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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] don't know anything, Jenny.  He was good at exams and   _____ , too.  He was in the Olympic Games.'  'My God! Did he     
[002]  all more than they use their feet.  But the favourite  _____  in the USA is baseball.  The film Field of Dreams tell     
[003] salmon fishing in Great Britain and there is excellent  _____  on the coast for sea fishermen. Come and catch a big     
[004]    Going for walks; playing table-tennis, the national  _____ ;  sitting outside talking or playing cards.     
[005]      well I've taken up golf, which is just  the right  _____  for an old man. Well, it's not really a                   
[006]   didn't bowhunt but this fall I will. I abandoned the  _____  out of concern about wounding and losing deer.    
[007] hildren who are trying to be champions in the world of  _____ , and the pressures they can be under to win, win, win     


	
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[001]    can't kill me, you see, because I'm going to have a  _____ .  They can't kill a mother and her                         
[002]    then Al was born.  I have a photo of him, too, as a  _____  in the hospital, here in Los Angeles.  My mother is      
[003] training as a nurse.  Four years later, I had another   _____ , and this one was born all right.  Now I'm twenty nine 
[004]  daughter, Princess Elizabeth.  She nearly had another  _____ , but she had a miscarriage after only a few months.       
[005] they were married for fifteen months.  Catherine had a  _____  girl called Mary, but six days after the                  
[006] the side of her bed, rocking a little, and holding her  _____  close to her. The                                          
[007]    my hair, a small present from a dying mother to her  _____  son.  I am too ill to write more and must say goodbye.    


	
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[001]    the time they leave school or university until they  _____ . So it is essential that children do well at school      
[002]  I   want to prepare you for Kerr's job. He's going to  _____  in two years, and you're the right man for the job.'     
[003]  was number two to Ogilvie in the Department.  'When I  _____  in seven years' time,' Ogilvie continued, 'you could      
[004]    would permit thousands of New York City teachers to  _____  at 55, rather than 62, without jeopardizing their pen     
[005] n't expect to be working at your present job until you  _____ . Your job or even the industry itself won't be around     
[006]  Dr. Clark will succeed Dr. J. R. McLemore, who will    _____  at the close of the present school term.      
[007]  on immigration matters, but he has announced plans to  _____  in 1962.  At that point the Administration will have      


	
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[001]  we could not eat it, so we left the dining room with  _____  stomachs. After breakfast came the one happy moment      
[002]  I found myself in the Count's bedroom.  The room was  _____ .  The Count was not there.  I looked for the castle      
[003]  on?' And he went to have a better look.  The car was  _____ , but the driver's door was open.  George looked inside     
[004]   his life.  Then he thought about his life now - the  _____  days, the dead plans.  And then a wonderful thing hap     
[005]       Then you'll suddenly discover that your life is  _____  - there will be  nothing to enjoy, nothing to hope for     
[006] ent back to sit by the lamp.  The cat jumped into the  _____  rocking-chair, and Ethan  moved his own chair a little     
[007] sky in his hand. The bottle in front of him was half   _____ .  'I'm so sorry about what has happened,' said.  ' knos    


	
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[001] could be quite boring. I like the mix of cultures. I'm  _____  about how people in other cultures and countries live     
[002]  Fairfax a few questions about Mr Rochester, as I  was  _____  about him, and the little housekeeper seemed  happy to     
[003]    food and drink. None of the servants seemed  at all  _____  about her, but I once heard two of the maids talking,     
[004] he said. 'I'll catch you up in a moment.' I was a bit   _____  about what Jennifer wanted Mary to organise for her,       
[005] life in an old, damp bed.'  The landlady was obviously  _____  to see the inside of the house. At the same time she     
[006] ld see two people inside, and I stopped for a  moment,  _____  to hear a little of their conversation.  'Read it agai     
[007] he saw small holes in the walls. From time to time the  _____  face of a rat stared at him. Then with a scratch and      


	
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[001]     in his fine uniform.  'Prime Minister, I strongly   _____  you not to do this.  You don't understand...'       
[002]   to gain the happiness of being his wife, I certainly  _____  you to refuse him.' 'How can you say that?' said Jan     
[003]     She wanted to leave London, but her mother didn't   _____  it.  There was more to do in the city, Mrs Dashwood      
[004]    Sure, sure, yes, yes. I do indeed. I mean, I would   _____  people to find out as much as they possibly can.      
[005] a solid ring of steel. If you  are driving to work, we  _____  you to go  back home - if you can manage to get off      
[006] he needed a lawyer?' They shook their heads.  'Did you  _____  him of his rights?'  'Of course not. He's not a crimin     
[007] quiet and sad. We decided to ask my father to come and  _____  her.  So I wrote another letter, and then we tried to   


	
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[001]     as wild animals.  A businessman in a dark suit sat  _____  Al, with a young woman on the arm of a chair beside      
[002] over here and sit by the fire.'  Mattie got up and sat  _____  him in Zeena's rocking-chair.  He looked at the chair      
[003]      in the passages outside the rooms.  Each fire was  _____  a  window, and so the light from the fire shone throug     
[004]   was Miss Violet Smith with her hands over her face.   _____  her stood a heavy man with a red face.  It was Mr Woo     
[005]       is just on the second turning off the main road,  _____  the  bank. You won't have any trouble finding it - you     
[006]       luck again!  He began to  eel cross.  But on the  _____  side of the road he saw a little restaurant.       
[007]   her conversation with Elizabeth produced exactly the  _____   result to what she had intended.  'It taught me to ho     


	
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[001]   He took another long drink of wine and said,  'Let's  _____  the stakes.' Beginners always think they can win back     
[002] urprised face as the bus screamed to a stop.  It was a  _____ -decker bus, and Nutty and the others got on quickly      
[003]   know them before I can tell my story.  There's a big  _____  bed in the room.  Yes, it's the same                      
[004] hought that there were too many different songs on the  _____  album.  He wanted it to be an excellent single album.     
[005]  some of the lower areas of land.  The population will  _____  every forty years in the future.  So the world will      
[006] ars on the world's roads, motorways, and freeways will  _____ . Environmentalists are saying that we should put more     
[007]  detective was even more surprised when Tom offered to  _____  his pay.  'No, I don't want any more money Tom,' the d    


	
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[001]  'Are they  true?  Can your life really be so bad,  so  _____ ? You were a  fine young man once, but now, when I hear     
[002]     the terrible face in the portrait.  How could that  _____  and unlovely face be Dorian Gray's? But yes, it was.      
[003]           'Why didn't you kill him?' she asked.  'He's  _____ .'  'He's not the man that I'm looking for,' answered      
[004]  the most terrible dreams, and my mind turned to dark,  _____  thoughts.  I hated everything, everybody - and life      
[005]    to you how my life of crime began.  Most men become  _____  slowly.  They start with little crimes and then move     
[006] stopped my plans all the time, but only when they were  _____   and dangerous, either to others or to myself.  I unde     
[007] ght for a moment they looked like prison doors, hiding  _____  secrets. No sooner had I turned away to go downstairs  


	
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[001] the USA than will fit into one book.  Choose  what you  _____ , busy city or quiet national park, cold mountains or      
[002] ere's plenty of city entertainment, if that's what you  _____ , like  movies and museums. The prices charged are qui     
[003] rom the railway station.  Despite the disadvantages, I  _____  travelling by train to travelling by car, chiefly bec     
[004]   Sometimes a horse will fight really hard.  So if you  _____  not to watch, please go inside.  I'll call you when      
[005]    to the office during the week, but at weekends they  _____  to wear jeans.    
[006]  women do not want to have children immediately.  They  _____  to do well at their jobs first.  So they often decide      
[007]   each week, but now it's less than 250 grams.  People  _____   chicken and fresh fish.  And more people are interest