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Quiz 105

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]       my last year at Harvard university, I studied  a  _____  in the Radcliffe library.  The library was quiet, 
[002]                                Our lives had changed a  _____ , of course.  There was no more  music for Jenny.        
[003] passengers waiting to get on  other planes, and also a  _____  of doctors, police, and  newspaper journalists.     
[004]                                  Sometimes he talked a  _____ , then he suddenly became silent and did not say a word     
[005]                                  they always gave me a  _____  of money.  I was able to live a fashionable, expensive     
[006]                         They are often very poor and a  _____  of them  do not have jobs, so they sometimes drink to     
[007] very popular in the mid-nineteenth century.  It made a  _____  of people see that keeping slaves was wrong, 


	
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[001]   I  feel that this is now necessary, especially to to  _____  my pronunciation. I will need good English when I stay     
[002]                    The money is good.  We just need to  _____  safety - that's all.  Surely that's not difficult?      
[003]            since his death I have frequently wished to  _____  the relationship between our families.                
[004]  want to believe you,' he said at last. 'You wanted to  _____  your results, so you did extra lessons.     
[005]  half of non-union workers to say that the best way to  _____  one's work situation is for workers to rely on themse     
[006] rneys representing the women. The state also agreed to  _____  care for AIDS  and other patients who complained about     
[007]      Portch, is taking a far more traditional route to  _____  student readiness for college, concentrating on raisin


	
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[001] of the  general public and not members of the medical   _____ . Now, how good are we at first aid? I mean would you  
[002]  among the most moving ever written about the teaching  _____ . He continued writing well into his eighties, adding     
[003]                      Here I carry out the duties of my  _____  whenever necessary, and I take great care to behave      
[004]  able to stop his other jobs and make writing his only  _____ . His stories appeared in parts every week or every mon     
[005]  with five  children and not much money.'  What is his  _____ ?' asked the Doctor.  He hasn't got any; he is looking      
[006]                          you are still a man without a  _____ , and without money.'  Yes, that is my weakness! 
[007]                        Noah Claypole continued his new  _____ , giving  information about crimes and criminals to th       


	
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[001]   system and pulled the microphone towards him.  'Your  _____ , please.                                               
[002]                 Miss Bingley was concentrating all her  _____  on Mr Darcy,  and Mrs Hurst also joined in their conve     
[003]          Hu passed her the note.  'Miss Hu! Please pay  _____ ! Today we are going to study the traditions of the Th     
[004] knew many  women like this, when Mr Hurst called their  _____  back to the card game.  
[005]            Lisa said, 'I think she's trying to get our  _____ . Hey, Mary! We're over here!' As Lisa shouted      
[006]     Next moment she  touched  Ian's arm to attract his  _____  and he turned away.  'That girl is doing some hunting,     
[007]     noises in the  middle of the night, but he paid no  _____ . The security guard, Mr Charles Potts, couldn't phone     


	
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[001]      Emma said she did.  'We must start a little music  _____ : It will be so amusing, don't you think?'      
[002]                    She used to belong to a photography  _____  in Junior  High school. It would be nice to learn a li     
[003]  over to her.  'Hi. Welcome. Have you come to join the  _____ ?' 'Yes... I  think  so,' said Ikuko.  'Great. I'm Mi
[004] All through the summer holidays we  worked at the Boat  _____  in Dennis Port.  It was hard work,  but we were never      
[005]      about life  as a Chinese American in The Joy Luck  _____  and other books.  Today, most immigrants to the USA c     
[006]          Hundreds of fans crowded into the small, dark  _____  when the Beatles played there.  The band  was famous      
[007]                                               A tennis  _____  was started at Wimbledon in 1868.  Today's top tennis      


	
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[001]               he looked  really wild with his long wet  _____  falling half-way down his body and covering his face.     
[002]       followed the girl's red scarf and cloud of brown  _____  as she danced in faster and faster circles.     
[003]   know what time it is?'  She ran her hand through her  _____  and turned the light on.  'What, now?      
[004]  to San Francisco.  They wore bright clothes, had long  _____ , and wanted a world  full of peace and love.  1967 was     
[005]     The other woman was smaller, and she also had grey  _____  and a thin, bloodless face.      
[006]  hijacker sitting inside.  He had a long nose and dark  _____  and his eyes looked green from the light of the      
[007]          Suddenly, a lively young man with thick black  _____  jumped into the middle of the floor.   


	
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[001]             In the mornings, Grace had to do her piano  _____  before school.  They also spent two hours together  
[002]                     'I think we've had a  good week of  _____  and feel confident we're going to play  well,' Turner      
[003]     for six or seven hours every night.  With all this  _____ , the band became better and better.       
[004]    afterwards with chopsticks! Maybe it will come with  _____ . I  often think that if I had just one nationality,      
[005]    was weak and it burned very easily.  She could only  _____  very early in the  morning and late at night.       
[006]  Unfortunately, however, the  plan was  never put into  _____ . This was because it was not  popular with the loading     
[007] picked up in the street by the police, still  a common  _____  in those days. She disappeared or died,  forgotten as      


	
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[001] the shops to find the cheapest food.  She saved  every  _____   possible.  Della counted the money again.  There was      
[002] then you throw them away and get another  one for a 25- _____  coin.  'Aren't people sorry to throw away their old Bi     
[003]     to last for two days. She had promised her sons 50- _____  ice creams and the world "once Mommy has work."     
[004]   a fight just to survive. In Africa and Asia, ten per  _____  of babies  die before they are one year old. Average       
[005]    well, plants which help us fight disease. Forty per  _____  of our drugs, our medicines, are derived from plants       
[006] own their homes, often with a garden.  At least 85 per  _____  of  families have a car and more than 75 per               
[007]  ple do not have access to safe water,  yet eighty per  _____  of the world's disease is caused by dirty water. 


	
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[001]    Choose what you prefer, busy city or quiet national  _____ , cold  mountains or warm sea, shopping or sports, and      
[002] If you get tired of the city, you  can go into Central  _____ , a big area of green in the middle of the busy street     
[003] ere Yosemite in northern California,  which has been a  _____  since 1890, and the coast of California.  Travelling      
[004] ry quiet.  For about two kilometres it goes between  a  _____  and the trees in front of Charlington House.  You don'     
[005]  my story.  He wasn't happy.  'Why did you hide in the  _____ , Watson?' he said.  'You  couldn't  see the man from t     
[006]   a few days later, she and Lucy  were  walking in the  _____  together.  'Do you know Mrs Ferrars?'  Lucy asked sudd     
[007]    Denver.  Also in the Rocky Mountains is Yellowstone  _____  in the states of Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana.  It is      


	
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[001]   the snow to the front of the house.  I  followed him  _____ , and from behind a door on our right I heard a woman's     
[002]   for it in the  darkness.  Suddenly there was a sound  _____  the house.  They heard a step on the stairs  
[003]   Now , will you do something for me?' From  somewhere  _____  me came this sudden, violent need to cry.       
[004]      police officer opened the front door of her house. _____  the house it was quiet.  Her daughter was reading.       
[005]    the door.  Helen  Sandberg got out and went quickly  _____ .  Upstairs, in the control room, the Chief of  Airport        
[006] sit down, then he  opened Harald's passport and looked  _____ .  'Police pig!' he  said.  'Now you are our prisoner!'     
[007] the hot blood beating in his head, as the anger burned  _____   him.  He hurried through his work, then went to get