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Quiz 108

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]    Helen saw Vic in the video.  He was standing by the  _____  of a building, and he was giving something to a tall       
[002]   clothes on it.  I  could see the big wardrobe in the  _____  of the room.  I  looked at the wardrobe.  I looked at      
[003] stopped moving.  Suddenly a large truck came round the  _____ .  The driver saw the horses in front of him,      
[004]    the second room.  The treasure is in the north east  _____  of the room.  Cesare Spada May 25th 1498 One night,      
[005]  to fill the room.  Then he went in.  There was a dark  _____  to the left of the opening.  He looked round this sec     
[006]   hot sun for a while. Eventually, they walked round a  _____  and came to a wide bay with people surfing on beautifu     
[007]   He held the lamp up to the picture. In the left hand  _____  was his name, painted in red.  What had happened?  


	
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[001]   as soon as we could to explain what had happened and  _____  a meeting place.  We thought it was best to try and      
[002]     watching birds?' I asked him.  Ian was watching me  _____  my skirt around my legs.  'Yes,' he said slowly, lifti     
[003]      have got a phone in the office. Let's go back and  _____  for you to use it.' While we walked, Mary told me abo     
[004] than happy marriages. Because she is so busy trying to  _____  other people's lives, will she lose her own chance of     
[005]   ed herself. Instead, she amuses herself by trying to  _____  marriages between her friends and neighbours.      
[006] was a delightful idea.  "Excellent!' she said. "I will  _____  food and guests. Just now the day.'  Mr Knightley ce     
[007]  when looking round. Many middle and secondary schools  _____  open evenings for prospective parents, but this is n     


	
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[001]    alone, but he was a very tidy person.  The room was  _____  and tidy.  I went straight to the living room.       
[002] Where shall I go?" 'I felt  calmer in the warm sun and  _____  air.  I fell asleep, but I had bad dreams.       
[003] ach, a lot of them  with engines.  My uncle had a big,  _____ , new cafe with tables and chairs, and a television      
[004]     I'm sure.  I remember how they looked.  Rafael was  _____  and fine in his best clothes.  The soldier was sitting     
[005]  slowly.  The smell was unbelievable.  'Doesn't anyone  _____  this place?'  'We're all too frightened,' she replied      
[006]        There was so much to do.  They had to pack  and  _____  the house.  They had to put oil and water in the car.      
[007]       As the sun came up over the city, Sikes tried to  _____  the  blood from his clothes. The floor was covered wit     


	
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[001]         poetry, that is, the poetry conditioned by the  _____ 's life and  the world around him' - and even when the      
[002]  rnon Charles Swinburne and Oscar Wilde, and the Irish  _____  William Butler Yeats, also enjoyed Poe's work.  "Poe       
[003] nkenstein was written by Mary Shelley, the wife of the  _____   Percy Bysshe Shelley, in 1818. It is a horror story    
[004]    priest.  At 14, Emil was reading the great national  _____  Mihail Eminescu, but also Diderot, Balzac, Tagore,      
[005]    April 1995. Brian Coffey was an unmistakably modern  _____ . Essentially, his modernity consists in his preoccupa     
[006]     appear in his mature poems, and how strikingly the  _____  inherited a version of their dislocation.      
[007]        in the world he was about to leave. Glyn Jones,  _____ , short-story  writer, novelist: born Merthyr Tydfil, G     


	
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[001]  because I didn't want  to think of my dear wife.  The  _____  was too great.  In time things were a little better,      
[002]   great.  In time things were a little better, but the  _____  has never really gone.  I still feel it sharply when      
[003] lieve it - Poldy bit my face very hard! I cried out in  _____ .  I reached over the side of the bed and touched the      
[004]   of this 'punishment' on my body.  I'm often in great  _____ ,  but it never shows on my body.  Then I made my fourt     
[005]       .  I screamed and shouted, but I didn't feel any  _____ .  I  got under the bed clothes and waited.  For the fi     
[006] ind, sweet Justine.  I was responsible for my family's  _____  and misery.  My father and brother and Elizabeth were     
[007]   He picked up a stick and hit me very hard.  I was in  _____  and very unhappy.  Quickly, I escaped and went back to     


	
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[001]     Tony and Jean Summers.  He was wearing a business  _____ !  Three young men were smoking.  They looked like univ     
[002] and he was dressed beautifully.  He wore a light grey  _____  and a pale  pink shirt.  'A businessman,' thought Hele     
[003]      was always full of people in those days.  'Put a  _____  on, William!' she often said to me.  (I don't like su     
[004] He was about fifty years old and he wore a fine white  _____  and a white hat.  When we arrived, he was unloading b     
[005]     about the Beatles, he went to The Cavern.  In his  _____  and tie, Epstein probably looked very different from      
[006] ouldn't help noticing how good she looked in her swim  _____ . They seemed  very comfortable with each other, he th     
[007]   In some ways, this was useful.  She could change to  _____  the situation.  She loved her work, and she was good      


	
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[001] rmed that a large electricity company, Pacific Gas and  _____  Company  (PG&E), wanted to buy hundreds of houses in t     
[002] hat Americans call a  'streetcar') - a sort of silent   _____  train that travels all around the city centre. If you     
[003] lot of electricity  too.  Beside the freezer was a big  _____  switch.  I put my hand on the switch, and smiled.       
[004] hn Lee Hooker, and Howlin' Wolf  were the first to use  _____  guitars.  Records of the blues became very popular in     
[005]   stle is very cold and dark.  Duncan puts on a lot of  _____  lights in all the rooms.  One Monday morning in April,    
[006]   a fridge and a television, but no washing machine or  _____  cooker.  Every day she walked to the market with Chiol     
[007]    and saw that it was blank. A moment later, all the   _____  lights went out. In the darkness I heard someone movin     


	
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[001]   I've lived in the countryside, Lower Tiveshell to be  _____ , all my life, and I can tell you it isn't the same as     
[002]           They  should give us some money back.  To be  _____ , I suppose there were only seven and a half hours of      
[003] himself?' asked the  young man.  'I can't remember the  _____  words,' replied Mr Sandal.  'Nor can I, exactly. But I     
[004] he could have said, Ian had somehow managed to use the  _____  same words Gary had used to me at his flat after our      
[005]    With his smile, Lord Henry watched him. He knew the  _____   moment when to say nothing. He was surprised at the       
[006] re's  forest. I will find her in his garden.' 'At what  _____  point did you use the word "marry", Dorian?  And how      
[007]    Juba moved to the center of the arena and found the  _____   place he was looking for: a small area of blood on th     


	
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[001]   goes through Turkey, too, but everything is calm and  _____ . Helen was tidying her room before the group arrived.     
[002]   asked me." "Good," said Matthew happily.  "It's very  _____  downstairs without you, Anne." He went quietly out of     
[003]   king, and his knights were brave.  His country was a  _____  place again.  The Round TableKing Arthur went to      
[004]  was excellent  and it wasn't expensive.  Everyone was  _____ .  I felt terrible, but I had to do something.       
[005]       'I am afraid I have to go, Basil,' he  said in a  _____  voice. 'But before I go I want you to explain to me  
[006] ecause it was a message for me.  Poldy was saying, 'Be  _____ , William! This is our secret, remember?'      
[007]  I give her my room?' she thought.  'It  will keep her  _____ .' Then she saw Ben looking at her from the  bottom of     



	
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[001]    is much longer than you thought.' Diane went out to  _____  the children.  'I'm really sorry about Grace,' Tom sa     
[002]      Smoky saw Tom preparing the horses.  'Going up to  _____  on the cattle?'  'Yes.'  'Alone or... ?'  'No, Annie'     
[003]    for the MomentLate on Sunday night, Tom did a final  _____  on the horses.  Then he went inside to pack.  'Get int     
[004]  and the ship's builder, Thomas Andrews, went below to  _____ .  Andrews immediately understood the terrible danger.     
[005]  file contains wrong information, you have no right to  _____   it. Employers, often hiring private detectives, seem     
[006]  and, raising her head above the water now and then to  _____  she was  swimming in the right direction. The sun had      
[007] opened a desk drawer, and took out a pen.  "Write me a  _____ , please," he said.  "When you sign it, I will give you