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Quiz 124

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]  tinue for long.  One of them stopped marriage between  _____ - and lower-class people.  This was changed about five      
[002]  ere few windows onto the street, except small ones on  _____  floors.  In fact, the buildings did not really look      
[003] history of Rome, a small group of families formed  the  _____  class.  In the early days they ruled the city, but       
[004]      I was away when he was given the job. The head of  _____  School then, Mr Nyondo, had made the arrangements.       
[005]   ove sensual patterns off, carefully shaving his long  _____  lip. It is harder, he muttered, to meditate on man      
[006]    He reached down and closed his fingers on the man's  _____  arm. Beneath his clutch, a flat strip of muscle surge     
[007]    says, but the empty stomach and the findings in the  _____  gastrointestinal tract indicate that Mrs. Meeker died     


	
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[001] ee to support them.'  'Jane, will you marry me, a poor  _____  man with one hand, twenty years older than you?'  'Yes     
[002]    but they were not in uniform. One, a small man, was  _____  in one eye. He was one of Falco's secret police.      
[003]  y's face with the pistol.  Nancy fell. She was nearly  _____  with the blood that poured from her head. She raised      
[004]         "How can you tell an insane man to reason or a  _____    man to see"?   "But we are neither                    
[005]    me in a lighthouse, so I would be happy there.  And  _____  people can see nothing, so they couldn't see me      
[006]     hung from the chandelier. He knew the house like a  _____  man, through his fingers, and he did not like to think     
[007]                Hu opened her eyes and for a moment was  _____  in the brilliant sunshine. 'Stupid!' she said to hersel     


	
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[001]   or an evening spent playing cards. Emma was happy to  _____  their friends, although many of them were closer in       
[002]      gave them a big apartment because he often had to  _____   important people from work. But he wasn't a rich man.     
[003]  in Rome, although it was there for the same reason-to  _____  the people. This arena was just a circle of sandy gr     
[004]   Woodhouse to say that you must each say something to  _____  her. You can say one very clever thing, two quite cleve     
[005] speaking; she whispered to him. 'It is silly for us to  _____  seven silent people.' 'What can we do to make them tal     
[006]           Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Robert F. McDermott will  _____  at a black tie dinner Wednesday, May 3, in the Office     
[007]        next week from Bermuda.  Mrs. H. E. Godwin will  _____  the members of her Book Club at her home on Tuesday.     


	
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[001]   nal distribution and ten, twenty thousand dollars to  _____  my products.   With all respect to a fine young man,      
[002]   cond paradox is: Could God do something silly? (Like  _____  a brand of beer in the sky) McCloskey thinks that whi     
[003] and on television.  When they wear Gucci clothes, they  _____  Gucci products.  Will YOU be the next famous person      
[004]  about you?"  'I must find another job somewhere. I'll  _____ .' 'Don't you dare!'  he growled. 'Promise me, Jane,      
[005]  tch in charge being televised live. Salford intend to  _____  for a full- time successor to the First Division's      
[006]   ement houses, cocktail lounges, and night clubs that  _____  continuous entertainment, which means an endless flo     
[007]      to Canada some years before, but asked him not to  _____  the fact in Louisiana. She agreed to take charge of      


	
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[001]   he couldn't.  He tried to open it, but there was no  _____ .  He took his axe to break it open.  The top came away     
[002]      There was no traffic on the  roads. I turned the  _____ ,  put it in gear, and pushed down on the accelerator.     
[003] course, but you must pay a deposit for the front door  _____ .  That's separate from the other deposit, I'm afraid.     
[004]    the door of the room carefully.  He didn't put the  _____  in his pocket, but hid it in the plant pot next to the     
[005]  the passage and I ran along to the locked room.  The  _____  was still in the plant pot and I took it out.  My hand     
[006]       This room is private she said.  Mr Ross hid the  _____  in the plant next to the door.  I looked at the dead      
[007]      carefully locked the door behind me.  He put the  _____  into his pocket and turned to go upstairs.  I followed


	
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[001]          a man with weather cracks furrowed into his  _____  cheeks, with powdery pale eyes reflecting all the      
[002]   joined them. She had a dried-out quality - a gray,  _____  woman, not unattractive. Both were dressed rather      
[003]  to hold her son on her lap; and a Jesus who, though  _____ , was strong even in death ...  a look he remembered      
[004] "Things may smooth over yet", Chris said, his nice    _____  face grave with honest concern. But I couldn't help      
[005]   very quickly and very quietly behind him, and then  _____  against the wall in the passage, trembling all over.      
[006]   ground,   and others liked to sit where they could  _____  back against the wall. Howard, who had been sitting      
[007]      came well equipped to die".  Some odor made him  _____  over the man. He sniffed and recognized it. Sake. So 
 

	
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[001]     After the wedding, John Dashwood visited the happy  _____  in their new home.  'Well, dear sister,' he said.       
[002]  then louder.  Suddenly, the door flew open.  A strong  _____   or hands took hold of me; picked me up and threw me o     
[003]   In the end she got angry with herself.  She put on a  _____  of old trousers and a shirt.  What did it matter?       
[004] knows that, and I know it.  "So one morning I put on a  _____  of dark glasses and went to the Minister's rooms.       
[005]     inside the special running shoes you should have a  _____  of special running socks  - thin but moisture absorbin    
[006]   her a small, secret present to thank  her.  It was a  _____  of pretty ear rings.  At the meal, John  seemed a lit     
[007] econd World War, the best present for many women was a  _____  of nylon stockings, but more importantly, it was used 


	
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[001] Why did William die?  Nobody can explain that.  It's a  _____  like so many things in his story.  His life was a 
[002]      opinions.  "This is an unusual murder and a great  _____ .  The police have little information and few ideas. 
[003]   h mountains around me were wonderful.  I loved their  _____ , and the power of nature made me less afraid. 
[004] that has never happened before?' So I have solved the   _____  easily." I looked at Dupin in silence.  I could not
[005] a happier man.  After he left, my friend explained the  _____ .  "The Parisian police are usually very good," he bega 
[006]    of course, but we will never know the answer to the  _____ .  Now I can only describe in detail the night of Wedne 
[007]       I was rather puzzled. There seemed to be another  _____  here and I began to get worried about Penny.  When I 


	
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[001]  he shore was continued to a great distance in a wider  _____ . There the shore was low, flat, without cliffs, and        
[002]  stairs were the most beautiful part of the house. The  _____  in them was more than half a complete  circle. I compa     
[003]   to Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. By the first  _____  in  the  campus' steep driveway, the exhausting throb      
[004]   her, standing across the room at a party. The smooth  _____  of her neck, very white against hair which curled      
[005] Pittsburgh's South Side and designed with an 18-degree  _____ , is the longest ever built in Pittsburgh. The still      
[006]        After another twenty minutes, the road began to  _____  and  Tami gradually stopped the car and turned off the     
[007] merican business schools. It has been a steep learning  _____ . Mongolia's intellectuals usually completed their educ  


	
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[001]  mber!" Proximo shouted above the noise. "Fall. to one  _____ - they'll think you're finished.  Then 'force yourself      
[002] bit off one of  Manuel's legs - a clean bite above the  _____ .  The other men pulled him into the boat.  The blood      
[003]   blood as it rushed out from a long cut just below my  _____ .  The farmer came out of the house. It was Ted Burgess     
[004]    table, while Catherine had her head on her father's  _____ . He was pleased to see her so gentle for once     
[005]    that isn't evidence.'  He beat his hand against his  _____ . 'What can I do? That's what I need you to tell me.      
[006]  was evening. She had Lao Mao, the cat, sitting on her  _____ , but  otherwise she was alone. The balcony was full of     
[007]     not very long ago, when, I held two children on my  _____ ," he said with a kind smile. "They were the most beau