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Quiz 139

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]           So I prefer not to kill animals to eat their  _____ . Animals eat food that people could eat.      
[002]    and a toe on my left foot. I also had several minor  _____  wounds. I couldn't move'. 'My situation seemed hopeles
[003]            We crept nearer and found a dead deer,  its  _____  torn open, still bleeding. This was the tiger's lunch! 
[004]            There was a thick, squashy crack of fist on  _____ .  Something hard grazed his knuckles. He put every
[005]  examine Mike's wound. The bullet had torn through the  _____  just above the knee, inflicting an ugly gash
[006]      point blank and an Indian's face became shattered  _____  and bone. A second leaped from his horse to the top
[007]    her blouse and slid down her body, seeping into her  _____  through all the quivering pores of her skin.


	
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[001]   from almost every country in the world.  The largest  _____  in the city is the Bryant Park Grill. 
[002] following them again.  They planned to eat dinner at a  _____  in the city centre, but decided that it wasn't safe      
[003] ancing, some people invited us to dinner! We went to a  _____  in the Plaka and danced until 3 a.m.  It was great     
[004]    out a little later and ate dinner in a small French  _____ . We talked about my photographs and I told her about     
[005]          She often had lunch with friends.  An Italian  _____ , San Lorenzo in Kensington was her favourite     
[006]   wouldn't like to do it. K: Why not?  M: If you run a  _____ ,  you have to work very long hours. K: You work late,      
[007] restaurants recently. The other day, lunching in a new  _____ , I ordered the special low-calorie meal from the menu     


	
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[001]       he heard a shout. The farmer had jumped over the  _____  and was coming across the field, waving his arms and
[002] Then the white man finds a place he likes and builds a  _____  around it. "I'm going to have a farm here," he says.
[003]    watch the race. Steve drove his horse into the last  _____  and crashed to the ground. It was a hard fast fall,
[004] grandmother, and we all went with her to Ashlar House.  _____  was not far from Malkin Tower, and my grandmother was
[005]       A suffragette called Emily Davidson got over the  _____  and onto the race track, ran in front of the King's
[006]       Suddenly the horse's feet touched the top of the  _____ .  He and I crashed to the grass together, and twenty
[007]       They are!' said Bonnie. 'I jumped Aunt Melanie's  _____ , and that's very high!'  'Oh, all right!' said Rhett,    


	
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[001]                  Then Angelina turned and with an easy  _____  walked toward the kitchen.  Jessica Packard lifted he   
[001]  in their few public figures, a councilman's fall from  _____  would have been a bigger blow. The defensiveness and
[004] lips glisten but no redder than usual.  The result was  _____  and modesty. As she was rather tired this evening,
[004]  speeding arrow from the taut bow, hurtling with a mad  _____ , his maleness shining and scented with meadow rue. 
[005]    Lord, to bless this food"- that was Victoria saying  _____  while the baby sprayed raisin toast on her plastic bib
[006]     only different�he was it. He had an easy masculine  _____  about him, the kind that kids don't have, but that I
[007] all on the future of a British crown  that one day may  _____  the head of her eldest son, Prince William, or even   


	
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[001]                sinuous, curving artificial lakes which  _____  like the moat of a canal or a river winding across a
[002]    mountains sprawl over three counties, and the roads  _____  through sky-tapping redwoods down whose furrowed
[003]       loss to me", said Kate quietly, feeling the pain  _____  again at the mention, knowing now that Juanita must
[004]         Earthquakes result when movements in the earth  _____  rocks until they break. Sometimes this is accompanie
[005]      I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to  _____  my knee over it and pull myself up.
[006]    a lioness' neck is short and thick and with a quick  _____  she slipped the noose off. The missionary obligation
[007]   gasp or a sigh there, here and there an extra little  _____  of a word or note, all in the interest of effect.    


	
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[001] to tell me about his life.  'My story is very strange,  _____  and frightening.  But perhaps people will learn someth
[002]  fun.  I'm happy when I'm playing good games.  But I'm  _____  when I'm playing bad ones.  In what way is a 'good' ga     
[003]   can see that he has suffered terribly.  His eyes are  _____  and sometimes he seems quite crazy.  At first, I did n     
[004]       I cannot start life again.' He looked  extremely  _____  as he said this.  Then he was silent and went to  bed
[005]  again.  I felt fear and  misery.  But I was also very  _____ .  My dream was dead, and my hopes were destroyed.
[006]   I travelled to Geneva alone, and my journey was very  _____  and lonely.  So many thoughts came into my mind.
[007] dn't believe it.  He remembered her lying in hospital,  _____  and empty.  Now here she was full of life and looking  


	
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[006]  This was a very warm, sympathetic girl, he decided.   _____  is a fine quality in a woman. Now Vivian, for instance
[003] owledge to her husband, his lack of understanding and  _____  in her present condition, her disgusting swollen
[004]   authority, was shocked to find himself looking with  _____  upon Philip Spencer.  This tragic lad had forged his
[003]  her own too much, if you know what I mean. Show some  _____ , and she'll change her mind.'  But there was no need
[005] ooked at each other, their minds full of memories, of  _____ , and of sorrow. So much had happened since their first     
[008]   old chap!' said the little doctor, and two tears of  _____  rolled down his face. It's a hard world, isn't it?'      
[015]  to drive trains at Cambridge.  This apparent lack of  _____  for the workers was corrected when he found that  


	
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[001]                  Cranford is held by the ladies.  They  _____  all the best houses.  If a married couple comes to liv
[002]     Miss Matty just wanted to sell most of her things,  _____  a  single room somewhere and live quietly on the mone
[003]     come until tomorrow.  'Fly down here now and we'll  _____  a hotel room,' Rick suggested.  Why?'  Something I he
[004]       he wants to marry me immediately. And we want to  _____  a house and  have just one quiet lodger, to help us 
[005]                     I would like to leave my job here,  _____  a little cottage and ask Cathy to come and live       
[006]     First you tell me you've got the money to pay your  _____ , then you say you haven't, then there's a letter lost
[007]   changes flats so often  -  whenever he can't pay his  _____ . He's not a very good actor, and I think he's finding 


	
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[001]  which hold up my bed.  There is a small bottle of red  _____  in the hole.' Dantes acted quickly.
[002]  worst point - and not before - I pour a little of the  _____  into my mouth.' He stopped talking.  The frightening      
[003]       broke open the bottle and poured a little of the  _____  into Faria's mouth.  Then he waited again.       
[004]   a glass of sherry. I tasted  it. It was as smooth as  _____  gold.  'If you weren't spying on me, you must have bee     
[005]  knee.' He washed the cut and then poured some special  _____  on to it.  'You were lucky that you didn't tear your
[006]    any of the things you buy? J: Yes, I get washing-up  _____  and use washing powder in my washing machine  
[007]   I am thirteen, too.' Later, I was going to throw the  _____  away in the bathroom. I had written all these details  


	
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[001]   relation to other secondary schools in the area, the  _____   may not be fair. A school with, say, a large intake
[002]      to advertisements can trigger a process of social  _____ , in which a person tries to evaluate his or her self
[003]     school, I mean, how little work the students do in  _____ ?  G: Oh yes,  they've all heard stories about lazy west
[004]     countries. My knowledge of the world is so tiny by  _____  to  yours! I'd love to travel around with an orchestra
[005]         adds focus and excitement to the airy room. By  _____ , the fenced-in front patio with umbrellas and bamboo
[006]  rapture I felt after seeing the touring show pales in  _____  with the riches I have received from the many artists
[007]                method in any language, quite worthy of  _____  with the work of the European pioneers Bodin and