy".   She stood frowning and chewing her  _____ . She was wearing a brown cotton dress, cut across the     
[007]  cork should be pulled gradually and smoothly, and the  _____  of the bottle wiped afterward.   Many people use wi