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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] past her into the hall.  She banged the door shut, and  _____  we were in half darkness.  I put out my hand for the      
[003]  nodded to the two detectives to release Biko's arms.   _____ , Biko jumped up and hit De Wet across the face  with      
[004] can't get it open,' called the policeman at the boot.   _____ , the policeman at the window suspected  something.       
[005] re anyone who isn't Line?'  Four or five voffices were  _____  heard. I'm not, sir, I  wouldn't be called Line, not      
[006]   she found herself so aectionately received. She saw   _____  that marriage had not changed her cousin's  manners.      
[007]  Elizabeth could not avoid his seeing her. Their eyes  _____  met, and  they both blushed. He appeared very surprise     
[008]   expression on his face. Elizabeth soon observed and  _____  understood  it.  She was losing her influence over him s


	
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[004]    were classed in three broad bands:  unsatisfactory,  _____  or excellent. Now they are given  grades from one      
[002]  term by the school principal,  and if the work is not  _____  then the  student is given  even more extra lessons.     
[001] But for just a  few dollars more  '  'No, this will be  _____ . I'll need a box of bullets.'  The clerk gave him a bo     
[002]  few comforts or services and  could hardly be called  _____  places to stay. Many are horrible, little  better  tha  
[003] term by the school  principal,  and if the work is not  _____  then the  student is given  even more extra lessons.      
[008] But for just a  few dollars more  '  'No, this will be  _____ . I'll need a box of bullets.'  The clerk gave him a bo  
[006] readily available. Dr Brown says:  'Nobody has found a  _____  way of measuring quality over a  period.  On one hand,   


	
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[001] I'll need to find some  accommodation.  Now, I have an  _____  who lives in Oxford, my father's older  brother Ben,     
[020] John Openshaw.  My father, Joseph,  had a  brother, my  _____  Elias, who went to live in America  when he was young.     
[002]  of 'the university  experience' if I  lived with my  _____  Ben? It would certainly be cheaper.      
[003] isn't dangerous at  all if you're  careful. Anyway, my  _____  Bill lives here, Dad's brother, so I could call on him     
[004] had grey hair and was wearing Fine clothes.  It was my  _____   William.  A minute later he came into the  room.     
[010]  about it.  The person who solved the problem was her  _____  Charles, who had lived abroad for many years.      
[020] house in Lagos Okonkwo Odia, elder brother of Ezekiel,  _____  of Aku-nna and Nna-nndo, and second husband of Ma Bl  


	
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[001] the boy was shown the door and he jumped down onto the  _____  field, and in less than  five minutes we had taken of     
[002]   maybe doing some work in the yard like cutting the  _____ , and then it's usually time to go out for lunch.      
[003] ephants ran at  the tiger and made it go back into the  _____ , so we quickly escaped to let the tiger eat its lunch     
[006] y that her face changed as she talked, like a field of  _____   moving under a gentle summer wind.  It's too dangerou     
[007] and narrow windows.  I looked around at the thin dry  _____  and the old dying trees, and an icy hand seemed to      
[008]  buildings around the factory had been  destroyed and  _____  was growing where there were once houses.  So, after      
[011] horse was hungrily eating every plant and every bit of  _____  that it could find.  It was brown, and Hoomey could s   


	
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[002]       The experience with Phil Resch I need to find my _____  again, or I won't keep my job.  He drove off in the      
[003]        but Brat was quiet and relaxed with a calm self- _____ .  Bee had brought Simon up, and she was pleased with      
[004]  seemed full  of sunlight, and it had an air of peace,  _____  and happiness.  Gien led us into a room on the left.      
[005]  young constable was ready to leave,  he had complete  _____  in Morse, and  was wishing he could work with him.       
[006]         In this way I encouraged Heathcli to have more  _____  in himself. But when the Earnshaws and the Lintons      
[007] thinks is important.'  'No!' she laughed. 'I have such  _____  in Edgar's love  that I think I could kill him, and he     
[008] She was annoyed by this black woman who.  had so much  _____ . But she picked up the phone.  'There's a Dr. Ramphele


	
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[001]    some, the  landlady serves her guests a free cooked  _____  included in  the price of the room. Cheap hotels      
[005]  my job, before school, to run to the market  with his  _____ . I used to love  doing that. Best of all were  the day     
[007] opular meal for the weekend which is brunch. I: That's _____  and lunch combined, right? H: That's it. Brunch. It's.     
[009]      Of all the meals that I have during the day, my   _____  is the one that I like most.  It's not that I have a       
[010]    one that I like most.  It's not that I have a  large  _____  but I do like my toast and marmalade.  I've got quite     
[011] so up I get. I take him  downstairs and start getting  _____  ready.  Before long the other kids Heather  (almost 17     
[013] turn to the kids each night. We're all vegetarian, so  _____  is eggs  laid  by our own hens, home-cooked tomatoes 


	
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[001] walking to work because my wallet is empty and I can't  _____  bus fare. I certainly have nothing to spend on a movie     
[002]  in my ugly room on my one chair. Sometimes I can't  _____   dinner, so I steal a handful of cookies from work an     
[003]  the enthusiasm to travel more, but as she  couldn't  _____  to go on  extensive organized tours, she bought a camp     
[004]   much as  a second-class ticket. However, if you can  _____  to  spend the money, we  recommend traveling in first      
[005] visit  some friends for the  weekend, but he could not  _____  a train  ticket, and even the coach was too expensive     
[006]  if you want, my son,' he said  happily.  'If I  can  _____  a big house like this, I can certainly                     
[007]                 a big house like this, I can certainly  _____  a small  boat.  We'll go fishing every week, shall we? 


	
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[001] last parting; and again and again.  Catherine  did not  _____  anything was wrong, and Mrs Penniman was too frighten     
[002] feel sorry for her? She has had a lucky  escape. And I  _____  that she has not really given him up at all. I think     
[012] uspected him of murdering Jackson.'  Conrad? You can't  _____  him! Do you want my fingerprints?'  'No. You see, you     
[013] , to look  like a professor, so that Jackson wouldn't  _____  anything.'  'And then what happened? You knew Jackson'     
[003]  Voigt-Kamp empathy test,' Rick said. I was testing a  _____  when officer Crams arrested  me.' The officer was sear     
[004] roids here pretending to be android killers chasing a  _____ .'  I'm not an android. You can give me the Voigt-Kamp      
[017] ton had disappeared, Honnister rang  me.  'We've got a  _____ . A man in London. He hired a car for the weekend  


	
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[001]  the next morning he set off from the Hostel on the  _____  into the  mountains, but before midday he was already      
[002]  by capturing  them as they travelled along the forest  _____  and  inviting them  to eat with him. During the supper     
[003]  away again and Matty followed Betsy along  a steep  _____ .  After a time he began to call  again, 'Jessica! Jess     
[004]  to the Atlantic coast.  In  this way he cut a wide  _____  through the southern states, and  after that it was ha     
[005]  to the top of one of the mountains, Montanvert.  The  _____  was difficult and dangerous.  It was raining and the      
[006]   them  in other ways too.  I swept the snow from the  _____ .  I watched  Felix working, and then I did some of his 
[009] the river.  'There it is.' Judith saw the bridge.  The  _____  up from the road was very steep.  Judith went first.


	
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[002]  a slow,  six- month build-up, I managed the 26.2-mile  _____  in just under  four hours. A  creditable performance      
[004]  Emily Davidson got over the fence and onto  the race _____ , ran in front of the King's horse, and was killed. She  
[003]  shorts  that don't rub  on your legs when you run. A  _____ -suit with a  pair of long pants is essential  if you      
[001]  Sean gently put Thomas down in the grass  beside the  _____ . The others sat or lay by the road.  They were exhaust     
[017] emotional Akabusi drop to his knees by the side of the  _____   to  give thanks after a victory in the 1990 European      
[001] pproached recently by a British magazine asking her to  _____  down details  of all Lady Diana  Spencer's credit card     
[016] to do a single on the back of this  project. I've lost  _____  of most of the rest. Some are working  actors, earning