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Quiz 128

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]     Bill worked as a guide there.  He took tourists to  _____  and fish.  Bill helped Archie to get a job there also     
[002] jungle he must tell us first, before he comes here  to  _____ .'  Shere Khan has a bad leg, so he can kill only cows.     
[003]       The Law of the Jungle says that animals must not  _____  man, because man-killing brings men with guns.       
[004]    a monkey, to swim in the rivers like a fish, and to  _____  for his food as cleverly as any animal in the jungle.     
[005] he spoke some English.  He showed the Pilgrims  how to  _____  and grow corn.  In the autumn of 1621, the Pilgrims  
[006]             "There's lots of land. We're just going to  _____  over the hills for a couple of days." Then the white      
[007]     playoffs last season.  It's hard to believe we can  _____  deer in just two weeks as Maryland bow season opens   


	
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[001]     girl thought of something more exciting.  "Who can  _____  up to the top of Diana's house?"  she said.  "I can!"      
[002]   fell asleep immediately.  The next day, I decided to  _____  to the top of one of the mountains, Montanvert.         
[003]  walking, and one day Marianne and Margaret decided to  _____  a high hill together, near the house.  It was a beauti    
[004] the river wasn't so deep.  He could stand up there and  _____  out.  She decided to tell Tom Booker about the day of      
[005] the birds, of every splash in the water.  He learnt to  _____  trees like a monkey, to swim in the rivers like a fish     
[006]   inside.  The chimneys are too narrow for a person to  _____ .  So the  only possible exit was through the windows.      
[007]   table across the room and put it under the window.  ' _____  on the table,' he said to Dantes.  'Put your back agai  


	
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[001]  I got up and went out of my room.  I walked along the  _____  and turned a corner.  Then I saw the door at the end     
[002]       a corner.  Then I saw the door at the end of the  _____ .  There was a large plant in a plant pot outside the      
[003]       Somebody came out of the room, and into the dark  _____ .  Lightning  suddenly lit up the  house, and I saw who   
[004]      was a tall, narrow window opening onto the closed  _____   which ran along beside all seven rooms.  Each window      
[005]    house. So he led the way upstairs, along the narrow  _____  to the children's rooms. He opened the third of the      
[006]  to hide. She heard somebody coming, and ran along the  _____  to get away. She opened the door, thinking it led to     
[007]  along soon.  Just then I heard light footsteps in the  _____ . Somebody on the other side of the curtain brushed a   


	
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[001]   was a murderer  ithout proof. But if I could  find a  _____ ,  someone who saw Grafalk and Phillips on his boat Sun     
[002] can't prove that she's still alive.'  'I can produce a  _____ ,' said the lawyer, 'who has seen her alive recently.     
[003]  king progress. I think we know the make of the car. A  _____  saw a dark blue Ford Cortina parked near  Ashton's h     
[004] Margaret had visited her only to thank her for being a  _____  at the inquest. She had not been given or offered any     
[005] at night,  got out his car, and tried to kill the only  _____  against him.  Except you, of course.'  'But why should     
[006] he blood from his face.  'Remember, he's going to be a  _____  at another trial.  We don't want him to look as if som     
[007]   the law states that you must give us the name of the  _____ .'  Woods, who had been pleased with the minister's qui  


	
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[001]    party, she couldn't find it.  "It was on top of the  _____  in my room," she thought.  "But now it isn't there.    
[002]             A typist puts her arms on the front of her  _____  when she types.  That leaves a line.  There was also a     
[003] for tea.  I left the exam paper -  three pages - on my  _____ , but I locked my door.' 'How long were you out?' Holm     
[004]  I was in a pleasant room, with books everywhere. At a  _____  in the middle sat an old man with a kind face. He had      
[005]    Later, in the drawing-room, Miss Matty unlocked her  _____  and began to look through her bills and papers.      
[006]    stood looking out on the veranda, while I sat at my  _____ , busily writing letters. We did not speak to each othe     
[007]  old letter, which was found carefully put away in his  _____ . It is from his father, and Jim probably received       


	
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[001]    really say that the farmhouse was in a condition to  _____  Father Bertrand. There was the problem of Judith.      
[002]    time together, studying. I had to work very hard to  _____  him. Under his influence, however, I felt I was losing     
[003]  survives, I hope  that we can meet the challenges and  _____  the trust placed in us.  These may be the last words
[004] college who are candidates for the A.B. degree and can  _____  the academic requirements of the medical and busines     
[005]                                     His answer did not  _____  me. There was something that he had not told me     
[006] I have ways of discovering things.'  'No, that doesn't  _____  me. Tell me the truth,' I insisted, putting  myself      
[007]  were drawn full size, after sketches had been made to  _____  all the authorities. There was some difficulty here.   


	
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[001]   again, although this time the transition won't be as  _____ . Much of the turbulence of river rapids is caused by 
[002]    ten or fewer employees. There is a similar but more  _____  trend in the United States. At this rate, in ten year
[003]  tion Labor Party today urged swift negotiations for a  _____  withdrawal of Israeli forces from southern Lebanon, 
[004]  wth of distinctive humanness, allied perhaps with the  _____  growth of the brain and of human language? The differ 
[005]   experience alter millions of years; others, from the  _____  extinction of the fires in the interior of our globe, 
[006]          to reduce feeding costs?  Have you considered  _____  withdrawal of subsidies to your in-plant feeding ope  
[007]    out that modern speciation theory would not predict  _____  transitions over millions of years, but instead the    


	
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[001]  shoes, and the size should be right. Too tight or too  _____  leads to sore feet and black toe-nails. 
[002] side under a dark sunless sky was an old man in  thin,  _____  clothes and no shoes. The man, Wilbur Mercer, was wal 
[003]  who can be in two places at once can do better than a  _____  saddle belt.'  'Oh much better. But I have to take any  
[004]   on a piece of wrapping paper.  The woman's hair hung  _____ . Her face was pink and her eyes shone. She sat with  
[005]   have her in my arms again! So I dug down through the  _____  earth to her coin, and was about to pull the lid  
[006]     some to immediate death. Side by side, their chain  _____  between them, Maximus and Juba ran out into the arena 
[007]  time, so when the weekend comes we like to really let  _____  and we try very hard to have a good time. I: So what 


	
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[001]      pond in the forest may be, trees offer a leaf and  _____  hazard to the well-being of a pool. Yet a grassy app 
[002]    cabbage and squash to store for winter meals in the  _____  cellar. The carrots sometimes don't make it through  
[003]      parts (fish, bird, tree, grass, horn, tail, bark,  _____ ). The groups are therefore really non-comparable in   
[004]     into our country. Do you know what I think was the  _____  of all the evil and blood and tears and insanity that  
[005]         and each of the pegged-down branches will take  _____  and become a little plant and go on blooming for the 
[006]     of joining where "liberal" organizations once took  _____ .  One specific example is a secret "fraternity"   
[007]     from an advance copy. If this practice should take  _____  and spread, the man who submits a manuscript to a publ 


	
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[001]   It is all right for their houses to have walls and a  _____ , but they must be as cold inside as the garden outside  
[002]    decided to play a few songs on the Apple building's  _____ .  People in London looked up in surprise as the Beatle 
[003]        There was some new wood on the walls and a new   _____  on it.  I walked along the beach and felt the soft san    
[004]   noticed a narrow crack in the wall.  It began at the  _____  and made its  way down the side of the house.  I cross  
[005]     are a bit dangerous. I'd have to fix them. And the  _____  is leaking. If they don't do something about that so   
[006] could not open the door, so they climbed down from the  _____  and got in through the window.  Against the wall they 
[007]   was an old wooden boat-house.  It had no doors.  The  _____  was broken at one end, and open to the sky.  Inside