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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] doors?' asked Sherlock Holmes.  'We were afraid of the  _____  animals, and the gipsies,' she answered.        
[002]   monkey roads, which are high in the trees.  It was a  _____ , exciting journey.  The monkeys jumped from tree-top      
[003]          Then the hate inside him exploded, and like a  _____  animal, he ran towards Basil, and dug the knife into      
[004]      'I think so,' answered Helen.  'But it was a very  _____ , stormy night.  Perhaps I made a mistake.  The police     
[005]                        I started to read it.  It was a  _____ , fantastic story, but I hoped that my reading would      
[006]     dancing and singing, talking and laughing, and the  _____  noise of a thousand happy men and women rang through      
[007] letter to Sybil Vane.  He covered page after page with  _____  words of love.  Then, suddenly, he  eard Lord Henry     


	
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[001]       in Arizona is the Grand Canyon.  This deep river  _____  as made by the Colorado River cutting through the ro     
[002]                   and looked down across the beautiful  _____  of the Negrito river.  To the left they could see righ     
[003]   And when will it come?'  The old man looked down the  _____  towards the sea.  'Two  days,' he said.  'Perhaps thre     
[004] lp from?  Soon the wind began to drive fiercely up the  _____ .  It sang  wildly  n the leafless branches of the ta     
[005] fornia has the lowest, driest place in the USA:  Death  _____ , which is 86 metres lower than the sea.  It is very       
[006]   hour or two.  I took a road that went along a narrow  _____ , and then up onto the moor again. I was very hungry;      
[007]           Behind me was a road climbing out of a river  _____ . In front were two kilometres of flat open country.      


	
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[001]    fashion clothes. We British believe ourselves to be  _____  in  having such a gracious lady for our Queen and rule 
[002] ehind him, bending over to help him. Her face - it was  _____  he could not see her face, or he would never have been     
[003] aying cards?' said Mrs  Smiling. 'I think you are very  _____ ,  darling, to have got through all those awful years      
[004]            Only I shall be happier than him, when I am  _____  enough to marry you.' Their conversation continued in     
[005]    the thought of the hard Jane Eyre myself that I was  _____  to work ahead of me. But I reminded have any sort of     
[006]    and Rose in Oliver Twist who were glad to help less  _____  people.  Charles Dickens was very successful when he      
[007] visit Mr Bennet a few days later. He was not, however,  _____  enough to see the Bennet girls, who were hiding behind 


	
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[001]  looked into her eyes.  'You've got to do this, Grace.  _____  me.'  He led her across the arena.     
[002]  a real cop.  This is a typical English bobby. You can  _____  him. Bobbies are very polite and don't even carry gun     
[003]  him in England," the army suggested.  But Suu did not  _____  them.  "If I go home," she thought, "the government
[004] ople who they think will open the door to them. Don't   _____  anyone - you could regret it.  Make certain that you     
[005] terrible thing that they would not allow. They did not  _____  the manager to consider the needs of the workers.       
[006] orse Whisperer, is a similar kind of man.  He wins the  _____  of horses because he knows and loves them.  The story     
[007]  'Dancing and riding, it's the same thing.  It's about  _____ .  You've got to move together.  And you've both got to


	
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[001] dnerstand why my sister died.  Her door was locked and  _____  could get into her room.  They didn't find any poison     
[002]     and wetter.  For a while they called for help, but  _____  came, and after half an hour they stopped shouting.  T     
[003]  be all right,' he thought, and he went in.  This time  _____  looked at his trousers and his shoes.  He  enjoyed his     
[004]     he left, he took out a lot of money from his bank.  _____  has  seen him  since that day.  He is a quiet man who 
[005]    for your help,' he went on.  'I wear a mask because  _____  must know who that person is.  I must explain how im     
[006] cloud of dust. Where did he go?  To Apia, or Honolulu?  _____  ever saw him  again.  At the official inquiry,       
[007]  saying. 'I don't know what I'll do after the inquiry.  _____  will employ me as an officer again.  


	
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[001] ere isn't really any danger, of course.  Everything is  _____  here.  We check everything all the time.'  'I see,'      
[002]   too.  We can't leave anything in the house; it's not  _____ .  Think of the people  ext door.  Now we're going       
[003]      That's important to us.'  'And if something's not  _____ , then of course we'll change it,' Mary Carter said.       
[004] logist to make sure that everything in this factory is  _____ .  We want someone to tell the government that it's 
[005]   Duncan,' said the lawyer softly.  'Your daughter  is  _____ .  Her husband saved her, and she hasn't lost her baby.     
[006]  hold all your long words?'  These words will keep him  _____  from the birds, from the Snake-People, and all the ani     
[007] day you will thank me for my lessons.  Now you will be  _____  in the jungle, because no snake, no bird, no animal      


	
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[001]                       How can an ordinary man suddenly  _____  a car to save someone's life? How do people walk on f     
[002]  The wind tore at his wet clothes and he was afraid to  _____  his head too high.  At  ast he reached the top of the     
[003]     Wyatt pulled and pushed at the tree and managed to  _____  it off the two still bodies.  Poor Rawsthorne was dea 
[004]  'The treasure is here! ' Dantes thought.  He tried to  _____  the box but he couldn't.  He tried to open it, but      
[005] lowly around to the back of the horse.  Pilgrim didn't  _____  his head.  But he tried to follow her with his eyes.       
[006]  put on simple shoes and did some exercise.  You could  _____  weights, run, practise fighting or play ball games.      
[007] They walked into the station.  Fairhead walked up to a  _____  door and pressed the button. The doors opened.  


	
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[001]     that urges each one to be better than he is. It is  _____ 's wistful yearning for a world of justice and peace.     
[002] though we visited other planets in space, our dream of  _____ 's spreading to those planets never happened.       
[003]               I mean the field could be devastated and  _____  would starve. I: David Attenborough insists that none     
[004] everyone does that when he has a new idea about saving  _____ . But none of the ideas brings results.'  'But doesn't     
[005] beautiful, but I am doing my best. All evil comes from  _____ ,' he said gloomily, please tell your readers that.'       
[006]           so I don't know how long it's been going on.  _____  nearly destroyed itself at least five times.      
[007]   ed sufficiently grave, to warrant the destruction of  _____  by man's own action.  I mean, however, that the      


	
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[001]                We liked this idea, so George collected  _____  to make a fire. Harris and I started to prepare the      
[002]                            Mowgli held a long piece of  _____  in the fire and the end began to burn brightly.       
[003]      at his saw-mill early because he had to take some  _____  to the village builder that day.  The winter sun burn     
[004]    broke a chair into pieces and then used the bits of  _____  to dig at the wall.  It was hard work and took a long     
[005]       This kitchen was a large room with sixteen small  _____  -burning stoves. There was a stove for each family. 
[006]  nswell, to the west of London. The road led through a  _____  into a green valley. Soon I came to a bridge and look     
[007]                         The road took them down into a  _____ , where the trees shone reddish in the afternoon sun, 


	
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[001]  room, but I never saw anything.  But I could feel his  _____  and I could hear him.  When I got tired of all these      
[002]  or disturbed child. As it is, his teachers regard his  _____  in the school as a challenge, and have gone out of      
[003]  caused by your feelings of personal inadequacy in the  _____  of others. Therefore I shall attempt to break down yo     
[004]    door, the television fell silent. He could feel the  _____  of life behind  the closed door, and the fear of someo     
[005]   wind blew again and broke the bones, but he felt the  _____  of Mercer. 'Come here,' he said to Mercer.  'Mercer!'      
[006]  in his study. Once more he had the feeling of another  _____ , a strange spirit, in the room.  Teesdale was not par     
[007]  is a manifestation of God in the world, a sign of His  _____ , a trace of His glory.' As a statement about the pre