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Quiz 095

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]     on a flight to Buenos Aires. In February 1952, the  _____  arrived from Entebbe to set foot on British soil      
[002]      presidents, kings, and politicians go to meet the  _____ . Buckingham Palace is like a small town, with a politi     
[003]   same time. Philip had six wives. His first wife, his  _____  and the mother of Alexander, was called Olympias.       
[004]    on the throne of the United Kingdom. He has met the  _____  on several occasions. In 1959 he was a soldier in      
[005]    ally, the Carian king. At the border, he was met by  _____  Ada, who had been the wife of an earlier king. Now she     
[006]  plays Scottish bagpipe music outside her room and the  _____  reads The Times.  This unusual music sometimes disturb     
[007]  post at a kindergarten and moved into the home of the  _____  mother to be taught the details of royal conduct.       


	
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[001]                             I watched him run down the  _____  stairs at the side of the balcony and walk quickly      
[002]                  the servant returned with an enormous  _____  box filled with the things Campbell had asked for.       
[003]    outhouse, which was built of brick, with a floor of  _____  boards.  The meteor lay in the middle of the floor.      
[004]     slowed down, turned, and then stopped outside tall  _____  doors. The doors were in a tall, yellow wall and ther 
[005] until she was outside the classroom.  There is a small  _____  house in a banyan tree in the south corner of the sch     
[006]  she could carry, took them outside and sat on the old  _____  bench behind the house.  It was a long bench - when      
[007]   of a low table in his tent. On, the table were small  _____  figures of his family-parents and grandparents.    


	
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[001]      He kept his eyes on the ground as he answered, 'A  _____  evening, but it's late for you to be out alone.       
[002]   back in his chair, closing his eyes. 'Married to the  _____  Rosamund Oliver! Let me just imagine it! My heart is      
[003]     be happy. And if we could only start again, what a  _____ ,  peaceful world we might -'  She stopped suddenly, in     
[004]       voice singing: Go to sleep, my baby.  Close your  _____  eyes.  Alice sat on the side of her bed, rocking a lit     
[005] ooking so cross! Why don't you dance with one of these  _____  girls?'  'Certainly not,' replied Darcy. 'You know how     
[006]     when he arrived at Longbourn and saw Jane Bennet's  _____  face. As the eldest, she should marry first, and for      
[007]           'Of course I do, Sally. And the winters were  _____  too, short, cold days. And there was always snow on      


	
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[001]     agriculture impossible. All plants need the sun to  _____  on them - no plant can grow in the dark or even shade     
[002]     He lit another lamp. He placed it so that it would  _____  into the right hand corner of the wall by the fireplac     
[003]    the sun shines, and it's green when the sun doesn't  _____ . It's by the sea, where the Atlantic waves come in     
[004] was calm. The sun made the tops of the waves dance and  _____ . And when Tristan stopped the boat there was silence,     
[005]  held there by a line of fear.  Soon his skin began to  _____  and water flew from the corners of his mouth.  But th     
[006]                  LEO 24 July - 23 August:  You want to  _____ like the sun in the new Millennium! You want to show      
[007] ike the  stories of John Cheever, James Salter's tales  _____  with light,"  Michiko Kakutani wrote in The New York      


	
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[001]       See you in the morning,' he said, and closed the  _____  behind him.   When Anna woke     
[002]   for food. A big Mercedes car came round to the front  _____ .  'Probably a businessman going to the airport,'      
[003] But when I reached the great stone columns of the main  _____ , I stood still in horror. There, where I had hoped     
[004]  teachers' room. Hu saw him walking through the school  _____  and across the road to the Chinese shop.  Hu looked      
[005]   pink stones that warm in the sun.  There's a wall, a  _____ , and a small field of vegetables."  Maximus looked up      
[006]   in the garden when saw Mr Knightley come through the  _____ . She did not know he had returned to Highbury and she     
[007]  his eyes as he listened. He was smiling. "Through the  _____  are apple trees. The earth is black, Marcus. As black       


	
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[001] life-giving than the heavy responsibility of coins and  _____ .  I cried, laughing.  'Oh, I'm glad - I'm so glad!'       
[002] the windows of the pool she could see the town and the  _____  mines around Johannesburg. Monika fell asleep.  'Hi!'     
[003]  shiny and yellow in the bag.  'The best South African  _____ ,' Dixon said with a laugh.  The men in long coats took     
[004] n't mention it,' said Mrs. Rovello, who was covered in  _____  jewellery. 'We're so pleased that you could come and       
[005]   is a rich man. I will have all the rings and all the  _____  I want,' she had told Hu.  The ring was very old and      
[006]   But she had a seat, and she sat holding tight to the  _____  ring in its box, with a mixture of fear and guilt.       
[007] ndsome, with his curved red lips, honest blue eyes and  _____  hair.  'Oh, don't worry about my aunt. You are one of      


	
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[001]    the team's hotel this evening that was witnessed by  _____  people, including any number of Mets fans.      
[002]      responsible dog ownership and start enforcing the  _____  dog-related laws that already exist. Third, when we      
[003] chief physician and trained staff, and there have been  _____  complaints about inadequate care. Last month, in a vi     
[004]          At the end of 1992 the racist right organised  _____  meetings throughout the US to discuss action in respo     
[005] ehaviour and trials of the Chinese people. Even in his  _____  essays which themselves comprise almost 20 volumes,       
[006] quality of the interior woodwork. The institute houses  _____  treasures from China. The  1,400 separate chapters of     
[007] Needham did more than study history deeply.  There are  _____  contributions which establish his status as a histori     


	
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[001]                                     The Sultan's total  _____  is more than $25 billion. He a businessman as much a     
[002]   the smallest but richest countries in the world. Its  _____  comes from oil and gas. Most people think that Brunei     
[003] richest people in the world, she does not show off her  _____ . She never wears gold jewellery or amazingly expensive     
[004]  reality of driving them. Cars are symbols of freedom,  _____ , and masculinity. But when you are stuck in a traffic     
[005]                         Dodi Fayed lived in a world of  _____  and luxury but died early this morning in a cramped      
[006]    it might be able to satisfy aspirations to material  _____  and security. 'Everything seems bigger and better,'      
[007]      and she doesn't love me. She only liked me for my  _____ , and when I, disguised as the gipsy woman, told her      


	
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[001]        cars, beautiful women everywhere. Everything is  _____ , everything says this man is rich, this man is import     
[002]    in the painting. In the middle was a man dressed in  _____  clothes, looking out from the painting, looking impor     
[003]  is looking behind the rich man. There are big houses,  _____  cars, beautiful women everywhere. Everything is           
[004] oustache, black hair and blue eyes.  He was wearing an  _____  suit and had a small bag over his shoulder.       
[005] by bus. He  wanted to go by taxi.  'But taxis are very  _____ ,' Monika explained.  'Never mind,' replied Chapman. I    
[006] th from the gold mines.  The Carlton Hotel was big and  _____ . A smartly dressed hotel porter opened Monika's taxi      
[007]           Destroying a nuclear weapon is dangerous and  _____  work. The Russian army would like to destroy many more     


	
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[001]   Maximus moved with great pain and saw that the sword  _____  on his shoulder was worse than he had realized.        
[002]           'I will ask my daughter, Isolt, to make your  _____  better.  Then will you teach her to play the harp?'     
[003]                'When the ancient Mayans had a cut or a  _____ , they would often take a leafcutter ant and they would     
[004]  They put Catherine on a comfortable sofa, cleaned her  _____  and fed her with cakes and wine. I only left the house     
[005] ou'll get warm and dry, and I'll put a bandage on that  _____ . Then we'll have some tea.' She was so exhausted that     
[006]  did this by using the spine of the stingray to make a  _____  in their tongue.' 'Oh no! How awful!' Lisa said,    
[007]  need to die.  Sometimes the people were only asked to  _____  themselves to provide blood for the gods. Even the ki