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Quiz 098

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]                          Paul baked the most beautiful  _____ !  Quite often Paul comes with me when I drive the      
[002]    in a bakery? Well, as you know, in a bakery we bake  _____ , cakes, biscuits, and cookies, but few people realize  
[003]            in the kitchen, everyone was busy preparing  _____ , salads, meat, vegetables, pies and cakes for the ele     
[004]               because they needed a few pennies to buy  _____ .  The carriage came close to Yury's house and he felt      
[005]  he was drinking tea with sugar in it and eating white  _____  with real butter. 'How did you get all of this?' he as     
[006] office, selling fresh vegetables, cheese, meat and hot  _____ . The soldiers and sailors were the best customers, and     
[007]       was brought to the table, along with a basket of  _____  chunks and long-handled fondue forks. We then set to  


	
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[001] fore the party. Carpets and curtains were cleaned, the  _____  was moved around, and, in the kitchen, everyone was      
[002]  healthy in the way rich people used to live. Too much  _____ , too many rooms, too much concern about the individual     
[003]   ices on everything from farm-stand fruit and antique  _____  sold at auction to rooms in hotels and B & B's      
[004]   is found in many things: carpets, ropes, seat belts,  _____ , computers, children's toys, even spare parts for the     
[005]        explained Mr Shuzimo. How will people get their  _____  and other large objects into their apartments?       
[006]     It has departments selling everything from food to  _____  - all top quality, all at top prices. There are no bad  
[007]          We went into a large sitting room, with black  _____  and glass tables. I gave him the packet of photograph     


	
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[001]  pocket. The only other key to the rooms belongs to my  _____ , Bannister.  Bannister has worked for me for ten years     
[002]  he looked carefully at the furniture.  'You said your  _____  was sitting in a, chair when you left.  Which chair?'      
[003] have been wrong.  When I reached Lower Burke Street, a  _____  opened the  oor of Mr Culverton Smith's'house. I asked     
[004]   This was the family of Markel who had been the chief  _____  at the grand home of Alexander Alexandrovich Gromeko      
[005]  the hands of my enemies.  He rang a bell, and a third  _____  appeared.  'I want the car in five minutes,' he said.      
[006]   There are 564 chandeliers with 51,490 light bulbs. A  _____  is employed full time to change light bulbs, about 20     
[007]            I can't really believe it.'  Just then, the  _____  came into the room.  'There's a telephone call from Lo 


	
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[001]              when you walk; he said.  I hoped it would  _____ . I wanted to arrive at the Hall with blood on the clo     
[002]    Relgan hit him, hard and sharp, on the nose.  Noses  _____  easily and there was a lot of blood. It ran down Kins     
[003]       'Oh, yes. I banged my shoulder and it started to  _____ .  That's  all.  But it's all right.'  'What happened       
[004] immediately felt pains, and soon afterwards started to  _____  from every part of his body.  In thirty minutes he      
[005]   Ireland, I think that string might break and I might  _____  to death.'  I wish ... I wish I'd never been born!'       
[006] 'There's no pain. And it isn't bleeding now.'  'It may  _____  when you walk; he said.  I hoped it would                  
[007]     Oliver! Can you just sit there and let your father  _____ ?'  'Stones don't                                           


	
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[001]   to the station-master, and if either of you wants an  _____  to a young lady '  Certainly not,' said Paul.  Oh, all     
[002]    reissued 'The  Bad Seed' in an edition featuring an  _____  by critic Elaine Showalter that suggests that the boo     
[003]          from the nation's 'history' she writes in her  _____  to the just-published 'But Still, Like Air, I'll Rise
[004]    with attractive crypto-punkish illustrations and an  _____  by Neil Gaiman that talks  about  how unwise it is to      
[005]     the project would succeed. However, in the end the  _____  of the solar pump was not the success it seemed at fir     
[006] Half of India's children have no schooling at all. The  _____  of positive discrimination in universities has put gr     
[007] er, announced that the Government was  considering the  _____  of baseline testing - checking up on what children kno     


	
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[001]              When night came, he could not see his men  _____ .  Arthur came to a lake.  Then he saw a small light on     
[002]              I want to get to know girls, but when I'm  _____  near them I start to get nervous and drop things. Yes     
[003]    left in reception for security reasons. D: Is there  _____  I can leave them? B: I'll get a porter to take them      
[004]  Mr. Webster. Their motto is, You can't get it cheaper  _____  else.  These things are offensive only because they      
[005]   we were on no urgent business. We weren't even going  _____  in particular.  And just think - I was voted the 'Saf     
[006]   They can be connected to their work by computer from  _____  in the country. I: Mmm.  LD: You see, the communicatio
[007]          He says this a new, modern ship, so it can go  _____ , in any weather! Our rich passengers want to go to    


	
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[001] Gor the last two years Paul had lived carefully on the  _____  he received from his guardian. He had no expensive       
[002]     twenty-first birthday, in eleven months' time. The  _____  I've been  paying you comes from the interest on that      
[003] oney. As you know, I am instructed by him to stop your  _____  a  any time, if your education comes to an end, or if     
[004]   for Paul. In addition, Margot had fixed his personal  _____  at two thousand pounds a year. Far away on the island     
[005]   what he would wish. So I will not be continuing your  _____ .  Moreover, I am sure you will realize how impossible    
[006]   the U.S., volunteers should be given some separation  _____  at the end of their  overseas service, based on the      
[007]   paper argues that the American research, which makes  _____  for these factors by allocating pupils and teachers      


	
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[001] urname please?  Customer: Pardon? Clerk: Your surname,  _____ , could I have your surname please? Customer: It's Sm     
[002]  minute? I have to make a phone call. B: No I'm sorry,  _____ .  It's not allowed.  D: It's only for a short time.      
[003]        and the smell in the room was  very bad.  'Yes,  _____ ,' said the shopkeeper.  'Sit down, Merrick.'  We went      
[004] eeper smiled at me with his yellow teeth.  'Wonderful,  _____ , isn't it?' he said.  'The best Elephant Man in Engl     
[005] , very interesting,' I said.  'Can I sit down?'  'Yes,  _____ , of course.  Here's a chair.' He looked at me, smiling     
[006]  ed at me, smiling.  'Would you like a glass of water,  _____ ?'  'Yes, please,' I said.  Then I looked at the things     
[007]   Do you get a lot of money?'  'Well, sometimes we do,  _____ , yes.  But it's difficult, you see,                       
 

	
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[001]                                   Richard seldom spoke  _____  and he didn't speak to his parents about religion agai     
[002]      on the train fare, which would worry me sick. And  _____  she'd probably bring that chap Tony, and I couldn't      
[003]  If you're wrong, then no harm has been done.  Not yet  _____ .'  I waited by the telephone that afternoon. When he c     
[004]   electric cutting machine being used a long way away.  _____ , the noise made me think that the ball was still  acti     
[005]   of the loneliness of space.  'What does it all mean,  _____ ?' he asked himself, 'Why  is it here? Why are we here?     
[006] er were still floating around in space.  'Nobody here,  _____ ,' said the Captain. 'Doctor, do  you think...' He stop  
[007] annot decide whether something is suspicious, dial 999  _____ . You  may help us catch a criminal, or even better h     


	
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[001]                                           Paul Newman,  _____ , director, and racing driver, was born so good lookin
[002]       The soundtrack is filled with everything from an  _____ 's tense intake of breath to the regular hum of a resp     
[003]     coupling of old Hollywood and new. The 52-year-old  _____  and the 34-year-old director brought vastly different     
[004]  different parts of speech for the same word - 'act,' ' _____ ,' 'actress,' or adjective 'active,' adverb 'actively,     
[005]  much notice. Ms. Finley and Mr. Fleck, who is also an  _____  on television, never reapplied. In the wake of the fu     
[006] never heard anyone speak as well as he did not even an  _____ in a theatre. And Mr Townsend was not like an             
[007]   whenever he can't pay his rent. He's not a very good  _____ , and I think he's finding it diicult to get work in