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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] alking around with a thick book under her harm, with a  _____  like 'History of  Women in Art'  or 'The Real Causes o     
[002]    a son, and he started writing about James Bond. The  _____  of his first book was 'Casino Royale,' then his second     
[003]     I'll watch for it in the bookshops - what will the  _____  be? Mr Williams: I'm going to call it 'Benson's Jazz 
[004] sort them out very well.  I  haven't thought of a good  _____  for the book.  Perhaps Dangerous Game is a good           
[005]     it's been easy to read.  I've given each chapter a  _____ , but I haven't added a word to William's story and I     
[006]   came Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.  The  _____  song was Paul's.  He had the idea after a trip to the     
[007]      Former boxing champion Larry Fellows defended his  _____  in Dallas last night against contender Joe Wheeler.       


	
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[001] tell you a secret?  We're going to get married. Do you  _____ "?  Casey kept his smile fixed, but some small inner     
[002]                   Charles said sternly that he did not  _____  of people who interfered with other people's lives.       
[003]     he cared for me, and that his sisters love him and  _____  of his wish to marry Miss Darcy. I don't want to think    
[004]     Matty did not realize it.  I'm so afraid she won't  _____ !' cried Martha to me in the kitchen. Will you tell he     
[005] such threats.  I do not know whether your nephew would  _____  of your interference in his life, but you certainly      
[006] able. And even then,  Dick's mother could not possibly  _____  of Elfine's family.  And the Starkadders themselves wo     
[007] under the children's bureau. He also asked Congress to  _____  establishment of a national child health institute.      


	
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[001]  mation for me, if she didn't.  'You haven't changed a  _____ , Vic. I remember how you always persuaded people to      
[002]   have the bedrooms on the top floor. The stairs are a  _____   dangerous. I'd  ave to fix them. And the roof is leak     
[003]   being a little selfish, not to mention spoiled. Be a  _____  thoughtful of others. You chose to stop eating meat, 
[004] ttitude in Americans, and it was starting to make me a  _____  mad. These people seem to think England is so tiny,      
[005] good-looking, the kind of girl you go for. But she's a  _____   too serious for me. You know, politics, literature,      
[006]     us and spend their money, but maybe it should be a  _____  more realistic. I mean, England isn't ALL lovely,      
[007]                   Well, Sunday evening we quiet down a  _____ . It's time to get ready for Monday.  Another week.         


	
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[001] He says, 'You have to be ambitious if you want to get   _____ . You can get  to the top if you want to badly enough.      
[002]    in New York before you leave London!  You get there  _____   of yourself. You can catch the 10:30 am  flight from      
[003]     Jack Phillips took another message about icebergs   _____ .  It never reached the bridge.  Phillips put it down o     
[004] three times and telephoned the bridge.  "Iceberg right  _____ ," he told Sixth Officer James Moody.    On the bridge, 
[005]            Occasionally dark figures moved on the road  _____  of us, but too far away to recognize anyone.     
[006]          In  the mist, Giles could see only a few feet  _____ , so he moved very carefully. - Suddenly his foot turn     
[007]   too late. And as he turned into Canal Street, there,  _____  of him, stood an ambulance and two police cars. e     


	
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[001]  I: Are they busy, or don't you do  much?  H: No, they  _____  to be very busy. We hardly ever stay in for much of 
[002]                        as other universities. Colleges  _____  to have different identities. Wadham has a liberal      
[003]      Most of the people I know who are sexually active  _____  to be in steady relationships. One of my friends is      
[004]                      e but I don't get really drunk, I  _____  to feel sick before that happens and stop     
[005]    explanations. Popular schools in middle- lass areas  _____  to be full while children in struggling inner-city      
[006]     slower pupils in small classes and better teachers  _____  to be given the bigger ones.  Professor Mortimore's      
[007]    housework and bakes all her own cakes.  She used to  _____  two gardens until Age Concern stopped her digging up      


	
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[001]   member for six months.  She hardly ever missed their  _____   bridge evening on Tuesdays. Last Tuesday she had plan     
[002] oliday feeling, and as we took up our usual habits and  _____  studies again, St. John sat with us more often.      
[003]  the cliff and to both sides. Again, the cave was very  _____  in shape and height. Perhaps the man who spoke about     
[004] youngest daughters, Kitty and Lydia, were particularly  _____  visitors. Their minds were more vacant than their sis     
[005]    every crisis, and Elizabeth and Jane both sent them  _____  gifts of money to pay their bills.     
[006]  To keep their gods happy, the people of the city held  _____   religious celebrations. They brought gifts, and perfo     
[007]                              has announced plans for a  _____  quiz every second Tuesday night, beginning Sept. 2.       


	
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[001]    she saw a girl by the lake.  She was wearing a long  _____ , and a hat, and her long black hair hung down past her     
[002] ng towards the lake.  Someone.  Someone in a long dark  _____ , and a hat, and with long hair that reached down below     
[003]   air will help.' She pulled on some jeans and a thick  _____ .  The air was cold but there was no wind.  Janey walke     
[004]      He wasn't dressed for bed.  He was wearing a long  _____  over his clothes.  Janey put her hands up to her head     
[005] a hand and helped her on to the grass.  He wrapped his  _____  round her.  'We must get you inside  quickly,' he said     
[006]   laughed.  She looked at your passport.  It's in your  _____  pocket.'  Oh.  Right.' My       
[007]     Santa Claus as a fat man with a white beard, a red  _____  and a bag of toys.  The first pictures of Santa were      


	
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[001]  two metres long.  They were thick pieces of wood with  _____  metal at the end which came to a sharp point.      
[002] ed.  Then they  were  pressed until they were flat and  _____ .  Pens were made of  wood or  of metal.  All the woode     
[003]     across the country.  They  found a large number of  _____  postcard-sized pieces of wood.  Each of them is betwee     
[004]     long lines of simple buildings.  Their bodies were  _____ , their heads were shaven, and there was complete hope     
[005]   won't believe it - gymnastics.  'If you want to keep  _____  and look good in those clothes, you have to exercise     
[006]     People could see their hearts moving through their  _____   skins.  Scientists can't explain why some of the frog 
[007]  son is that I'm fat. I've never been exactly slim and  _____ ; ever since I was about seven, I've been on the chubby     


	
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[001]  continually growing stronger. But they only evolve to  _____  specific varieties of wheat.  So plant breeders beat   
[002]     was wearing them when he died, and we're sure they  _____  the footprint the police found in Boom Boom's place.     
[003] we're all here now, aren't we?' he remarked. He lit a   _____ ,  looked up the staircase and began to count.       
[004]                         took out his pipe, and found a  _____  to light it. 'Well,' he thought, 'I'll just have to      
[005]     are helping to train their father for the football  _____ . 'My boys are very pleased that I am so fit again,'      
[006]          'Listen, Friday night is the Dartmouth hockey  _____ .'  'So?'  'So I'd like you to come.'  These Radcliffe      
[007]     started, because on the way home from the football  _____  on Saturday, Sam stopped the car at a pub.       


	
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[001]  - Eastern Europe, Japan, South  America - I'd love to  _____  in those places.  I: Paul, you've obviously made a lot     
[002]  knows he will soon die. Maximus realizes that he must  _____  another duty from Emperor before he can go home.     
[003] when pushed in various combinations, allow a human  to  _____  a few virtual caretaking tasks that keep the creature     
[004]    13 points and 13 rebounds.  Asked how the Jets will  _____  in Seattle with 26 new players, including 13 rookies     
[005]   it in their stride. 'There might be more pressure to  _____ , but I accept that for what I get out of it,' says D     
[006]     imagine any possible improvement. We neither of us  _____  to strangers.' Just then Lady Catherine interrupted      
[007]   unions might have helped in the past, and might even  _____  a useful function today, but 'they aren't relevant to