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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]  them look  'interesting'. Boys and girls alike wore a  _____  of beads around  their necks.  They used to wear flare     
[002] ght. They had no fishing  net, but they had a piece of  _____  they used as a  fishing line,  and a machine to make s     
[003]  them look  'interesting'. Boys and girls alike wore a  _____  of beads around  their necks.  They used to wear flare     
[004] ght. They had no fishing  net, but they had a piece of  _____  they used as a  fishing line,  and a machine to make s   

[001] her prisoner a small figure of Mapetla  hanging from a  _____ .'  Woods sank back in his chair, overcome by this exam     
[002]  I  sometimes feel as if you and I were connected by a  _____   tying our  two hearts together, and if you went to Ir     
[003] ts together, and if you went to Ireland, I think that   _____   might break and I might bleed to death.'  I wish ...      
[004]   or  six red sticks around his waist, tied there with  _____ . 1 had  never seen dynamite before, but they looked li     
[005] tomin will play Beethoven's piano music; the Guarneri   _____   Quartet and the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio will     
[006] tion only Haydn, with his hundred-plus symphonies, 67   _____   quartets, 50-odd piano sonatas, 20 operas and thousan     
[007] tivity and participation.' He is wearing a  fake-fur G- _____ , rubber boots and a Mickey Mouse mask.    ** NOW REAL      
[008] them  look  'interesting'. Boys and girls alike wore a  _____  of beads  around  their necks.  They used to wear flar     
[009] ght. They had no fishing  net, but they had a piece of  _____  they used as a  fishing line,  and a machine to make s     
[010] e's a revival of the  stage adaptation on the cards, a  _____  of Ginger Man pubs  springing up across the States and     
[011] a well-regarded  contributor  to the New Yorker with a  _____  of credits for book and CD  covers. They collaborated      
[012]  the choral work Scale (1988) and the delicate  Second  _____  Quartet (1986) revealed a more intimate side  to his       
[013] pital's turnstile, with half a  golden  coin tied to a  _____  round her neck. Two years later, a couple  arrived to      
[014] her prisoner a small figure of Mapetla  hanging from a  _____ .'  Woods sank back in his chair, overcome by this exam     
[015]  I  sometimes feel as if you and I were connected by a  _____   tying our  two hearts together, and if you went to Ir     
[016] ts together, and if you went to Ireland, I think that   _____   might break and I might bleed to death.'  I wish ...      
[017]   or  six red sticks around his waist, tied there with  _____ . 1 had  never seen dynamite before, but they looked li  

[001] l aspirant had   advertised his own virtues in his own  _____  of newspapers   spanning the land.      Yet his editor     
[002] a boy and a loose-jointed walk that reminded   me of a  _____  of beads strolling down the street.   And she had the      
[003] nd, the Glee Club, and smaller ensembles of wind   and  _____  players.      All students are invited to participate      
[004]  institutional type virtually   to the proverbial shoe- _____  operator, all seeking   doggedly, studiously, daily- a     
[005]    "Put a few such songs together", they urged him.   " _____  them onto some sort of little plot, and you'll   have      
[006] ill, ran through   her spoken words like a thin ragged  _____ . "Please   come down as soon as you conveniently can",     
[007] nt and they were out   of sight, leaving behind only a  _____  of bubbles as   a clue to their whereabouts.      For        


	
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[001] int of it all  is. You know, I miss the direction and   _____  that work  gives you. So I just take each day as it co     
[002]   There are about forty pupils  in each classroom, and  _____  is quite strict.  Students  never speak without permis 

[001] her prisoner a small figure of Mapetla  hanging from a  _____ .'  Woods sank back in his chair, overcome by this exam     
[002]  I  sometimes feel as if you and I were connected by a  _____   tying our  two hearts together, and if you went to Ir     
[003] ts together, and if you went to Ireland, I think that   _____   might break and I might bleed to death.'  I wish ...      
[004]   or  six red sticks around his waist, tied there with  _____ . 1 had  never seen dynamite before, but they looked li     
[005] tomin will play Beethoven's piano music; the Guarneri   _____   Quartet and the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio will     
[006] tion only Haydn, with his hundred-plus symphonies, 67   _____   quartets, 50-odd piano sonatas, 20 operas and thousan     
[007] tivity and participation.' He is wearing a  fake-fur G- _____ , rubber boots and a Mickey Mouse mask.    ** NOW REAL      
[008] them  look  'interesting'. Boys and girls alike wore a  _____  of beads  around  their necks.  They used to wear flar     
[009] ght. They had no fishing  net, but they had a piece of  _____  they used as a  fishing line,  and a machine to make s     
[010] e's a revival of the  stage adaptation on the cards, a  _____  of Ginger Man pubs  springing up across the States and     
[011] a well-regarded  contributor  to the New Yorker with a  _____  of credits for book and CD  covers. They collaborated      
[012]  the choral work Scale (1988) and the delicate  Second  _____  Quartet (1986) revealed a more intimate side  to his       
[013] pital's turnstile, with half a  golden  coin tied to a  _____  round her neck. Two years later, a couple  arrived to      
[014] her prisoner a small figure of Mapetla  hanging from a  _____ .'  Woods sank back in his chair, overcome by this exam     
[015]  I  sometimes feel as if you and I were connected by a  _____   tying our  two hearts together, and if you went to Ir     
[016] ts together, and if you went to Ireland, I think that   _____   might break and I might bleed to death.'  I wish ...      
[017]   or  six red sticks around his waist, tied there with  _____ . 1 had  never seen dynamite before, but they looked li          


	
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[001] them, too.  We have  some animals.  Some  sheep, a few  _____  and chickens.  And there's a horse called  Smoke.  He'     
[002] s Parks.  They were  nice  people.  I helped with the   _____  and the chickens,  and went up on the hills with Mr Pa     
[003] ickens and I put them in boxes.  I helped  to milk the  _____  and then took them out to the field.  Later, I went ba     
[004]  hunt.'  Shere Khan has a bad leg, so he can kill only  _____ .  In the  village near him the people are angry.  That     
[005]   .' and Mowgli went to Shere Khan.   This  killer  of  _____  wanted to kill me.  This is what  men do to killers of     
[006] wanted to kill me.  This is what  men do to killers of  _____ ,' and he hit Shere Khan on the head  with the burning      
[007] ocks and narrow valleys.  Everywhere Mowgli  could see  _____  and buffaloes.  Some little boys  were looking after t     
[008] d buffaloes.  Some little boys  were looking after the  _____ , but when they saw Mowgli, they  shouted and ran away.     
[009] y day with the other boys, to look  after the herds of  _____  and buffaloes while they ate.  Mowgli  enjoyed this wo     
[010]  work, and usually went on  alone, with a big group of  _____  and buffaloes.  One day he saw Grey Brother under a tr     
[011] not fight or  climb easily.  But I need a big group of  _____   at the bottom end of the ravine, to stop him escaping     
[012] Then  we will catch him between the buffaloes and  the  _____ .  Can you help me, Grey Brother?'  Not I alone,' said      
[013] olves ran here and there  among the herd, and soon the  _____  and buffaloes were in  two groups.  Already, they were     
[014] way, ran back to the village with  the news.  Keep the  _____  together, Grey Brother,' called Mowgli.  Drive them in     
[015] heavy with his dinner and  his drink.  Then he saw the  _____  at the bottom of the ravine,  and turned.  But it was      
[016] loes did not stop until they crashed into the herd of   _____ .  Mowgli jumped off Rama's back  and shouted to Akela      
[017]  the tiger's body.  Now we must hide this and take the  _____  and the buffaloes  back to the village,' said Mowgli.      
[018] id not understand.  Shere Khan   the tiger who killed   _____  and stole children   was dead, but  people were angry      
[019] ,' said Joe and Willie.  Mr Walsh finished milking the  _____ , and then he walked  round the farm with the boys.  He     
[020] ith the milking, and he learnt the names of the  seven  _____ .  He had lunch and tea with Mrs  Walsh in the kitchen,     
[021] attie cleared the table and Ethan went out  to see the  _____ .  The world was dark and still  outside.  When he came     
[022] im.  As they were doing their morning's  work with the  _____ , Jotham said:  Mrs Frome told me the new girl's coming     
[023] .  They worked  hard  at their job, taking care of the  _____ , and at least a quarter of  them were black or Mexican     
[024] t a quarter of  them were black or Mexican.  They took  _____  from Texas up  to the railway towns in Kansas and Miss     
[025] railway towns in Kansas and Missouri.  From there the   _____  were sent to Chicago and killed, and the meat was sent 

[001] at.  They stared across the fields, where the  Logans'  _____  were eating grass. What were the little  Kelveys  thin     
[002] u draw? Leave your ear alone!'  'Pictures.'  'What of?  _____  and sheep?'  'Everything. I'll draw you when you're go     
[003]  the animals were  kept - cowsheds for the  thin, bony  _____ , stables for the horses, and a separate,  windowless s     
[004]  old grey head  rested against the side  of one of the  _____ , whose name was Careless. As he  milked  her, his fing     
[005]  water,  hung in the thick, damp air.  The three other  _____ , Pointless, Aimless, and Hopeless,  were waiting, with     
[006] uddenly a shadow fell across the door. At once all the  _____   lifted their heads, and Adam stood up  fearfully.  'A     
[007]  thoughts, he went  slowly to the cowshed, and led the  _____  out to the field. He  did not notice that Hopeless's l     
[008] !  Shame on 'ee, counting every mouthful o'  grass the  _____  eat!  Who should know the dumb creatures better than m     
[009] ling of seeds into green plants, the smell  and cry of  _____ ... They were his, all his  . . .  'Here is your tea,'      
[010]  spring...  Rubbing the walls of my house  like sleepy  _____ ... in am sleepy myself... The spring is  coming...  Wh     
[011] ave a farm without sheds  (for  wood, tools, bicycles,  _____ , the garden),  and where there  are sheds, things are      
[012] ben's face  went a dull red.  'in don't mean, with the  _____ ,' Flora added. 'in meant simply  for air and exercise.     
[013] and live at  Hightree Hall with us and look after our   _____ . May he?'  'Of course, my dear,' said Aunt Ada generou     
[014] otel near the beach at La Ceiba. The  beach was dirty.  _____  walked on it. There were small  houses close to the wa     
[015]  from the hills later in the  evening. We talked about  _____  and sheep and markets,  and I tried to remember some o     
[016] at.  They stared across the fields, where the  Logans'  _____  were eating grass. What were the little  Kelveys  thin     
[017] u draw? Leave your ear alone!'  'Pictures.'  'What of?  _____  and sheep?'  'Everything. I'll draw you when you're go     
[018]  the animals were  kept - cowsheds for the  thin, bony  _____ , stables for the horses, and a separate,  windowless s     
[019]  old grey head  rested against the side  of one of the  _____ , whose name was Careless. As he  milked  her, his fing     
[020]  water,  hung in the thick, damp air.  The three other  _____ , Pointless, Aimless, and Hopeless,  were waiting, with     
[021] uddenly a shadow fell across the door. At once all the  _____   lifted their heads, and Adam stood up  fearfully.  'A     
[022]  thoughts, he went  slowly to the cowshed, and led the  _____  out to the field. He  did not notice that Hopeless's l     
[023] !  Shame on 'ee, counting every mouthful o'  grass the  _____  eat!  Who should know the dumb creatures better than m     
[024] ling of seeds into green plants, the smell  and cry of  _____ ... They were his, all his  . . .  'Here is your tea,'      
[025]  spring...  Rubbing the walls of my house  like sleepy  _____ ... in am sleepy myself... The spring is  coming...  Wh         


	
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[001] rty pupils  in each classroom, and discipline is quite  _____ .  Students  never speak without permission - they put      
[002] by  Catholic nuns in Ireland and at 17 joined the very  _____  St  Clare  order of nuns. These nuns are so                
[003]            St  Clare  order of nuns. These nuns are so  _____  that they never go  out, laugh, or even  speak unless   

[001]  into bed  with him and become pregnant. Her father, a  _____  man,  refused to see  her ever again, and died  soon a     
[002] ly. But at the moment the Government rules  are rather  _____ . For the first four weeks you'll have to stay  alone i     
[003] ruel to you!' I burst out.  'Cruel? Not at all. She is  _____  and she sees my faults.'  'If I were you, I'd hate her     
[004] s Scatcherd is right to scold me.'  'Is Miss Temple as  _____  as that?' I asked.  A soft smile passed over Helen's n     
[005] is body. He was strong and  healthy as a result of the  _____  training he did every morning.  His training program w     
[006] r, and relations between the classes  were governed by  _____  rules. Certain behaviour was  unacceptable and if the      
[007] tay  seafood  industry was battered by bad weather and  _____  new fishing  regulations. 'Now I think we're facing tw     
[008] ty  pupils  in each classroom, and discipline is quite  _____ .  Students  never speak without permission - they put      
[009] by  Catholic nuns in Ireland and at 17 joined the very  _____  St  Clare  order of nuns. These nuns are so                
[010]            St  Clare  order of nuns. These nuns are so  _____  that they never  go  out, laugh, or even  speak unless     
[011]  into bed  with him and become pregnant. Her father, a  _____  man,  refused to see  her ever again, and died  soon a     
[012] ly. But at the moment the Government rules  are rather  _____ . For the first four weeks you'll have to stay  alone i     
[013] ruel to you!' I burst out.  'Cruel? Not at all. She is  _____  and she sees my faults.'  'If I were you, I'd hate her     
[014] s Scatcherd is right to scold me.'  'Is Miss Temple as  _____  as that?' I asked.  A soft smile passed over Helen's n     
[015] is body. He was strong and  healthy as a result of the  _____  training he did every morning.  His training program w     
[016] r, and relations between the classes  were governed by  _____  rules. Certain behaviour was  unacceptable and if the           


	
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[001]   Twenty-one  days after they had sailed out of Panama  _____ ,  they met some whales. 'They  came out of nowhere,' 

[001] lis there is a path which is a short way  down  to the  _____ .'  'The                                                    
[002]                                               .'  'The  _____ ? You mean '  'Patrick was running away. That's what th     
[003] ent to  Le Havre and worked on a ship that was leaving  _____ . I  didn't have a passport, you see. That made it diic     
[004] ? Who says so?'  'He does. And the captain of Westover  _____  says that a  ship called  the Ira Jones did leave West     
[005] , just where the path from  Tanbitches led down to the  _____  at Westover. There was  a note in the  pocket of the j     
[006] he evidence which would prove it.  He went down to the  _____  and found a shop where he  bought a long  piece of rop     
[007] nning  shoes and did eight  kilometres around Belmont   _____  and back. I had breakfast, picked up the Lynx from  th     
[008] he water is too shallow here. I keep my  yacht at  the  _____  in Lake Blu.'  I sat down and Grafalk brought me a gla     
[009] early the next morning. I ran slowly over to  Belmont   _____  and back. I only did  three kilometres instead  of my      
[010]  Road and turned  left,  following the road up to the   _____ .  A guard was on duty at the entrance. I gave him a br     
[011] afraid,  aren't going to be with us  when we return to  _____ .  So you won't.'  He was trying to frighten me and suc     
[012] He was tall with short grey  hair. From the top of the  _____  building Monika and Lars  watched cars drive onto the      
[013] driver stays with the coach.' Monika and Lars left the  _____   building and went on to the ferry. They met the other     
[014] d coach floor of the ferry. When the  ferry leaves the  _____ , the doors to the car and coach floor  will be locked,     
[015]  this is the key for Dolphin Cottage. Go  down  to the  _____ , turn right and follow that little road shoulder  unti     
[016] m with the fishermen  trying to get up and down to the  _____  in their vans, and  visitors parking on the streets. S     
[017] when the sea was rough and the waves  crashed over the  _____  wall.  It was impossible then for any of the fishermen     
[018] e wind. The tiny garden at the front  looked  over the  _____ .  'I can't believe our luck. Can you imagine anything      
[019] metres above the sea, looking  back down onto Polreath  _____ . It was a wonderful view -  one he felt he'd always re     
[020] r. There were one or two  people on their boats in the  _____ , including a blond-haired  man. 'I wonder if that's Tr     
[021] an,' thought Stephen. He  watched  the activity in the  _____  and slowly the tightness in his  stomach started to go     
[022] k back along the path when he heard voffices from the   _____  below. He turned and saw a dark-haired man  standing a     
[023] t him!  And he watched as the two small boats left the  _____ .  When he got back to Dolphin Cottage with some fresh      
[024]  is like.' Stephen told her about the argument  in the  _____ , and how he was sure one of the men was  Tristan, but      
[025] s, looking at everything. Most of the houses  near the  _____  were like theirs - old stone cottages. There  were one          



	
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[001] en b eleven c eight 8 What kind of animals  run in the  _____  National? a dogs b horses c none 9 Which  universities     
[002]  London.  (North London) 7 b Eleven.  8 b Horses.  The  _____   National takes place every April at Aintree near Uver     
[003]   funny game in South America in 1978.  It was the Rio  _____   Championships in the south of Brazil, and Gremio was      
[004] She hires her own jockeys to ride these horses in the   _____  National  and other major British races, and of course     
[005] to live with her mother  in the Varnum home.  It was a  _____  house, large and white,  with tall dark trees outside.     
[006]   Carter family made the first country records and the  _____   Ole Opry radio show started in Nashville.  Music is s     
[007] e, and blue.  The most famous  place in Arizona is the  _____  Canyon.  This deep river valley  was made by the Color     
[008] film world of Hollywood p.  49 Mount Rainierp.  50 The  _____   Canyonp.  52 Niagara Fallsp.  53 Autumn colours in Ne     
[009]  would probably fail.  Jazz had never been anywhere as  _____  as Swallow Hall  before, and he felt that everyone was     
[010] in and his turban.  But Nutty didn't seem to care  how  _____  it was, although she found she  was the only girl in t     
[011]  be alone with him.  When he went into the bar of  the  _____   Hotel, she was talking to  an older man with  short g     
[012] en b eleven c eight 8 What kind of animals  run in the  _____  National? a dogs b horses c none 9 Which  universities     
[013]  London.  (North London) 7 b Eleven.  8 b Horses.  The  _____   National takes place every April at Aintree near Uver     
[014]   funny game in South America in 1978.  It was the Rio  _____   Championships in the south of Brazil, and Gremio was      
[015] She hires her own jockeys to ride these horses in the   _____  National  and other major British races, and of course  

[001] enthusiastically. 'I  knew  that he would. Isn't he a   _____  old boy!'  '                                               
[002]                                            old boy!'  ' _____ ,' I agreed. 5  'This is his last season, you know. His     
[003] thing ends, doesn't it, old  boy?  But today it's been  _____ .'  I went into the weighing room and her words came wi     
[004]  came with me:  everything  ends, but today it's  been  _____ . Ten years  had been                                       
[005]                                  . Ten years  had been  _____ , but everything ends.  Life changes, everything ends.      
[006]  being held in Godmere, a town near Beershorn,  in the  _____  Hotel there. Flora's driver  stopped near the main  en     
[007] t is that man who sees a beautiful  woman descending a  _____   staircase', and did Flora not have both these things      
[008] That's my good boy,' the old woman murmured. 'But how   _____  you are tonight! What's all this?' And  she pulled at      
[009] I don't know anything about art, and I haven't met any  _____   people, and I don't wear expensive clothes, but up to     
[010] he was unshaven, but there was still  something of the  _____  manner about him. Thought I'd be  seeing you soon,' he     
[011] e was, of course, something to be  taken away from the  _____  total - a matter of 2,310.  SURVIVAL  As the bus drove     
[012] nts  him to marry Miss Darcy. We aren't rich enough or  _____   enough for them, and she is eager to have a family  c     
[013]  said.  Sitting at the long table in Mr Grisman's very  _____  office  were three other men in suits. By the door Mr      
[014] ttractive.' I looked  away,  suddenly feeling nervous.  _____  ideas about the sense of  spending some time on my own     
[015]  have been here and I think I should go back to see my  _____   mother now.'  It was a long I walk to Highbury and Em     
[016] family of Markel who had been the chief servant at the  _____   home of Alexander Alexandrovich Gromeko - Tonya's hom     
[017] 120 of her closest friends to a private  dinner on the  _____  promenade of Avery Fisher Hall. What  better  way to h     
[018] Fundy shore, up the  Evangeline Trail to Wolfville and  _____  Pre, and, in fact,  across  the peninsula to Lunenberg     
[019] of those things. And it was special enough to  win the  _____  prize in the 11th annual Jersey Fresh Dairy  Recipe  C     
[020] ment  despite  a rule preventing girls from playing in  _____  Slam events until  they are 16, was the star of the ev     
[021] rate Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg.    The Los Angeles  _____  Prix sputtered to a start Saturday as  construction cr     
[022]  '50s, was considered the West Coast's  answer to  the  _____  Ole Opry. Moore was born on a livestock farm in  Algon     
[023] rr, had  appealed a lower court's refusal to enforce a  _____  jury's  subpoena for James Hamilton's notes, arguing t     
[024] ence  statements  that Harris made to detectives and a  _____  jury before he  was  slain. Harris, 19, of Southeast W     
[025]   police a videotaped statement and testified before a  _____   jury,  saying he was with Hager when Hager allegedly      


	
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[001] lled 'the square mile',  and it has hundreds of banks,  _____  companies and  financial centres.  The Bank of England     
[002]  the main kinds of  business in the City?  Banking and  _____ .  Banks were places where people  kept their money.        
[003]  .  Banks were places where people  kept their money.   _____  companies started because  Britain had a lot of shipow     
[004] , ship-owners lost everything.  So they paid money  to  _____  companies to protect themselves.  Why is the  City of      
[005] t with anyone, without first discussing it with  your   _____  company. If there is no injury, move your car to  the      
[006]  information: 1) Other  driver's name and address; his  _____   company and certificate number.  (Note whether his dr     
[007] ng more later.) You  should ordinarily report to your   _____  company fairly soon  after the accident, even if you d     
[008] ,  but he  just suggested that I make a report for his  _____   company, and then make  suitable arrangements for rep     
[009] s time, Preppie.'  So we walked.  'Have you got health  _____ ?' they asked us in the  hospital.  'No.' We had never      
[010] he  hospital.  'No.' We had never thought about buying  _____ .  We  were too busy buying furniture and kitchen  thin     
[011] lled 'the square mile',  and it has hundreds of banks,  _____  companies and  financial centres.  The Bank of England     
[012]  the main kinds of  business in the City?  Banking and  _____ .  Banks were places where people  kept their money.        
[013]  .  Banks were places where people  kept their money.   _____  companies started because  Britain had a lot of shipow     
[014] , ship-owners lost everything.  So they paid money  to  _____  companies to protect themselves.  Why is the  City of      
[015] t with anyone, without first discussing it with  your   _____  company. If there is no injury, move your car to  the      
[016]  information: 1) Other  driver's name and address; his  _____   company and certificate number.  (Note whether his dr     
[017] ng more later.) You  should ordinarily report to your   _____  company fairly soon  after the accident, even if you d     
[018] ,  but he  just suggested that I make a report for his  _____   company, and then make  suitable arrangements for rep   

[001] ora Grain and got  Phillips's  address from Janet.  My  _____  company had provided me with another car, a  Chevette,     
[002] e a chicken sandwich at a little  bar  behind the Ajax  _____   Company building. Then I  went into the Ajax building     
[003] er Ferrant had  come over from London to deal with the  _____  problems  of the  Lucella.  'I may have some informati     
[004] usiastic. 'Now we'll see the whole  picture:  workers'  _____  and  cargo                                                 
[005]                                             and  cargo  _____  as well  as the ship                                       
[006]                                   as well  as the ship  _____  which I deal with. You go through the  workers'            
[007]       which I deal with. You go through the  workers'   _____  files and find  out how many people  sail for him ever     
[008] en we can guess his costs. I'll go  through  the cargo  _____  files  and see how much he's  earning.'  I sat down at     
[009] wished I could blow  up all my  ships and collect the   _____ . Then I had a  better idea. Get rid of the Lucella and     
[010]  'No, my dear. That  won't do.  The president of Ajax   _____  Company came  to visit me two days ago with an extraor     
[011] . And we were attacked and burnt out of our houses  as  _____ . Strelnikov won't have any more trouble in this  distr     
[012]  price-earnings ratios, especially in the oil,  paper,  _____  and specialty retail sectors.  "We think  buying  cons     
[013]  a former accountant with  a  major firm who now sells  _____  as an independent broker  from  a midtown Manhattan of     
[014] t  instead of the code for Medi-Cal, the state medical  _____   agency that she believed would pay the bill. The upsh     
[015]  seven-foot  copper  pole.  ") I then bought a special  _____  policy to protect my  equipment from the ravages of th     
[016] places  severe restrictions - like astronomically high  _____   premiums  - on the ownership of specific breeds like      
[017] are torture).    WE are often reminded by health care,  _____ , and risk  management experts that managed care is the     
[018] residents and merchants, led by  the  owner of a local  _____  agency, says Old Town is the last  stronghold in this      
[019] and a degree from  George Mason University in Hispanic  _____  agency  studies, an  interdisciplinary major he concoc     
[020]  pension and retirement savings plans, not to mention   _____  against ill health, disability and death. When you  li     
[021]  hearing Terry's work. When you ask about things like   _____ ,  you will hear his worries. ''For the self-employed,      
[022] k on, but it would be ugly.' Bill Conroy, a Riverdale   _____  agent, suggested another money-saving  maneuver: Shop      
[023]  with high deductibles -how much you pay before  your   _____  kicks in -and high co-                                     
[024]                                  kicks in -and high co- _____  rates. The latter  means  that even after the              
[025]          rates. The latter  means  that even after the  _____  starts paying, you pay a higher  percentage yourself.      


	
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[001] 'A very.  .  .  very nice - er  person.  He's kind and  _____  and I like him a lot, but.  .  .  but.  .  .'  'Yes?'      
[002] s evil.  You know, very evil.''Evil? But you said he's  _____  and kind  and playful.' 'That's an interesting point,'     
[003] ' I said.  'Tell me,  Louis.  Can a person be evil and  _____  and kind and playful at  the same time? What do you th     
[004] for a  long time.  My heart was going wildly.  'That's  _____ ,' I thought.  'Why doesn't he play? He's like a little     
[005] unished me.  He pushed me, kicked  me and hit me.  The  _____  thing is: you can never see any  signs of this 'punish     
[006]  shoulder at Pilgrim.  .  'Look at him, Grace! He's so  _____ .' Grace was laughing too  much to reply.  Her horse wa     
[007]  right now.  In  fact it was aching terribly.  But the  _____  half-leg that was left  didn't seem to belong to her a     
[008]  had an easy, confident way with horses.  'He looks so  _____ ,' said Scott, watching the young horse  behind Bronty.     
[009]  a nice man.  Of' course he was.  He was full of life,  _____   and interesting.  More important, he was interested.      
[010] r two at my cafe.  He  sat  and drank with us and told  _____  stories.  Many of the  fishermen came to the cafe when     
[011]   The soldier seemed very happy.  He  told us a lot of  _____  stories about his life as a soldier.  Then,  at about      
[012] the producer George Martin mainly  produced records of  _____  songs.  But Martin knew a lot  about  music and about      
[013] one.  George  was the quiet one.  Ringo was the happy,  _____  one.  John  was  the intelligent one.  He often made j     
[014] en, spent a few days with the band.  The  Beatles were  _____ , and the film showed this.  Owen also  understood the      
[015] embers that he came straight from a club for one very   _____  part.  He says that he wasn't acting much! John and  P     
[016] ok in 1964.  John Lennon In His Own Write was full  of  _____  short stories and pictures.  It didn't have any seriou     
[017] meaning.  In the introduction Paul wrote, 'If it seems  _____ ,  then that's enough. ? John wrote another book the ne     
[018] 't believe about the bad, crazy,  dangerous, but often  _____  world of football - the beautiful  game! Russ Williams     
[019] t of the football world for ever.  There was one very   _____  game in South America in 1978.  It was the Rio Grand       
[020]  the  next part of the Championships.  The game was so  _____  that  people in Brazil laughed about it a lot.  The ma     
[021] nd out, he said, 'I didn't mean it.  I  was only being  _____ .' But the FA didn't think it was                           
[022]                      .' But the FA didn't think it was  _____ .  They did the worst possible thing: they banned him f     
[023]  did not plan to make  trouble; he just thought it was  _____ .  But the wives of the  players did not quite see it t     
[024] y tell him to drive the  wrong way and then think it's  _____  if he drives into a wall.  On  one tour to Germany, th     
[025] l the  English what he thought about them.  He is both  _____  and  rude about the strange things English people do a   

[001] we began to talk.  George told us about something very  _____  that happened to  his father  once . .  When he was yo     
[002] so quickly. I tried to  make him  see that it was very  _____ , but he did not  agree with me.  After that, it was ti     
[003] y serious young man - quite  unable, sadly, to see the  _____  side of anything, but at the  same time very brave and     
[004] am looked on and was well satisfied with the result.  ' _____ ,' he said, 'if any Ashby was going to earn his living      
[005] y  laughed. Only sometimes, when she told him  about a  _____  little cat she once had, who  used to scratch and pret     
[006] Oh!' cried the girls. 'Isn't he a scream? Isn't he too  _____ ?'  A dark girl with a sad face touched Miss Moss on th     
[007] eet and round the corner. Oh dear, I must  have looked  _____ , with my hand rolled up  in my skirt and my hair stick     
[008] tart.  . Oh yes - once I felt like a child! That was -  _____ ! It was like  this. My lady had her two little nieces      
[009] ounger. But I never did. He had a little flower-shop.   _____ , wasn't it? I've always loved flowers.  We were having     
[010] '  'No hurry, sir. It's not really important. But it's  _____ , you  know,  people's memory of events  often changes      
[011] im and  rushed up to kiss him. Then she laughed.  'How  _____  and black and cross you look! But that's because  I'm      
[012] rying to read to  himself sometimes and it's extremely  _____ ! He makes some  terrible mistakes!' After a moment's s     
[013] or me.'  Mrs Christiansen looked surprised. 'You are a  _____  girl,  Lucille! You  want to be with the  children day     
[014]  at the kind of joke  other people didn't think at all  _____ , and  going for country walks,  and not being asked to     
[015]  choffice,' said Flora, with approval. 'He has such  a  _____  little nose.'  Later that evening they all drove away      
[016] But it's not  a good idea to tell everyone about that.  _____  thing, but I feel  I can trust you. I think we're goin     
[017]  of term  I've seen  for two years,' he said dreamily.  _____  thing, I can always  manage all right for about six we     
[018] een telling  you about his Doubts?'  Yes,' said Paul.   _____  thing,' said Grimes, but I've never been worried in  t     
[019] lled Line.'  No, sir, I'm Line. He's just trying to be  _____ .'  Me trying to be                                         
[020]                                    .'  Me trying to be  _____ ! Please, sir, I'm Line, really I am.'  Well, if it com     
[021] y keen on poems when I  was younger love and all that.  _____  how one grows out of  that sort of thing.'  Inside the     
[022] aying his bill. Been doing this all over the country.   _____  thing is, I think he really believes his own story.'       
[023] est Rolls Royce was waiting outside the hotel.  It's a  _____  thing,' said the best man. No one could have  guessed      
[024] ir's pink face showed amazement. Good God!  How damned  _____ ! At least it would be, at any other time.'  But Peter,     
[025] avers?'  Yes. He's called Lord Metroland now.'  What a  _____  name!' They walked back to the villa together.  I thou       


	
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[001] ut the  First World War.  The war taught us a terrible  _____  about  the  modern world, he said.  It was more savage     
[002] he student  said sorry.  This taught King an important  _____ -how to  change an enemy into a friend.  After this, Ki     
[003] , their first day in the  US  taught them an important  _____  ...  about money.  Most  immigrants arrived by boat.       
[004]   definitely. The pupils sit in rows,  and before each  _____  they  stand up and bow to the teacher, just as all  Ja     
[005] ometimes I write the words that  are new from the last  _____ , and I put the  list on the kitchen  door and I see it     
[006] 7 - I have a little  cassette  recorder, and after the  _____  I record onto the tape the  sentences  that have the n     
[007] we  won't talk of  this again.  It's been a  wonderful  _____  for me.  That's all.'  When Lord Henry had left, Doria     
[008] ld them.  She went with the boys to the first swimming  _____ .  It was  not a great success.  Gary could swim well,      
[009]  when  they went to the riding school for their  first  _____ , Nails, unsmiling and silent, went along with them.  T     
[010] ed to be able to ride Bones, and he  enjoyed his first  _____  very much.  Nutty just stood by the wall  with Nails a     
[011] ere old and tired, and her team  was awful!  After the  _____ , Nails walked with Nutty to her bus stop.  'I  want to     
[012]  she agreed and a week  later they met for their first  _____ .  Nails was  angry most of the time because he hated t     
[013] r, he'll  have to swim to stay alive.  At their first   _____  Hoomey could only swim about three metres in  shallow      
[014] he  had swum, and went over to Jazz and Bean.  But the  _____  was Jazz was not so successful.  Nails  decided to tea     
[015] ter if it  was raining or snowing; they still had the   _____ .  Nails could make Firelight do anything for him now.      
[016] d  targets with him, and was ready to start  the first  _____ .  Everybody in the school wanted to try the  shooting      
[017]  things, so  get  lost before I shoot you.'  The first  _____  went well and Mr Potter agreed to come  down two or th     
[018] ested in staying with me all evening, but I learnt  my  _____  in Italy.  There was a postcard at the hotel from my m     
[019] ut the  First World War.  The war taught us a terrible  _____  about  the  modern world, he said.  It was more savage     
[020] he student  said sorry.  This taught King an important  _____ -how to  change an enemy into a friend.  After this, Ki     
[021] , their first day in the  US  taught them an important  _____  ...  about money.  Most  immigrants arrived by boat.       
[022]   definitely. The pupils sit in rows,  and before each  _____  they  stand up and bow to the teacher, just as all  Ja     
[023] ometimes I write the words that  are new from the last  _____ , and I put the  list on the kitchen  door and I see it     
[024] 7 - I have a little  cassette  recorder, and after the  _____  I record onto the tape the  sentences  that have the n  

[001] d the countryside he  looked for a good place for this  _____ , but could find none  on  Latchetts land. He thought o     
[002] iting  moments .  When he arrived at her house for his  _____  last Wednesday  afternoon  the front door was  locked,     
[003] ied hard to  concentrate on Kafka  for the rest of the  _____ .  That was a week ago. He had been looking forward to      
[004] s a week ago. He had been looking forward to his.  30   _____   with her today, but at  about 7. 30 this morning  a l     
[005] I'm sorry but I won't be able to see you for our usual  _____   today. Go  on reading Kafka - you'll discover what a      
[006]   to ask a direct question.  'Were you going to have a  _____  with Miss Scott the day  she killed  herself?' He did      
[007] Anne on the day of  her death,  cancelling his German   _____ , had been  delivered to his house by hand. At the next     
[008] ou lied to me. You told me Miss Scott  cancelled  your  _____  the week  before she died.  That's not true. You got h     
[009] e a note to Edward  Murdoch, cancelling  his Wednesday  _____ . In the morning she received a letter  from the  Jeric     
[010] elf on Wednesday  morning, why had  she cancelled her   _____  with Edward, the  evening before? Another strange thin     
[011] erely  J. Burkitt (Manager)  So she cancelled Edward's  _____  because she was  expecting men from  the curtain compa     
[012] e break. By  the time the bell rang for the end of the  _____ , Clutterbuck  had written sixteen pages, and was given     
[013]   organ in the village church. It was his second music  _____   with  Paul.  Do you know, sir, the fifth year really      
[014] ater Beste-Chetwynde and Paul were having  their organ  _____  in Llanabba village church.  I don't think I played th     
[015] ins.'  They went back inside to begin another spelling  _____ .  As the last of the guests departed, Mrs Beste-Chetwy     
[016] hap. All I can say is, it was time  the Governor had a  _____ . It's all his fault.'  It might easily have been one o     
[017]  a bench near  the door, with my slate.  'Put away the  _____  books and fetch the supper trays!'  called Miss  Mille     
[018] Oliver  together.  Every  day St John taught one Bible  _____   at the school, and Miss Oliver, who knew her power ov     
[019] you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth, had not taught me a  _____ .  I owe you a great deal for that.' 'And I, how soon I     
[020] er going to say?  She tried to concentrate on her Thai  _____ .  Sharing troubles  'But, Mr Stanyer? Forty-six per ce     
[021] omorrow Mr Stanyer wants  me  to have my first private  _____ . But we can start next week'  That's agreed then,' sai     
[022] r Stanyer had said he would want the  money after each  _____ , twice a week. Without good results  in English, she c     
[023] wo policemen entered the classroom during her English   _____ . One was fat, his stomach tight in his brown uniform,      
[024] es and the  amounts she paid to Mr Stanyer after each ' _____ '. She  would only spend what she needed to. She felt v     
[025] er gave her from the workbook at  the beginning of the  _____ , and then when he went to 'make  a telephone call', sh       


	
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[001] the  ocean floor.  Soon they couldn't believe what the  _____  was  showing them.  There was a big, dark shape in the     
[002] tt Bukater is o1d.  She thinks  back to the past.  The  _____  shows us the young Rose,  when she sees the Titanic fo     
[003] they understood: they saw Imelda  Marcos in tears! The  _____  showed crying children and the  empty dinner table.  I     
[004] n it's a time to play, really.  Sometimes I bring the   _____  or video recorder and shoot some  pictures. And then i     
[005] e the waiter his coffee cup.  The waiter looked at the  _____  on the table.   On vacation?'  he said.   Where are yo     
[006] tes, Nick Finished his  coffee, took his books and his  _____ , and left the caf��.  His  car was just outside the gi     
[007] garden of a big, expensive  house.  They smiled at the  _____ , and they looked very  happy.  Canadian millionaire, H     
[008] ry dangerous.'  'I will,' I said.  Sometimes I took my  _____  to the beach and took  photographs of  some of the boa     
[009]  One day, I was walking back to the house, and had my   _____  with  me.  I stopped and looked  at the big house.   1     
[010] a good  picture.'  I looked at the building through my  _____ , and took the  photograph.  Mr Ross was coming  out of     
[011] .  He came  quickly up to  me and said, 'Give me  your  _____ .' He  looked very worried.  'What's wrong?' I asked in     
[012]   'What's wrong?' I asked in surprise.  I gave him the  _____ .  'Never take photographs of Mr Ross,' he said.  And t     
[013] r Ross,' he said.  And then he  opened  the back of my  _____  and  took out the film.  'Hey! What are you doing?' I      
[014] ictures of him.'  Mr Ross was watching us.  He saw the  _____  and he saw  Mr Duncan  take out the film, but he  said     
[015] ouse.  Later, I told my mother about Mr Duncan and the  _____ .  'He spoiled  my film,' I said.   'I don't understand     
[016]  Tours in central London.  She had her suitcase and a   _____  with her.  A group of people was already sitting in th     
[017] seum. .  Bill Berryman walked around it with his video  _____ .  'I want to show the people back in the States this w     
[018] of thing.' 'So you're a photographer?  That's why your  _____  case is so big?'  'Er - yes - I send my photographs to     
[019] ut even coming very close.  He was  carrying his video  _____ .  'I got some fine pictures of the  lake.  I must see      
[020] anted to go shopping.  Bill was still using his video   _____ .' Noel and the boys wanted to talk to the Italian girl     
[021] .  Noel and Martin were pretending  to sing.  Then the  _____  moved quickly and it was difficult to see.  'Was that      
[022] our package to your friend?'  Vic  picked up his large  _____  case and put it on his shoulder.  'Yes, thanks.  Angel     
[023] d say something to  Sarah.  He took something from his  _____  case and  dropped his case on the floor.  Sarah ran to     
[024] ts into the different countries.  Vic hid them in  his  _____  case.  It was too big for just one                         
[025]                     case.  It was too big for just one  _____ .  I  followed him everywhere.  I saw the people that h  

[001]  made a beautiful  picture,  and Frances took out her   _____ . Just then a  woman in black came out of the windmill      
[002]   safe in his box in the  ground. Goodbye to  George's  _____ , which was always watching the worst  moments, catchin     
[003] turned towards Steve.  Automatically I  reached for my  _____   and took a couple of  photographs. No one noticed: ph     
[004] y was my hobby,  and all the  jockeys were used to my   _____ .  'It was awful,' Steve said. 'Mum had made some cakes     
[005]   'Put them in a cupboard.'  Steve looked at the Nikon  _____ . 'Dad saw some of your  pictures. He  said that one da     
[006] t.'  He watched me put the box in the car, with my two  _____   bags.  'You never go anywhere without a                   
[007]                bags.  'You never go anywhere without a  _____ , do you?' he said.  'You're  just like Dad.'  I drove      
[008] I picked up  my Nikon and took  a few pictures of the   _____  men. Lance Kinship turned his head and saw me.  He loo     
[009] Deep blue. George Millace put a blue filter  on to his  _____  and photographed a black and white  picture on to a co     
[010] ermission.'  One of the men reached out and took Ken's  _____ . 'They  may be OK, but this certainly is not.'  'You'r     
[011]  right,' John said quickly. 'Mapetla, please take the   _____  and put it in my car.' He gave Mapetla the keys and  t     
[012] me here in 1652, two hundred years  before there was a  _____ .' He pointed to the earliest  photograph, taken in the     
[013]  hold of Mapetla. Ken dropped his ice-cream, took his   _____   from where it hung on his belt, and ran forward takin     
[014] oods closed the door behind them and Ken took a small   _____  from his pocket. Quickly, he moved about the body,  ta     
[015] ve been allowed into the boys' changing  room with his  _____ . And Pennyfeather, I hope you will  make  sure that th     
[016] her jeans pocket. She carefully took out a very  small  _____  which looked like a cigarette lighter.  Monika photogr     
[017] gether and holding hands, both of them  looking at the  _____  and smiling. Huw stood in front of the  studio window      
[018] urteen,  all standing very straight and smiling at the  _____ . It was an  old school photograph.  'And look, there's     
[019] , don't we?' 'And I'm the only one not looking  at the  _____ . I'm looking at you! You see, even then I was  only in     
[020]  And now her suitcase was lost.  With her clothes, her  _____  - everything.  She said slowly in English, 'It was blu     
[021] ple - Bernard Chiluba All welcome.  She thought of her  _____  lying unused on the desk in her  room. She used to bel     
[022] them. 'Hi, Bernard. You all right, then?  Where's your  _____ ?' 'You've seen him before,' said  Bernard to Ikuko. 'I     
[023]  spring flowers,' said Mike.  Ikuko bent down with her  _____ , trying to take a picture of  the small flowers, bur i     
[024] o looked up in  surprise. Bernard stood there with his  _____ . 'You looked  lovely standing there, as if you were ma     
[025] ute,' he said, and went  inside. He came back with his  _____ . The Japanese girl  looked back at him, unsmiling, as