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Quiz 116

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]         Ana walked off the airplane at Havana into the  _____  Cuban air.  It was good to be home.  She was Cuba's      
[002]   are an awful lot of people who need firewood to keep  _____ . And so they cut down huge hillsides, in a few years      
[003]  was strong enough.  Oe stepped off the train into the  _____  August air.  It was early morning and the city was qu     
[004]    This time I tomorrow we'll be in Italy lying on the  _____  sand on some wonderful beach!' And then I went down      
[005] and smooth.  3 Mix in the flour and cocoa, and add the  _____  water. 4 Pour it all into the tin, and cook the cake      
[006]     The Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret grew up in a  _____ , loving home.  'Us four,' her father called his littl     
[007] mountains the sky is usually blue and sunny, and  it's  _____  enough to have lunch outside. You won't believe it,     


	
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[001] laundry, washing the car, maybe doing some work in the  _____  like cutting the grass, and then it's usually time to     
[002]  ran through it from the prison buildings, through the  _____ , and under the prison wall.  "I asked a guard where      
[003]     light the barbecue and cook a steak outside in the  _____  if the weather is good. Maybe watch a little televisio     
[004] left him everything in her will: her money, the house,  _____  and gardens, her stables - all of which is worth �3 m     
[005]  one day there was a piano in the March family's front  _____ .  The letter on it said, "To Miss Elizabeth March."      
[006]  but they found nothing.  Then they searched the small  _____  behind the building.  Here they found the body of the  
[007]     was angry. So he went out of the kitchen, into the  _____ , leaving Flora to a quiet evening on her own.      


	
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[001]      These early kings and queens were, of course, not  _____ .  They often had lovers, ate and drank too much, and w   
[002]    to smile for hours during a royal visit.  Nobody is  _____ .  Philip sometimes said exactly what was in his mind.      
[003] Sarah, with her bright red hair and loud laugh, seemed  _____  for him.  They first became friends when Andrew played     
[004] scientists from his team were dead! Were there really ' _____ ' civilizations thousands of years ago? Were the people     
[005] ised and hurt voice:  'Why, nothing  happened. I was a  _____  gentleman. What do you expect?  Especially when she ha     
[006]   were there in May. It was beautiful. The weather was  _____  and not too hot. It's a  noisy city and expensive, but     
[007]                  He strolled on again. 'His grammar is  _____ ,' said my friend, 'if a little formal, but learning      


	
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[001]   the sun's heat was too strong for her.  Her skin was  _____  and it burned very easily.  She could only practice      
[002]   he bravely fought his fears and feelings.  Tired and  _____ , Matthew arrived in busy Port Sudan.  He wanted to st     
[003]   to her.  Her feet were very painful and her body was  _____ ,  but Odette sat up straight and looked proudly into      
[004]    convinced of the health benefits of running. I felt  _____  and  unfit, yet I wasn't worried about the risk of a      
[005]                          Marilla's eyes were tired and  _____ .  They often hurt her.  "I'll go to town tomorrow and      
[006]   ill with heart disease. He couldn't work, he was too  _____  to climb the stairs, and he had two young sons to look     
[007]      must take care of my daughter. She is so soft, so  _____ . A bad husband could make her very miserable indeed,      


	
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[001] slept.  But as I looked at the sleeping boy, my heart   _____   faster and I was filled with fear.  Was this really      
[002]    the storm no longer.  He lifted his heavy stick and  _____  against the wooden door until he had made a hole.      
[003]          For more than an hour the winds screamed and   _____  against the plane, and tried to break it into pieces     
[004]    some greaseproof paper, and place it in the tin.  2  _____  the eggs and sugar until they  are thick and smooth.       
[005]     another boy.'  'No problem,' said Sam.  'And we'll  _____  you.  The two men shook hands, and Sam got into his      
[006] Marathon. And that this is a sport in which women can   _____  men. But is it crazy to do it? Does it make sense to     
[007] nnouncer: Last night Tottenham Hotspurs Football club   _____   Wolverhampton Wanderers six-nil in London. This stron       


	
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[001] erybody has five glasses in front of them: one for red  _____ ,                                              
[002]                                          one for white  _____ , one for water, one for port, and one for liqueur.      
[003]          Hey - we could serve the girls that bottle of  _____  that we promised them last time, if we had a corkscrew     
[004]      There are also twenty theatres and many old pubs,  _____  bars, sidewalk cafes, and restaurants. There is now a     
[005] didn't buy any presents for anyone, but we bought some  _____  from a farm about sixty kilometres from our farmhouse
[006]  He had forgotten nothing.  He had brought in food and  _____ , actors, musicians, and dancers.  All of this, and      
[007]    in the world.  You can also find excellent American  _____  from the west coast, particularly California.       


	
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[001]     was out for a walk. It started to rain, so he took  _____  in a barn - only a soft, gentle rain, but he was alre     
[002]                a boy of about seventeen who was taking  _____  in the doorway.  He had one leg and a crutch.      
[003] eautiful young lady and her dog, who were also seeking  _____  from the rain.  She had come out without her umbrella.     
[004]          Where was she? Would she find a safe place to  _____  during the hurricane? He tried not to think about     
[005]    'We have not only lost our father. We have lost our  _____  too.'  It has always been like that in Nigeria. When y     
[006]   said kindly.  'But I think we must find somewhere to  _____  from the storm now.'  A few minutes later they found      
[007]   They were digging deep holes everywhere.  They would  _____  in these holes from the storm.  At the top of the rid     


	
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[001]  down from the hat, in front of his face.  There was a  _____  in the cloth in front of his eyes.  He could see out     
[002] put on a chair to catch the rain dripping in through a  _____  in the ceiling. You had to climb up a steep ladder to     
[003]     and stopped working.  Above the plane, there was a  _____  and he could see blue sky through it.       
[004]                     Below the plane, there was another  _____ .  He could see the ocean at the end of it.       
[005]           They ran to the field and found a very large  _____  in the ground.  
[006]   in a brown envelope and  ut the envelope in a secret  _____  in the wall of her house.  Nobody knew it was the 
[007]  wall.  Perhaps we can push some stones out and make a  _____  big  enough to climb through.  Let's try  it!'        


	
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[001]   University of California at Santa Barbara. 'He's the  _____  guy to use when you're teaching a course on the idea     
[002]     The 'charming woman' might not consider Elfine the  _____  wife for her son. Elfine would have to change complet     
[003]   marriage, when they were still children. They are an  _____  couple, both from respectable, honourable, ancient fam     
[004]  would feel when she heard the news, agreed it was the  _____  moment. Conversation continued among the four young      
[005]     and was delighted to discover what he felt was the  _____  solution. It was clear to Sir Wilfred that the poor      
[006] is now in progress.  River cruising for small craft is  _____  in November.   At New Orleans, 25-mile-square Lake Pon     
[007] erature are bad for wine: they age it prematurely. The  _____  storage temperature for long periods is about fifty-     


	
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[001]   and the family moved into the dining-room with their  _____ . The girls smiled secretly at each other, as Mr. Colli     
[002] rned off the electricity at nine o'clock, and when the  _____  complained they told him to go to a shop and buy a      
[003]        too angry to drink any tea. After a while their  _____  left. We discovered that he had been invited to stay      
[004]  in October, Grace asked him to stay.  He slept in the  _____  room and went the next morning.     
[005]                  After that, he spent one night in the  _____  roam each weekend.  His leaving time the next day   
[006] vants did not seem surprised at the arrival of another  _____ . After dinner Professor Silenus said, I think I'll st     
[007]    and special talks are given by Scottish artists and  _____  speakers. A visit to Elizabeth Blackadder's Edinburgh