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Quiz 122

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] a dark, silent day in fall I was riding alone through   _____ , gray countryside.  As evening came, I first saw the       
[002]       The back part of the Titanic fell back.  It sat   _____  in the water for a short time.  Hope grew in some pas     
[003] knife. 3.  Take  out of the bowl and make into a large  _____  shape on a table.  4.  Cut into 9 or 10 round shapes.      
[004]   very middle, divided by a large number of very thin,  _____  sheets of metal. Otherwise this central space was ent     
[005]                            He's  living in a wonderful  _____  in Brisbane and has already made some friends.       
[006]  police and said, 'Best has stolen some things from my  _____ .' The next Tuesday the police arrived at Best's dance     
[007]   When the family was in London, they lived in a large  _____  at  Kensington Palace.  It had four sitting rooms,  


	
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[001]  front of Mrs. Lynde.  Her face was red and angry.  "I  _____  you!" she cried.  "I                                       
[002] But please believe me.  I killed her out of  love, not  _____ .  Julie loved me and I loved her.  I've told you that      
[003] ut if he really loved her'  'The line between love and  _____  is a thin one. And it's possible he felt that she wa     
[004]     and very ugly.  When people see him, they fear and  _____  him.  Soon, the monster learns to                        
[005]           'Oh, I have a difficult decision to make.  I  _____  making  decisions like this. .' Helen looked at the      
[006]         This child was young.  He did not have fear or  _____  in his heart.  "I will take him and talk to him," I      
[007]                      him.  Soon, the monster learns to  _____  people and he becomes evil.  Terrible things happen.       


	
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[001] Kani  turned off the main road, and then down a small,  _____  road  which descended to the edge of the river Telle.      
[002]   men playing cards, chickens looking  for food in the  _____  and a small dog asleep in the middle of all the noise     
[003]    smell of the traffic, a smellof cooking, a smell of  _____ , and a smell of plants from thes balcony and from the      
[004]    They stopped by a stream. The boys were washing the  _____   and blood from their arms while the girls tried to      
[005]      and then along one of Belize's many reddish-brown  _____  roads. As the bus wen  along, I tried to make myself      
[006] use of his brave fighting. He bent and picked up  some  _____  from the ground, watched it disappear through his  fin     
[007]    fall I lay on one elbow, my mouth full of grass and  _____ . The horse I'd been riding got to its feet and gallop     


	
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[001] seemed quite smal1 to them.  When they tried to send a  _____  to it, there was no  answer...  Did the officers on th     
[002]                     When he received the Titanic's SOS  _____  in the  night, Captain Rostron of the Carpathia ordere     
[003] ing the band's third trip to Hamburg, they received a   _____  from their manager.  Another record company, Parlopho     
[004]    save the land that he loved? How could he send this  _____  to the world? It was a difficult job.  But  Grey Owl      
[005] up.' Helen picked up the plate from Jill and read its   _____ : 'Be true to yourself.' She smiled.  'Wait a second,'      
[006]  houlders and walked back to the kitchen.  There was a  _____  on the  table from Harry Logan.  He had the lathe of     
[007]    the evening.  Annie put the computer on and found a  _____  from Robert on the screen.  He wanted to visit them ?� 


	
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[001]     his bed, then he looked round the room for a sharp  _____ .  The only things in the room were a bed, a chair,     
[001] ogether at the entrance while the Third officer took a  _____   from his belt and fitted it into a small opening on      
[002]    a small opening on the entrance door. He turned the  _____  as far as it would go, and then fitted it into a secon     
[003] ed it into a second opening, and turned it again. The   _____  was a key that closed the airlock inside the entrance,     
[004]    the door,' he commanded.  The Third officer put his  _____  into a third hole, and turned it. The door opened      
[006] which I do not think has ever been used as a teaching   _____   before. International aviation. We met at a party.       
[007]   eet was a good example of television as an educative  _____ . But we are in the very early stages of a multi-media   


	
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[001]   the chimney.  The body was still warm.  The face and  _____  were covered in blood.  Madame and Mademoiselle Fren     
[002]   and tried to escape.  But I put my hands around his   _____ , and in a few minutes he was dead.  I looked at the      
[003]  lay on the ground.  My hands left black marks on his   _____ .  My heart felt happy and proud.  '"Frankenstein will   
[004]   own little world.  She was fed through a hole in her  _____ .  The doctors moved her arms and legs to keep them sti     
[005]    in the far corner, watching her.  He stood with his  _____ .  hanging low; his head was almost touching the ground     
[006]    slowly and nervously to the animal and touched  its  _____ .  'Don't worry,' said Tom.  'They're the most forgivin   
[007]    calmly and very slowly, Tom put the rope around his  _____ .  He knew how Grace was feeling; he didn't have to loo     s


	
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[001]  belong to a woman.  Sailors use this kind of band to  _____  their hair.  Maybe I am wrong.  But if I am right, th     
[002]  Another gave me a length of rope and told me I could  _____  the door shut.  In one room, there was  nowhere to was     
[003]   and it's stronger.  We shall have to go outside and  _____   the boat down, or we shall lose it!'  'All right.       
[004] o terrible.  In the boat house, she helped her father  _____  the boat down to the rock.  They tied down the oars,      
[005]  the Beatles, he went to The Cavern.  In his suit and  _____ ,  Epstein probably looked very different from The Cave     
[006]    never went out in the evening without a jacket and  _____ . He was a bit careless of his health, though, drank a     
[007]   A short man in a grey jacket and trousers and a red  _____  answered the door.  'Andrew Buchan?' asked Logan.    


	
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[001]                         Don't forget that traveling by  _____  is more relaxing than traveling by car road with the     
[002] elously fragrant thoroughfare beside the dock and the   _____  tracks.    There is a postcard picturing the charred r     
[003]   ching centers of Union Pacific, the nation's largest  _____ , to determine why it has had a series of fatal train      
[004] Union Pacific's merger last year with Southern Pacific  _____ .    The pressure might be expected to be less on Mr.      
[005]  the waterfront seemingly taken from under an elevated  _____ . In the background is a long line of striking workers     
[006]   it to the rest of the world until the Trans-Siberian  _____  began service in 1898. Krasnoyarsk, at  about  the sam     
[007] and sound of two parallel transportation corridors-the  _____   tracks and Interstate 5.  In late July, Los Angeles     


	
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[001]     had never grown used to her money, and always took  _____  in thinking  what a lot of it she had. And all her       
[002]      She knew that old ladies like Aunt Ada took great  _____  in arguing and interfering, and she was sure that if s     
[003] ered with other people's lives.  Flora heard this with  _____ .  'Shall in be allowed to interfere with yours?' she      
[004] ended.  Elizabeth went to find Jane, and listened with  _____  as she  described her feelings for Bingley, and her  
[005]       When she an Mr Rochester sang together, it was a  _____  to hear.' 'Mr Rochester?  I didn't know he could sing.     
[006]    Oliver! Let me just imagine it! My heart is full of  _____ !' And there was silence for a quarter of an hour until     
[007]    thing at a time.  Her husband's amazement turned to  _____ . 'I think that's a  wonderful  idea.' Ever since she'd   


	
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[001] leventh. S:  Oh!  I completely forgot - we promised to  _____  dinner for our girl-friends  tonight. B: Glad you re     
[002] ther is probably a very busy woman. I think you should  _____   for yourself. Baked potatoes are very easy! Another     
[003]      have an early night. Maybe light the barbecue and  _____  a steak outside in the yard if the weather is good.  
[004]   Not all the time.  I need time for myself.  I don't   _____  him beautiful meals.  I tell him to                        
[005] d all day.  At night she's tired, too.  But she has to  _____ ,  wash clothes and put the children to bed.        
[006] getables in so many interesting ways.  But the British  _____   vegetables for too long, so they lose their taste."      
[007]   of peas! I don't think this is fair.  Why  can't she  _____  me something tasty? A: I think you're being a little