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Quiz 090

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]      She ran to the back door, opened it, and just saw  _____   run and hide behind the wood pile. 'Who's  there?' sh     
[002]  refused to give his daughter to a slave. Then one day  _____  - nobody  knew who - took away the little doll from Ok     
[003]            You looked so serious. I thought I'd killed  _____  in my  sleep!'  They weren't acting. There was nothing     
[004]      The other passengers ran to help him, the dog bit  _____ , and there was a lot of excited shouting.  Soon they       
[005] ratefully, but hesitated for a moment. I wouldn't like  _____  else to lose money instead of me,' he said. But, you      
[006]  turning to me,  'Look, I'd like to explain - I'd like  _____  to understand -  one person at least! You! Why not you     
[007]    those wires go under the carpet. The alarm rings if  _____  else steps on them. Not one of us.'  And when it rings     


	
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[001] the world in this mad race I pray that we may have the  _____  and courage to lead it out of the race.  Are we      
[002]     for this great task is de Gaulle. He alone has the  _____ , the conviction, the tenacity, and the courage to re     
[003] rontier now taking form can produce the leadership and  _____  necessary to understand the current shape of events.     
[004]      they stand rigid scrutiny?  Shakespeare's wit and  _____ , his profound insight into human nature, have stood      
[005] ement of flowers that Wales can offer. Flowers, youth,  _____ , sunlight falling on jewellery, music,' said the Doct     
[006]                  Their job is selling houses.  Popular  _____  has it that if you really want to see how well      
[007]      a 10-year exemption of their real estate tax. The  _____  of granting such tax exemptions is another matter,


	
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[001]                    'The responsibility for learning is  _____  placed increasingly on the students. But in order to      
[002]                              Next door a new house was  _____  built, which might be a good place to watch from;      
[003]       he stared into the darkness. 'It's a question of  _____  ready. I wasn't, not then.' And then, turning to me,     
[004]    dies, then you could marry Nancy. She wouldn't mind  _____  a second wife, if she didn't know there was a first.      
[005]      but was careful that nobody should suspect him of  _____  her father. His life was also changing. There was a n     
[006]   of thought, searching desperately for a single human  _____  whose mind could receive their message. And they were     
[007]     from a very distant planet. You are the only human  _____  we have been able to contact, so you must understand 


	
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[001]                                      Jim had spent his  _____  in a comfortable, peaceful home in the southwest of      
[002]  on fishing trips with his father. His memories of his  _____  holidays were of fishing with his father for hours,      
[003]                     His real name was Bernard, but his  _____  friends had called him Boom Boom and the name followed     
[004] aight to my aunt's room.  I remembered it well from my  _____ . I had often been called there to be punished.       
[005]      '  And so I told her the whole story of my lonely  _____  with the Reed family, and of my terrible experience      
[006]     was a story that Alexander had read from his early  _____ . He was even thought to be a relative of Achilles,       
[007]          But they're so young that they can lose their  _____ ,  and they're adults before they're 16.    


	
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[001]  the ship Pharaoh came in to Marseilles.  A man on the  _____  jumped into a boat and went out to the ship.       
[002]   wrong with the ship.  We stopped at Elba and went on  _____ .  It was a holiday, not work!     
[003]         Just then a boat arrived and came close to the  _____ .  The business began.        
[004]  green leaves.  The Phillipses lived in a house on the  _____  of Lake Michigan, with a three-car garage.     
[005] might last twenty minutes - not enough time to swim to  _____ .  My left shoulder ached from the cold. The yacht      
[006]      as close as he could and I jumped on to the rocky  _____ .  I saw a notice:  GOVERNMENT PROPERTY Landing forbidd     
[007]  in front of me the waves were rolling gently onto the  _____ . Everything was so incredibly peaceful, even with the     


	
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[001]                      'Your character is different from  _____ .  I need a lot of people round me,' Julie said.    
[002]         I looked into Julie's eyes and she looked into  _____ .  'Is it you, Julie? Are you the ghost? Are you haunti     
[003]       'You can't use these horses.  You'll have to use  _____ ,  and, with the lessons, that'll cost you fifty pounds     
[004]   we finish university, you'll go your way and I'll go  _____ .  You'll go to law school'  'Wait a minute! What are      
[005]   when I spoke in a whisper, his whisper was just like  _____ .  All these things troubled me deeply.  I could see      
[006]     for it in my case.  It's a present for a friend of  _____  in Athens and I just thought...'  Helen didn't fe     
[007]     Henry Wotton,' said Basil.  'He's an old friend of  _____ .'  Dorian Gray shook hands with Lord Henry, and while      


	
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[001]                         I stopped laughing, and it was  _____  again.  Two people sat on the ground.  They sat very 
[002]           she couldn't speak any English so she stayed  _____ .  After a few minutes Henry left.  He was really unha     
[003]     and smiled.  He knew when to speak, and when to be  _____ .  He felt very interested in his young man, with hi     
[004] rriage drove away and I was alone in front of the dark, _____  castle.  I stood there, looking up at it, and slowly,     
[005] a long piece of wood and a hammer.  Arthur and I stood  _____  and watched.  Then Van Helsing said to Arthur, You      
[006]   a terrible cry in the next room.  Then the house was  _____  again.  What does it mean ?' I asked.  My voice was      
[007]       "You fought with honor,' he said.  The crowd was  _____ , then suddenly there was an enormous cheer. The shout


	
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[001]      'I don't understand,' he said quietly in Harald's  _____ .  'Why are we here?'  Harald looked worried.  'Don't     
[002]     would be so bad.  He put his mouth next to Wyatt's  _____ ,  and shouted, 'How long will this go on?' He could     
[003]   worried.  'I need to talk to you,' Annie said in his  _____ .  'Outside.  By the stables.  I'll meet you.  In 20 mi
[004]  secret present to thank her.  It was a pair of pretty  _____  rings.  At the meal, John seemed a little nervous,      
[005] against him, crying, and he whispered something in her  _____ .  It was then that Harald moved.  He got out of his se     
[006]   we can leave you other things, things to delight the  _____ , and the heart. Listen, now, to the music from our mo     
[007] ook a threatening step towards her. 'Did you have your  _____  at the door long enough to hear everything I said?'      


	
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[001] mpty land with mountains, forests, lakes, animals, and  _____ , but no people.  This was America 16,000 years ago.       
[002] lies like to cook in the South.  It is usually meat or  _____  with green vegetables, sweet potatoes, and corn bread     
[003]    at the other end of the pool.  He could swim like a  _____  and  he and Gary were at the pool every night.  But no     
[004]              'Sometimes I swim.  And sometimes I catch  _____ .'  'Oh,' Roxanne says.  'That isn't very interesting.'     
[005]   last night.  'I was on my boat with my son, catching  _____ .  It was very windy, and so we returned to the coast     
[006]             a large glass-bowl full of small colourful  _____ .  That evening, when Annie finished clearing away dinn     
[007]                It is dangerous, but there are a lot of  _____  in those waters.  "Usually we waited for good weather      


	
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[001] spoke to his loved ones through his tears. "Lie in the  _____  of the trees, my loves, and wait for me there...     
[002]       of a mysterious building. The place stood in the  _____  of an old tree and often attracted me.  'This marker      
[003]  forget to bring a lunch with you - a picnic under the  _____  of the Great Pyramid is very pleasant in spring or aut  
[004]             her eyes were as dark and wonderful as the  _____  of a forest.  'Mercedes!' a voice shouted happily out     
[005]            The room was now in complete darkness.  The  _____  cut out the moonlight.  Soon it was over me and all      
[006]    do not want the streets below to be too dark in the  _____  of big buildings.  New  ork was the perfect place for     
[007]                Death had entered his room, and now the  _____  of death lay all around him.  He could neither seem