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Quiz 104

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] awards are probably the biggest other awards.  Foreign  _____  vote for these.  People at the Academy watch the  Gold 
[002] ale, Updike writes in what, to many current academic  _____ , is an 'irrelevant' or 'redundant' tradition.  His fic     
[003]        and Wendy Law-Yone, among others, had not found  _____  and audiences eager to applaud their stories, none   
[004]  in movies.  But there are other important awards: The  _____   Choice Awards are early in the year.  Maybe Academy       
[005] ple who had never before considered higher education.  _____   say the positive benefits of expansion have been nega        
[006] his election but has since become one of his sharpest  _____ . As to whether Mr. Lyons could be persuaded to resign     
[007] modern critiques of abstract painting were embraced by  _____  and Ebner was one of a handful of Southern Californi     


	
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[001] American soldiers brought the 'swing' music of the big  _____  bands like Glenn Miller to Europe.  This was not jazz     
[002]                             At night we play music and  _____ .  I have a house, food, and many friends.      
[003] music.  "Listen to the piano!" Jo said.  "Let's go and  _____ ." "Yes, let's do that," Laurie said.       
[004]   are going to eat and talk.  We are going to sing and  _____ ." Ichabod was very happy.                               
[005]   Sarah danced with the three boys, and I was asked to  _____  by a very handsome Turkish man.  He seemed interested     
[006]    She was completely different from me.  She liked to  _____  and sing; she liked to go to parties.  Our house was      
[007]     Julie to speak to other men.  I didn't want her to  _____  with other men.  I wanted her to be with me all the 


	
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[001]    Yes, sir.'  'I know you very well, Jane. I know how  _____  you are when you've decided something. You're planning   
[002] fficulty that I finally managed to convince them of my  _____   intention to carry out this plan. 
[003]     voice friendly but trying my best to make it sound  _____ .  'But I'm going to watch it from the bar with a glass    
[004]  ere too expensive, and refuse to pay for them. So the  _____ 's  psychologist offered to study the problem. He sat       
[005] hose technological terms you see. In future a  British  _____  in for  example, London, might employ clerks in Belfas     
[006]        It said the trader, Philip Penner, had left the  _____  within the last few weeks.       
[007]     said Mr. Shulman, a former accountant with a major  _____  who now sells insurance as an independent broker from     


	
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[001]                     'Here you are.'  She picked up the  _____  of names and looked at it carefully.       
[002]                                She looked again at the  _____ .  There were twelve names on it: six men and six women     
[003]   were twelve names on it: six men and six women.  The  _____  had information about all of  them, with their ages.       
[004]                            'Have you got the passenger  _____ , Michael?'  'Yes, Prime Minister.  Here you are.'       
[005]          But...  I need more time to learn.  There's a  _____  of  customers' phone numbers on your computer.        
[006] xcited by everything that I saw.  Mr Waldman gave me a  _____   of new books to read.  At the end of the day, I was      
[007]                                            They made a  _____  of all the good movies that were made between August     


	
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[001] the 19th century, starting colonies in Maryland, Rhode  _____ , Connecticut, New Hampshire, North and South Carolina     
[002]                                         Close to Ellis  _____  is the Statue of Liberty (liberty means 'freedom').       
[003]   of Santego Bay towards St Pierre, the capital of the  _____ .  It was a beautiful  picture, bright and clear     
[004]      I've heard that he's killed 20,000 people on this  _____  since he's been President.'  Hansen shook his head.      
[005]                        From the bridge you can see the  _____  of Alcatraz, which was a prison until 1963. 
[006]                Immigrants from Europe arrived at Ellis  _____  in New  York, where they were all checked for disease      
[007]                                                    The  _____  of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean is not a state, but it


	
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[001]           I think you should dye your hair back to its  _____   colour.  Tell your mother first that this is what you  
[002]  doesn't seem quite correct.  It's not the same as the  _____  timetable, so I'm  going to try to compare his timetab     
[003]    I remember. You were going to compare them with the  _____  ones. Weren't they the same?'  'No, they're completely     
[004]  time with them, the Brotherhood grew to ten times its  _____  size and made Liberius more famous than ever.       
[005]  bligation to oversee the treatment of the continent's  _____  inhabitants. Mr. Gorton says that he consulted with       
[006]     they didn't seem to have any real character or any  _____  ideas. Yury was comfortable only with Tonya, her fath     
[007]  said Gromeko.  'We must try to live according. to the  _____  ideas of the revolution. We're not going to the Varyk     


	
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[001]                We  looked at each other,  and I felt a  _____ , very strong fear.  I felt that this person  could    
[002]                                              He made a  _____ , violent movement towards her, then stopped.       
[003]    Ethan, what does it matter now?' she cried.  With a  _____  movement she tore the letter into pieces and threw th     
[004]    cave.  Several times they were nearly drowned in  a  _____  flood.  The night passed, and daylight      
[005]     They said later, 'It was terrible.  There was this  _____  light.  It hit the referee, and he was the first to       
[006]     They  became  very popular, with their crashes and  _____  deaths.  In fact,  the Circus Maximus was not the only     
[007]      He wrote of President Kennedy, 'His death will be  _____  and sad.'  


	
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[001]      probably man-made, and highly infectious. We need  _____  hospital treatment for three people      
[002]  a switch under his left hand.  This time there was an  _____  response. The whole ship jumped sideways and trembled     
[003]   a Happy New Year to You.  Mr. Cole's card was not an  _____  success.  But in 1846, 1,000 copies of it were printed     
[004]   had just been introduced to someone.' The effect was  _____ . There  was a new coldness in Darcy's expression. Afte     
[005]  problems in 13 individuals.' Glendening announced the  _____  closure of an eight-mile stretch of the river that had     
[006]  got to the station in time?'  Zeena's name brought an  _____  coolness into the  kitchen.  After a few moments Matti     
[007]     the Queen converses only with those persons on her  _____  right and left. During the first and second  courses,      


	
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[001]           Icy rain started to fall, making the loading  _____  and difficult.  It was after midday when they finished     
[002]   the passengers had moved except Carl, and he was too  _____ .  He  stood very still in the middle of the aisle       
[003]             Ethan really had no wish to make the long,  _____   journey to the station with his miserable wife     
[004] ood him.  The journey down to the village was long and  _____ , with his two old horses pulling their heavy load ove     
[004]     it difficult to think, and his voice was heavy and  _____ , like the voice of a man who  had drunk  too much.       
[006]   the rest of his life he would dream about that long,  _____   swim, towards a white body that floated quickly away      
[007]       they were all too frightened to touch him.  With  _____  and silent steps, the stranger walked slowly towards    


	
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[001]                 She was certainly fond of me, and felt  _____  for me. She was sorry for me because I felt so miserab     
[002] the punishment was death.  I felt very unhappy.  I was  _____  for the deaths of two people -  my little brother Wil     
[003]  ttle brother William, and kind, sweet Justine.  I was  _____  for my family's pain and misery.  My father and  broth     
[004]  was in a state of complete misery.  I knew that I was  _____ .  I  was guilty because the monster was my creation.       
[005]   replied the  monster.  'But you created me.  You are  _____  for me.  You made me, but now you want to destroy me.   
[006]                                       Every citizen is  _____  to help catch law  breakers and put them in jail      
[007] Komarovsky was also the man who Yury considered to be   _____  for his father's death.