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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]                                    As he  watched, he  _____  one of the men pull the telephone in Biko's  room       
[002]     the building. He looked through the open door and  _____  that it was a small office. The man stood in the shadow     
[003]                              They turned a corner and  _____  a little boy looking out of the door       
[004]    the machine rose slowly from the ground. The crowd  _____  Aunt Ada's confident face smiling down at them,     
[005]       and the tray entered.  That was the last anyone  _____  or heard of her for nearly nine hours.       
[006]   busy celebrating in the streets outside.  So nobody  _____  or heard the thief because of the noise!      
[007]          Back at home in Britain, the two girls often  _____  friends and went to parties.  But Elizabeth didn't         


	
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[001]                        been provided with a menu.  A  _____  eventually came by,       
[002]                     Nick Lortz was a happy man.  The  _____  came up to his table.  More coffee?' he asked.  'Yeah.'     
[003]    half an hour at our table, we still hadn't seen a  _____  or been provided with a menu.     
[004]          Paul led his guests into the dining-room. A  _____  advanced towards their table,      
[005]                 Monika went in and sat on her own. A  _____  brought her a drink. The nightclub was quite dark and     
[006]                               He waved a finger at a  _____ . 'Bring me a large whisky.'       
[007]       Doesn't it look wonderful,' Anna said when the  _____  brought their plates to the table. The warm lobster       


	
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[001]   The real power was not with the Emperor. It was with  _____  had control of the army.  Commodus led Maximus away      
[002]  the leaflet out of his hand. He turned  quickly - but  _____  it was had disappeared, and so had the man with the      
[003]      'It's not strange or fantastic,' I said. 'First -  _____  planned the job knew the island, every inch of it.      
[004]        fill up your glass. Let's drink to Trumpington,  _____  he is, who gave us the money for this little party!'      
[005]    raised voices coming from the hotel room behind me.  _____  it was definitely sounded as if they were having an arg     
[006]     civilization set in stone, a granite guidebook for  _____  might make it through the Holocaust of End Times.       
[007]     'to report that you...'  Lemick smiled. 'Report to  _____  you like,' he interrupted.  'Our orders come from the      


	
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[001] large plateful of food. She ate well, and talked in an  _____  way about the illnesses of her friends and family       
[002]              we still have some metal ones today.  For  _____  writing, the Romans used wax.  This came in a wooden      
[003] untries, but for the majority of the world's children,  _____  life is still a fight just to survive. In Africa and     
[004]  because they  can help us prepare for the problems of  _____  life. The images in our dreams have special meaning,     
[005]                           They began to talk easily of  _____  things.  It all seemed so comfortable and so peaceful     
[006]    these things are not part of most ordinary people's  _____  lives.' Most books about Britain give information for     
[007]                 this girl who had met him was wearing   _____  clothes and had obviously been riding.  'Eleanor,' he     


	
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[001]   of Brunei is only 230 thousand. There is no hunger or  _____ , and medicine and housing are free for all citizens.     
[002]     which had grown during years of hard work, hopeless  _____ , and broken dreams.  This woman had destroyed all his     
[003]    what she sees: dirty feet already marked by work and  _____ , an image subtle and unforced in its meaning.      
[004]    there, the more I wanted to stay away. You know what  _____  is there, but when you actually see it, it is just too    
[005]    morbid-minded Vienna. He was obsessed by disease and  _____ , by the melancholy of old age and the tyranny of      
[006]      had disappeared or was on the way out, or were too  _____ -stricken to own slaves.  The anti-slavery movement     
[007]       liberated from the bonds of hunger, ignorance and  _____ .  One of the greatest obstacles to the achievement     


	
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[001]         The night was dark, but now and then, a little  _____  came through the clouds.   
[002]                      I pulled the door wide open.  The  _____  shone into the wardrobe.  I could see my clothes      
[003]  two o'clock I woke up.  It was very quiet.  There was  _____  in the room, and no cars were moving on the road      
[004]    I'll marry you. he cried, his face very pale in the  _____ .  'Are you serious? Do you really love me? 
[005]        She was sitting in the churchyard, white in the  _____ , and I thought I saw something dark behind her,       
[006]    She smiled; I saw her beautiful  white teeth in the  _____ .  Then she took me, like a child, into the house,       
[007]    and picked up the plug.  It was easy to find in the  _____ .  'See?' I asked and held up the plug.       


	
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[001]                      Then I told him my story. I was a  _____ , and I had left my ship in Edinburgh to travel across     
[002]   fast boat and its name was the Ariadne. I spoke to a  _____  who was cleaning the side of the boat,      
[003]                   'I can tell you that, sir,' said the  _____ . 'I used to go fishing there. High tide is ten minute     
[004]     some of the great ships.  'Mr Grafalk's a fantastic  _____ ,' Phillips said. 'He still sails his grandfather's      
[005]          and now you tell me things that are not true!  _____ !'  Yes, sir.' One of the Pandora's sailors answered.       
[006]   John said, 'biology and boats.  My wife was a famous  _____  ...  Rachel Horsley ...  Perhaps you remember her     
[007]   boat, and he was certainly English.  So was the next  _____  we spoke to, and we had quite a long  conversation  


	
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[001]        Hamish Hamilton: This is without doubt the most  _____  book of my childhood. I would guess it is the Fever      
[002]    impact on writing is also inevitable.  Bloom's most  _____  idea as a young critic was what he called the 'anxiety     
[003]     what comprises a perfect city can be linked to the  _____  midcentury writings of Jane Jacobs and Lewis Mumford.     
[004]    for Amateur Music. He was the author of a number of  _____  musical text-books, producing and editing the highly     
[005] generation of schoolchildren, particularly through the  _____  Music Box programmes which he devised and  presented       
[006]   they've kept the faith and it had its first and most  _____  American expression in The Blues Brothers    
[007]  communication, anti-war music may become increasingly  _____  in shaping public opinion about future conflicts.  


	
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[001]        an untrue story, in Europe you say, 'You are a  _____ , sir.' In England you just say, 'Oh, is that so?'   
[002]           'If you do that, John, I shall say you're a  _____ .  You'll lose your  job.  You'll have to sell your hou     
[003]  this child... I can hardly say it � this child is  a  _____ !'  'How shocking!' said the two Brocklehurst daughters     
[004]              I had been wrongly accused and was not a  _____ .  From that  moment, I felt I was accepted,     
[005]       Jennifer I always suspected Lisa was a bit of a  _____ , but to be honest, now I know the truth about her life     
[006]                       I had shown he was dishonest, a  _____ , a cheat. He had been thrown out of  the  Jockey Club      
[007] One man who owned another sawmill openly called her a  _____   and a cheat, but it hurt his business because people      


	
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[001]                                  The night passed, and  _____  brought the calm eye of the hurricane.        
[002]                    In Antarctica, in January, there is  _____  all the time.  It was light at midnight on 31 December     
[003]  took a few seconds for their eyes to get used to  the  _____ . They walked over to the bath house,   
[004]       they would come back to look for Mark's body, by  _____ , so he hid and waited. And one of the men did come.      
[005]     could also celebrate early.  But who saw the first  _____  of the new Millennium? In Antarctica, in January, the     
[006]  sent him home to bed.  Then the next morning,  before  _____ , we heard shouting and crying from Rodrigo's house.       
[007]   now.' he said, looking up at the clock of a church.   _____  came as they reached the country roads.