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Quiz 115

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]    rifle, but he has argued that it was not the murder  _____ . In July the results of those tests came back inconcl     
[002]     For the first time ever, a hurricane will become a  _____  of war.'  Favel smiled, gently.  The room was silent 
[003]   say it's a meteor, but it may be some kind of secret  _____ .'  He turned away and they all started to go back into     
[004]  half past seven he was ready. His guitar had become a  _____  able to kill a man at a hundred metres. He took our      
[005]    some of these weapons already. Destroying a nuclear  _____  is dangerous and expensive work. The Russian army      
[006] wa s in his hands. He aimed and fired. - I thought the  _____  would have no effect on such a huge creature, but Suns     
[007]        This was a dark man, in Cretan clothes, and his  _____  was still in his hand. The woman was holding on to      


	
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[001] at 4000 people. The taps in the bathrooms are  made of  _____  gold. There are 564 chandeliers with 51,490 light bulb
[002]    three weren't interesting at all. This one's a big,  _____ , stone and brick house. As you  know, we were always w     
[003] all the way round the M25 in both directions.  It is a  _____  ring of steel. If you  are driving to work, we advise      
[004]                             FLOOD KILLS SEVEN  After a  _____  month of rain, the waters of the river Ganges flowed     
[005]             If the water is a stagnant pool, or frozen  _____ , you might fear your future and the future of the      
[006]     his mother like this, or ever imagined that such a  _____ , dependable person could become so desperate and lose     
[007]    Morse.  'You may be right, sir, but I need a bit of  _____  food to keep going.  Do you think we're anywhere near     
  


	
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[001]           I was starting to feel suspicious again. Her  _____  had not been normal for someone who was just on holida     
[002]     forward and started to take a real interest in the  _____  of the crowd.  Maximus was almost at the gladiators'      
[003] ivate fantasies in our dreams - we can forget the good  _____  of the day and are free to behave any way that we      
[004]               Maybe we would get reduced time for good  _____ , or a last-minute pardon on the grounds that we were     
[005]  the pro golfer can control his alcoholism and abusive  _____  while regaining his world-class talent for the game     
[006]     Rottweilers, with no regard for the temperament or  _____   of an individual dog. First, there are currently dan     
[007]  idered inappropriate, which included unwelcome sexual  _____  on the part of their employers that ranged from crude     


	
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[001] it's the time to tell her. What I want you to do is to  _____  the  house very carefully.  See if you can find anythin     
[002] out  Ashton.'  Michaelis smiled. 'This is business. To  _____  this place thoroughly we'll have to look inside every     
[003]    to know how to  work the controls, so I left him to  _____  the thousand dierent pieces of equipment, and went      
[004]      in his conversation, but looked eagerly around in  _____  of the officers.  Just then all the young ladies notic     
[005]    they get back to Stockholm on Friday, I want you to  _____  their coach.  Now we've got three days to plan the sec     
[006] became very quiet.  "The police and neighbors began to  _____  different rooms.  The door to a large room on the four     
[007]              "Yes. They searched carefully, but their   _____  did not fit the crime or the criminal.  The Chief work     


	
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[001] ple lose their farm land and people drown. There is no  _____  water in the rivers to drink. This takes place over a     
[002] erribly well. I can't tell you, my dear, how young and  _____  I  feel. I hope you'll like my dress. Goodbye, my swee     
[003]       will pass away with our bodies, leaving only the  _____  flame of the spirit. That's why I never think of reve     
[004] 'Pleasure may taste bitter, sir.'  'How do you know, a  _____  young thing like you? You have no experience of life     
[005]         and meets - someone, who is fresh and good and  _____ .  Now, can he ignore society, can he forget the past,      
[006]          each one was full, and that the air in it was  _____ . He used a piece of rock to make sure that the outer      
[007]   was beside herself with sadness. Yury remembered the  _____  terror he had felt ten years earlier when his dear mo     


	
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[001]  Queen nods to the secretary, and he knows this is the  _____  that it is time for him to go. Then one of the Queen     
[002]    The cause of the accident was believed to be faulty  _____  lights.   
[003]         'I really didn't know anything about the radio  _____   in the car,' she said.  'I know you didn't,' I replie     
[004]   fire on a point of the islet, which would serve as a  _____  to the engineer. But they searched in vain for wood or     
[005]    darkness, whistling shrilly. It appeared as if this  _____  had been waited for; the barking immediately came near     
[006]     the sun that it was about two o'clock, he gave the  _____  to return. Top's instinct was useful to the hunters,      
[007] animal resources. But before giving his companions the  _____  for  departure, Cyrus Harding said to them in a calm,      


	
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[001]                 'You mustn't cry. By dying young, I'll  _____  suffering. I am going to heaven.'  'Does heaven really     
[002]     grateful for this lie. It made  t easier for me to  _____   telling her too many direct lies. Penny asked me if      
[003]    were curious about my past, but sensitive enough to  _____  asking questions which would hurt me.    
[004]  if wrong tempts us, then we must make every effort to  _____  it, by putting our energy to better use.      
[005]        Time went by and somehow the two men managed to  _____  open quarrels. Each day, Alan continued with his  work     
[006]   earlier than usual this morning because he wanted to  _____  the rush hour,  but it seemed as if everyone else had  
[007]  hard about what went wrong with that marriage, and so  _____   making the same mistake twice.      


	
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[001]            Annie was back from shopping for food for a  _____  party.  The Bookers were all coming to the river house     
[002]        That evening, when Annie finished clearing away  _____ ,  she found Grace and Robert in front of it.      
[003]                                  Can you come and have  _____  with me?' 'Thank you, Mr Morrel.  But I must visit my     
[004]                         We went to the theatre and had  _____  afterwards in a  restaurant in Soho. For me it was a      
[005]   a naturally happy, friendly man.  He invited them to  _____  at Barton Park,  and later sent them some fruit and      
[006]                      There were many servants, and the  _____  was an expensive one.  Later, in the sitting-room, Jo     
[007]           her four noisy children.  They came in after  _____ , pulled her dress and stopped the conversation.       


	
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[001]                          Soon afterwards he was on the  _____  to his wife at her office.  Grace was in hospital, he     
[002]  turned away to the window.  A nurse came; there was a  _____  call for them.  It was Mrs. Dyer, from the stables.       
[003]     She just said that it was important.'  Tom put the  _____  down.  He looked at his watch.  It was 10:30, so it      
[004] ed off the light.  At 5:15 he woke to the sound of the  _____ .  'Is that Tom Booker?' 'I think so.  It's very early.     
[005]         she just opened the door wider.  'She's on the  _____ .  You can wait in here.'  Tom followed Grace into the      
[006]   get back to work on that computer and make all those  _____  calls, right?' The sun was behind him and Annie put      
[007]    The best part of his day was talking to them on the  _____ .  And tonight, after failing to speak to them all day,     


	
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[001]       she could walk quite well now with the help of a  _____ .  But something was wrong inside.  Grace tried to hide     
[002]     main street, really.  She walked slowly, using her  _____ .  She was not confident yet on her new false leg.  
[003]        Then he reached out for the other boy, took the  _____  on his hand and held his arm behind his back.  'Don't     
[004]   develop nice figures, but I'm still as straight as a  _____ ! I have the same shape of body that I had when I was      
[005]    What are you doing!' Mrs Harvey said.  She took her  _____  and began to walk slowly across the room.     
[006] nimal, you will win the gold.' "Ethelred lifted up his  _____  and hit the animal on the head.  It fell down, and      
[007]     machine.  When he came closer, they pointed a long  _____  at him.  A light came from it, throwing him to the gro