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Quiz 137

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?

alive apart bag chest disturb pause sink threat tough violent
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[001]          'Be careful, Bill.' said Fagin. 'Don't be too  _____ , will you?'  When Sikes reached his room, he shut the      
[002]  five years ago because he was always drunk  and often  _____ .  Now Mark seemed like Ricky's father. An eleven-year-     
[003]  in their business  with each other. Murders and other  _____  actions only happened in the theatre, not in our daily     
[004] they voted to destroy it completely.  Thebes came to a  _____  end. The city's riches were taken.  A  few hou
[001]   In  northern Europe, for example, there are very few  _____  or  dangerous fights.  People from Mediterranean count     
[002] dangerous.  But it is in South  America  that the most  _____  fights have always happened.  Perhaps the past can      
[003]      how dangerous this was.  The match started with a  _____  fight between some of the  fans.  It was not the sort 


	
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[005]  real reasons for  divorce. One, the couple have grown  _____  with time; and two,  either the husband  or wife has      
[017]   with  interest and admiration. In the years we were  _____ , I began  to  realise what an extraordinary analytical     
[018] ure the bathroom and toilet are cleaned  once a  week.  _____  from my academic work, I've picked up some basic ski     
[019] to spot an interesting  sound or phrase but to take it  _____  instantly and sense its  potential. He encouraged this     
[022]  actions.  Both Peter Kerry and Nick Leeson, 14 years  _____  and moving in different worlds, are fluent in the lang     
[022] verywhere'. Two minutes later,  their sail  was ripped  _____ , the deck was covered and the cabin  was filling up   
[003]  we bought some very nice pottery for my father, but  _____  from  that we  didn't really buy anything. We went a      


	
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[002]  believe the change in him.  The cuts on his face and   _____  were bad enough, but he was acting very strangely.       
[003]  again now after days of  swimming, and his face and  _____  were looking better.  His  problem now was inside his      
[004] her warm body next to his.  Her right  hand lay on his  _____  just above his heart.  He lay without  moving, afraid      
[005]  to fall.  Grace turned and lay her head on Annie's  _____ .  'Grace!' It was Tom.  'Will you come here, please?'      
[006] I  continued to work.  Soon the wall was as high as my  _____ .  Then I lifted my light over the wall so I could see      
[007] again he heard the same sound.  'It is a great  wooden  _____ .  There are strong pieces of metal round it,' he thoug     
[023] hid them safely in  his clothing.  Then he covered the  _____  with earth, and put  sand over the place.  'Nobody can 


	
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[003] my husband, you'll never see them again.'  There was a  _____  while no one spoke.  Then the radio answered.  'Four      
[003] write American comics,'  he recalls. 'There was a long  _____  and then the counsellor  asked  if I'd ever thought ab     
[004] will you wait ten minutes?'  There was another, longer  _____ .  Helen stared out into the night.  She did not see a 
[004]  visual cliches are piling up. Peter York presses the  _____  button on some standard images of the electronic age       
[007]  Jenkyns" all my life, you know,' she went on after a  _____ . But the person I expected to  marry is dead, and he      
[002] with gentle jogging until you are  out of breath, then  _____  and walk for a  while. Walk and jog in  turn until you 
[009]    icy hand fastened itself upon his heart, he did not  _____  or show any sign of fear. He went bravely on, watching 


	
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[001] nmuscled, unathletic even. It's hard to believe she is  _____   enough to master kung fu or to carry out the sometime     
[002] warily at first - both were  known to be obstinate and  _____ -minded - but they quickly  came to  appreciate each      
[004] war gets waged against kids and street creeps. It's a  _____  war.  You don't want to get caught in that one. An en     
[005]    35, streetcar conductor. Moody,  strong-  boned and  _____ -minded, she's no teenager's obvious fantasy.  Favorabl     
[006]   Most students are in debt and aware that there's a  _____  job market  out there. I've got a grant, but my paren     
[009]  He is a lucid analyser of world affairs and a  _____  debater, but would you buy a widget from him?      
[014] certainly Greek. It was a sun-browned face, square,  _____ , with dark eyes and thick,  black hair.  I stood up,    


	
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[002] an island near Southampton. .  "That ship is going to  _____  before it  reaches America," she said.  "1 can see hun     
[003]  believe the danger-of course, the  Titanic couldn't  _____ ! Some of the first lifeboats were almost empty.       
[010] of rocks underwater.  We must be careful , ships often  _____   here! Take down the sail, and move slowly.  We must      
[001] the top one was the boat deck.  "That ship is going to  _____ !"Can some people see the future? Can dreams ever show     
[014] is evening cocktail in front of him,  watching the sun  _____  into the sea. It was odd being dead.  That morning       
[007]  except a broken wash-basin. Another had a kitchen  _____  in it,  full of the last  visitor's dirty dishes! And      
[018] cooking, ironing, doing the laundery, standing at the  _____  over a  load of dirty dishes.  The first suffragettes  


	
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[007]       tomorrow. He's asleep at the moment, and I won't  _____  him.' 'No!' said Joseph, banging the table  with his
[006] the two people,  seemed so calm that I did not want to  _____  them. But I had to deliver my message.  'A man wants
[004] 'Oh, but of course!' said Laura. 'Please, please don't  _____  her. I only want to leave-'  But at that moment the 
[003]   My head ached. 'Very well,' I said tightly. 'I won't  _____  your ship. I would like to talk to the chief engineer     
[012]  in a loud voffice. Pray for forgiveness.'  Sorry to  _____  you, sir,' said the warder, but I've got to take D.4     
[011] Paul wished to read or write letters, the boys did not  _____  him; when he decided it was time to talk to them about     
[005]  His tea tasted excellent,  and there  was nobody to  _____  him. Then for the first time he noticed how much noise    


	
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[001]  a rising fear of crime, has become  the  most serious  _____  to the success of South Africa's fledgling democratic     
[002]  centuries, the city had to be fortified  against the  _____  of an invasion from the United States.  "But you're      
[003] ball in his hands as a rusher or receiver is always a  _____ .  Jim Harbaugh leads in playmaking and in courage and      
[004] machine-readable passport that  will carry with it the  _____  of global surveillance of innocent travellers.        
[005]  These shifts constitute both an opportunity and a  _____ . The opportunity is that we have traditional strengths     
[006]  strengths in education on which we can build. The  _____  is that if we fail  to  respond to change, we will mak     
[007] duct on defence than Germany and Japan,with a smaller  _____ ,  and we are getting no influence from it. Dean Acheso    


	
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[001] Helen thought.  She got her astrology chart out of her  _____  and began to study  it.  There were blue lines on it      
[002]  'I went to the police in Copenhagen.  That's where my  _____   was stolen.  A lot of passports are disappearing, the     
[003]   to the side of the ship.  There was a large plastic  _____  in her hand.  It was full.  'Angela! No!' someone shou     
[004] gs? Now there'll be an argument.'  Angela dropped the  _____  over the side and then turned to Noel.  She  smiled.       
[005]  Parthenon, on the top of it.    Helen searched in her  _____ .  She couldn't find the tickets.  Where were they?   
[006]   could she do? She looked again in every part of her  _____ .  No, they weren't there.  She turned to the group.    
[007] eople to discover the body, so I put the pieces into a  _____  with a lot of stones.  I decided to throw the      


	
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[001]  simply.  I've always lived simply.  When my wife was  _____ , I didn't live  very simply. .  We went out a lot.       
[002] wife.  Ah! Life was very different for me when she was  _____ .  My wife's name was Julie. .  She was two years young     
[003] hat!  He's so quiet and so uninteresting, and she's so  _____ !' Oh  yes, they were jealous.  You don't often see hap     
[004] ll feel it sharply when I think of Julie.  She's still  _____  in my  memory.  Of course, I lost nearly all my friend     
[005] together for years.  He often came here when Julie was  _____ .  Julie and I never went to  parties on a Wednesday,      
[012] last night I was in the shadow of death, but I'm still  _____ .  At this minute I'm in my study and I'm writing this     
[021]   It was my older  brother.  I was happy that he was  _____ .  But my happiness soon disappeared.  He put his mouth