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Quiz 132

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? (Corpus=corpus_awl.txt)

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[001]     Walsh looked at him, and smiled.  'Come and have a  _____  of coffee with me,' she said, 'and then we'll begin.'     
[002]    and I said our usual goodbyes.  She left her second  _____  of tea, and she followed me to the front door.  She      
[003]   spoke to John on the phone, and sometimes they had a  _____  of coffee together in town.  She was surprised how 
[004]  cannot talk about after dinner.' He lifted his coffee  _____ .  'What happened to the fine portrait that Basil pain
[005]            'Hi.  I'm Lisa.  Come in.  Would you like a  _____  of tea?' Helen looked around the flat before she sat      
[006]           Near the hut was a pool of water.  I found a  _____  to drink from.  I had to steal food, but I was safe.      
[007]    almost broke her heart.  'That's all.'  She put her  _____  down and went to him.  He held her close.  She covered  


	
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[001]   eating. He frowned.  But how could-? Another, longer  _____  of tinsel whipped his mouth. It was two feet long.      
[002]       so as to separate the various protein bands. The  _____  sections containing a given protein were pooled,  
[003]   east to the west coast of the Korean peninsula was a  _____  of land in which fear-filled men were at that same      
[004]    she led the flight in and out of showers. The metal  _____  they had taken off from was coal black against the      
[005]     Pasadena. Soon the homes will give way to suburban  _____  malls, spacious parks and family restaurants, and      
[006]  in the dark   of the forest by a band of thieves, who  _____  them of everything, including most of their clothes.     
[007]  finish coats, all in bad condition. It was decided to  _____  the whole area down to the bricks, and to replace the     


	
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[001]                       A man received a severe electric  _____  at his home in Solihull, Birmingham. Mr Ian Taylor,  
[002]   to reassure them. They'll probably be suffering from  _____ , so just stay with them until expert help arrives.      
[003] antagonism between feeding and pain. A mild electrical  _____  served as a conditioned stimulus and was followed by     
[004]    Eichmann represents a recovery of the Jews from the  _____  of the death camps, a recovery that took fifteen yea     
[005]         Jess was beginning to recover from his initial  _____ . "We ain't got nothing to talk about. If I don't com e    
[006]  elevator on Seven - he'd had a case of post-operative  _____ , but it was all taken care of now. Seven is a women's     
[007]  course of trying to prepare new men for the  "culture  _____ " they might encounter in remote overseas posts, that    


	
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[001]             and slowly, the big wooden door opened.  A  _____  man stood in front of me.  His hair was white and he      
[002]           watching the pretty girl, there was a man, a  _____ , thin man, with long white teeth and a very red mouth     
[003]  the King? That's what he was like when he was young ,  _____  and strong and handsome.  People say that he never      
[004]   it's cold in here,' said Frome, looking around.  The  _____  woman said nothing, but the dark-eyed woman answered  
[005]    away from us as we approached. He was over six feet  _____  and very thin. His legs were narrow and very long.       
[006]    walls were broken and full of holes, and there were  _____  trees in houses that were now open to the sky.       
[007] the sunlight, and on the other side of the stream were  _____  green plants with purple flowers.        


	
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[001] special game for little boys?'  'It's a very difficult  _____  in running, swimming, shooting, and cross-country ridi     
[002]   opened the window again.  'Do they have girls in the  _____ ?'  'No.  They're not strong enough.' He smiled unkindl     
[003]     team, and I've promised that we'll beat them.  The  _____  is next summer, so we've got almost a year to get rea     
[004]   to change horses.  'It's Firelight I'm riding in the  _____ ,' he said.  'So why change?'  The shooting was a probl     
[005]     in many other industries, rising costs and intense  _____ , both domestic and foreign, have exerted increasing      
[006]     man an opportunity to enter some form  of athletic  _____ , either intercollegiate or intramural.          
[007]      of the Women's Recreation Association, interclass  _____  is organized in badminton, basketball, field hockey,


	
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[001] alcohol.  I got drunk and crashed cars.  I did stupid,  _____  things.  I knew it was wrong but I couldn't stop      
[002]         So I agreed to go.  I did not know then of the  _____  danger which waited for me in Transylvania.        
[003]   forest around us, the wolves were howling.  It was a  _____  sound.  Suddenly the coach stopped.  A small carriage      
[004]  nt's face near me.  The smell which came from him was  _____ .  It was the smell of death.  You're tired,' the Count     
[005]    white, and on the mother's face there was a look of  _____  fear.  In her hand she held the flowers from Lucy's      
[006]  the sounds of the wind and the sea were too loud, too  _____ .  In the boat house, she helped her father tie the boa     
[007] racula moved back and dropped Mina's body.  She gave a  _____  cry and fell across the bed.  A cloud moved across the 


	
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[001]   at his house, where the food, and the music, and the  _____  were the best in London.  But behind the locked door      
[002]  him why I could not come into the office.  I kept the  _____  short because I knew he was unhappy.  He wanted to sa     
[003]  the phone when Grant came back.  He heard some of her  _____ .  'You're sure? ...  How far did he go?'     
[004]  just not sure this is the right thing.  'Remember our  _____ , Julie.  We made our decision.  We have to do this.'      
[005]   little girls.  But he liked listening to this girl's  _____ .  "Look at those trees with the beautiful white flower     
[006]           Next day, Marilla didn't tell Anne about her  _____  with Matthew.  She gave Anne a lot of work      
[007]                              Aileen knew how to hold a  _____  with twelve people and work hard at the same time.  


	
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[001]  must bring our brothers here by two o'clock.  That is  _____  of time because the prison is only ten kilometres fro     
[002]             'When I left, three months ago, I gave you  _____  of money,' Dantes said.  'Yes.  But I paid some mone     
[003]   one of the busiest airports in the world.  There are  _____  of jobs, and people think that it is a comfortable      
[004]  you two days to get there and back, and you must take  _____  of water to drink.  Next to Arizona, New Mexico is      
[005]           Mercedes is a fine girl, and fine girls have  _____  of young men.  But, you will be captain of the Pharaoh     
[006] It was a good house for parties! At school, Diana made  _____  of friends.  She was a good student, not especially      
[007]  calm and kind with the children, and always gave them  _____  of love and hugs.  Soon there would be love in her lif   


	
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[001]       turns in a creditable performance as an airplane  _____ .  The battle of the drib-drool continues, but most     
[002]  the factory, where a robot reconditions it. A skilled  _____  is not required to do that.  Today change comes with     
[003]        Out at the airport each morning, Fogg's skilled  _____  Caleb Marston would have the Waco warmed up and runn     
[004]  the right does not exist to raise... the wages of the  _____  by any forced and artificial means".    
[005] nevertheless, it will seem funny to have to send for a  _____  to improve conversation.
[006]               The old shop adage still holds:  "A good  _____  is usually a bad boss".     
[007]          Mrs William Vitou, whose husband was a dental  _____  trained in Guy's hospital, charged me, and eat a great   


	
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[001] and west, back and forth he sailed in the land-locked  _____ , plowing furiously forward until land appeared, then     
[002]  Heard gave orders for the ship to be anchored in the  _____  of Bengal until he could obtain the services of a     
[003]      could look out across the blue waters of Santego  _____  towards St Pierre, the capital of the island.       
[004] after leaving Tsawwassen, the ferry arrived at Swartz  _____  on Vancouver Island, and Nick went back down to his     
[005] fog locked her up in a harbor the crew called "Lousie  _____ ".   The subsequent two-weeks wait made the crew quar     
[006]   the seaquake from which the waves had come. In Hilo  _____  they were from 21 to 26 feet high. The highest waves     
[007]    disturbance. The waves of a 1923 tsunami in Sagami  _____  brought to the surface and battered to death huge num