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Quiz 100

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] equipment - which might explain the back pain I've had  _____ . Several times every morning, when the bread is made      
[002]            Patient: I've been having pains in my chest  _____ , and I've beep sleeping poorly.  Doctor: I see. Well,     
[003]   just what he needs. He's been looking very miserable  _____ . Why don't we all go over to the Metropole      
[004]    in and have a talk. I've been feeling pretty fed up  _____ . Married life is not all fun, I don't mind telling you     
[005]  I came here for a rest. I've been working damned hard  _____ . I can't think why I keep on at politics.  It's a dog'     
[006] Paul.  Well, not exactly, but things haven't been good  _____ . The police are looking for me. They don't believe I      
[007]  , one of the civilized pleasures she had been missing  _____ , while Julia took Elfine shopping for underwear, shoes     


	
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[001] scipline is quite strict.  Students never speak without  _____  - they put up their hands and wait.  They are never      
[002]      come from Geneva.  At last, my father has given me  _____  to study at the university here.' For the first time       
[003]     going to happen to me.  Why am I here? Give me your  _____  to see a judge.' Perhaps,'  said the chief officer.       
[004] protected forest animals from people who hunted without  _____ .  In the winter of  1926-27, Anahareo asked to go trap     
[005]    live as free men and women.  Many of them were given  _____  to marry.  This was good for the owner, because their     
[006]     them until a year later, when she was finally given  _____  for visits from her family.  But her life as a prison 
[007]  and gone into the library.  'Please, sir, I would like  _____  to visit my aunt, who is ill, for a week or two.      


	
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[001]     carriage, with its fine horses, and the heavy gold  _____  was placed on her head.  Elizabeth promised to look      
[002]     are 354 steps from the bottom of the statue to the  _____ .  Visitors can look out from the bottom of the statue      
[003]  man that she loved? Why did King Edward give away his  _____ ? What was Queen Elizabeth like as a little girl?      
[004] grandpa was born, Queen Victoria was still wearing the  _____ . Since then there have been four different kings and     
[005] tue's highest point.  The seven points on the statue's  _____  are for the seven seas.  There is a museum at the bott     
[006] ill Charles really be king after all this, or will the  _____  go straight to his oldest son, Prince William?       
[007]  2 May 1937.  He was already king, but the ceremony to  _____  him was held later.  It was on the same date that the     


	
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[001] hey sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United  _____ , sometimes the British Isles, but never England.'      
[002]   the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.  The United  _____  (UK) is England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland     
[003]  to Rome to fight the emperor, Lucius, and he left his  _____  in the hands of his nephew, Modred. As he was entering     
[004] pportunity of studying many specimens of the vegetable  _____ . Herbert gathered several shoots of the basil, rosemar     
[005]   convicts or wild beasts, two varieties of the animal  _____ , whose ferocious instincts placed them on the same      
[006]    new rebel offensive threatening the southeast Asian  _____ .  Britain's plans to press Russia for a definite     
[007] the door through which a person must pass to enter the  _____  of God. You cannot wear the banner of God and at the     


	
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[001]   Sultan's total wealth is more than $25 billion. He a  _____  as much as a ruler, and owns hotels all around the wor   
[002]    was younger, I lived in Hong Kong.  My father was a  _____  there and my mother worked as a secretary.  We lived      
[003]     Inside, they were as dangerous as wild animals.  A  _____  in a dark suit sat opposite Al, with a young  woman on     
[004] David Wilson.  Mr Wilson wasn't a scientist.  He was a  _____ .  He knew how to run a business, how to make money.      
[005]   lucky to have you in this company.  But you're not a  _____ , and I am.  Look at this.'  He picked up a sheet of pa     
[006]  Christine  asked.  'He's not a scientist, he's just a  _____ .  Why didn't you write to the paper?'  'I have written    
[007]   never disagreed about the ranch.  Frank was a better  _____  and knew much more about cattle than his brother.       


	
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[001]   friend, I think, and we don't like that at all. Kids  _____  have no sense of shame about that sort of thing.      
[002] sausages, ham or bacon, eggs, tomatoes, mushrooms. But  _____  many people just have cereal with milk and sugar, or      
[003]     industry. Even the Navy isn't buying any new ships  _____ . This industry must make a  rofit to survive. Men at     
[004] en Frederick Padley in 1939.  He died in 1961 aged 72.  _____  Mrs. Padley has a home help, but likes doing her own     
[005] ryone was defining themselves through what they owned.  _____ , though, it's a different sort of friendship. Both sh     
[006]   does this mean for education? What is a degree worth  _____ ? Lesley Gerard follows the fortunes of five students      
[007] ormer top leaders.' In such a small country, those who  _____  have the skills needed by the new order, are the peop     


	
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[001]  I was happy.  I couldn't hear anything, but there was  _____  in the air.  'Who is it?' I called.  'Who's there?'       
[002]   laughed at these jokes.  I think Poldy liked to hear  _____ .  He always knocked at the window or shook my bed.       
[003] to my eyes and I was looking into his, and somehow our  _____  joined us together. Maybe the wine had something to do     
[004] the voice that I knew.  Soon the room was full of wild  _____ .  'Stop it! Stop it! Please stop it!' I cried.  The        
[005]   suddenly saw myself at a party.  There was noise and  _____  in the room.  There were young men all round the room     
[006] twenty first birthday. Good fun, isn't it?'  There was  _____  and some clapping.  Flora held her breath.  He must -      
[007] that they would never forget.  The crowds shouted with  _____  when this saw this strange group, dressed only in      


	
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[001]  me I could tie the door shut.  In one room, there was  _____  to wash except a broken wash-basin. Another had a ki     
[002]  have never seen a place like it in my  life. There is  _____  else like it. It's enormous! You have to admire the       
[003]   ama harbour, they met some whales. 'They came out of  _____ ,' said Mr. Carter. 'They came up out of the depth of      
[004]  the Tagus, arrived.  Pitcairn was a small island with  _____  good for ships to land.  But a canoe came out through    
[005]     Rodrigo's house.  They soon learned that Anita was  _____  in the house or the village.  Rafael smiled to himself    
[006]    he asked.  'I would be glad to leave it, but I have  _____  else to go.'  'You have no relations apart from Mrs.      
[007]    shop and the cafe were not very busy, and there was  _____  else in the village to work.  


	
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[001]     pensions for all, wherever possible; yet more home  _____  as a long-term measure to cut the housing benefit  
[002]    we need to educate dog owners about responsible dog  _____  and start enforcing the numerous dog-related laws      
[003]                       Overt socialism means government  _____  and management of a nation's main industries.     
[004] the property was assessed according to its location or  _____ . Fifteen stated that it was according to location,      
[005]    construed to alter existing law with respect to the  _____  and control of water.        
[006]      regulations impose limitations on an individual's  _____  of shares in more than one club.      
[007]       it develops other markets and allows current NFL  _____  to use them as blackmail in trying to win more favor     


	
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[001]            At the height of its power, the great Roman  _____  stretched from the deserts of Attica- to the borders 
[002]       that would continue for many years.  Alexander's  _____  did not, in fact, last long. But he joined East and We  
[003] his father's death, Alexander had to fight to keep the  _____   together.  He first went to the Greek state of Thessa     
[004]  Asia. It was time to plan his war against the Persian  _____ .  Alexander called together forces from many lands - f     
[005]  71, Queen Elizabeth made Agatha a Dame of the British  _____  a very high honour for a woman in Britain.       
[006]    flew into them and killed nearly 3,000 people.  The  _____  State Building is now the most famous skyscraper in th     
[007] antinople, now Istanbul, became capital of the Eastern  _____ .  Many baths were built there, and Turkish baths today