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Quiz 110

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]   Perkins is hot news in Paris. She has become the top  _____  at the Parisian fashion house of Chanel.  She owes her     
[002]  Ford cars, was born in Michigan, near  Detroit.  His ' _____  T' (1908) was the first car that was cheap  enough for  
[003]                  Cameron filmed most of the movie on a  _____  that was  almost as big as the Titanic.  He wanted eve     
[004] What the devil are you doing here?' I asked.  'Playing  _____  trains,' he replied happily. 'Miss Ashton gave me perm     
[005] howed her pictures of an Earth woman, and  told her to  _____  her hair on the picture.  'I know you can't help being     
[006]   what Little Boy can do. And remember: this is just a  _____ . Try to imagine Fat Boy.' 'I don't want to wait,' Pol     
[007]   tive systems, so well developed that it has become a  _____  for others to follow. Because it is so large a state     


	
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[001]       engines.' But he was not really sure.  He was an  _____ ,  so he knew about engines.  Sometimes the Forfarshir     
[002]              'The captain wants to see you.  You're an  _____ , aren't  you? Come  this way, please.' The  sailor    
[003]   enjoyed his science studies and  wanted to become an  _____ .  But after his father's  accident and death, Ethan       
[004]                Harry is American. He  works as a sound  _____  in a recording studio in San  Francisco.       
[005]                              That's  right, I'm a civil _____ . I work for Wimpey, which is one of the largest build     
[006]  or  a bridge or a hospital. They employ a consultant   _____  to design it and  prepare all the plans.       
[007] How can I pay?'  asked Hu.  'Hey! Your father's an oil  _____ . You should talk to him!'  'But I can't tell...'   


	
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[001] then goes all around later to switch them off again. A  _____   of thirty servants spend their lives sweeping the pal     
[002]  course, it'll be cheap enough to have all your office  _____  at home? Now, we think the future  looks very bad for     
[003]     corner of the bed as a  support. Hardly any of the  _____  in these  places were pleasant, few were even  polite.     
[004] afternoon rest. In the afternoon, the  only way Palace  _____  can communicate with the Queen is to slide  a note und  
[005]   beset by the lack of  a  chief physician and trained  _____ , and there have been numerous complaints about inadequ     
[006] 'There is on the ground a restlessness  among  medical  _____  about the number of men in grey suits, about  some  of     
[007]  tenure for an  increasingly  overworked and underpaid  _____ . The Government's attitude  to the  universities was   


	
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[001]    difficulty. 'I lost my balance  and slipped off the  _____  of a  steep rock. I landed at the bottom of a cliff.      
[002]            groups  of Favel's soldiers appeared on the  _____  of the city and  began to run  up the hill towards the     
[003]     he think I'm stupid?' She sat very straight on the  _____  of a low armchair. Mr Riding went to the window, turne     
[004]  hard ground.  I put on my trainers, then I sat on the  _____  of the roof door. It was a long way down! I waited for  
[005] y.  With Lady Monmouth by his  side, he walked  to the  _____  of the  forest where the men  were shooting at birds a     
[006] his world; sometimes, indeed, he seemed  close to the   _____  of madness.  He painted strange pictures, and sang mys     
[007] the deprived people, the  people who are living on the  _____  of prosperity. And, but  if we  think that we are   


	
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[001]   teacher gives out the work, the students do it -  no  _____ . P: What about the famous Japanese 'politeness' - does     
[002]       The Greycoats team were now having some kind of   _____ , and Gloria was with them.  But it was  time for Nutty     
[003] thought was being unfair to the former champion. In a   _____  with reporters afterwards, many of Fellows' manager        
[004] in Darcy's letter, she was deeply shocked. After  some  _____ , the sisters decided not to tell anyone what they knew     
[005]               The guard and  Andrea  got out and had a  _____  with a map opened on the roof  of the guard's car.  t     
[006]   Trimingham examined the man's hand, and there was a   _____  on the field. Then they walked off the field,          
[007]   try hard enough to stay together?  The great divorce  _____   A popular British newspaper described Britain as 'the     


	
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[001]   money to spend, or need to save what you have got, I  _____   staying with a friend rather than in a cheap London      
[002]    we have a wonderful memory of the place. I strongly  _____  it, if you ever have the opportunity.  Don't worry ab     
[003]  train service and also an internal air service, but I  _____  the trains as you'll see so much more of the country     
[004] mber that  almost no-one speaks English, so I strongly  _____  you learn  some Chinese  before you go. It's a very di     
[005]     However, if you can afford to spend the money, we   _____  traveling in first class. The first-class compartment     
[006]      Why guess, when you can know for certain? He will  _____  some things you can do to protect yourself. His advice     
[007]            Do you work with pleasant people? Would you  _____  your job to a friend? If you do not have a job, write


	
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[001]  Liberius in every way. First, he could not accept the  _____  acts of cruelty that he had witnessed by both sides      
[002]  for something to happen. But suddenly I realized what  _____  danger I was in, so I just ran at the  stockade, and      
[003] vent them from dying of starvation. Their weakness was  _____ .  Herbert and Neb began to show symptoms of delirium.     
[004]  hunt down and destroy the enemy's military force with  _____  care and precision, and if war comes in spite of our     
[005]    they could interest or calm her, even in moments of  _____   emotion, by saying the following words:  'I saw a bra     
[006]    thought, and the officials either received him with  _____  coldness or strangely knowing smiles and jokes.      
[007]   as he could,  'You're all damned!'  An expression of  _____  interest and satisfaction passed over the Brothers'      


	
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[001]   differently too; in some states, you must die if you  _____  someone, but in others you only go to  prison.  The is     
[002]   white, covered their faces, and went out to beat and  _____  black people.  Black men could not vote until 1870,      
[003]    about this accident.  It was just an accident, not   _____ .' Then he added with a smile, 'But it would be very      
[004]       week by week, month by month, you were trying to  _____  him.  Dirty syringes, dirty drugs, dangerous bacteria     
[005]    she was a wonderful story-teller.  She planned her   _____  mysteries very carefully, putting a clue here, a clue      
[006]    still going to see the play.  Why? It's a very good  _____  mystery, of course, but there is another story about      
[007]             replied Lord Henry, 'but who would want to  _____  poor  Basil? He wasn't clever enough to have enemies.      


	
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[001]   his eyes were always half-closed.  He had a very bad  _____  and often couldn't walk, and he was always angry when     
[002]    together, too cold to  move.  One man  had a broken  _____ .  The waves got bigger, and the people on the rock mov   
[003]  that I  would like to marry a fat old man with  a bad  _____  who couldn't walk!' she said.  I laughed.   But the Ki     
[004] Nelson was not a beautiful dog.  He was old, had a bad  _____ , and couldn't see very well in one eye.  But he loved     
[005]  were like glass.  One  of his horses fell and cut its  _____ .  Icy rain started to fall,  making  the loading slow      
[006]        "No, I'm  not  dead, Diana," she said.  "But my  _____  hurts.  I can't walk."  "Stop, Anne!" called Diana.     
[007]      for the advanced bodybuilder because each hip and  _____    is exercised separately, thus enabling a massive,