MULTI_CONC
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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? (Corpus=corpus_awl.txt )
belt
courage
merchant
package
punish
reflects
ruin
stir
tongue
tonight
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2. WORDS
belt
courage
merchant
package
punish
reflects
ruin
stir
tongue
tonight
[001] fter the Mets' 4-3 loss in 12 innings to the Orioles _____ , jabbing his fork at a sliver of onion. "Hmmm," the
[002] 3-0 victory over the San Jose Clash at Giants Stadium _____ , good for 3 points in the standing, gave the MetroSta
[003] als their points - 3 for an outright victory such as _____ 's, or 1 for a shootout victory - added to points the
[004] cottages in Clegg, Lancashire. Theme Park Britons, ( _____ , Channel 4, 9.15pm) details the council's plan to ou
[005] fun IN THE third of BBC 2's Building Sights series ( _____ , 10.20pm), the chairman of the Arts Council, Peter Pa
[006] hop for the Sheffield master cutler David Mellor. In _____ 's Building Sights (10.20pm, BBC2), writer Gillian Dar
[007] 891115 Architecture Update: A medical phenomenon IN _____ 'S Building Sights (BBC2 10.20pm), Edward Cullinan, on
3. WORDS
belt
courage
merchant
package
punish
reflects
ruin
stir
tongue
tonight
[001] asons for what you think, feel and do. It takes great _____ to know things you can't explain, stand up for your i
[002] . At least three movies about to open - "My Mother's _____ ," "A Self- Made Hero" and "The Long Way Home" - atte
[003] From Germany, Michael Verhoeven's film "My Mother's _____ " is the fictional reconstruction of a true story abou
[004] a student group that fought the Nazis. "My Mother's _____ , " which will open Sept. 10 at Film Forum in New Yo
[005] ays a threat. Jim Harbaugh leads in playmaking and in _____ and Coach Lindy Infante is an adept play- caller. OUT
[006] yer, he was even closer to death last year. Through _____ and medicine, he traced a path partway back to healt
[007] s a way of talking about England, about right, about _____ as a sort of secular sainthood, and it is his words,
4. WORDS
belt
courage
merchant
package
punish
reflects
ruin
stir
tongue
tonight
[001] t to be homeless have no choice but to be public; to _____ them for this heaps injustice on top of indignity. As
[002] Louima, a Haitian immigrant, and had taken steps to _____ several police officers and supervisors connected to
[003] hire resort which a Football Association inquiry may _____ by banning City supporters from remaining away games;
[004] s retrospectively and enacted legislation which would _____ any athlete who passed a drug test but subsequently a
[005] Wright turned it down and demanded that I go out and _____ Mr. Wright. I am an attorney, not an instrument of v
[006] s we shall see, the Tories were already planning to " _____ " Steele for his political writing by expelling him f
[007] as like finally getting into one's own nightmares to _____ one's dreams. Two men pulled him off. Nobody said
5. WORDS
belt
courage
merchant
package
punish
reflects
ruin
stir
tongue
tonight
[001] uired to produce this volume of grain. Such a volume _____ about 20 percent of the region's annual water use and
[002] in the field of medicine. Because ultrasound readily _____ off cells, it can be used to measure blood in places
[003] ion of this device uses a 3 megahertz (MHz) beam that _____ off arterial blood. Different blood flow rates will
[004] of the club,' he'll say, only half- jokingly, when he _____ on his place in the jazz mainstream. He made his big
[005] re faced in a swathe of reflective glass that merely _____ other mundane buildings, some in brick, some with ha
[006] he only issue is whether a contemporary architecture _____ the aspirations of those who use it or of those that
[007] he only issue is whether a contemporary architecture _____ the aspirations of those who use it or of those that
6. WORDS
belt
courage
merchant
package
punish
reflects
ruin
stir
tongue
tonight
[001] Mistry is designing a 40-storey block for the textile _____ and developer Roy Sandhu (scaled down from the origin
[002] f the 1970s, after the collapse of Keyser Ullman, the _____ bank where he was a director that was rescued by the
[003] emerger plan By MARY FAGAN, Technology Correspondent _____ bankers proposing a demerger of Ferranti Internation
[004] ted. �ĢBusiness & City Page 27 891003 Market Report: _____ banks in demand on bid expectations By DEREK PAIN THE
[005] hares raced ahead there was some determined buying of _____ banks, particularly Morgan Grenfell. In often active
[006] er cent to its earnings. But Morgan was not the only _____ bank in favour. Kleinwort Benson, which disclosed it
[007] apanese buyers lurk _ has occurred at a time when the _____ bankers, after a long period in the doldrums, are en
7. WORDS
belt
courage
merchant
package
punish
reflects
ruin
stir
tongue
tonight
[001] nt, configuration, constant, entity, function, label, _____ , procedure, signal, subtype, type, or variable), the
[002] contractor, say Toyota, pays a high wage-and-benefit _____ to core employees, but outsources jobs requiring low
[003] The more stationary workplace means more traffic from _____ delivery or mail- order companies and less business f
[004] s described as a "reporting, response, and promotion _____ ". React requires no special customer card to instigat
[005] a hurricane or earthquake. Wrapped in a tiny plastic _____ , almost any sensor could be implanted with a high ch
[006] t of the flounder's forty antifreeze genes. The total _____ started to come together. Later, an intestinal bacte
[007] w, successful managers can negotiate themselves a new _____ of options from scratch. This partly explains London
8. WORDS
belt
courage
merchant
package
punish
reflects
ruin
stir
tongue
tonight
[001] on Prospect Heights! that was disaster, devastation, _____ . Herbert, on seeing the engineer, the reporter, and
[002] somber taciturnity occasioned by the devastation and _____ of his domain. His hopes, it is true, were concentra
[003] the truth that out of false pride they are visiting _____ on Central Africa. Right now, they are pushing a
[004] enyin' that they not only saved Texas from financial _____ , but went far toward redeemin' from a wilderness vas
[005] probably let loose Indian insurrections that brought _____ to the company. In 1721 the King sent three com
[006] rophically in an invasion of Russia and each brought _____ on the country that worshipped him. Each is still gl
[007] man. "... the nomination of Hearst would compass the _____ of the party", Carmack said. "It would be a disgrace
9. WORDS
belt
courage
merchant
package
punish
reflects
ruin
stir
tongue
tonight
[001] work. At 35, Sheryl Crow has two hit albums under her _____ , five Grammy Awards and looks that most younger wom
[002] sunglasses. The unit consists of video eyewear and a _____ pack containing a TV tuner, a battery, and an interf
[003] vation may soon be the new inspector on the conveyor _____ . Human inspectors become bored and sloppy. It looks
[004] miniature solid- state television cameras carried in a _____ or shoulder pack. These images will be processed by a
[005] 213 Architecture Update: Circuit plans for the green _____ By JONATHAN GLANCEY Former world champion Grand Prix
[006] onal racing circuit at Ingliston in Edinburgh's green _____ . With a 10,000-seat grandstand and the most sophistic
[007] ttempting to memorise the host of gifts on a conveyor _____ , ranging from a cuddly toy to a microwave. If contes
10. WORDS
belt
courage
merchant
package
punish
reflects
ruin
stir
tongue
tonight
[001] s, and not just to tighten abs or teach customers to _____ -fry. Once they're inside, the grocery store of the 90
[002] tate Senate President, Donald DiFrancesco, created a _____ when he suggested that to make the school more readi
[003] s side of Milan. These canyons of red sandstone still _____ the spirit. The buildings of Glasgow, like those of M
[004] lum- coloured satin, two well-matured dormant bodies _____ grumpily to the digital blips and bleeps of a high-te
[005] Tennant, a former Scottish international, created a _____ four years ago when she switched allegiance and opted
[006] ates in the neighborhood of Granite House. I will not _____ . Poor Mr. Herbert!" Chapter 8 So the convicts were st
[007] f the house. Harding signed to his companions not to _____ , and approached the window, then feebly lighted by t