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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]    the burning bus, and it was printed in national and  _____  newspapers.  Americans across the country were very an     
[002]    London's the capital of England, and English is the  _____  language of business.  Do you enjoy working in the Cit     
[003] eighty countries have offices in London.  The world of  _____  banking is very exciting.  Charles Rogers works in the     
[004]       Since October 1884, the world has used the  same  _____  time; it is calculated from the time line  there.  But     
[005]   pays the agent to help them.  The rules of FlFA, the  _____   Football Association, say that an agent can: Get any      
[006]  to the country. Apparently, they are looking for some  _____  terrorist group. If we had got in this morning it  wou     
[007]    and other Jamaican musicians who went on to achieve  _____  renown. The skittering, inverted ska rhythm he devisee


	
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[001]                    This takes place over and over; the  _____  is repeated endlessly.    
[002] ht in to  play with his  grandma until lunchtime. This  _____  is repeated every weekday  in exactly the same way.      
[003] other marriage too  quickly, and just  repeat the same  _____ . For example a woman  who thinks she needs a dominatin  
[004]           'Anyway, he found that there was  a  regular  _____  in the weakness or strength of your body-soul attachm     
[005]          he was  fascinated  with precise surfaces-the  _____  of a necktie, the make of a  car, the size of a monogr     
[006]                          Lightning made  a complicated  _____   in the night sky.  Nudger held his umbrella against t     
[007]        they don't have to  conform to any conventional  _____ , if they don't wish to.        


	
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[001]       Helen knew something was wrong.  Tom was usually  _____  to tell her everything about himself and  his plans.       
[002]  n I see your photos, Helen?' 'Oh, yes. You can have a  _____  look before the others come.' 'I've got the video, Hel     
[003]   What happened?' he cried.   Did you not get my note?  _____ !  Perhaps we are already too late!'  We knocked again,     
[004]         Afraid for  our  lives, we ran from the house.  _____ !' cried Van Helsing.   We must get back!      
[005] After she arrived home, she went to the bathroom for a  _____  wash and then she went to the kitchen to make a sandwi     
[006] everything  OK?'  'Fine, thanks.' Christine gave him a  _____  smile, then  continued with  her work.      
[007]    but he was  older than Sir Tristram.  He was not as  _____  on his feet.  He  could not hit Tristram.    


	
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[001]      about all of them, with their ages.  She began to  _____  the people in the room with the information on the lis     
[002]  sic at the end of the 1960s.  Listen to this song and  _____  it to any song from the Beatles' first two or three       
[003]  about  your impressions of living here? How does that  _____  with the  States? T: Well, mmm... I think life's a lot     
[004]                          So you know it well enough to  _____  living in Spain with  living  in London?    
[005]  of a long journey is coming home. It's interesting to  _____  the  cities - Tokyo's exciting, but, for a classical       
[006] works in exactly the same way as other women's. If you  _____  her with other  women of her age, you will see that 
[007] don't mind coming to the police station so that we can  _____   yours with those from the car.'  


	
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[001]    He didn't move.  He lay like a dead man.  His body   _____  was very high.  Then, very slowly, it began to fall,       
[002]   colder.  You sat there for some time while your body  _____  fell.  There was a pool of cold  water  in the room.       
[003] een.  One day, the sun became very bright and the air   _____  changed.  She and her brother fell asleep and  then wo     
[004]  Indian man, Kuda Bux, walked over a fire.  The fire's  _____  was 300 C, but his feet weren't  burnt and he felt no 
[005] ternoon and quite strong north easterly winds, and the  _____  will be lower than yesterday, around the three or four     
[006] cruel, boring lump of rock came closer and closer. Its  _____   was many degrees below zero. There was no life of any     
[007]   would not be hot. On 1st July I was pleased that the  _____  reached only sixty-four degrees. There had been three     


	
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[001]  made plenty of friends.  She was a good student, not   _____  clever, but she enjoyed her lessons.  She liked Englis     
[002] looking, but in a gentler way. He has travelled a lot,  _____  in the Far East. He has seen the Taj Mahal in India      
[003]    actually, and that was the low ceilings everywhere,  _____  in the kitchen. L: Yes, but think how expensive it is  
[004]                                    People of your age,  _____  boys, often tell false stories about their experienc     
[005]         cash instead. This can be a terrible  problem,  _____  on the week-ends when banks are closed.     
[006]    scenery behind it all is beautiful for sightseeing,  _____  in that  wonderful California weather. You must come      
[007]   why I didn't notice his car there. The street wasn't  _____   narrow, so I had lots of room, and there were no chi 


	
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[001]      fear does strange things to the mind.  I began to  _____  that the  gloom was  not in my mind, but was something     
[002]  o New Guinea.  We have to change planes in Brisbane.   _____ !  Isn't that where Tom is now? I can phone his mother      
[003]    the lights of Athens and Piraeus below them.  'Just  _____ ; said Maisie to Vic.  'People have walked over  these      
[004]  Why? Because all these things really happen.  I don't  _____   them.  They are facts.  Poldy exists.  Little by litt     
[005]  But I knew that photo so  well! It was easy for me to  _____  Julie's beautiful face.  The  scratching stopped and      
[006]          I've  tried to tell you every detail.  Try to  _____  me at this minute.  I'm sitting at my desk.  My desk      
[007]   crazy? Did all these things really happen, or did he  _____  them? I don't know.  I'm sure William had a wonderful  


	
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[001]   'One night, I was driving my car.  I was drunk and I  _____  somebody.  A young girl.  She...  died.  
[002]             Arthur did not stop.  Harder and harder he  _____  the wood with the hammer, until, at last, the body      
[003]    girl! he shouted.  He was very angry.  Sometimes he  _____  me, and once I had to go to the hospital.       
[004]   on the deck and began to cry.  Then another big wave  _____  the side of  the ship.  The white water came over the     
[005] and dress blew out behind her like paper, and the rain  _____  her face, like small stones.  She walked slowly after     
[006]  to white water all around them.  But the boat did not  _____  the rock.  William pulled again, and shouted.      
[007]        One day Aileen came in with a black eye.  A man  _____  her because she did not want to kiss him.      


	
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[001]   on in the car.  I didn't stop, and I didn't tell the  _____ .  I had killed someone and I was afraid.' He looked a     
[002]  Then I pushed my car over a cliff and burned it.  The  _____  found the burned car and thought I was dead.  Everybod     
[003]               That's why I'm here in court today.  The  _____  called me a murderer, and all the newspapers wrote a     
[004]   take her to the station.'  In Court I arrived at the  _____  station at 3. 15 a. m. , and said nothing.  The Future    
[005]      in the morning we found him dead in a river.  The  _____  said he killed himself, but I knew he was afraid to      
[006] not going to do anything."  "Father, you must tell the  _____ ," I said.  I remembered my uncle's letter from India   
[007]   he had been trained as a lawyer, and he did not like  _____  brutality against black people. He would put one of    


	
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[001]                     But every time I  speak to him, we  _____ .  And then Christine always agrees with him, and  I      
[002]        I feel I'm  losing her, you see.'  'What do you  _____  about?'  'Oh, I don't know.  Stupid things, really. 
[003]  North and the South together, and people continued to  _____  about the rights of black people.  During the Civil Wa     
[004] ocked me up in the police station all night.  I had to  _____  my way out this morning.  Biddy came to fetch me,      
[005]                               and then Vic  started to  _____  with Noel and Martin about money.      
[006]                       There's no time to explain or to  _____  with them.  Just get them out.      
[007]    I'm afraid you don't understand.'  I decided not to  _____ . Instead, I asked:  'What is this place? I mean is it