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Quiz 134

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] top.  'Sorry,' he said, and he put the film into  his  _____ .  'But no pictures of Mr. Ross.  He doesn't like peopl     
[002] of the room  carefully.  He didn't put the  key in his  _____ , but  hid it in the plant pot next to the door.  'He's     
[004] from the freezer.  He took a piece of paper out of his  _____ .  'It's all here, Ellen.  Your brother wrote his name      
[006] arms round his Della.  Then he took something from his  _____  and put it on the table.  'I love you, Della,' he said     
[007] tiful long hair.  I found three thousand dollars in my  _____ .  Oh dear said Della.  What's Jim going to say when he     
[009]  Look here!'  He pulled a page of newspaper out of his  _____ , and held it up in front of them.  There were pictures     
[008]   wearing a white coat with a lot of pens in the top  _____ .  She smiled at him kindly, but John felt miserable.    


	
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[003]  screams in the dark.  "They can't stay alive in the  _____  water," says a man in the  boat.  ''It's too cold."  
[006]  the ice  broke  under Janey's feet and she was in the  _____  water! The  man held on to one end of his coat and  
[007]  and on the  hills  temperatures will drop to below  _____ , minus four or five, and  on the  highest spots minus
[005]   The winters are very hard,  with lots of snow and  _____  temperatures.  Europeans  started to arrive in Canada
[001]  I said.  'What's cryonics?'  'It's the science of  _____  people,' he said.  'That's what we do.  We help people
[001] not go for a walk that afternoon. There was such a   _____   cold wind, and such  heavy rain, that we all stayed
[002]  the  water was  frozen, so we could not wash. It was  _____   cold in all the rooms. This time the porridge was not 


	
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[003] his arm the opposite way  to  his body.  The first arm  _____  broke easily.  Then he broke the  second.  He tied a p
[005]  the  bleeding must be stopped. If someone has a  fish- _____  caught in  his throat, it has to come out. If a woman
[001] ed starving women  and children - nothing but skin and  _____ . 'The British never defeated us, you know, but we coul
[002]  was  something in my brain and heart, in my blood and  _____ , that  connected  me to  him for ever - And although I
[019] her eyes and recognized me at once. I felt cold to the  _____   as I  looked at her hard, sad face and her black,
[004]  cracked open. The doctor  was staring at it.  'That  _____  is from a human leg, Captain,' he said, his voice
[016]  He has  had a cold sometimes, of course, and broken a  _____   or two playing rough sports,  but never a serious ill        


	
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[001] foreigners.  Look at the word 'clever ' in any English  _____ .  These dictionaries say 'clever' means, 'quick, intel
[002]  story) into a murder  story.  Make the Concise Oxford  _____  into a funny film  and sing all the words! Chapter 19
[003] be a natural person.  Look at the word  'natural' in a  _____ .  It means 'real'.  So if you are not naturalized, you
[005] gs in a car, like 'steering  wheel,' 'brake'.  And the  _____  tells me also how the words  are spelled, but I don't
[004] STUDENT 6 - I  have a picture   _____ , which is good for learning words in groups, you know
[006] STUDENT 8 - I like to look up words in my   _____ .  Especially, I like to find different parts of speech
[001] newspaper, sometimes stopping to look  words up in her  _____ . Bernard was writing an essay  and  there were books a


	
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[002]  horse was pulling Mr Bean down from the truck.  It  _____  onto the road, looked for the  nearest bit of grass an
[005]  was full and everybody was looking at them.  Nutty  _____  down in her seat, but, without clothes,  there was not
[001]  to move across the hall. In the middle we turned and  _____  silently towards a great arch at the far end. Once we
[010] broken glass from the photo of me, two pieces of paper  _____  out  from behind  the picture.  One piece of paper was
[002] ters away from his  face was a wild tiger-and this one  _____  not go away when he  closed his eyes and opened them a
[003] head went down.  The next moment I was off his back. I  _____  down his neck and  fell on  to the grass under his
[004]  just rubbish,' I said. I picked up the envelope and  _____  out  the  dark photograph on to my  hand... and found 


	
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[001]  bright blue eyes and his  gold hair.  He had an open,  _____   face.  There were no  dark secrets in that face.
[002]   you  enter it? Why does Lord  Staveley say that no  _____  woman is safe with you? That  young  soldier, who was
[003]  was a girl in a village.  A very beautiful girl, an  _____ ,  country girl.  She loved me, and  was ready to come
[004]  to destroy  her young  life, and I've left her as  _____  as I found her.'  Lord Henry laughed.  'You've left he
[005]  I found that they were  more  friendly, more  _____  than most men.  Animals were always  my best  friends.
[006] tell a story about  Washington, to show that he was an  _____  man.  They say  that when he was a boy he cut down a 
[007] ecause of that.  He felt grateful towards Wyatt - this  _____ ,  brave,  stubborn young man, who  seemed to have no


	
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[002] perhaps  because it is August, and the news drought is  _____ . He told  an  international audience that 'China is
[003] before  age  65, a 30-year-old will incur a disability  _____  enough to prevent working for a while. For older peopl
[006]  is accompanied by risk and reward:  punishment can be  _____ ; successful children are given  sweets.  As part of a
[006]  waters, and then  soon gained the shore, without any  _____  wounds, miraculously saved. Cyrus Harding and his co
[007] soon need to be replaced.  Moreover, if the winter was  _____ , the settlers would suffer  greatly from cold. On this
[009]  which was better. At any rate it  commenced  by very  _____  cold. Ice accumulated at the mouth of the  Mercy,  and
[008]  high  latitude, and probably the winters here are not  _____ . Did  you  not say, Cyrus, that this thirty- fifth


	
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[001] ght last night?' asked Mrs Duncan.  'Or did  the storm  _____  you up?'  'I .  .  .  slept all right,' I said.  I did
[002]  he said.   But for Lucy it is not too late! Go  and   _____  the servants!'  I ran downstairs to
[004]  two hundred  years  maybe.  Then one day a doctor can  _____  him up and cure  him.  That's what our company does,
[009] morning and they  didn't  knock at the door, or try to  _____  anyone up.  In fact John  wasn't there;  Christine kne
[011]  Thank you, God, I  thought.  Thank you for letting me  _____  up  and see Jennifer.  'Be natural,' the doctor had
[019] dn't know what to say.  'Grace, it's me.  It's time to  _____  up now.  Please
[012]  and thrown it through my open  window,  in order to  _____  me up.  The cat's body had hit my bedroom  wall and 


	
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[002] egan to understand their language.  I found it easy to  _____  the  sounds.  At first, I only learned words like "sis
[003]  office, I  put this note in the paper." He gave me a  _____  of Le Monde.  I  read:"CAUGHT-a very large orang-utan
[004] thing in his gun."  "But why," I asked, "did you put a  _____  of the letter in the rack? You were in danger.
[005]  photo became  famous.  They asked the photographer to  _____  Astrid's  photos of the band in Hamburg.  'America was
[006]  was printed as a small book and  sent to churches.  A  _____  was sent to Robert Kennedy and to  other politicians
[007]  They choose the best clothes and immediately  _____  them.  Sometimes the clothes are ready to buy the next
[008]  buy the next day.  Not all  Oscar clothes are easy to  _____ .  In 1994, designer Lizzy  Gardiner had a very strange


	
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[001] prison.  But now I know that I am going to die, I feel  _____ .  They tell me that you have spoken angry words about
[003] Downstairs, the entrance hall of the hospital was very  _____   and quiet.  The only noise was the sound  of my foots
[004]  fifteen minutes.  Please  stay in your seats and keep  _____ .  Thank  you.'  Then the air hostess came out of the
[005]  us on this plane, now!'  Helen kept her voice low and  _____ .  'Look, I understand what  you say.  But those men ar
[006]  the  dark shapes of the gloomy furniture.  I tried to  _____  myself,  but I  only became more frightened.  Suddenly
[007]   the  world today.  Perhaps some day, somebody  more  _____  and less excitable than me, will be able to explain it
[008]  went down into the cellar.  I went with them, feeling  _____  and  safe.  I  watched them as they looked everywhere.