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Quiz 135

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]  thought, "I want to be happy today.  I'm going to go  _____  skating with Laurie." She and  Laurie walked down the
[002]  didn't see her.  Then Amy moved away from them.  The  _____  was thin there  and suddenly-CRACK! She went down into     
[003]  the boys wanted to talk to the Italian girls  and eat  _____  cream.  I tried to make the paintings interesting  for     
[004]  with their mouths open, trying to eat very large  _____  creams in a street  cafe.  They looked very funny.  An     
[005] London.  Then walking down the Champs Elysees eating  _____  creams.  Helen  wasn't very interested in that part an  
[009]   Below was the great glacier,  like a sea of  _____ .  Soon, the clouds disappeared and I  climbed down ont     
[018]   It is very difficult to travel through the snow and   _____ , even with dogs.  I hate life now.  I prefer to sleep,    


	
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[001]  every day.  It is hot in the afternoon, and  then we  _____  in the river.  At night we play music and dance.      
[002]  Duncan.  'I go for walks,' Duncan says.  'Sometimes I  _____ .  And  sometimes I catch fish.'  'Oh,' Roxanne says. 
[003]         .  He jumps into the sea and starts to  _____  to the island.  Bobo thinks, 'This is interesting!'      
[004]  says.  'Jump in!' 'But, honey,'  Larry says, 'I can't  _____ .' 
[006] ss a pity that it hasn't got water in it.  I'd love to  _____  in it!' Angela laughed.  Helen  looked at her.   
[011]  up again, he could not see  the  light.  He began to  _____  out to sea.  He swam for hours; he  was trying to reac     
[022] you could jump into it.  After this you could go for a  _____  in the open air pool.  The baths were not just for 


	
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[001]       He had thick black hair and white teeth, but his  _____  was yellow and dry.  His eyes were very pale.       
[003] sleep.  I held her in my arms and kissed her, but her  _____  was cold and she was not breathing.  The marks of the     
[005]      They were held there by a line of fear.  Soon his  _____  began to shine and water flew from the corners  of his     
[006] nd at the same  time reached out for Annie.  Her brown  _____  made her eyes seem clear and so very  green.  She look     
[007]  sticky material that is used to protect a cut on your  _____ .  Band-Aid is one company's name for these pieces of 
[008] did the new baby  have? It was too early to tell.  His  _____  was fair and his hair was a light brown.  And his eye     
[023] he wide land.  Matthew's clothes felt cold against his  _____  in the water.  He floated silently, listening carefuls


	
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[010]  Why was  he here on' the top floor? I had heard  his  _____  showing him to a bedroom near mine, on the second floo     
[008]  in the  hall, as the guests were welcomed by their  _____  and his  housekeeper.  From a dark corner of the stair     
[009]  seen so much life and activity. When it  was fine the  _____  and his guests went riding, visited places of interest     
[001] introduce one of the biggest shows in the  world.  The  _____  is one of the most important people at the  Oscars.     
[002]  trick! A lot of people did not like Letterman as  the  _____ .  Some thought that he was not serious enough  about 
[001]  here, "The Fabulous Sports Babe,"  a radio  talk show  _____ , used to announce that she was broadcasting out of      
[002] glish bars in the  San  Francisco Bay area are playing  _____  to formal trivia quizzes: two-hour team games, complet 


	
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[002]  terrible state.  Looking closely, I noticed a  narrow  _____  in the wall.  It began at the roof and made its way      
[009]    The only thing that I noticed was a very small   _____   which started at the top of the building and continue     
[010] moon, a full, blood red moon, shining through a narrow  _____  in the walls of the  house.  It was the 
[004]  fire. Your tongue  will go black, and your skin will  _____  an' fall o, and all  around ye will be the screams of
[005] a letter.  Biko went to the front door and opened it a  _____ ,  pretending to look sleepy. Lemick, the local detecti     
[006]  A strong wind was  now blowing and there was a loud   _____  of thunder.  Suddenly rain poured down, and although      
[013]  away from them.  The ice was thin there  and suddenly- _____ ! She went down into the cold water.  "Help! Help me!"  


	
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[002] Too many people who find  themselves single again will  _____  into another marriage too  quickly, and just  repeat     
[006]  and stares out a window as her MTA bus begins its  _____  up the tree-lined streets and  past  the stately homes     
[015] steps. He had a sudden wish to  tell her the truth and  _____  away without ever stepping into the  house.  He had no     
[002] completely and encourage each other. They would shout,  _____  up and down the room, shake their heads,  stand in dee     
[003] and  you cannot reserve your seats, but  you avoid the  _____ -hour  crowds, and you are certain to reach London at a     
[004] ause of that, and the stress it can cause. I mean, the  _____  hours, as everyone knows,  are the worst times of  day     
[005]  working lives either getting up early to avoid the  _____  hours or travelling in  the  middle of them with all s


	
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[001]   They have words,  music and dancing.  Some important  _____  parts are always played by a girl.  This custom goes 
[001]  the city of Gaza after a two  month siege. The whole  _____  population was killed. Then  Alexander tied the feet      
[002]  a future without him.  Alexander died with no close  _____  relative except his brother  Arrhidaeus, who had learn  
[004] oore's mouth, and in another an instructor  tortures a  _____  trainee by twisting his already broken leg.    
[009]  the University of Cape Town, the first black person -  _____  or female - to run the nation's leading research inst     
[021]  of each of these writers are the female  ones.  Their  _____  protagonists are often, to my mind, idealised New  Men     
[006] ents are upping their scores more  steadily than their  _____  counterparts, although their scores  remain lower than 


	
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[001] ran quickly to  Diana's house.  Anne was very cold and  _____ .  She had her arms around the  tree, but she couldn't
[002] 'Come on.  Let's get her to the hotel and out of those  _____   clothes,' Karen suggested.  'Find Bill first.      
[003] at my  garden.  It was quiet and empty.  The grass was  _____ .  The  trees  were brown.  Nothing happened all day. 
[004]  crying.  I touched the glass on  the  photo.  It was  _____ .  Then the photo moved away from my  hand.  I stood up     
[005]  also staying at a house near the lake.  It was a very  _____   summer.  They could not go out for walks, or go saili     
[006]  turned.  Annie's hair was pulled back from her face,  _____   from a bath.  It made her look boyish.  'That's OK.'
[007]  want me,' Grace said in a  small voice.  Her face was  _____  with tears.  'Oh Grace, that's not true.'  'What have    


	
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[001]  What we don't like is the frequency of such jokes in  _____  advertising'.  But the commission did not feel that  x     
[001] musical theater from mainstream popular culture, from  _____  recording success, from hip, from  cool,  from now      
[002] or attention, she  overreached in her first television  _____ ; it featured a  staged scene of a class being taught      
[003]  Even a short-time visitor to the  nation's  chief  _____  city is struck by its beleaguered  atmosphere.  Tour     
[007] p-water  ports. The eastern half is the glitzy, highly  _____  district  into whose clutches the first-time visitor      
[010] only - but the changes came too late for Lucy Young, a  _____  pilot and a deskbound captain in the Navy  Reserve at
[006] without effort. If the destination is too crowded, too  _____  or too much like every place else, then why go?  The 


	
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[001]  to the dining-room of her  castle and gave him bread,  _____  and wine.  Then one of Queen Annoure's men took the
[002] me.  And then later send them  some fruit, or fish, or  _____ .  Why do they need money? They can live very cheaply     
[003]        When anyone in the village killed an animal for  _____ , Rafael  asked them for the skin and the stomach.  He
[004]   and cut the shark open from neck to tail.  Pieces of  _____ , fish and hair from its stomach fell out into the  bot     
[010]    it makes: 'Turk! Turk!' Goose is also the favourite  _____  for Christmas dinner in Germany.  And in other countri     
[011] es  around the world ...  In Norway, pork is the usual  _____  for the main Christmas meal.  In the Czech Republic,
[023]  from a large door  key.  So, the old man's cooking  _____  for his supper, is he?'  thought Dunstan. But where is