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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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[004]  adversaries since 1977, don't like it. Yet Jencks's  _____ , generosity and intellectual breadth  have made him a      
[005]  impression on the city immediately. His good looks,  _____  and debonair manner impressed, and it wasn't long be     
[014]  of the gentlemen's visit was the way in which Jane's  _____  and  beauty appeared to excite Mr Bingley's admiration     
[008]  head across the lunch table.  Simon, who had so much  _____ , but who was also so selfish.  He seemed so often to      
[010]   more hot Italian to him. She was depending on her  _____  to persuade him. And that meant she had to keep him      
[011]  back to Elizabeth. His confidence in his own   _____  and ability to please annoyed Elizabeth very much, so      
[012]  a little embarrassed, and made no further attempt to  _____  Elizabeth.  They separated at last with mutual politen 


	
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[002] English word first, then  the translation, and a short  _____  as an example. I try to learn ten new words a day.     
[003] kish on the other side. I write the English word in a   _____  so I know how  to use it, and what words it's used wit     
[004]    all through the forest.  As I finished reading this  _____ , I jumped in my seat and then sat very still.  I tho 
[001] and traveled all over the forest."  At the end of this  _____ , I stopped in fear.  I thought I heard a sound from so     
[001]  'But if you tell anybody. . .' He did not finish the  _____ , and I  understood.  It seemed to fill the room with a     
[002]  planned to be at home with my  mother.  There was one  _____  in the letter that I was not sure  about:  I was wrong     
[003] most used letter in written  English. Even in a short  _____  it is used many times. In the first message, the figur    


	
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[001] loved horse, Pilgrim, are both badly hurt in a riding  _____ .  Annie wants  to ' help her daughter to get better.       
[002]  her work, and she was good at it.  But  since Grace's  _____ , this all seemed so unimportant.  She was being strong 
[007] tleman was walking near them with his dog.  He saw the  _____ , and immediately came to help them.  'I've hurt my foo     
[008]  very safe.  There were sixteen compartments.  In an  _____ , big metal doors could close and then no water could      
[010]  the ship and its  survivors.  Even after the terrible  _____ , things were very different for  irst-class and third     
[014]     to Charles was not happy.  When Diana died in a car  _____  in 1997 with her lover, Dodi Fayed, many British peop     
[019]  to ride a horse, but after she broke her arm in an  _____   she was frightened, and didn't want to ride again.  


	
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[001] in Hollywood, where the Godfather films  were made, or  _____  Studios outside the city, where you can feel an earth     
[001]  Clinton would like to make two years of  college as  _____  as high school.  A chart contrasting the 1980 comedy     
[002]   reject a facile Jewish liberalism; the quest for  _____  health care or for civil rights or even for freedom    
[004] ges in the education industry as big as  the advent of  _____  primary education in the second half of the last centu     
[005] evertheless he has been the  supreme  spokesman of the  _____  'scientific culture' of this century -  in the best an     
[003] without the constraints of thinking that held back the  _____  use of computers -- until two kids, $500, and a garage     
[004] short time, during the Depression of the 1930s and the  _____  introduction of the automatic coal miner, the United      


	
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[001]  old man sat by the fire.  He turned when he heard a  _____ .  He looked at me and screamed.  Then he ran outside,     
[002]   your words.  But how can I help you?" 'There was a  _____  at  the entrance to the house.  Felix and Agatha were     
[003] was so hungry and tired.  I was falling  asleep when a  _____  woke me.  It was the sound of a child  who ran into my     
[004]  was dead, and I cried for him.  Suddenly I heard a  _____  and I returned to  Frankenstein.  You will not believe     
[005] here there to help.  The young animals made a terrible  _____  when the heated metal burned into their skins.       
[006]  and round the arena he went.  He was making a lot of   _____  and throwing his head up and down.  But his eyes never     
[008]  people laughing.  The house was at last, filled with  _____ .  They were all there: Diane, Frank, Tom, Joe, Craig    


	
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[003] proper help for anyone who has  missed work because of  _____ . The study has already  identified  specific problems      
[009] so  that when she finally came home after her long  _____ , she  almost seemed a dierent person. Instead of a wil     
[010]  Starkadders did not seem  to have noticed the  girls'  _____  from the farm the previous night. But Aunt Ada  - did      
[001] safe and  demolished it in early July. Yet even in its  _____ , it exerts a hold on its former tenants, like an achin     
[004] round Raveloe.  Nobody was surprised at Dunstan Cass's  _____ . Once  before he had stayed away for six weeks and      
[005]  Dolly Winthrop, was also worried about  Silas's  _____  from church. She was a  large, fresh-faced woman with      
[007]  I realized that it  was unhealthy not to react to the  _____  of life.  So I found a setting for depression and I     


	
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[001]  At least he gives me a free toothbrush and  _____  of toothpaste after  he has finished with me!       
[006]   But it was  not a happy smile.  'The drugs were in a  _____  of  toothpaste.                             
[001] hat's he doing?' Ricky whispered. The man had a rubber  _____ . He put one end into the tail pipe of the car, and the     
[003]  train like London's famous Underground railway - 'the  _____ ' - isn't there? K: Yes, but with a flat rate fare, so     
[002] ouses in the suburbs and travel into the centre on the  _____ . In Madrid, people live in flats and apartments in the     
[004] near public transport? L: Oh yes.  Five minutes to the  _____  station, and the bus stop is just round the corner    
[005] difficulty, was the pipe of the glass- maker, an iron  _____ , five or six feet long, which collects  on one end the  


	
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[002]  The Bookers were all  coming to the river house for a  _____  in the evening.  Annie  put  the computer on and found     
[003] wasn't so great, but nobody seemed to mind.  After the  _____ , the children went to play games on Annie's computer.     
[004]  Later, the two families came together for a  _____  by  the  river.  Annie found it hard to look Tom in th     
[005] in the trees, and the sun went slowly down.  After the  _____ , Grace asked Joe to show them all a trick with matches     
[006] stopped in the heat of the afternoon and ate a simple   _____ .  Later they climbed to the top of a hill.  Suddenly s     
[007]         Back at the house, Annie  prepared their last  _____  together.  'Oh, Tom.  I love you so much.'  'I love you     
[008]  again.The cooks at 'La Reserve' prepared a wonderful  _____  for the wedding.  Many of the men  from the Pharaoh we


	
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[002]                                          The Statue of  _____  is one of the most famous sights in the world.  
[004]                    Tourists can take the same ferry to  _____  Island and to Ellis Island.  The museum at Ellis Islan   
[013]     The ferry gives a wonderful view of the Statue of  _____ .  And the  price is perfect - the ride is free.   
[025]  His love for us. We have only to compare the  _____  and high standard of living we enjoy in this great      
[003]  to maintain the federal balance and protect the  _____    of the people from the danger of centralizing power      
[011]  still more fundamental truth: That individual life,  _____  and happiness depend on a right balance between the      
[016]  of government, the idea of freedom, the defense of  _____ ,   the various lethargies which overtake our major      


	
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[002]  Hospital and then went home. 'Suddenly there was a  _____   and  an explosion. I don't know how it happened. Mayb     
[004]     a very loud BANG! at the front of the plane, and a  _____  of white light that burned Carl's eyes.  Almost immedi    
[005]  could hear the sound of  water.  He  stared again.  A  _____  of lightning lit up the sky, and then Wyatt saw  
[004] were closer together now. Below, the occasional orange  _____  of a gun could be  seen through the rain.  We got to      
[005]  the heavy pocket of her jacket. Then, as quick as a  _____ , the animal had disappeared. And there was the prince     
[006] brightly coloured bird rushed across the kitchen, in a  _____  of green skirts  and flying gold hair,  and danced out 
[010]    Hell, we don't want you looking like a fool.'  In a  _____  of anger De Wet lifted his hand to hit Biko in the fac