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Quiz 109

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 operations for both, however, require one  _____  substance for which there is no substitute - blood.     
[002]  have school or university until they retire. So it is  _____  that children do well at school to get a good job      
[003] hen you run. A track-suit with a pair of long pants is  _____  if you intend to keep running throughout the winter      
[004]    what the devil do you need a gun  for? Is it really  _____ ?'  'Well, Benson's carrying a gun in his pocket, and      
[005]   Most nations agree maths and the native language are  _____  but only Britain and the US give foreign languages a     
[006] tional courses that offer educational extras on top of  _____  business skills. And students are entitled to join      
[007]  nd so much time on fund-raising that they neglect the  _____  work of governing, skipping committee hearings and      


	
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[001] I thought.  I walked  along to the door and turned the  _____ .  The door didn't  move.  It was locked.  'What are      
[002] save a lot of time.' 'I don't want a little mop with a  _____ .  I've used a stick for fifty years and more,      
[003]  came strolling slowly towards us with his hand on the  _____  of his gun. We sat there nervously in the car        
[004]   and caught it between his hands. Then he brought the  _____  of the sword up into the guard's face. In the next sec     
[005]    But I've heard  that  the Volkswagen Beetle doesn't  _____  so well when there are  curves in the  road, that it      
[006]  most valuable skill a player can have is the power to  _____  life's pressures through Jesus Christ,' says the cap     
[007] nited Nations Human Rights Prize in 1978. Each year we  _____ , on average, nearly 5,000 individual cases, regardless     


	
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[001]                    After breakfast, I sit by the hotel  _____ .  The sky is blue and the sun is hot,      
[002]          its big garden.  She could go swimming in the  _____  there, play  tennis, or hide in the tree-house.    
[003]   time  while your body temperature fell.  There was a  _____  of cold  water  in the room.  You could jump into it.      
[004]    After this you could go for  a swim in the open air  _____ .  The baths were not just for  washing and exercise.       
[005]   two sports clubs, a  disco, a cinema, and a swimming  _____ . There are 600 rooms and  three miles of  red carpet.
[006]              to take risks. If the water is a stagnant  _____ , or frozen solid, you  might fear your future and the      
[007]    bar that seats twenty, a solar deck, and a swimming  _____ . So he  gave it eighteen wheels and stretched it    


	
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[001]                 'I mean it.  Would you like to act in a  _____ ?'  A great cry broke from Seth. Mr  Mybug fell off his     
[002]     friends.  Many were famous names from the worlds of  _____   and  music.  All the Royal Family was there.  Princes     
[003]   In  1939, she and her family moved to  America, where  _____  makers  soon noticed her beauty. She became a child st     
[004] was  thirty, he went to Los  Angeles and made his first  _____ . It was  what Newman called an uncomfortable  start in     
[005]  tti, the Italian singer, and others from the music and  _____  world, like Michael  Jackson, Paul and Linda McCartney     
[006]    war with a terrible whale.  When Steven  Spielberg's  _____  Jaws was first shown, people of all ages  screamed in      
[007]      But you've seen old films on television.'  Was the  _____  made in the Philippines?'  Why?' Rick was losing his        


	
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[001] ends and families.  Some heard it on the television or  _____  at the end of a long night's work, and it seemed that     
[002]            During the week, newspapers, television and  _____  were full of Diana's sad story.  People cried and left     
[003]   rule as king.  He made a speech to the nation on the  _____ .  And on 11 December, his younger brother, Bertie,      
[004]  ct the natural world.  In 1987, he spoke in a special  _____   programme from the church at Windsor Castle.  Philip      
[005]         People all over Cuba listened carefully to the  _____  news.  Ana's friends and family hurried to her bedside     
[006]      in March that year, her heart broke.  Television,  _____ , and newspapers in Burma are not free - reporters must 
[007]             'What is it, Michael? Tell me.'  'It was a  _____  message from the plane, Prime  Minister.'   'Well?      


	
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[001]           At the games, gladiators used their fighting  _____  to win.  Or they died without a word.  Criminals unde     
[002] el Nostradame,  'Nostradamus' (1503-66).  He had great  _____  as a doctor and he was very brave.       
[003]             were so impressed with David's programming  _____  that they gave him computers,  printers, and software      
[004]     The British queen, Queen Victoria, heard about his  _____  with horses, and in 1858 she asked him to come to Lond     
[005] objects.  He also taught him to make things - a useful  _____  for a prisoner.  They were always busy.       
[006] t wentieth year, Flora was discovered to possess every  _____  except that of earning enough to live on.  Her father      
[007]         Other songs followed, and Marian showed us her  _____  at the  piano. And then, during a pause, Lord Trimingh


	
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[001]                               A small woman lay in the  _____  in  Havana.  Terrible burns covered her body
[002]   She had a special touch.  When she visited people in  _____ , a hug or a kiss from Diana seemed to help them great     
[003] rious accident at school in 1991.  Diana stayed at the  _____  with him all night but Charles went off to the theatre     
[004]   her eyes closed.  Ana spent five long  months in the  _____ .  Slowly she became stronger.  First, she began walkin     
[005]           Next, she asked for an exercise bike in her   _____  room.  The doctors could not believe their eyes.  Ana      
[006]              When actress Vivien Leigh was sick in the  _____ , thieves came into her house.  They stole an Oscar.  
[007]    anxiety.  Then he spoke. 'They want me to go to the  _____  for a check-up. I shall be home for the evening meal.     


	
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[001] He remembered seeing an Elvis Presley film.  When  the  _____  screamed, he thought, 'That's a good job!'  John's mot     
[002] Ed Sullivan Show, they  were watched by an American TV  _____  of almost seventy-three million people.  It was one of  
[003]   his life.  Archie was nervous, but he said yes.  The  _____  loved his talk and he earned $700.  Newspapers in the     
[004]     bad teacher, that's all. Someone who could keep an  _____  happy for an hour and a half could never be a bad teac    
[005]                 He stopped speaking, and looked at his  _____ . He saw  fear on a number of faces. Mrs Morgan was hol     
[006]  and boring, and the songs  seemed extremely long. The  _____  wished that the  entertainment would stop so that they     
[007] and their eyes worried.  Captain Winters looked at his  _____ . There were fourteen men and one woman 


	
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[001]  reindeer to pull his sleigh.  Their names come from a  _____  by an American, Clement C. Moore.  The reindeer's name     
[002]  country needs him. The legend says that the following  _____  is written on the stone that marks his grave: Here lie     
[003] Let's play a game," said Anne.  "Do you remember that   _____  from school about a girl, Elaine? She was unhappy in
[004]  from her drugged sleep, fresh and beautiful as a love  _____ . The green glass seemed to burst into flower under her     
[005] means it for you of course,' said Emma.  They read the  _____  together and saw that it was a very pretty love           
[006]   the artist.  Wonderful isn't it the subject. And the  _____  was for you.  Elton tried to find Emmas' hand again,      
[007] thologies of Irish poetry. For Coffey, the making of a  _____  was always a deeply human activity, an engagement in