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Quiz 093

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]   Asians lost their lives because of Alexander's great  _____  east. In many lands, he is remembered as a bloodthirst     
[002]    war elephants. It seemed that no one could stop the  _____  of this extraordinary army.  Certainly not the Persian     
[003] Thessalians welcomed Alexander as their new leader.  A  _____  at lightning speed then took Alexander's army on a to     
[004] entury is marching on for all of us.'  'But we want to  _____  to our own time,' Mapetla declared bitterly. 'The bes     
[005]  Sharpton said yesterday that the large turnout at the  _____  on Friday protesting the alleged assault of Abner Lo     
[006]                     Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani plans to  _____  in his fifth West Indian American Day parade tomorrow 
[007] 'Let's see. Five days, Monday to Friday, first week in  _____ ,  before the heat gets too bad. Listen. . . ?' 'Sorry,     


	
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[001]        'Tell me early on Saturday morning, and I'll be  _____ . Sick.'  'But...'  I controlled my anger.     
[002] ctor was still silent.  'Look,' I said. 'If a horse is  _____ , of course I'll give him an easy ride. But no more      
[003]    In the last year of his life, when he was seriously  _____  with cancer of the liver, he still insisted that he      
[004]     because although I had escaped, I was feeling very  _____ . The smoke had been very unpleasant, and the day on      
[005]  I've just telephoned Lord Alloa's house and he's been  _____  in bed all day.'  'Who...' someone asked.  'The Black      
[006]                     In the daylight Mark looked really  _____ , but he managed to drink some water and to eat some      
[007]    half-dead with cold and tiredness.  He was thin and  _____  and could not say very much.  We took him to the kitc     


	
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[001] re no longer a little girl.'  I feel very old and very  _____ ,' said Catherine, smiling.  I am afraid that you will  
[002]   develop.  'Go out into the universe, then. Go and be  _____ , kind, and truthful. Go in peace. Our prayers go with     
[003]   which could be changed. But I don't think it will be  _____  to change the decision but to adapt to the situation      
[004] ng before he  had finished his speech. However, he was  _____  enough to remember something he had learned long ago.     
[005]     only a faint light in the sky to mark its place. A  _____  man would turn back now, he thought, but still he went     
[006]    wells, and sometimes on the way they would join the  _____  and respected old men of the village under a tree.      
[007]     I shall lock it every night tomorrow on.   'That's  _____  of you, miss. We might have burglars at Thornfield on     


	
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[001]    she walked quickly out of the room and into her own  _____ .  There, quite by chance, the first thing she saw was      
[002] Rick froze.  I'm not here,' he said, and went into the  _____ .  Hello,' Iran greeted the caller. Yes, he's here.       
[003]   she washed the dinner plates. Then she went into the  _____ , stared at herself in the piece of mirror, and dried       
[004]  small light appeared behind the thick curtains of the  _____ . I waited for a few more minutes, and then decided to     
[005]     clothes I left here and leave.'  She went into the  _____  and I looked around the study.  Every wall was covered     
[006]   walked up to the hotel.  I had planned to hide in my  _____  and see what happened. But now I had a better idea.      
[007]    When it grew light, he went nervously back into his  _____  and searched it. Everything was in its usual place.      


	
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[001]    they spent a lot of time with each other. Now their  _____  seemed to be getting even stronger.  'Yeah, great,' r    
[002]   Huw for long - he was worried about their continuing  _____ . They were not children any more and Mr Jenkins had     
[003]   a husband.  She knew, however, that Elizabeth, whose  _____  she greatly valued, would be astonished and possibly      
[004]  years later, Ikuko remembered the early days of their  _____ : meals in  small restaurants, walks in the park slowly     
[005] London in 1934 he met Beckett, with whom he had a warm  _____  until Beckett's death in 1989. He was in  Paris again     
[006]  Clinton  weighed local American votes against British  _____ . The bonds that tied America to Europe in two world wa     
[007]  same as you do! Why don't you stretch out the hand of  _____  to the poor black man, who's as good as you are?'       


	
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[001]    get paid much and there's no respect. You're just a  _____  worker. My mum has had loads of jobs. But they're all     
[002]   drove north out of London to Basildon in Essex, to a  _____  which made paper for  printing photographs.  'Do you  
[003]  of themselves and their father. He worked hard at the  _____ , building railway engines, and his job was important      
[004] huge red ball in the sky.  Whistles blew at the nearby  _____ .  It was four o'clock and the workers were on their wa     
[005]   ult Ste Marie lay on our left, the huge Algoma steel  _____  on the shore. After forty minutes, Captain Bemis was      
[006] d  hard in their new country. They had found work in a  _____  that made cars and David Thomas had stopped drinking.     
[007]   looked as if there'd been an explosion in a clothing  _____ .  ran was laughing. 'A midnight swim,' he said. 'Great     


	
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[001]         I know I have no alibi but I want to know what  _____  you  have against me.'  'Well, you see, there were sev     
[002]   cops wouldn't believe Grafalk was a murderer without  _____ . But if I could  find a witness, someone who saw Graf     
[003]    extremely uninterested in me.'  'When they have the  _____  that Phillips received his head wound here, their in     
[004]    I talk to him or to my lawyers.'  'I don't have any  _____ . Wouldn't you prefer to let the dead bury the dead?'     
[005]    of London's Institute of Education, says: 'There is  _____  that class size makes a difference for the youngest       
[006]    was now certain that Scudder's story was true - the  _____  was lying under the table cloth. His enemies had found     
[007]       But nobody would believe my story. I had to find  _____  that Scudder's story was true; and this would not be       


	
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[001]   state primary schools surveyed in  ngland, Wales and  _____  Ireland offer foreign language teaching, according to     
[002] ave killed the first two.'  And the others are here in  _____  California?'  Dave thinks so. That was him on the phon     
[003] usband was a big man in a white man's job somewhere in  _____  Nigeria. Three years ago he died suddenly.'  'How ter     
[004] listening to the howling wind and  staring at the grey  _____  sky.  So I've decided to ask Mrs Dean to come upstairs     
[005] overnor. He had been Professor of Social Sciences at a  _____  university, but his ambition to play a part in his co     
[006]     and address: Bernard Chiluba, Kasama Road, Mungwi,  _____  Province, Zambia.  'Bernard Chiluba?' 'My grandfather.     
[007]   were going to check if the Caspian Sea was part of a  _____  ocean or joined the Black Sea; although its southern      


	
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[001]                                  There are 350 million  _____  English speakers. English has official or semi-officia     
[002]   foreign languages.  Most nations agree maths and the  _____  language are essential but only Britain and the US    
[003] the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia.  Jim watched as the  _____  people hurried on to the ship, filling every corner      
[004]        about sixty kilometres from the sea. There is a  _____  village of the same name.         
[005]      village of the same name. Behind the roofs of the  _____  houses, you can see the forest, and behind that there  
[006]    ceremonies in Nigeria combine European customs with  _____  ones. Ezekiel Odia himself was a Christian and a churc     
[007]   and the singing and dancing and crying stopped. Cool  _____  wine and plates of nuts were handed round. Tired mourn