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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]       science and philosophy. Macedonia was ruled by a  _____  family that believed they were relatives of the great     
[002]        become king of Persia after many members of the  _____  family were poisoned by a power-hungry politician cal     
[003] Persepolis, Alexander found three million kilograms of  _____  Persian gold. It took 15OOO animals to move it, under     
[004]               ordinary British people thought that the  _____  family was very special.  Victoria, her husband and      
[005]    popular, but there have been too many problems with  _____  marriages.  The Queen's sister and three of her four  
[006]    the State opening of Parliament in November and the  _____  weddings bring colour to people's lives.  People in B     
[007]    tried to find different ways of cutting costs.  The  _____  ship, the Britannia, was very famous for more than fo     


	
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[001]                             China has been a Socialist  _____  since 1949 under the leadership of Mao Tse Tung. He      
[002]           For the next five hundred years, Rome was a   _____ .  The people chose their politicians, but they did not     
[003]    (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the  _____  of Ireland) - but never just England.  On  undays in     
[004]  usual meat for the main Christmas meal.  In the Czech  _____ , fish is eaten on 24 December.  In Sweden, ham is the      
[005] itias are more loyal to the former FLN  party than the  _____  of Algeria, supporting a ruling clique against any Be     
[006]         the appropriate databases for your topic.  The  _____  of Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micron     
[007]  suggest they are in a minority. The German Democratic  _____  arose as a retaliation to the Western Allies' decision     


	
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[001]       'Good morning, Joseph,' I said.  'There is a new  _____  to see you today.  A very famous lady.'  Merrick stood     
[002]      'Who is it?'  I moved away from the door, and the  _____  walked in.  'Your Majesty, this is Joseph Merrick,'      
[003]   police station.  'I'm here,' he said.  'You've got a  _____ ,' said the policeman.  'It's your wife.  She wants to     
[004]        "You were very rude too  Mrs. Lynde.  She was a  _____  in my home." "But she was very unkind," said Anne."     
[005]      Then he ate some soup and slept.  Now our strange  _____  feels better.  He is a very interesting man, but he      
[006]   get to mix work and fun. Once I had to show a Korean  _____  around the office; another time I had to draw maps an     
[007]     when his secretary told him that there was another  _____  waiting to see him.  'It's young Mr Ashby,' she said     


	
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[001]                              'Well, I suggest you wait  _____  this afternoon to find out.' Thank you, Minister, for     
[002]        she supported and looked after both her parents  _____  their deaths, and died, at 56, two days after her fath     
[003]   still lead a normal life. I mean, the shops are open  _____  10 o'clock.   I: All shops?   Sheila: Yes, everything
[004]  stand handwriting yet. Maybe when it's more grown up!  _____  then, please print, in block capital letters.  Custom     
[005] elfish child, Miss Cathy, and I don't think he'll live  _____  he's twenty. I'm glad you're not going to marry him.'     
[006]    freedom - you can have people drinking in your room  _____  whenever you want, and there's quite a lot of sexual     
[007]      close to the exit. The cashier rings it up on the  _____ , tells you how much you owe, you get the money out      


	
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[001]                       Vet Peter Pocock has been left a  _____  by a spinster whose horses and dogs he looked after.      
[002]             For David, 15, his first steps to fame and  _____  began when his parents bought him a computer, a ZX90,     
[003]  ered him all the lands west of the River Euphrates, a  _____  in gold, and marriage to his daughter; in exchange, D     
[004]     Sultan is a young boy whose uncles have stolen his  _____ .  It was Stein who told me all this. He was perfectly      
[005]  ofession and saving half of it. One day, this growing  _____  would pass to Catherine.  In 1835 Doctor Sloper moved     
[006] ork?'  I am afraid I could not do that. I must find my  _____  in this city. You see,' added Morris Townsend, I have     
[007]  very good, but it is not a career.'  It won't make my  _____ ,' agreed the young man.  Later in the evening the Doct     


	
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[001]    in good German than to shout loudly in bad English.  _____ , all this language business is not easy.  After eight     
[002]   ing, beside that open fire. And the kitchen was big,  _____ . And nice and bright. J:  Mmmn... I'm afraid I didn't    
[003]   my own perfume. She says the idea is ridiculous and,  _____ , perfume is very expensive. All my friends wear perfum     
[004]   article. I suppose you'll get it from your  dentist.  _____ , they're going to give it to all kids when they're th     
[005]    I did remember, really.  But I had a very busy day.  _____ ,  I'm home now.  What's the problem?'  'It's this boo     
[006]  y-six.  Or maybe he just didn't like new inspectors.   _____ , she thought, right now it wasn't important.          
[007]  said nothing.  She just waited.  Tommy spoke again.  ' _____ , I went into a shop to buy a drink and that woman push     


	
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[001]   animals are wild and free, and you see them from the  _____  of your car.     
[002]                      Then a helicopter took him to the  _____  of the nearest hospital, where he needed several oper     
[003]  someone breaking in. Others are forming neighbourhood  _____  committees, where neighbours take turns staying up all     
[004]     and placed them on the seat. He took off his large  _____  helmet and hung it from the handlebars. He was very      
[005]   keeping them beyond the protection of the health and  _____  laws, and of course also  eyond any possible contact 
[006]   driven a Beetle. The Beetle has a perfect mechanical  _____  record, on all types of roads and in all kinds of ro     
[007]      by car, chiefly because I know I am travelling in  _____ . As soon as I get on the train, I feel less anxious,      


	
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[001]                             Live Music: Great music is  _____  in the city.  You can see famous rock bands in Madison    
[002]  west wing and you'd hardly see them.  The kids travel  _____  with us.  When touring abroad we  usually rent a house     
[003]    successfully.  But all four faced the sam  question  _____  they went: 'When will you play together  again?' The a     
[004]  so true in Hungary and North Borneo and Venezuela and  _____ .' She was right, of course, and I was quite unhappy a     
[005]  popular that reporters and photographers followed her  _____ .  They  were following her car when it crashed in Pari     
[006] very was wrong.  How slavery changed Rome: Slavery was  _____  at that time, not only in the Roman empire.  The Greek     
[007] both sides. In the fields of Belgium, Archie saw death  _____ .  One night he put his coat on a tree.  In the morning     


	
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[001]   your home, ask at your police station for your Crime  _____  Officer. Why guess, when you can know for certain?      
[002]   credited with setting up an annual co-operative fire  _____  program in co-operation with the Red Cross and State     
[003]      of gain and improves feed efficiency, aids in the  _____  or treatment (depending on level fed) of the early  
[004]      firms, their bedrooms sealed off by internal rape- _____  gates. The statistics are appalling.  South Africa's m     
[005]  place even as the prison is beefing up its model AIDS  _____  program in which inmates talk straight to other inmate     
[006]   could have been spent with measurable good effect on  _____ . Worst of all, the Blair/Howard 'Who's toughest?' con     
[007]       he would be in their way. They would remove him.  _____   s better than cure, Duncan thought. He knew exactly      


	
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[001]     In the old days the man who had no money was not a  _____ .  Today, in Mayfair, things are different.                
[002]   I thought quickly.  'Yes.  But this is a lady, not a  _____ .  I'm a doctor, and she's ill.  Take her hand, so I      
[003]  The Queen's hairdresser comes in to do her hair. This  _____  attends only to the Queen's hair, never anyone else's     
[004]   hurt voice:  'Why, nothing happened. I was a perfect  _____ . What do you expect?  Especially when she had such a      
[005]  man, not at all like his sister.  'I've heard about a  _____  who visits you every night at  the  theatre,' he said      
[006] had a sensible face; he was not handsome, but he was a  _____ .  After dinner, Marianne  played the piano and sang, a     
[007]  boy. 'I am going to London tonight, and I know an old  _____  who will give you a bed for nothing.  He knows me very