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Quiz 117

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]    wearing a very short skirt and she was sitting on a  _____ .  Every night in the theatre she went high in the air     
[002]        She sang, she danced, but when she got onto her  _____ , all the men stood up.  Miss Ray did not have to try 
[003]  urtyard and then the garden. The kids would love that  _____  and play area. I bet the courtyard catches the sun.      
[004]  into the garden. There was nobody there. She began to  _____  on the big white garden gate. Then, looking down the      
[005]   rat was still hanging onto it. Now the rope began to  _____  backwards and forwards. Moore felt a moment of terrible     
[006]  your head up. Pull your shoulders back. Let your arms  _____ , and don't carry a lot of packages. Carry your handbag     
[007]   the Second World War, American soldiers brought the ' _____ ' music of the big dance bands like Glenn Miller     


	
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[001]     The father and daughter went slowly down the dark,  _____  stairs to the kitchen.  Grace's mother, Thomasin,      
[002]  looked slowly around the dark river-straight into the  _____ ,  yellow eyes of a crocodile! The large, dangerous ani     
[003]    It was dark here, deep in the thick forest, and the  _____  path was rough and difficult.  But Chico moved quickly     
[004]  help to arrive.  He looked hopefully up and down the   _____   mountain path, but the mountains were empty and silen     
[005]    is on foot.  You might get lost walking around the   _____ , twisting streets of this old city, but not for very      
[006]      He looked for a way to escape, but the ravine was  _____ , with high rocky walls.  He had to go on, heavy with      
[007]  when they're not even married. We try hard not to be   _____ -minded,  but I still find that very hard to forgive.      


	
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[001]      Will anyone ever bring the ship back up, from the  _____  of the ocean? Survivor Eva Hart hoped not.  Before he     
[002] ictures of the filmstars.  He takes photographs of the  _____  of their feet and the tops of their heads.  Everybody     
[003]  er buildings had to be smaller at the top than at the  _____ .  Later builders could make buildings that went straig     
[004]   feet (93 meters) tall.  There are 354 steps from the  _____  of the statue to the crown.  Visitors can look out fro     
[005]  ss ball drops as the New Year begins.  It reaches the  _____  at  midnight exactly.  In the rest of the US, people      
[006]  slipped off the edge of a steep rock. I landed at the  _____  of a cliff. I hurt both my knees, twisted my shoulde     
[007]  ifts it  will take just 15 minutes to get from top to  _____ . Restaurants, offices, flats, cinemas, schools, hosp     


	
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[001] quietly for a long time, studying something in a glass  _____ .  'So, Watson,' he said suddenly, 'you aren't going to     
[002]  in their hands, and a girl went round the room with a  _____  of champagne.  'Have some more champagne,' she said to     
[003] They waited a few moments. John passed round his water  _____ . Nobody spoke.  'Roaaaarrrgh!' A horrible noise came      
[004] mething about the poison.' He took out a small plastic  _____  and checked it carefully, then opened up one end.       
[005]    peace and quiet. He had gone into the garden with a  _____  of beer and walked around looking as if he was interest     
[006]                   Hey  - we could serve the girls that  _____  of wine that we promised them last time, if we had a      
[007] ot Afonso's fight, but he did not think.  There  was a  _____  on a table, and he hit the man on the head with it.        


	
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[001]     A working wife works hard all day.  At night she's  _____ , too.  But she has to cook, wash clothes and put the      
[002] good restaurants are very popular.  If you are feeling  _____  or lazy, you can even phone a local restaurant      
[003]      he went back to his hotel with two girls.  He was  _____  and fell asleep.  The girls robbed Speed while he was     
[004]   Canada.  Then he went back to his home.  He was very  _____  after all this travel and hard work.  He arrived home     
[005]        Was it too much hard work and travel? Or was he  _____  of living with a secret for so long?  After he died, 
[006]   drove for 16 hours to reach the city.  "But I wasn't  _____ ,"  says Vicky.  "                           
[007]    Claudius.  After Nero's death, the politicians were  _____  of that family.  The next emperor, Galba, was not a      


	
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[001]      articles for newspapers and magazines, er... film  _____ , you know, uhm, and occasionally some fiction, poems, 
[002]         Without the good magazines, without their book  _____ , their hospitality to European writers, 
[003]     as a freelance journalist, writing science fiction  _____  for Time Out and dreaming of writing short stories and     
[004]    company financials, interviews with executives, and  _____  of economic and industry trends. Decisions are ultimat     
[005]  and spread the word globally along the network.  Book  _____  are written at a thousand desks and sent throughout       
[006]               Then followed a period in which he wrote  _____  for The New York Times Book Review, The Commonweal,      
[007]    of course, examine each proposal from scratch.   He  _____  and shapes the work of others to mold a single joint     


	
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[001]   the rains came. First the wind  arrived, blowing the  _____  across the yard. Then big drops of water landed on the     
[002] primary school down the road with her friends, the red  _____  warm on her feet. Sitting with her grandfather outside     
[003] braked hard and fast, in a cloud of burning rubber and  _____ , but it was too late. The  Metro and I were not good      
[004]  schoolroom, Mr Dorian?' she cried. 'But it is full of  _____ ! I must clean it first.' 'I don't want it cleaned, Mrs.     
[005]    for the men on foot to see fell through he cloud of  _____  and sand from the wheels of the chariots.     
[006]          At that time there'll be hay in your hair and  _____  on your  clothes! I can't meet you in that condition.      
[007]         The days passed. They were thick with heat and  _____ , and the nights were filled with the noise of insects


	
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[001]                       George played the Indian musical  _____  the sitar on 'Norwegian Wood'.       
[002]    �902,000, the highest price ever paid for a musical  _____ .  It is worth much more than its weight in gold. 
[003]   sessed the fighter pilot's horror of bad weather and  _____  flying, and he wondered, if the ceiling did drop,      
[004]  - contained, computer-driven environmental monitoring  _____  that spends twenty-four hours, seven days a week,       
[005] ity, and rainfall on a particular acreage. Using this   _____ , you know the best time to fertilize or spray -- not       
[006]  from poetry to postcards, the Bic Biro is the writing  _____  of  today.       
[007]     over coffee at my kitchen table  ("My talent is an  _____  given to me by God"), then asked:  "Where are you at      


	
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[001]  the middle of the room. This piece of black earth, or  _____ , is what you were talking about. As you said, there is     
[002] e state of minerals, their earthenware in the state of  _____ ,  their linen and their clothes in the state of textil     
[003] ake the oven?"  "With bricks." "And the bricks?" "With  _____ . Let us start, my friends. To save trouble, we will      
[004]  covered the day before. Being composed of the sort of  _____  which is used for making bricks and tiles, it was ver     
[005]  no great difficulty in it. It was enough to scour the  _____  with sand, then to mold the bricks and bake them  by      
[006]  nd the day following were employed in this work.  The  _____ , soaked in water, was mixed by the feet and hands of  
[007]       masterpieces without physically touching canvas,  _____ , or a musical instrument. This new creativity will cha     


	
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[001] w it will be cloudy and cold.  There will be a lot of   _____ .' Then, immediately after this you hear, 'Weather repo     
[002] ng the film.  English weather is a  compromise between  _____  and snow.  In fact, almost  everything about life in E     
[003]  flat on top.  Roads were higher in  the  middle.  The  _____  ran off them, along the side of the road and  into hol     
[004]  he heavy rains. The trees were umbrellas, but now the  _____  washes out the good soil, which ends  up as mud a  tho     
[005]   us the oxygen that we breathe.  And cutting down the  _____   forests kills the plants beneath the trees as well,      
[006]   from plants and most of those come from the tropical  _____  forests, and most of those come from the Amazon.      
[007] of the  old town.  After two or three hundred years of  _____ , ice, snow, wind and sun the roof-tile fell from its