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Quiz 126

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]                         'Thank you for sending me your  _____  date: December the sixth.  You're a Sagittarius.       
[002]         And his eyes were sky blue from the day of his  _____  three months before.  Tom Booker lay next to his fathe     
[003]   in early Match.  Robert and Grace were there far the  _____ .  They all cried and laughed together.  They called  
[004]   my grandma, died when she was only 32 soon after the  _____  of my mother. Ten years later Grandpa, who was a kee     
[005] long in this world. They all die young, usually at the  _____  of their first child. They have to die young, because     
[006]    Then you'll begin to understand. I love you, I gave  _____  to you. I know you. And I know this can't be the kind     
[007]   calculates the years from the date of Jesus Christ's  _____ .  So the year AD 1000 was the end of the first Millen     


	
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[001]    bag, and takes your money. Sometimes they offer to  _____  the bag to your house.  Otherwise, you walk off with      
[002]  advantage rather than a disadvantage. The pump could  _____  three times as much water as the old wells in the vil     
[003] the office. When the postman brings the day's mail, I  _____  the  letters and parcels to people in their offices. 
[004] ing this. This letter might be the last that I should  _____ .  If Marian was in danger, she would expect me to read     
[005] er into the envelope and stuck it down.  But I had to  _____  it to Ted Burgess.  When I left the shadow of the tree     
[006]  did not answer.  'Listen,' she said. 'Someone should  _____  that note. I'll call one of the servants and ask him      
[007] alm that I did not want to disturb them. But I had to  _____  my message.  'A man wants to see you, madam,' I mutter

	
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[001]        gave her a little dog.  And poor Tildy?  In the  _____ , noisy restaurant men's eyes did not follow Tildy.       
[002]   she thought.  For the next half an hour she was very  _____ .  Then she looked again in the glass.  Her hair was       
[003]     Family pride, perhaps.  'Look at me.  I am a very   _____ , important man, but I have come all the way to Cornel     
[004] well as my daughter?'  Daniel looked at Grace, who was  _____  helping Mrs  Dawson.  She looked very small, here, in     
[005]  ld Bones really a famous racehorse?  The parents were  _____  getting the factory ready and Hoomey began to realize     
[006]    was moved around, and, in the kitchen, everyone was  _____  preparing bread, salads, meat, vegetables, pies and      
[007]  of paints, and make sure they were safe.  He was also  _____   buying a big, comfortable house for his family, with

	
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[001]                    People have always argued about the  _____  - how big it is, where it ends, whether it ends at al     
[002]  live in harmony with the rest of the creatures in the  _____ .      
[003] imals on earth, maybe of  all the animals in the whole  _____ . How did this happen? In many ways, animals can do       
[004]   n't conquered space. Nor have we explored the entire  _____ . Not yet. We have sent some 20 men on camping trips      
[005]  sciences of complexity are describing  for us how the  _____  and everything in it - from galaxies to mammals to st     
[006]     a better glimpse into this confounding and crowded  _____  frequently lumped together simply as 'cable,'  Calenda     
[007] the product of the mechanistic, Newtonian view of the   _____ . Western philosophy and physics and architecture thus   


	
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[001]     were old, and  she had no warm coat for the winter  _____ .  She was thin, too.  She did not get very much to      
[002]    I worked in the garden for the first two days.  The  _____  was hot and sunny.  I liked working with Mr Duncan,      
[003]    talked of Arthur, I thought of Jonathan again.  The  _____  was good and Lucy and I walked a lot, sometimes by the     
[004]   to lock the bedroom door at night.  Then one day the  _____  changed.  The sky was black and heavy, and that night     
[005]  ship,' shouted Mr  Robb.  'It's  nearly dark, and the  _____  is getting worse.  What can we do?'  Daniel looked at    
[006]     a week, we were driving back one night in terrible  _____ .  Heavy snow was falling, hiding everything in a soft     
[007]    would be important to a farmer: something about the  _____  or the temperature, for example. I had not seen a the        


	
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[001] Amazon. Those plants also help fight the diseases that  _____  our food. The funguses and moulds that attack wheat     
[002]  ut you admitted at the inquest that you never saw her  _____  or do anything to hurt Jessie.'  'Of course I never sa 
[003]    from landlords and building  managers, some of whom  _____  to simply ban disposals from their  buildings. Environ     
[004] to provide against it. In any case if cold did not yet  _____  them, the rainy season would begin, and on this lonel     
[005]     this country has never faced such great dangers as  _____  us today. We must justify our heritage. We must be      
[006]    that the steel company bring in American coal. They  _____  to strike.  The British Government will have to de     
[007]   that we, as a nation, can cope with the dangers that  _____  our society.  The desire and ability to read are      


	
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[001]   ing up city water and sewer rates even more than the  _____  annual rise of 7 to 9 percent during the last few year     
[002]  for a full nine months. Many travel  clinics report a  _____  stream of pregnant clients with questions ranging      
[003]   eased their scores significantly over time, two held  _____  and one struggled with a downward trend. Prince Will     
[004]    two years, West Coast  audiences could chose from a  _____  diet of good new plays, from Diana Son's bright cart     
[005]   efully. The wind had stopped, and the rain was now a  _____  downpour of small drops. Couignal's main street was      
[006]   nd drink as instructed. Each time she could hear the  _____  rise and fall of voices inside, but although she       
[007] t's why I'm here?'  'Yes,' she said, giving me a long,  _____  look. 'He's been successful at last. He has transferr   


	
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[001]   and early trials for all political prisoners, and we  _____  the death penalty and torture of all prisoners witho  
[002]          Their retreat was discovered.  They could not  _____  any obstacle to these missiles, nor protect the ston     
[003]  people that the only way to deal with Southerners who  _____  integration is to send in troops and shoot the bas     
[004]           Some faculty members and many administrators  _____  faculty review groups because they either repeat dep     
[005]   creases in the basic wage rate, and would vigorously  _____  a reduction in this rate, but the adjustment of the      
[006] people is clear, profound and far-reaching.  To try to  _____  the general religious and moral conviction of such a     
[007]   better informed on this question, most of them would  _____  it also. I'm willing to stake my political career on     


	
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[001]  'Thank you,' said Sherlock Holmes.  'And now you must  _____  home.  Put this paper into your uncle's box, put in a     
[002]      And my wife isn't feeling  very well.  So can you  _____ , please?'  He got us to the hospital in ten minutes.       
[003]    of rain.'  Favel turned to Manning.  'We'll have to  _____ , Charles.  Start moving our men out now.'  'Serrurie     
[004]    list and go shopping for cards and presents.  Don't  _____ .  Enjoy yourself.       
[005] arvard Club in  Boston.  'Son, you're in too much of a  _____ .  The young lady herself is fine.  The problem is you     
[006]  Then he always said, 'That's good.' He was often in a  _____ , but I do not know where he was going.  His wife clear     
[007] ucts now,  I suppose.' 'Yes, of course.' John was in a  _____ .  He had to meet someone important in ten minutes.        


	
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[001] inch sword to cut through it tomorrow.  Tonight I will  _____  for God to forgive you.  Your wife Anne Boleyn      
[002]    for us was different, and we cannot change that.  I  _____  for you every day and ask for you to come back to me.      
[003]    me to my death! I am so afraid here in the Tower, I  _____  day and night that you will come and take me away.       
[004]   I will never see the day when he becomes King, but I  _____  that God will give him a long and happy life.  Please     
[005]   in the warm kitchen, and put their hands together to  _____ .  In the black night outside, the wind  screamed, an     
[006]      but Joseph immediately dropped on to his knees to  _____ . The rain was beating down on the windows, but Cather     
[007] our answers show me you have a wicked heart.  You must  _____  to God to change it, if you ever want to go to heaven