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Quiz 119

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]      'I'm fine.  I was just thirsty.'  'Does the water  _____  good?'  'Beautiful.  Try it.'  He walked towards her,      
[002] adn't eaten apple pie for a year, and really wanted to  _____  it again. 'I feel like a  piece of pie,' I said to my     
[003]     Fried fish and chips.  The food was dry and didn't  _____  very good.  But he didn't say anything about that.       
[004]  the plate away.  What's the matter, Ethan? Doesn't it  _____  right?'  It's fine, Matt.  Only I... ' He stood up quic     
[005]  The wind blew fiercely into Wyatt's face and he could  _____  salt water on his lips.  St Pierre had disappeared,      
[006]  could only get that powdered coffee with the terrible  _____ . And they don't  erve it in a proper cup and saucer,     
[007]  wasn't beautiful, she was ugly! I  am a man with good  _____ , which is why I married you, my darling!' When she       


	
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[001]       Maybe when it's more grown up! Till then, please  _____ , in block capital letters.  Customer: When the compute     
[002]   software worth more than �3000. In return, he has to  _____  up a monthly report for them saying what he has done     
[003]    Archie waited and waited, but the newspaper did not  _____  the story.  The people at the North Bay Nugget liked     
[004]    not want to destroy him, and so they decided not to  _____  the story.  The newspaper only told the secret of Gre     
[005]  years! After the Oscars, some magazines  and TV shows  _____  lists of the best clothes.  They also                      
[006]  his stories, chapter three has long since appeared in  _____ . 'I  have  to toss a lot of balls up in the air at the     
[007] ographic secrets.  My hands trembled as I enlarged one  _____ , washed it, and carried it into the kitchen.   


	
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[001] them were empty and the evening rush was over.  'Let's  _____  our legs,' Biko said at last. John stopped the car an     
[002] they don't bother me, and it was a good opportunity to  _____  my legs. I took my binoculars with  me to look for int  
[003]  Rochester's!'  'It depends on whether you're going to  _____  out your hand for happiness. Let me look at your face     
[004]    and old paintings the same as you do! Why don't you  _____  out the hand of friendship to the poor black man, who     
[005]   fruit and dark purple flowers. The flowers seemed to  _____  out towards me.  They would poison me, I thought then     
[006]   ant walks over the hills, including a rugged, lovely  _____  of the Penine Way to explore. The clear, clean lakes     
[007]    of the water was very low, and the river was just a  _____  of mud.  The crowd outside shouted as Sikes appeared o     


	
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[001]      The women cry into their handkerchiefs, the  men  _____  'Hurray!' and they all go off and have a party.      
[002] san and Tim.  Cathy, you come with us.'  Tim began to  _____ .   Let's go to the cinema! Let's go to the cinema!'       
[003]      that man, woman or child dies!'  People began to  _____ .  'She's a witch! She must die!'  'Say no more; she mu    
[004]  Suddenly, my mother's face went red and she began to  _____  at James.  'A good son, you are!  You told this rich m     
[005] he wind and rain was terrible here,  and  they had to  _____  to hear each  other.  Grace put oil in the big lantern     
[006]   For the moment it's  better that way.'  I wanted to  _____  and scream at the unfairness of it all.  Jenny was twe     
[007]   . .  and excited.  ...'Stop there! Don't move!' The  _____  came  from  behind Janey, but it sounded far away.  Sh       


	
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[001]  had to look up to see as much of her face as the rain  _____  night would let me see. 'I don't know what we'll find  
[002]   of that youthful impression. It was all a depressing  _____  now, and the  curtains behind  the windows were drawn      
[003]    it was difficult to see whether or not he was going  _____ . He had not shaved for several days, and there were      
[004]      months.' Lucille looked at him with suddenly wide  _____  eyes. 'I could get a reference from there if you like     
[005]    the room where the presents were now hidden under a  _____  white sheet.  Keith Hendrixson, the bride's grandfather     
[006]   put on his dark-blue flannel suit, and laid away the  _____  jacket with the feeling that he might be putting it      
[007]    up, we're late", he said, noticing with a chill how  _____  the sky was this morning, the fog like a rope along      


	
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[001]   the coming years, as the number of Americans hurt in  _____  and gun related crimes increases. Blood is the one      
[002]  come out. If a woman has cut her thumb with a cooking  _____ , the cut has to be cleaned and bandaged. If someone       
[003]    too blunt to do the job. I forgot to bring my sharp  _____  along'. A mountain rescue team went out to look for      
[004]   to run, but Christian held the rope and Adams held a  _____  to his neck.  Do that again, Captain Bligh, and you'll     
[005] eighty years ago.  After she killed her brother with a  _____ , she jumped off the train, and died at once. s      
[006]  like a wild animal, he ran towards Basil, and dug the  _____  into the artist's neck, again and again and again     
[007]  that he had seen and cold fear ran through him like a  _____ .  He had seen a face watching him at the window and     


	
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[001]   The police, however, said they could not establish a  _____  between the two attacks. In a separate case, an 18-yea     
[002]      people were not stopping in Britain, but making a  _____  with another flight.  Heathrow has grown into a city      
[003]   - she was senile in her last years. Mr Pocock has no  _____  to  this family and must not be permitted to get our
[004]    be careful, Lord Cregar,' I said. 'We've found the   _____  between you and Benson.'  Cregar looked surprised.      
[005] ou his real character I must explain the  whole of his  _____  with my family. His late father worked for mine for      
[006]    Lisa,' he continued, his eyes insisting on making a  _____  with mine.  But suddenly, I wasn't seeing Ian any long     
[007] erbal communication, we can look on this ancestor as a  _____  to our distant past.  Sociologists have identified         


	
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[001]         'Jenny, if I'm no good, why did you want me to  _____  you for coffee?'  She looked straight into my eyes and     
[002]   ed to enjoy life to the full.  One day he decided to  _____  a thousand of his strong and  rave friends to stay      
[003] this afternoon," said  Marilla one Saturday.  "You can  _____  Diana here for tea.  There's cake-and a bottle of frui     
[004]  etter to Mr. Windibank.' 'To Windibank?'  'Yes.  I'll  _____  him to this fIat at six o'clock tomorrow evening.       
[005]           I only see my aunt once a year.' 'But we can  _____  you! You're always welcome here!' 'You're very kind,'     
[006]  privately, but every two months she and Prince Philip  _____  guests to lunch with them in Buckingham Palace.        
[007]   she want to help Britain and France? They decided to  _____  Odette to their offices in London.  Soon Odette was      


	
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[001]   of the night, but he paid no attention. The security  _____ , Mr Charles Potts, couldn't phone the police because      
[002] ortunity. Be prepared for his visit -  and prevent it!  _____   your property against it! The burglar is serious, an     
[003]     property is gone. More and more people are getting  _____  dogs to protect them, especially deaf people who may  
[004]  were only me and the girls in the carriage then.  The  _____  came and looked at our tickets, and went away again.      
[005]     from the village had taken Stratos to the hotel to  _____  him. Tony had escaped easily, and with all the money      
[006]  rned  left,  following the road up to the harbour.  A  _____  was on duty at the entrance. I gave him a bright smile
[007]  ton's house, the gates were closed and I had to ask a  _____  to let me in.  Neither Ashton nor Penelope was at hom     


	
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[001] ours of homework every night.  The teacher marks every  _____  in their exercise books, and they have to make all 
[002]      'Richard Hannay,' I told myself, 'you have made a  _____ ,  and you had better do something about it.'     
[003]             'I think you will see that you have made a  _____ ,' the thin dark man said to me politely.      
[004]       with that marriage, and so avoid making the same  _____  twice. Too many people who find themselves single again     
[005] own two or three metres every minute.  'If we make one  _____ ,' Grace thought, 'the boat will break into fifty small     
[006]                          Well it was a terribly stupid  _____ . We hadn't checked the time of departure.       
[007]           Della counted the money again.  There was no  _____ .  One dollar and eighty-seven cents.  That was all.