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Quiz 113

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] fell on his knees in front of her.  'Hold up the first  _____  of your right hand,' he told her.  He put the loop ove     
[002]    one side of the rope over the other with the middle  _____  of his right hand.  Then he turned the hand over;  now     
[003]    her daughter's hand in her own when she saw Grace's  _____  move.  She watched closely, but the movement was not      
[004] ame back from one of these meetings with a ring on her  _____ .  She showed it to  me in the moonlight in our room.      
[005]      pulled the door closed behind her.  On her middle  _____  she wore the gold ring shaped like a fish.       
[006]  found her in the garden, he put the magic ring on her  _____ .  And she knew immediately that she loved the handsome     
[007] is smiling at baby Al, too.  Al is holding his daddy's  _____ .  And me? Where am I in this picture? I am standing by     


	
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[001] They joined the three people at the bar, and began to   _____  plans.  The American woman was sure that the US Base     
[002]      she thought.  "Wait," she said.  "First I have to  _____  things with my brother, Matthew.  He wants Anne to stay     
[003] ade new plans for the company.  Now, Gucci stores can   _____  problems with other Gucci stores; stores in the United     
[004]      a large international meeting of young people to   _____  world problems.  The government of China   
[005]    the Queen meets the Prime Minister privately.  They  _____  government business and important things that are hap     
[006]       or make any trouble. Do not start an argument or  _____  who was to blame, or who went through the traffic ligh     
[007]     and he is in the wrong - even if it is true. Never  _____  a cash settlement with anyone, without first discussi 


	
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[001]    then tore off a tiny piece very quickly, and with a  _____  'Goodbye!' rushed out of the cottage. I could not ima  
[002] the shape  behind the glass, and screamed.  There were  _____  footsteps outside my bedroom door, and then I saw the     
[003] happened.'  'Really?' said Morse. 'Well, I expect your  _____  brain will have already discovered how the two deaths     
[004]    sorts have become a growth industry,  as the recent  _____  growth of the National Association of Investors attest     
[005] the state,  bringing new residents, new businesses and  _____   development to an area that in recent years languish     
[006]                 But latterly the expansion has been so  _____  and in so many directions that choosing where to go      
[007] but there were other dynamics that contributed to this  _____  and unexpected acceleration.  Recession and rising un     


	
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[001]  and slow, with his two old horses pulling their heavy  _____  over the snow and ice underfoot.  By the time he had      
[002]  your house.  Otherwise, you walk off with your little  _____ . In a supermarket, you choose what you want, put it       
[003]       doing the laundery, standing at the sink over a   _____  of dirty dishes.  The first suffragettes believed in      
[004]    next morning Jotham Powell came round early to help  _____  some more wood.  Ethan could still feel inside him       
[005] picture of life with Mattie at his side.  He wanted to  _____  the wood quickly and then drive it down to Starkfield     
[006]              Employees of the animal dealer helped him  _____  the goat  into his hovercar. I own an animal now, Rick     
[007]       True, there would be an initial increase in debt  _____ , because the money to borrow the ships and container    


	
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[001]          'Not yet - we don't want to carry unnecessary  _____ !' the other man replied.  'I can do that when we get       
[002] collar. 'Blasted collar's too tight, I must be gaining  _____ ,'  Bond thought as he rubbed his neck. He smoked a ci     
[003]   her life her beauty left her and she put on a lot of  _____ . However, in 1983, she went to stay at the Betty Ford     
[004]    sports there? horse-riding and sailing, running and  _____ -lifting, swimming and football.  The Olympic Games be     
[005]   put one foot up.  Pilgrim didn't move.  Tom took her  _____  and she lifted her leg over the  horse's back.  She fe     
[006] antes into the air.  He was falling, falling.  A heavy  _____   pulled him quickly down.  Finally, with a great noise     
[007]  a musical instrument.  It is worth much more than its  _____  in gold. The violin, owned by the  Mendelssohn family,     


	
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[001]   and looked at Holmes with cold eyes.  'But you can't  _____  the door.  I don't have to stay here.  The police will     
[002]  we stay with the body? ' 'No.  That isn't necessary.   _____  the door.' The steps went away and the voices disappe     
[003]    time away, even if only for a short time. Close and  _____  ALL windows, doors, and gates.  Put powerful locks on      
[004] powerful locks on all doors. Change the keys for every  _____  in your house every six  months.                          
[005]    Think of the people next door.  Now we're going  to  _____  the house and nobody must go in again.     
[006]         you notice that a window is broken, repair it.  _____  your car, or other vehicle, and hide valuable items      
[007]    On the nights when they came back late, she used to  _____  up the house and hide the key outside the kitchen door     


	
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[001]                      And, of course, Americans love to  _____ ; the supermarket first appeared in America, and nowm 
[002]             Many visitors to New York go there just to  _____ .  The biggest shops, selling all kinds of things, are     
[003]         Now  all over the world you can go to a coffee  _____  and choose from a very long menu of coffees.   
[004]    Then, later in the afternoon, he went to Rodrigo's   _____  and bought a few things.  He had a big can of paraffin     
[005] another larger farm not far away, and also a butcher's  _____ , and so was not short of money. He spent most of it      
[006]   I lived with my grandfather, who had a hairdresser's  _____ .  I used to sit under a table in the                       
[007] wait a long time in there.  Then she went to the fruit  _____  and bought an orange. As he watched her, he knew more     


	
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[001]    something very heavy.  Her neck was cut with a very  _____  knife.  "Alexandre Etienne is also a doctor.  He was w     
[002]  He moved his bed, then he looked round the room for a  _____  tool.  The only things in the room were a bed, a chair     
[003]         Jane Austen's books describe, with a quiet but  _____  sense of fun, a world she knew well: middle-class fam     
[004] They began to bite at the dying fish with their great,  _____  teeth.  They fought, biting great pieces off the dead      
[005]     of wood with thin metal at the end which came to a  _____  point.  The legionaries threw them at th  enemy and      
[006] round, scratching her hand. At that moment  she felt a  _____  pain in her back. This was the third time, and she kn     
[007] ittle doll exactly like that person. Then you pushed a  _____  needle into the doll's heart. The magic usually worke   


	
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[001]                       Then the northern river ran in a  _____  line through the hills.  The southern one moved here      
[002]  I was nervous.  Below us, the mountain fell away in a  _____  wall of black shining rock.  I fell to the ground in      
[003]    wind at all now.' She stood up and pulled her skirt  _____ .  'I'm going down into the valley.  I'll find someone     
[004]        I ran upstairs, three steps at a time, and went  _____   to the study.  'Perhaps he's still working and hasn't     
[005]   to the village.  I was there in a few hours.  I went  _____  to my uncle's  house.  Rafael was there, lying on a b     
[006]  kept going and finished with a clear round.  She rode  _____  to the truck where the others were.  Inside the truck,     
[007]  I jumped to my feet and ran to Usher.  He was looking  _____  in front of him, and did not notice me.      


	
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[001]   either to provide more lifts of the same type, or to  _____  the existing  lifts by faster ones, or to take the lif     
[002]    was mixed with work in a smooth and natural way. To  _____  this, a new, 'real' school had also been provided as      
[003]         If some little luxury is not available, do not  _____  it with something else, but tell them to be brave and     
[004] it seemed to be a number code, where groups of numbers  _____  letters. I worked on the words, because you can use a     
[005]   either to provide more lifts of the same type, or to  _____  the existing lifts by faster ones, or to take the lift     
[006]     in each case. These additional modern bombers will  _____  some of the older B-47 medium bombers; one B-52 can     
[007]    the woods on the school grounds. This and raw sugar  _____  ordinary refined sugar on the tables and very little