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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]   moisture absorbing. Most joggers have a dozen or more  _____  T-shirts, and you'll need several pairs of special      
[002]               Now, what've you done with one of my best  _____  sheets? And there are a few other things missing, too     
[003]    McCartney was born in 1942, the son of a nurse and a  _____   salesman.  The family loved music.  When Paul was old     
[004] because the  southern states kept slaves to work in the  _____  fields but slaves were not allowed in the North.  Peop     
[005]         and they had plenty of money from selling their  _____  to Britain.  But the North had more men and more fac     
[006]   They used to live mostly in the South, working in the  _____  and tobacco fields.  A story about the hard life of       
[007]          However, Ma Blackie had arrived in a new black  _____  dress, which caused some argument among the women.       


	
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[001]           You wouldn't believe how much money we still  _____  on our credit card. We'll be in debt for years!      
[002] ashier rings it up on the till, tells you how much you  _____ , you get the money out of your wallet, and she takes i     
[003] and gives you a bill for the sum, the total amount you  _____ . But you  don't simply pay up  and leave the shop. You     
[004]    summer holidays I work to pay back the money that I  _____  for my studies. This summer I have been  hired by my     
[005] ith me.  'We've finished loading for the day. I feel I  _____  you an  apology, for cutting my hand at lunch yesterda     
[006]  Explain things to me.'  He looked at me angrily. 'You  _____  me an explanation.  You're the clever detective. You'     
[007] ost your job.'  She gave a little laugh. 'No - but you  _____  me some free detective  work. Anyway, the building      


	
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[001]  only reason required for divorce should be one year's  _____ . At the moment, as you probably know, the fundamental      
[002]         Can you deny that you were the cause of Jane's  _____  from  Mr Bingley, and of her unhappiness? Can you deny     
[003]    that they perceived grew out of its density and the  _____  from the land. Wright warned of the corruption of Ame     
[004]         they were threatened with loss of benefits and  _____  from their existing children if they refused. Typical     
[005]  thesis, the manifestation, the assurance of a link no  _____  can break'.  So at the time he moved from his home of     
[006]     pulled or snipped, bear mute witness to moments of  _____ , of uprooting, of supplication. In many cultures, inc    
[007]       families are generally the result of divorce and  _____ , out of wedlock birth, and male unemployment. The ex     


	
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[001]     'She'll have long black hair, and a lot of gold or  _____ , and brightly-coloured clothes.' A woman of about thi     
[002]  called.  Dantes turned back.  'This coin is gold, not  _____ !' said the good man.  'It is too  much.' 'Yes, my good     
[003]      the shops there.  They went into a shop that sold  _____  and gold.  Later Moore and Charlton were sitting outs     
[004]   chosen.  After a fight, the winner was given gold or  _____ .  The losers could ask the emperor for their lives.       
[005]            the little princesses wore long dresses and  _____  shoes.  Their grandmother, Queen Mary, wore a dress      
[006]   but she surprised everyone.  She ran well, and won a  _____  medal in the 800-meter race.  The crowd loved it.  " 
[007]     the water as it plays gently against the boat. The  _____  moon shines down on us and our heads are full of bea     


	
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[001] pical Swiss village high in a mountain valley. And the  _____  behind it all is beautiful for sightseeing, especially     
[002]  Tees River, so it must be in a nice green valley. The  _____  should be quite lovely, after ugly old London! SB: Yes     
[003]   home will be jealous! Or, with the sea and moors for  _____ , you can play a game of golf on superb golf courses.      
[004] be safe. All you have to do is sit back and enjoy  the  _____ . Why choose bumpy, crowded roads when you can ride    
[005]  any town or village. That suits me perfectly. And the  _____  here in Yorkshire is so beautiful!       
[006]      for all the usual romantic reasons - the sun, the  _____ , the food and wine, the people, the buildings.      
[007]   narrow roads were heavy with summer traffic, but the  _____  was beautiful - green hills covered in trees going      


	
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[001]  large a crop as the native  variety. Also, the hybrid  _____  grew well in the rather poor soil of the valley.      
[002]  they had returned to planting the traditional type of  _____ , with its reduced production. Was this wise? It seemed     
[003]          a platter of oyster salt roast and a mound of  _____  fritters. Vernon was consummately fond of oysters,       
[004]    yourself to good meat and drink, with bread, salad,  _____  or potatoes as accessories. Keep the desserts   simple     
[005]    to handle meat; long forks for turning potatoes and  _____ ; heavy foil on hand at all times. And lots   of hot pa     
[006]            from poppy seeds. Seeds of soybean, cotton,  _____ , sesame, and rape yield semidrying oils. Some are us     
[007]      more than 6 thousand years ago. Brewers today use  _____ , rice, and malted barley. Distillers use              


	
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[001] orgia, became Pope Alexander VI in 1492.  Cesare was a  _____  and a soldier.  He fought for and won a number of Ital     
[002]   a successful general, so he also became an important  _____ .  After that, nobody ruled Rome without an army behind   
[003]    Coretta.  He offered to help.  Kennedy was a famous  _____ , campaigning for the job of President of the US.  Cor     
[004]  but he did not try to get votes for him.  "I am not a  _____ ," King said.  In November 1960, Kennedy received 34,2     
[005]  ul, the city often has a parade.  If a famous foreign  _____  or a king or queen is visiting, there is sometimes a       
[006]     Now there are groups in many other US cities, too.  _____  Rudy Giuliani was mayor of New York from 1993 until      
[007]    of the royal family were poisoned by a power-hungry  _____  called Bagoas.  Persia itself was in present-day Iran     


	
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[001]    you know,' he went on.  'I write about this kind of  _____  in my books, but I've never been in one before.'       
[002]    but I've never been in one before.'  'This isn't an  _____  story,' said Wyatt coldly.  'It's real life, and a rea     
[003] Geneva.  He was a very clever boy and he read a lot of  _____  stories.  I was extremely happy as a child.  My parent     
[004]  Sir Walter Scott very much.  Dumas enjoyed travel and  _____ .  He joined Garibaldi in Sicily in  1860.  He was part     
[005] could hear their conversation.'And so you had a secret  _____  this morning! But I know all about it!' Marianne turn     
[006]  the underground train in London, and this was a great  _____ ! When she was small, Elizabeth tried to say her own n     
[007]  one laughed again. There was an atmosphere of fun and  _____  in the taxi as the men joked with each other.        


	
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[001]   well known to all the world that an unmarried man in  _____  of a large fortune must be in need of a wife.       
[002]  own life, building a thick smoke screen of wealth and  _____  to cover a multitude of crimes,' crimes that resultde     
[003] nsiderable ability, was arrested on a felony charge of  _____  of cocaine.  The police report said he was in the pro     
[004]      the Bosnian forest, its passage to America in the  _____  of a man she loved, sometimes feared and never fully     
[005]     trial in an unrelated theft case, was charged with  _____  of unlicensed firearms and some marijuana.      
[006]    By the death of his father in 1888 he had come into  _____  of the family estate and had  re-assumed its tradition 
[007]       includes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and any  _____  of the United States;     


	
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[001]  ts the park in half from north to south. We're in the  _____  half. So we must walk west and downwards.' 'Don't worr     
[002]  ed to visit some of the churches.  She really prefers  _____  European buildings.  She and Vic have similar interest     
[003]  neva.  We also had a country house at Belrive, on the  _____  side of the lake.  Belrive was away from the city and      
[004]   this time, George was continuing to learn more about  _____  ideas.  He asked John and Paul to listen to a talk by     
[005]  ill poor.  It was home to many Jewish immigrants from  _____  Europe.  Now the largest groups of immigrants to this     
[006] ere mostly  Asian, not European: Asian Greeks from the  _____  Mediterranean, and Bactrian, Sogdian and Scythian     
[007]   there are lots of places that I haven't been to yet - _____  Europe, Japan, South America - I'd love to perform