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Quiz 120

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]          the new bosses made Gucci number one in world  _____  again!  Some Designer Products scarf perfume jewelry      
[002] gant new and different things.  We also want to be "in  _____ ," We want to wear the newest and most famous designs      
[003]   the newest and most famous designs and colors.  So.   _____  is always changing. What's In? What's Out?  What do yo     
[004] with photographs, and there were books, newspapers and  _____  magazines piled high on the desk and table.    
[005]   Diana's life, the crush intensified after an Italian  _____   photographer recently snapped pictures of her embraci     
[006]                                   Charles II began the  _____  for recreational sailing when he brought back a yacht     
[007]   learn more about finance. Despite impressive jobs in  _____  and real estate, and marriages to men who run huge en      


	
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[001]   her a letter? A secret letter?' It was such a simple  _____  that I almost laughed. 'Oh, yes,' I said.  'I'll write     
[002]  love, MOTHER.  Grown-up people often refuse a child's  _____ . When this happens, the child cannot do anything.       
[003] the child cannot do anything. My mother had refused my  _____ , and I could do nothing about it. I knew that I could     
[004]  he said, 'I want some more,...'  Poor little Oliver's  _____  for more food must be some of the most famous words      
[005]     played on radio there, often by listeners' special  _____ , more than they are here in Britain. People have hear     
[006]  anything, Jane, anything"  'Indeed I will. This is my  _____ . I ask you not to give me jewels and fine clothes.' 
[007]   Sept. 10, the White House plans to send Congress its  _____  for authority to negotiate trade agreements on a 'fas     


	
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[001]      Finally, Father bought several sacks of vegetable  _____ , and we went home. Late that night, I heard Polski an     
[002]   the ground that's all we need,' he said.  We planted  _____ , but it was still the hot season, and we spent all our     
[003]  gh the spring and summer he gave them farm equipment,  _____ , animals and lots of advice. Both Mikulitsin and the      
[004] drove the family into Wales (an event that planted the  _____   or the lush Welsh setting in his 1983 novel, 'On th     
[005]     Her current campus supremacy owes something to the  _____  she sowed then. At the time, however, teaching was p     
[006]   dark earth of the fields under rain, the swelling of  _____  into green plants, the smell and cry of cows... They      
[007]     of isolating some of the thousands of genes of the  _____  of plants and animals. Then we try to transfer them.     


	
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[001]  musical theater from mainstream popular culture, from  _____  recording success, from hip, from cool, from now -      
[002] for attention, she overreached in her first television  _____ ; it featured a staged scene of a class being taught      
[003]       Even a short-time visitor to the nation's  chief  _____  city is struck by its beleaguered atmosphere.       
[004]     Street Seaport in New York. It is more active with  _____  liners, container ships and brightly painted lobster      
[005]   people start to abandon them.' '  Revitalizing older  _____  centers in neighborhoods such as Annandale, Springfiel     
[006] ithout effort. If the destination is too crowded, too   _____  or too much like every place else, then why go?         
[007] ep-water ports. The eastern half is the glitzy, highly  _____  district into whose clutches the first-time visitori     


	
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[001]        she said she'd pass the message on to you, so I  _____  you'll have to contact them.'  'Oh bloody hell.' Steph     
[002]           This is the first one I've seen this year. I  _____  it's only a few days old.' Not  many people on the boa     
[003]     at first. 'Goodness!' I said. 'What was that?' 'My  _____  is a monkey,' Ian said. 'A howler monkey. Let's go      
[004]        at the thought of Jennifer being in trouble. 'I  _____  she doesn't know,' 1 said. 'Either that or she doesn't     
[005] trol her anger. 'Come on,' she said to the boatmen. 'I  _____  we'd better get going. The others will be wondering       
[006]    It didn't take a superior amount of intelligence to  _____  they were together.  Feeling totally depressed, I made     
[007] rthday,' Marcus said loudly and clearly. 'You'll never  _____  what it is.'  'Do you know what it is?' I asked.  'Yes         


	
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[001]   more than justified by the broker's ability to get a  _____  at a lower interest rate than the customer could get      
[002]    to be paid one or more points for delivering such a  _____  to a lender.  Even after their daughter was born,      
[003] worth retiring early, especially on an adjustable-rate  _____ , because principal pay-down will usually reduce the m     
[004]    442,013.87 in interest over the 30-year life of the  _____ . The following figures assume that you start accelera     
[005]     principal each month, you will cut the life of the  _____  to 24 years and seven  months and save $94,721. If you     
[006]  you pay an additional $300 per month, you'll trim the  _____  to 18 years and 10 months, saving $190,208; if you pay     
[007] f you pay an additional $500 per month, you reduce the  _____   life to 15 years and seven months, saving $241,329 i     


	
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[001]    'Well, thank you for your time, Mrs Phillips. We'll  _____  you a copy of the report when we complete it.'       
[002]  tidy up the office. When the postman brings the day's  _____ , I deliver the letters and parcels to people in their     
[003]    he made many of her back-to-school purchases from a  _____ -order catalogue, Delia's, or on a summer  rip to Lon     
[004]  27, a former staffer who started in (Arlen) Specter's  _____  room in 1992 and worked his way up to legislative assi     
[005]           Telemarketing, he says, 'has become the junk  _____  of the '90s.' As a result, Wong - Unitel's chief exec     
[006]   I started my own company. I run it from home using e- _____ , the Internet, phone-calls and faxes...  These day     
[007] even on large networks, and end users can access their  _____  from  anywhere.  A subsidiary of the Enterprise Founda     


	
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[001]         'In my experience, the Lisas of this world are  _____  happy. They always want more than they've got.'  '    
[002]    It cannot be hidden.' 'My dear Basil-'  'And yet, I  _____  see you now and you never come to my house.   
[003]          One interest we share closely is football. We  _____  get to see matches but we always watch it on televisio     
[004]  sley made a long speech. This surprised me because he  _____  spoke at home. It was quite a clever speech, too.       
[005]    The old lady was disappointed. She said that Marian  _____  came to see  her.'  'Lord Trimingham told me something     
[006]       and for the next twenty years man and horse were  _____  separated.  As Philip became richer and more powerful,     
[007]     laws, leash laws and animal cruelty laws that are   _____  enforced. If we really want to reduce the risk of dang     


	
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[001] . That's when I made a wrong decision.  Well, she was  _____  about one thing; the experience did change me. But not     
[002]            'The address on Mrs Richards' statement is  _____ ,' he said slowly and simply.  Morse's mouth opened a     
[003] Rick asked.  It's possible. This description of me is  _____  except for my job. Yes, it's certainly me.'  The offic     
[004]  to run this old timetable, but it doesn't seem quite  _____ .  It's not the same as the original timetable, so I'm     
[005] mediately. Ted Burgess and I had the same ideas about  _____  behaviour towards other people.  We entered the house     
[006] r. Soames what happened. You can just tell me if I am  _____ .  You don't have to answer. Just listen.'  'The studen     
[007] aw you that he turned back. Is that not so?'  'That's  _____ .'  'So it was when you disobeyed Mr Ogilvie's orders     


	
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[001]       But in Maracanda, the situation went from bad to  _____ . The Macedonians were met by enemy horsemen. Without     
[002]    was,' Mrs Fischer replied. 'We didn't know who were  _____  - the Germans or the Russians!' 'And can you remember     
[003]  That's a lot of poison. She could lose the leg -  or   _____ . It needs something doing to it - fast. Where the hell 
[004]  came as rather a shock. It certainly made my headache  _____  anyway, and somehow, in the rush to get ready to leave     
[005]  pain and saw that the sword wound on his shoulder was  _____  than he had realized. Juba was putting something on      
[006]     characters often seem funnier, stranger, better or  _____  than men, women and children in real life.  This adds     
[007]     day fifteen and I hadn't managed to kiss Ian yet.   _____  than that, I didn't even know where he was.  I went lo