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Quiz 094

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]       All orders originate with the officer of highest  _____  and terminate with action of the men in the ranks.      
[002]    go only from an officer to the man of nearest lower  _____ . The same command is repeated as many times as there     
[003]               Not only should every educator above the  _____  of  instructor be expected to be a member of one of     
[004]   nt than Jefferson, John Jay commands an equally high  _____  among the Founding Fathers. He served as president     
[004]  co's ruling  Revolutionary Institutional Party, whose  _____  and file are reeling from a scorching electoral defeat     
[005]    Together, the local institutions of higher learning  _____  among the area's leading industries, generating more      
[006]     polytechnics, seemed to think they would instantly  _____  as equal with, but different from, existing universiti   


	
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[001]                              It was my first important  _____ , the first of a number of discoveries.       
[002]      I wondered if I should tell Mrs Maudsley about my  _____ . If I told her, she might have the plant destroyed.      
[003] Burgess. Her kindness was not real.  The shock of this  _____  made me stop running, and I began to cry. Crying help 
[004] the right attitude, your visit to China will be one of  _____ , and well... it'll be a very memorable experience. Mr     
[005]  think there may be something secret - some scientific  _____  - hidden in another place?'  'Maybe. Even probably. Bu     
[006]  wasn't playing jokes.  I then made my third important  _____ .  Something was wrong with our game.  After that, it      
[007]   her own real needs.  It is a story of love and self-  _____ .  Evans says: 'It's about people finding a way of life     


	
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[001]                         'If you want to become a real  _____ ,' he said, 'you must learn all the sciences.        
[002]  You are the one man who can save me. Alan, you are a  _____ . You know about chemistry, and things of that kind.       
[003]  nable to sharpen his own pencil. He was a laboratory  _____  with a mastery of refined manipulative techniques.      
[004]  may have felt that Needham, as a rational analytical  _____ , an honorary associate of the Rational Press Associati     
[005]  work on atomic weapons. He did not want to work as a  _____  for the British Government. What he wanted to do was     
[006]    Ashton became an ordinary businessman instead of a  _____   with lots of  valuable secrets, his records were      
[007] opening presentation by a Zambian researcher. A media- _____ . She does underwater films.' His grandmother sat up a     


	
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[001]  about unpacking the car, and buying a few things like  _____  and bread for tomorrow's breakfast?' said Anna.       
[002]   just perfect. And thank you for buying the bread and  _____  and things. How much do we owe you for that?'  'Don't     
[003]    about food. I dreamed about chocolate cake and cold  _____ . I dreamed of our kitchen in Hatfield, of going down      
[004] ouse? J: Yes, I  have a goat in the barn that produces  _____ , which I make int  cheese. And I keep honey bees outs     
[005]         But nowadays many people just have cereal with  _____  and sugar, or toast with marmalade, jam, or honey.      
[006]    breakfast drink is tea, which people have with cold  _____ . Some people have coffee, often instant coffee, which     
[007]     You take them something, he decided. Like a cup of  _____  or maybe an egg or, to be strictly correct, what peop     


	
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[001]  leaving the door open behind me for a quick escape if  _____ . I stood and listened. But I couldn't hear anything.      
[002]     and fruit to take back to my room.  In my room the  _____  things were ready. They were: A small bowl of oil (to     
[003] mportant: don't move the victim unless it's absolutely  _____ . I mean, if any bones are broken, the injury could  b     
[004] atch up with us as quickly as possible.  Lie to her if  _____ , but make her come with me,' said Komarovsky.  'I'll      
[005]    woods, stealing from the rich but only killing when  _____  to defend himself. Everyone knows that Robin Hood ro     
[006]  else. He never talked to his neighbours unless it was  _____  for his work, and he never looked at any of the Ravel     
[007]   person there. He or she would be able to tell me the  _____  facts. Then I saw a man whose face seemed less unfami     


	
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[001]  The Welsh village of Tredonald where they lived was a  _____  mining village. Nearly all the men worked down the min     
[002]     He felt as if he was in a large shop rather than a  _____  mine. Bur. when the doors opened at the bottom, he wa     
[003]  the men worked down the mine, getting the dirty black  _____  out of the ground. Mr. Jenkins didn't want his daughte     
[004] round. Mr. Jenkins didn't want his daughter to marry a  _____  miner, or even to spend her life working in the shop      
[005] ked eight hours a day, five days a week in the village  _____  mine. There was nothing much else for people in the       
[006] her tired-looking men. Their faces were black from the  _____  and at first he didn't see his older brother, Gareth,     
[007] now you live in a village where many people still burn  _____  in traditional fireplaces. Do you?   J: No. It was har     


	
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[001]      a bus tour of the countryside when you get here.   _____  you decide to stop, you can always be sure of finding     
[002] since the rains came, but it's not that. But, Bernard,  _____  I am I want to be somewhere else. What's wrong with me     
[003]  being deep under the sea, moving through blue waters.  _____  they  looked - the walls, the floor, the ceiling - see     
[004]   City. I told myself I'd just have to shadow Jennifer  _____  she went, to make sure she and Jan were never alone      
[005]   you are old and ugly you will feel it terribly. Now,  _____  you go, you charm the world. Will it always be so?        
[006]         Do not run away, because I will come after you  _____  you go.  Another prisoner was the dead General Memnon     
[007]      looking amused, 'Well, if you get fed up with it,  _____  you are, phone me and I will come and rescue you in      


	
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[001]     next to her. 'But you'll come back? You won't just  _____ ? We haven't talked.' 'We've talked for three days,'       
[002]    the truth about the Mafia and the FBI helped him to  _____ . He got a new face, even a new wife. He went to Brazil     
[003]  was a bad time to go on holiday perhaps his job would  _____  when he was away. But he didn't want to miss this bre     
[004]   realised that the problems at work were not going to  _____ ; he was going to have to think about his job clearly      
[005]    and picked up some dirt from the ground, watched it  _____  through his fingers, and walked quickly toward the end     
[006]  because one of Russia's last environmental jewels may  _____  as quickly as those reindeer.  ' Laplandsky Preserve,     
[007]  myself. I heard men shouting, and then I pretended to  _____  over the top of the hill, but in fact I got down in th    


	
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[001]    There, Mrs Elton talked a lot about her brother and  _____  and their house. She said it was a lot like Hartfield 
[002]     to have a friend for the holidays. His brother and  _____  are several years older and have their own friends.      
[003]    I had a message from my aunt... my mother's younger  _____ . Just before I came here. He'd died.  He was eighty.'      
[004] ave you got any family here?' asked Stephen.  'Only my  _____  now,' Tristan replied. My parents moved away when my      
[005] moved away when my father retired from fishing. But my  _____  and I are very close. She's happy here, like me.'      
[006]  the daughter of a vicar. She had six brothers and one  _____ , Cassandra, who was her greatest friend. Her home was     
[007]     she lived with, her father at the family home. Her  _____  Isabella lived in London with her husband and five ch     


	
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[001]     during her twentieth year, Flora was discovered to  _____  every skill except that of earning enough to live on.     
[002] her voffice and in her behaviour.'  'All this she must  _____ ,' added Darcy, 'and something more solid, the improve   
[003]  his decisions, and possessing one gift Stalin did not  _____ : The ability to rouse men to fever pitch of personal     
[004]   about the necessary tools or insights they needed to  _____ . However, as a practicing historian, he, himself, had     
[005]  increasingly anxious to see that their young children  _____  adequate computer skills, almost before the children     
[006]  ically, and describe mental visualizations. They must  _____  such personal qualities as integrity, self- managemen     
[007]   world is like, we must not betray our trust. We each  _____  a million years of history, and a million years of k