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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] St Pierre.  If the wind  doesn't  kill them first, the  _____   waters will kill them a few  hours later.'  Captain B     
[002] n top of the ridge and looked down over the city.  The  _____   waters  had already dropped a  little, and they could     
[003]  Several  times  they were nearly drowned in  a sudden  _____ .  The night passed, and daylight brought the calm eye      
[004] hings were needed desperately.  On Cap Sarrat Base the  _____  waters had gone down, but  most of the  buildings were     
[005] ast-flowing streams and  eventually turns  into a huge  _____ ; and it gets into the  channels which are clogged with     
[006] ke contact and ask for money to return the child. ***   _____   KILLS SEVEN After a solid month of rain, the waters o     
[007] St Pierre.  If the wind  doesn't  kill them first, the  _____   waters will kill them a few  hours later.'  Captain B     
[008] n top of the ridge and looked down over the city.  The  _____   waters  had already dropped a  little, and they could     
[009]  Several  times  they were nearly drowned in  a sudden  _____ .  The night passed, and daylight brought the calm eye      
[010] hings were needed desperately.  On Cap Sarrat Base the  _____  waters had gone down, but  most of the  buildings were     
[011] ast-flowing streams and  eventually turns  into a huge  _____ ; and it gets into the  channels which are clogged with     
[012] ke contact and ask for money to return the child. ***   _____   KILLS SEVEN After a solid month of rain, the waters o    

[001] moved nervously around the room.  If only there were a  _____ ... She imagined the water  coming  higher  and higher      
[002] n troubles were, but feared  that this might produce a  _____  of  embarrassing secrets.  Perhaps he was in love with     
[003] ity centre in King William's Town,  which brought in a  _____  of gifts from both black and white  people.  Biko phon     
[004] ela about the  damage  done to the church, and another  _____  of gifts poured in.  Gradually, the damage was repaire     
[005]  asleep, surrounded by flames and  smoke.  'Is there a  _____ ?' he cried.  'No, sir,' I answered, 'but there's been      
[006] ast-flowing streams and  eventually turns  into a huge  _____ ; and it gets into the  channels which are clogged with     
[007] contact and ask for money to return the child.  ***     _____   KILLS SEVEN After a solid month of rain, the waters o     
[008] moved nervously around the room.  If only there were a  _____ ... She imagined the water  coming  higher  and higher      
[009] n troubles were, but feared  that this might produce a  _____  of  embarrassing secrets.  Perhaps he was in love with     
[010] ity centre in King William's Town,  which brought in a  _____  of gifts from both black and white  people.  Biko phon     
[011] ela about the  damage  done to the church, and another  _____  of gifts poured in.  Gradually, the damage was repaire     
[012]  asleep, surrounded by flames and  smoke.  'Is there a  _____ ?' he cried.  'No, sir,' I answered, 'but there's been      


	
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[001] orward to hearing from you! Write soon! Bye for  now.   _____ , Francis Jones. *** Dick: Hello. Operator: Hello.  D:      
[002]  well. Merry Christmas! Write soon. Bye bye for  now.   _____ , James *** AT THE CHECK-IN DESK A: Hello, can I  see y  

[001] will ring you soon, however, with another idea. Yours   _____   George Millace8  I read the letter again. If I enlarg     
[002] l ring you  soon,  however, with another  idea.  Yours  _____  George Millace  Lord White grew older as he read the l     
[003] will ring you soon, however, with another idea. Yours   _____   George Millace  The letter had been sent three years      
[004] ct me to arrange another date for fitting them.  Yours  _____   J. Burkitt (Manager)  So she cancelled Edward's lesso     
[005] , please  let me know during the next few days.  Yours  _____ ,  Sam Clutterbuck  Just look at that!' said Grimes glo     
[006] ome or a hotel. So you see things are not easy.  Yours  _____ ,  Augustus Fagan  z  There was another surprise for Pa     
[007] irst time. I am therefore not at all discouraged,  and  _____  hope we shall be married soon.' 'Sir,' cried  Elizabet     
[008] rn to Netherfield at all. She says the only thing  she  _____  regrets is leaving me behind in Hertfordshire,  and pr     
[009] at case, your anger has not been unreasonable. But  I   _____  believed that her heart had not been touched. I  objec     
[010] e park.  But I must go to my children now.  Yours very  _____ , M. Gardiner  Elizabeth read this letter with a mixtur     
[011] !'  Elizabeth congratulated her sister most warmly and  _____ .  'At last!' she thought. 'The end of all Mr Darcy's a     
[012] at if you banged  on  something hard enough and cursed  _____  enough it would  start  working), a couple of screwdri     
[013] rward to hearing from you! Write soon!  Bye for  now.   _____ , Francis Jones.  ***   Dick: Hello. Operator:  Hello.      
[014] well. Merry Christmas! Write soon. Bye bye  for  now.   _____ , James  ***   AT THE CHECK-IN DESK A:  Hello, can I  s     
[015] will ring you soon, however, with another idea. Yours   _____   George Millace8  I read the letter again. If I enlarg     
[016] l ring you  soon,  however, with another  idea.  Yours  _____  George Millace  Lord White grew older as he read the l     
[017] will ring you soon, however, with another idea. Yours   _____   George Millace  The letter had been sent three years      
[018] ct me to arrange another date for fitting them.  Yours  _____   J. Burkitt (Manager)  So she cancelled Edward's lesso     
[019] , please  let me know during the next few days.  Yours  _____ ,  Sam Clutterbuck  Just look at that!' said Grimes glo     
[020] ome or a hotel. So you see things are not easy.  Yours  _____ ,  Augustus Fagan  z  There was another surprise for Pa     
[021] irst time. I am therefore not at all discouraged,  and  _____  hope we shall be married soon.' 'Sir,' cried  Elizabet     
[022] rn to Netherfield at all. She says the only thing  she  _____  regrets is leaving me behind in Hertfordshire,  and pr     
[023] at case, your anger has not been unreasonable. But  I   _____  believed that her heart had not been touched. I  objec     
[024] e park.  But I must go to my children now.  Yours very  _____ , M. Gardiner  Elizabeth read this letter with a mixtur     
[025] !'  Elizabeth congratulated her sister most warmly and  _____ .  'At last!' she thought. 'The end of all Mr Darcy's a   

[001] at if you banged on something hard  enough and  cursed  _____  enough it would start working), a couple of  screwdriv     
[002] ed on,  their hearts oppressed with anxiety. They were  _____   attached  to their new companion. Were they to find h     
[003]  can judge. He who is  mistaken in an  action which he  _____  believes to be right may be an  enemy,  but retains ou     
[004] aunt but gracious symbol of good,   moving soberly and  _____  in a world of cynics,   hypocrites and rogues.      Ch     
[005] h the Prohibition   law through Congress. Many of them  _____  believe   that the use of liquor in any form or in any     
[006] nt and nostalgia for an America   that was? Or does he  _____  want to tap the real   springs of American attitude an     
[007]  a different sort of constitution that he could   more  _____  support?      I am concerned here, however, with the N     
[008]  their faults, they   are not hypocrites. Most of them  _____  believe   that the Anglo-Saxon is the best race in the     
[009]  come,   you know how glad I shall be.      Ever yours  _____ ,      Katherine Douglas King" The invitation was accep     
[010] know I would make a bad soldier   even though I cannot  _____  call myself a pacifist,   so too I would not be either       


	
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[001] was a land to the west of Africa, across the  Atlantic  _____ .  The name of the land was "Terra  Papagalis,"  the la     
[002]  child, I do not know," Afonso said.  "But father, the  _____  is big.  Can you find us again?" one of  the little bo     
[003] en.  Slowly, the ship went down the Tejo River to the   _____ .  The people, the noise, and the town were behind him      
[004] nty:"'five years old.  It was his  first voyage on the  _____ .  He said, "Every day I am going to  write about my ne     
[005] ew life." March 8: I alp on a caravel in the  Atlantic  _____ .  Where are we going? Why is this an important voyage      
[006] oyage for  Portugal? I am very unhappy.  I look at the  _____  and think  about my home.  I want to be with Silvia an     
[007] ry.  Then he talked about famous navigators and  their  _____  voyages.  His name is   "You are a  writer, too."  Per     
[008] oing to go south.  We are going to go west across the   _____ .  We are going to make a voyage to a new land."  "Wher     
[009] nd for  our king," Cabral said. .  Across the Atlantic  _____ ? A new land? Does my family  remember me? Am I going t     
[010] "  Land!The twelve carave1s  moved across the Atlantic  _____  for forty-four days.  Early in  the morning of April 2     
[011]  animals.  Suddenly, Afonso  stopped and looked at the  _____ .  "What is that?" he said to Raoni and Uira.  "Look!"      
[012] d.  I was very angry.  I  wanted to throw him into the  _____  and kill him.  I walked up  and down my room.  'Why di     
[013] gain.  But I must  continue my slow journey across the  _____  of ice.  When I  saw your ship, Walton, I wanted to as     
[014] escribes the fear of  death during a wild storm on the  _____ .  In "The Murders of the Rue Morgue" and "The Stolen L     
[015]  hear a loud sound.  At the same time, I saw  that the  _____  was changing.  It was becoming rough, and  was beginni     
[016]  Cameron filmed the real Titanic at the  bottom of the  _____ .  He had to go down to the ship in a  submarine twelve     
[017]  and more people wanted to travel across the Atlantic   _____ .  The ships became bigger and better, as ship  compani     
[018]  White Star Line called the Titanic "the Queen of the   _____ ." For first-class passengers, life on the Titanic was      
[019] red.  Suddenly, Fleet  saw a large, black shape in the  _____ .  He rang the warning  three times and telephoned the      
[020] At 2:20 on the morning of April 15, the  "Queen of the  _____ " was gone.  At first, the people in the lifeboats were     
[021] "That's all  right,boys.  Good luck to you."  Soon the  _____  was silent and empty.  "Dead.  They're all dead."  "My     
[022] ." "I hope she arrives soon."  As morning arrived, the  _____  became rougher and rougher.  Then...  "What's that? Ov     
[023]   Atlantic, a ship was picking up dead bodies from the  _____ .  In the next six weeks, 328 bodies were found.  The c     
[024] d of finding the Titanic again.  "Leave it  there."The  _____  was 4,000 meters (13,120 feet) deep  where the Titanic     
[025]   submarine without a crew to search the bottom of the  _____ .  They worked for weeks and found nothing.  Then, on S     

[001] loved in the  world. But those four miles were like an  _____ , which I could  not cross! Don't tell Edgar or Catheri     
[002] it and stared  dreamily at it, his eyes like sightless  _____  pools. ''Tes  mine,' he murmured. ''Tes mine. Aye - my     
[003] ning  Where the River Bualo flows into the warm Indian  _____ ,  on the south east coast of South Africa, lies the ci     
[004] pe Town, driving along the main  coastal road with the  _____  on one side and the mountains  on  the other. They had     
[005] tal of Mozambique. Monika could see the  silver Indian  _____  with a few small fishing boats and a large  ship near      
[006] ew of some yellow palm  trees and the deep blue Indian  _____ .  Monika wanted to call SMI. The hotel though, wasn't      
[007] y good,' he said.  'But swimming in the moonlight with  _____  is even better.  That's my name,                           
[008]                       is even better.  That's my name,  _____ .'                                                          
[009]                                                     .'  _____ ; it suited him.  'Yes,' he said, 'that moon, she tUrns     
[010] im in magic water and your dreams they all come true.   _____ 's voffice was soft and deep, and his brown eyes  looke     
[011]  was a perfect place to watch the sunset.  'Goodnight,  _____ ,' I called, stepping from the silver sand  onto the wo     
[012] t  was Ian returning. But it wasn't Ian at all, it was  _____ .  And he was still smiling at me.  'Now, pretty lady,'     
[013] walk along the shore.  It's all so beautiful: the blue  _____  with little brightly coloured  fishing boats sailing o     
[014] ean voffice, talking to me about  moonlight and magic;  _____ . 'You swim in magic water and  your dreams they all co     
[015] turn to Belize to help save the  animals living in the  _____  around here. But I know I'd have  been even more inter     
[016] phone I was using was inside a bar  with a view of the  _____  and palm trees from the.  window.  'Do you really thin     
[017]  for a while, imagining  everyone swimming in the dark  _____ . Now I thought about  it,  I remembered hearing some e     
[018] didn't make any sense  to me. She said something about  _____  and moonlight. I'm  not sure. After she told me she di     
[019]  there'll be at Ambergris Caye.  Just Jennifer and the  _____  and the moonlight.  If I could stay young and the pict     
[020]  of screaming, shouting people. All  around him was an  _____  of cheering faces. I took his  breath  away.  The glad     
[021]  than I was, but those few years seemed wider than an   _____ . They were never very important to me or to Marcus.  B     
[022]  pipanto!' But he obeyed Father's orders.  We left the  _____  behind us. Out on the sea, the boat had  seemed small      
[023] ed men;  and that to the east of India lay the Eastern  _____ , the edge  of the world.  Alexander led his army east      
[024] ormation. They were still a long way from the Eastern   _____ , which for Greeks meant the edge of the world. To  get     
[025] ng to check if the  Caspian Sea was part of a northern  _____  or joined the  Black Sea; although its southern coast      


	
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[001]  pages long, about old Sumeria.  I will win  the Nobel  _____  for it.  It will make no difference; people will  stil     
[002] own in  Georgia with a female teacher.  There he won a  _____  for the  best speech.  On the way home they were happi     
[003] nt to  prison in June 2002.  THE YOUNGEST NOBEL PEACE   _____  WINNER    On December 10, 1964, at the age of 35, Mart     
[004] 35, Martin Luther King,  Jr.  accepted the Nobel Peace  _____  in Oslo, Norway.  He  was the youngest winner in histo     
[005] h peaceful activities.  After King received the  Nobel  _____ , he was Atlanta's most famous person.  Dr.  Mays  orga     
[006] er.  p. 29: Martin Luther King accepts the Nobel Peace  _____ .  p. 29: Nobel Peace                                       
[007]                                  .  p. 29: Nobel Peace  _____ , a                                                         
[008]                                                    , a  _____  for the hard work of the  world's best leaders  p. 32:     
[009]  famous around the world.  In 1991  she  won the Nobel  _____  for Peace.  Her two proud sons traveled  to Norway and     
[010] er two proud sons traveled  to Norway and received the  _____  for her.  She did not see  them  until a year later, w     
[011] e won several peace prizes, including the Nobel  Peace  _____  in 1977 and  the United Nations Human Rights               
[012]           in 1977 and  the United Nations Human Rights  _____  in  1978. Each year we handle, on average,  nearly 5,0     
[013] ved doing  a dance called the Charleston. I once won a  _____  for that. My  boyfriend had a  car, a Model 'T' Ford.      
[014] od news, too, to do with her dancing. She's won  first  _____  in  a ballet exam. The exam was last week. She had to      
[015] ghts and Martin  Luther King was given the Nobel Peace  _____ .  But in 1968,  he was murdered in Memphis and fightin     
[016]  pages long, about old Sumeria.  I will win  the Nobel  _____  for it.  It will make no difference; people will  stil     
[017] own in  Georgia with a female teacher.  There he won a  _____  for the  best speech.  On the way home they were happi     
[018] nt to  prison in June 2002.  THE YOUNGEST NOBEL PEACE   _____  WINNER    On December 10, 1964, at the age of 35, Mart     
[019] 35, Martin Luther King,  Jr.  accepted the Nobel Peace  _____  in Oslo, Norway.  He  was the youngest winner in histo     
[020] h peaceful activities.  After King received the  Nobel  _____ , he was Atlanta's most famous person.  Dr.  Mays  orga     
[021] er.  p. 29: Martin Luther King accepts the Nobel Peace  _____ .  p. 29: Nobel Peace                                       
[022]                                  .  p. 29: Nobel Peace  _____ , a                                                         
[023]                                                    , a  _____  for the hard work of the  world's best leaders  p. 32:     
[024]  famous around the world.  In 1991  she  won the Nobel  _____  for Peace.  Her two proud sons traveled  to Norway and     
[025] er two proud sons traveled  to Norway and received the  _____  for her.  She did not see  them  until a year later, w     

[001]  its kind? He  tried to remember. You got some kind of  _____   from the United Nations, and a lot of money, he thoug     
[002] the most important event of the day, the Open  Jumping  _____ .  After the first round only Eleanor, Simon, Peggy  Ga     
[003] ar.  Silver, you know.'  Nor will the Llanabba Writing  _____ .'  Because of the floods,' whispered Grimes.  I have r     
[004]  as much  as you can on "Selfishness". There will be a  _____  of half a  crown for the boy who writes the most.'  Fr     
[005] and,  Florence?  I hear they have recently won a third  _____  for their playing. I  think the station-master is thei     
[006] Lady Circle. You  needn't think I'm going to present a  _____  to him. I  won't.'  The Doctor made a brave attempt to     
[007] l the fashionable single men  were shocked that such a  _____  had been stolen from them,  but they accepted Margot's     
[008] mething much more serious was happening. In the Nobel   _____  Room in the City, Hall twelve men and women were  meet     
[009] usually clever student.  At Oxford he won an important  _____  but he was even more  famous for his unusual personal      
[010] SR but it appeared in  Italy in 1957 and won the Nobel  _____  for Literature in 1958.  Because of his problems with      
[011] h the Soviet government,  Pasternak did not accept the  _____ . Pasternak lived most of  his life in Moscow and died      
[012]  he had ever visited.  Heinrich Boll, the German Nobel- _____ -winning novelist, saw  it  for the first time in 1950      
[013] oonist for The Newark Evening News who won a  Pulitzer  _____  in 1949. On Sept. 3, 1914, Mr. Pease, a  constant  cri     
[014] se things. And it was special enough to  win the grand  _____  in the 11th annual Jersey Fresh Dairy  Recipe  Contest     
[015]  by storm while  winning competitive sailing's biggest  _____ , the America's  Cup.  Now a bona fide captain of indus     
[016] .    On the day before Jeff Gordon was to race for the  _____  that  only  (Bill) Elliott has won, the formerly aweso     
[017] r.  'I  love to write,' David McCullough, the Pulitzer  _____ -winning  biographer of Harry S. Truman, told C-SPAN's      
[018] nian Serb  army and  its dream of taking Sarajevo, the  _____  for which much of the  war  had been waged.    A Criti     
[019] r feats, Dr.  Kendrew  and Dr. Perutz shared the Nobel  _____  in Chemistry in 1962.    Joyce Ebert, a versatile char     
[020]  won several peace prizes, including the  Nobel  Peace  _____  in 1977 and  the United Nations Human Rights               
[021]          in 1977 and  the United Nations Human Rights   _____  in  1978. Each year we handle, on average,  nearly 5,0     
[022] ed  doing  a dance called the Charleston. I once won a  _____  for that. My  boyfriend had a  car, a Model 'T' Ford.      
[023] od news, too, to do with her dancing. She's won  first  _____   in  a ballet exam. The exam was last week. She had to     
[024]  the House, which was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker   _____  and  also won the WH Smith Literary Award. She lives b     
[025] work was published in Bucharest, it received the first  _____  of  the Royal Academy at the same time as Ionesco's Nu     


	
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[001] d.  There was a noise at the door.  Then Laurie said, " _____   me, the doctor's here.  Can you wait?" "Yes, of cours     
[002] of  people  were there.  Rip looked for his friends.  " _____  me.  I'm looking for some people.  They're my  friends     
[003] d a horse.  Ichabod arrived at the man's house.  . .  " _____  me!" Ichabod said.  "Yes?" Mr. Van Ripper answered.  "     
[004]   Angela screamed again.  Helen ran down the stairs.  ' _____  me! I'm the tour guide, I must help!' she shouted at       
[005] ill last night.' 'I'll give it to  you, Helen.  Please  _____  me.  It's probably Mars on my  Gemini.' Helen looked a     
[006] ked at the door.  "Who is there?" said the old man.  '" _____  me," I replied.  "I am a tired traveller.  Please can      
[007] ountains.  When she finally looked up, it was night.  ' _____  me!' It was a police officer.  'Are you all right ther     
[008] ontinued to look at  Annie, while she looked at him.  ' _____  me for saying it,' he said.  'But you can't accept no      
[009] ent to  the Minister's rooms.  He was there.  "'Please  _____  me, but I have to wear dark glasses  because of my wea     
[010] arents ate dinner with the  captain, Jack ate alone.  " _____  me, can I have a light?" "Of course."  The two young m     
[011] ngerous for skating.'  'But the girl ?' began Janey.  ' _____  me,' the man said.  'I  think I'll go up to my room no     
[012] at all, at least,  not the way I play it. It's  a good  _____  to go for a walk, and from time to  time you have  to      
[013]  and hide somewhere. I mean, I didn't  have the least   _____  at all. The whole thing was entirely unnecessary. BG:      
[014] ighly  skilled driver'. The judge  said that it was no  _____ . 'You are  a danger to yourself and to everybody else      
[015] ed by the number. D: Thank  you, Goodbye.*** Teacher:   _____  me, would you stop tapping your pencil on your  desk,      
[016] r. B: Pardon? D I said don't worry. It's OK.*** Dick:   _____  me? Anna: Yes? D: Would you mind if I went before you?     
[017]  going above freezing. And that's all from me.*** Man:  _____  me,  Miss!  Woman: Yes, love? M: What's on the menu to     
[018] uld we ever explain why we  were driving so fast? What  _____  did we  have? None. He could  prove that we were crimi     
[019]  the white head above the other  heads near the desk.   _____  me!' said Nick.  He pushed past the people in the  hot     
[020] t  about millionaires' daughters and men  with guns.'   _____  me,' somebody said.   Can I sit with you?'  Nick looke     
[021] ason Williams  must stay at the police station and-'  ' _____  me,' said Sally Cash.  'Mr Williams slept in a police      
[022] with you?  Are you sleeping? You begin to play here.'   _____  me, Mr Rinaldi,' said someone at the back of the  room     
[023] wson,' he  said.  He stood up, and ran to  the door.  ' _____  me.  I .  .  .' But then he opened the door, and his w     
[024] sir,' I said  coldly.  'My name is Pinkhammer.  Please  _____  me.'  The man moved away, in surprise, and I walked ov     
[025] k I remember him,' I said.  'He called me "Bellford".   _____   me, but who are you?'  'I'm Bobby Volney.  I've been     

[001] t. A  light shone on him for a  moment. It was Tony.  ' _____  me, dear,' he said, and he jumped over me into  Strato     
[002] an knocking on the doors of houses  in that  street.  ' _____  me,' I said. 'Does Samantha live here?'  'Who?'  'Sama     
[003] otels. Then we met a  man and we decided to ask him.  ' _____  me, do you know any nice little hotels near here?'  we     
[004]  some time. Then George turned to the  man and said,  ' _____  me, I hope you don't mind, but my  friend and I, who a     
[005] the boat. As he did so, the oicial called after  him:   _____  me, sir. Has your friend got a ticket?'  What do you m     
[006] tomb. It is to be an earth grave in the  churchyard.'   _____  me, sir,' said Wickem, very surprised. Do I  understan     
[007] o listen to their new radio ... always  she found some  _____ . As for Chike, he was worried.  When  he had rescued h     
[008] th a sun burned face and white hair pushed  past me.  ' _____  me. Out of the way,  please.'  'Who's that?' I asked t     
[009] ut looking straight at her, he said,  almost angrily: ' _____  me,  Mademoiselle, you dropped this.'  And he gave her     
[010] l  have enough lilies! The garden party will be a good  _____ .'  'But I thought that we children had to organize eve     
[011] d to Laura. 'I'm her  sister, miss,' she said. 'You'll  _____  her, won't you?'  'Oh, but of course!' said Laura. 'Pl     
[012]  a look  at it."' And Miss Moss heard herself saying: ' _____  me, but I  happen to be a singer, and I have sung  tha     
[013] Why don't they begin?" The singer has not  arrived  . " _____  me, I happen to be a singer;  I have sung that music m     
[014] a tram to the station,' cried the little  governess.  ' _____  me?'  'The station!'  'There - there's a tram now,' an     
[015] I think it's most beautifully slippery,' said Leila.  ' _____  me?' The voffice sounded surprised. Leila said it  aga     
[016] like me, and she is  using the rules of the game as an  _____  for not speaking.  Well, if she  doesn't like sitting      
[017] ed. One of the prison  officers came  into the room.  ' _____  me, Doctor,' he said politely. 'Has someone  brought t     
[018] then? This was the chapel.  We've made a few changes.   _____  me, Mr Peck, you aren't a Catholic, are you?'  It was      
[019]  will not see my niece... Keep her away... Make  some   _____ . Shut her out. She has been here a  month and in have      
[020]  the room with Tenjy and Mapetla. Ken did not leave.  ' _____  me, boss,' he began. 'Ah... where will they be  workin     
[021] front of them, ready  to prevent them from going in.  ' _____  me,' one said. 'Can I help you?'  Mapetla stepped forw     
[022] mbrella. He might have the information Woods needed.  ' _____  me!' Woods called, jumping out of the car as  Bruce  s     
[023]  guilty of  a crime which I can neither understand nor  _____ . I need  give no details. I have frequently met with s     
[024] ming them down, the servant entered the  room again.  ' _____  me, miss,' he said to me. 'The gipsy says there's  ano     
[025] arrassment, 'I have no intention of dancing. You must   _____  me.' 'Miss Bennet, please allow me the pleasure of  da     


	
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[001] , grey Shadow Land, where Trilorne was  no more than a  _____  circle on the  horizon.  All these things Shervane kne     
[002] he turned  around and saw that Trilorne had now become  _____  and  shadowy, like a light seen through a  darkened gl     
[003] , and Trilorne had  almost disappeared, leaving only a  _____   light in the sky to mark its place. A wise man would      
[004] oor with a bang, jumped down the stairs  and fell in a  _____  at the door of the inn.  When he became conscious agai     
[005] ne  was left. Parkins fell forward into the  room in a  _____ , and before him on the floor lay a crumpled  bed sheet     
[006] o buy her, Fred. She  loved you dearly.'  He gave me a  _____  smile. 'I wasn't only her husband,' he  said, 'I was       
[007] d, the  young Russian whose  bloody face had made  her  _____ , and a pale, fat man of forty something who had  been      
[008] e is us.'  I hope, for your sake, that he is wrong.  A  _____  voffice murmured, My eyes! Oh my eyes!  Level Purple w     
[009] e unlocked one of the small black doors.  'Do you feel  _____  at the sight of blood?' he asked.  'I don't think so,'     
[010]  all dead, and my  future  was empty. I lay on my bed,  _____  and wishing for death,  while  darkness  swam around m     
[011] time in the afternoon I recovered a little, but I felt  _____   as I  stood up, and realized I had not eaten anything     
[012] lf to  beg for  food, although by  now I felt weak and  _____ . At the baker's I offered to exchange  my  leather glo     
[013] was alone on the moor. In  the  distance I could see a  _____  light, and I decided to try  to reach it.  I was alone     
[014] rden  calling,  'Where are you?' Only the hills sent a  _____   echo back.  I broke away from St John, who had follow     
[015] t?' he asked. 'I think it was a small  meteor. I saw a  _____  flash in the field beyond the garden.  Let's go and fi     
[016] e. Listen!'  They stood still. They could all hear the  _____  hissing that  the Inspector was talking about. It was      
[017]  Instead of the hissing  there was a dierent noise - a  _____  buzzing.'  'Buzzing?' repeated the Inspector. 'Are you     
[018] Don't tell me,' I said nastily.  'Jcnnifcr was feeling  _____  and you were holding her to stop  her from falling ove     
[019] him, but they  didn't deserve his trust." Lucilla felt  _____ . She sat down  opposite them.  "The Emperor knew they      
[020] Oh!' Melanie put a hand to her breast  and appeared to  _____ .  'Now you've done it, Tom!' cried Rhett. 'There won't     
[021] ew it she was  kissing him back.  'Stop - please - I'm  _____ ,' she whispered after a moment.  'None of the fools yo     
[022]  one. At last I found the right position. There was a   _____  sound, and the lock opened in my hand. At the same  mo     
[023]  magic spells in the diary.  I am looking now at those  _____  signs and letters. I had  invented the signs, and they     
[024] ernoon.' I said nothing, and the boy went away. I felt  _____ ,  happy and afraid at the same time. I was happy that      
[025] emember Brandham Hall very well. In my mind there  are  _____  pictures of parts of the house, but the general view i    

[001] u"!      The sharp cries at the end of the valley were  _____ .   They grew louder as the Indians charged again. I co     
[002] bout it, Russ". He started to return   it.      To his  _____  surprise Russ held up his hand. "Not   me", he ruled d     
[003]  of blooming   roadside vegetation, and occasionally a  _____  fragrance   of perfume swirled from the back seat.         
[004]  met we both quickly averted   them. I thought I saw a  _____  surge of color rise to   her neck and quickly suffuse      
[005] emembering the self-dictate brought   no peace- only a  _____  chill of doubt. He murmured   to himself, with firmnes     
[006] ned his   hearing. Cautious feet stepping on leafmold;  _____    creaking of belts and slings; whispers: he heard non     
[007] ored this man, Letch Feeley, why, I cannot   say. With  _____  heart and a brave smile, I endured   his long absences     
[008] to where she could inspect it. One   could hear a very  _____ , ladylike sigh of relief. Actually,   it was inaudible     
[009] s a Low-Noise Amplifier or LNA,  which takes  the very  _____  signal (quieter than a snowflake falling) from  outer      
[010]  it's a family  show,  in fact, though any child would  _____  with boredom. All this is  followed meticulously if at     
[011]  vessel--" "The 'Nautilus'?" said the captain, with a   _____  smile. "The 'Nautilus.'" "But do you--do you know who      
[012] me him, and his eyes  shone  with their wonted fire. A  _____  smile even curled his lips. The  colonists drew around      


	
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[001] eryone up.  Being his mother I like to be the first to  _____  him, so up I  get. I take him  downstairs and start ge     

[001] It's Aunt Bee.'  She waited for him to come forward to  _____  her, but instead  he turned to find a chair for her.       
[002]  glad to see two adults that she  jumped up and ran to  _____  them.  'How are you?' she said. 'My brother is still o     
[003] n she heard more  voffices. She came out of the hut to  _____  the young men.  Each  gave her a little present. She t     
[004] Aku-nna?' demanded Chike.  Usually she came running to  _____  him.  'She came back early from school with a headache     
[005]  I know?' cried the waiter, and he pushed past  her to  _____  some new guests coming through the door of the  hotel.     
[006] . 'If it is, he should be  punished for not running to  _____  his father. Perhaps I'll cut  his  ears o!' And then s     
[007] preparing vegetables for lunch.  She did not bother to  _____  me. .  'She may be beautiful,' I thought, 'but she's n     
[008] upon Seth, 'but first, Robert  Poste's child, ye  must  _____  your Aunt Ada Doom.'  And she took Flora's hand (Flora     
[009]   as she entered the kitchen, Mr Neck came  forward to  _____  her,  holding out both his hands and saying, 'Well, we     
[010] t  the shopping in the car and came down the garden to  _____   Woods.  'Well? What was he like?' Wendy asked, as Cha     
[011] urse at the clinic in  Zanempilo, and she was there to  _____  them. A big family  lived in those four rooms: father,     
[012] in. Then she started to cross the road. Woods went to   _____  her. When they reached each other, they paused and  lo     
[013] igh Commissioner, James  Moat, came across the room to  _____  him.  'I didn't realize you were a priest!' Moat excla     
[014] had  beautiful, long, curly hair. I  heard Miss Temple  _____  them as the wife and daughters of  Mr  Brocklehurst.       
[015] leg was  supported on a  chair, but he made no eort to  _____  me when I  entered. In fact, he neither spoke nor move     
[016] tranger could be, when the officer came  up to them to  _____  them. He asked permission to introduce  his friend, wh     
[017] The two gentlemen came  straight towards the ladies to  _____  them. Bingley was clearly  most interested in Jane Ben     
[018] hopping. Some  people in the village were beginning to  _____  her, 'Morning.  Another nice day,' they said, and she      
[019] Two  senators, Falco and Gaius, had just arrived.  'We  _____  you, Marcus Aurelius' Falco said. 'And we bring  greet     
[020]  right hand, 1ifted  it to her lips, and kissed it. "I  _____  you, Caesar," Lucilla said  without emotion.  Back in      
[021] ook after my family," said  Maximus. "Your family will  _____  you in the next world,"  Quintus said, quietly.  Maxim     
[022] s, Dame Agatha's daughter,  emerged  from the house to  _____  our group with her lapdog in tow.  Now in  her seventi     
[023] eryone up.  Being his mother I like to be the first to  _____  him, so up I  get. I take him  downstairs and start ge     
[024] It's Aunt Bee.'  She waited for him to come forward to  _____  her, but instead  he turned to find a chair for her.       
[025]  glad to see two adults that she  jumped up and ran to  _____  them.  'How are you?' she said. 'My brother is still o     

[001] tered my few words of the Manu dialect   and said, "We  _____  you in peace. In ngandlu. My friends   and I come from     
[002] s, Dame Agatha's daughter,  emerged  from the house to  _____  our group with her lapdog in tow.  Now in  her seventi     
[003] quartz alarm. Open-mouthed and  stale-  breathed, they  _____  the day with a groan. The wife, a book  called Enjoy Y     
[004] eeks at the Brevard Music   Center summer camp, and to  _____  the 325 crippled,   cardiac and blind children from th     
[005] er long train before she   marched to the Blue Room to  _____  her guests with the   President. Mama would enjoy the      
[006] in the same   dress that is now in the Smithsonian, to  _____  her   guests. Mama stooped down to fix the train, but      
[007] them, why shouldn't they be greeted   with a cheer? To  _____  them with repulsion would turn   what before was neutr     
[008] hat does not seem very bright.   On the other hand, to  _____  them with delight would   convert what before was neut     
[009] de me   and whispered in my ear: How was I planning to  _____    Jessica? Where exactly would we go after the movie?      
[010] tered my few words of the Manu dialect   and said, "We  _____  you in peace. In ngandlu. My friends   and I come from      


	
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[001]  also full.  But  people were there for a much happier  _____ .  On that day  the young Princess Elizabeth was crowne     
[002] ns  since 1066, she came to Westminster Abbey for the   _____ .  She rode to the Abbey in the royal carriage, with  i     
[003]  Elizabeth had some modern ideas too.  She  wanted the  _____  to be on television.  The church and the  government d     
[004] ernment didn't welcome the idea.  It was an important   _____  - it mustn't become public theatre! But Elizabeth  won     
[005] crowned on 12 May 1937.  He was already king,  but the  _____  to crown him was held later.  It was on the  same date     
[006] er by horse and  carriage to Westminster Abbey for the  _____ . The family  moved into Buckingham Palace, and they sp     
[007] round that  time.  Luckily nothing happened during the  _____ .  Then,  in  1974, a man with a gun stopped Anne's car     
[008] ther is often sunny! On this  day, the Queen goes to a  _____  called 'the trooping of  the colour'.  Soldiers, calle     
[009] me of  them play music for her.  Another unusual royal  _____ , a  Christian tradition, happens in a different church     
[010] ne good work.  This is called 'Maundy money', and the   _____  is about seven hundred years old.  A favourite  tradit     
[011] ficial one in June.  On this day, the Queen goes to a   _____  called 'the trooping of the colour'.  p. 26 A favourit     
[012] g my tape recorder and make  you a tape of the wedding  _____ . A:  Oh - would you? How  thoughtful of you! That's ve     
[013]  also full.  But  people were there for a much happier  _____ .  On that day  the young Princess Elizabeth was crowne     
[014] ns  since 1066, she came to Westminster Abbey for the   _____ .  She rode to the Abbey in the royal carriage, with  i     
[015]  Elizabeth had some modern ideas too.  She  wanted the  _____  to be on television.  The church and the  government d     
[016] ernment didn't welcome the idea.  It was an important   _____  - it mustn't become public theatre! But Elizabeth  won     
[017] crowned on 12 May 1937.  He was already king,  but the  _____  to crown him was held later.  It was on the  same date     
[018] er by horse and  carriage to Westminster Abbey for the  _____ . The family  moved into Buckingham Palace, and they sp     
[019] round that  time.  Luckily nothing happened during the  _____ .  Then,  in  1974, a man with a gun stopped Anne's car     
[020] ther is often sunny! On this  day, the Queen goes to a  _____  called 'the trooping of  the colour'.  Soldiers, calle     
[021] me of  them play music for her.  Another unusual royal  _____ , a  Christian tradition, happens in a different church     
[022] ne good work.  This is called 'Maundy money', and the   _____  is about seven hundred years old.  A favourite  tradit     
[023] ficial one in June.  On this day, the Queen goes to a   _____  called 'the trooping of the colour'.  p. 26 A favourit     
[024] g my tape recorder and make  you a tape of the wedding  _____ . A:  Oh - would you? How  thoughtful of you! That's ve     

[001] t was only Mr Edgar and the servants who  attended the  _____ . To our surprise, she was not buried  in the church wi     
[002] I shouldn't be  soft with Cathy. We've had the wedding  _____ , so she's  my wife now, and must stay with me. I don't     
[003]  my orders about  the  two coins are obeyed! I want no  _____ , or words from  the Bible - I don't believe in any of      
[004] g between  fifty and a  hundred thousand dollars.  The  _____  had  been performed in a little stone church town the      
[005] his  nervousness, and his  mother, in a grey suit. The  _____  was about to begin.  Half an hour later, the wedding w     
[006] He and Wendy went  very early to the stadium where the  _____  was to be held,  but even so there were thousands of p     
[007] he Doctor, still pained and upset, did not attend the   _____ . Everybody else, however, was there except little  Lor     
[008] y gave a mirror, a desk diary and  a silver vase.  The  _____  was completed without any problems, as  Grimes' Irish      
[009] gers who were standing at  the back of the church. The  _____  began, and soon I  heard the  priest come to the point     
[010] voffice, without turning his  head, 'Continue with the  _____ .'  Silence fell again. Then the priest shook his head      
[011] s  young girl, who only  discovered during the wedding  _____  that he was in fact  already  married, to a mad woman.     
[012] me of Mr Darcy. He had apparently  been present at the  _____ . Why would Mr Darcy,  Elizabeth wondered, attend the w     
[013] no accent.  'OK, Joyce. Well, as you know, the opening  _____   begins  at eleven o'clock and your presentation will      
[014]  next few hours.  She'd agreed to speak at the opening  _____  because  she was interested in the work that Fatima an     
[015] only boy.  'I've been busy! We've just had the opening  _____  for the  Centre,' he explained.  'Do you realise how l     
[016] aid. "I know you would  die for honor, or for Rome, or  _____  of your family. I, on  the other hand, am just an ente     
[017] sed a  silver trowel to lay the cornerstone in 1883, a  _____   where  speakers included Carl Schurz, Mayor Franklin      
[018]  my tape recorder and  make  you a tape of the wedding  _____ . A:  Oh - would you?  How  thoughtful of you! That's v     
[019] tal as  artist- in-residence, she was attracted by the  _____  of  flowers and the sick, and thought of fulfilling he     
[020] rtings,  mementoes  that are quieter than any official  _____ , more sensitive  and  discreet than any autobiographic     
[021] arly rescued by Auden, who was now in  charge  of this  _____ : summary cannot do justice to the comedy  of  Walter A     
[022] t was only Mr Edgar and the servants who  attended the  _____ . To our surprise, she was not buried  in the church wi     
[023] I shouldn't be  soft with Cathy. We've had the wedding  _____ , so she's  my wife now, and must stay with me. I don't     
[024]  my orders about  the  two coins are obeyed! I want no  _____ , or words from  the Bible - I don't believe in any of      
[025] g between  fifty and a  hundred thousand dollars.  The  _____  had  been performed in a little stone church town the      


	
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[001] ard crashed to the  floor. I ran behind the  table and  _____  my bleeding arm on the curtains.  'What are you doing?     
[002]  and shot  him. Afterwards, he arranged things neatly,  _____  his own  fingerprints from the gun and put Wright's fi     
[003] at very still. She didn't answer.  Nudger stood up and  _____  his damp forehead with the  back of his hand.  He felt     
[004]  and twenty  cars  must have run over it. But  after I  _____  the mud o  it, the familiar letter 'E' was there to se     
[005]  was white. 'Oh, it's you, Louise,'  She sat  down and  _____  her face  with her handkerchief.  'She must have slipp     
[006] nt home with Ignati ten minutes ago.'  'Excellent!' He  _____  his stained face with a stained  handkerchief,  and tu     
[007] nded. 'You can't talk to me like  that! Hurry!'  Wendy  _____  her tears, smiling. 'Children, all go to the  toilet,      
[008] to see him  leave!' and she broke down in tears.  Mary  _____  her own tears away, as she said, 'We've lost our  fath     
[009]  stood up. He took a handkerchief from his pocket and   _____  his forehead. He tried a new voffice, a voffice like a     
[010] ard crashed to the  floor. I ran behind the  table and  _____  my bleeding arm on the curtains.  'What are you doing?     
[011]  and shot  him. Afterwards, he arranged things neatly,  _____  his own  fingerprints from the gun and put Wright's fi     
[012] at very still. She didn't answer.  Nudger stood up and  _____  his damp forehead with the  back of his hand.  He felt     
[013]  and twenty  cars  must have run over it. But  after I  _____  the mud o  it, the familiar letter 'E' was there to se     
[014]  was white. 'Oh, it's you, Louise,'  She sat  down and  _____  her face  with her handkerchief.  'She must have slipp     
[015] nt home with Ignati ten minutes ago.'  'Excellent!' He  _____  his stained face with a stained  handkerchief,  and tu     
[016] nded. 'You can't talk to me like  that! Hurry!'  Wendy  _____  her tears, smiling. 'Children, all go to the  toilet,      
[017] to see him  leave!' and she broke down in tears.  Mary  _____  her own tears away, as she said, 'We've lost our  fath     
[018]  stood up. He took a handkerchief from his pocket and   _____  his forehead. He tried a new voffice, a voffice like a      

[001] was already on her feet, and he stood facing her. He    _____  the blood from his cheek.      "I ought to"- he said.      
[002] t have got there when you fell against   me".      She  _____  it off with the sleeve of her coat.      "I'll bet tha     
[003] uld not speak at all. Then,   with a glory that almost  _____  out the deep, downward   sags in her careworn face, Ma     
[004] tting that load on".      Handing the money over, Russ  _____  his hands on   his pants-legs as if ridding himself of     
[005] der his breath.      The man leaned against a tree and  _____  a sleeve   across his face. A signal? Matsuo lifted hi     
[006] he street to demand Blue   Throat's surrender would be  _____  out with one deadly   burst of fire.      The law-abid     
[007] e said taking a Kleenex from her   purse. When she had  _____  some of the lipstick from   her mouth, she stared sole     
[008] girls to dance. The bodies   must be cleaned and seats  _____  off".      A politician was approached by a man seekin     
[009] gypsy population of Europe, like that of the Jews, was  _____   out  by the Nazis. Survivors quietly described how fa     
[010] or ten weeks. Datastream  calculated that �6.85bn was  _____  from share values. A  combination of bargain hunting,      
[011] .5p  to 17.5p as it moved to the USM. Nearly �7bn was  _____  off  share  values following the increase in interest      
[012] the British driver ninth place but only after  he  had  _____  off a nose cone on his Arrows when he tangled  with  N     


	
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[001] oes and trousers to protect me from snakes, bugs, and   _____  that sting  or bite. In the jungle there was a lot of      

[001]  animals and birds are protected by  law.'  Especially  _____ ,' Roy added. He had come in while they  were talking.      
[002] e bombs. They  died of disease and fever and poisonous  _____ .  Her father never talked about it, but his wounded fo     
[003]  touching Jo's  under the table. In the hot room, with  _____  flying round the  lamp, we all got slowly drunk.  The      
[004] id.  'Ghosts! There  are no ghosts! There are rats and  _____ , and  doors that need oiling. There are windows that b     
[005] s of years old! Don't you think there'll be rats  and   _____  behind the wood? You'll see plenty of rats here, sir,      
[006] 's new one. If you  stay there a moment, and watch the  _____  flying in the warm  summer air, and listen to the soft     
[007] he silence like a broken  bell. 'Ye miserable crawling  _____ , are  ye here again? Have  ye come creeping secretly o     
[008] lways, never stopping, the continuous  noise of unseen  _____ . Up here, about one thousand  metres above sea level i     
[009] ogether in the cool evening air, with the sound of the  _____   in the dark and the stars shining above, before the c     
[010] rk. It was the year 2050. Tiny air-taxis, looking like  _____   in the sky, flew here and there, taking passengers to     
[011] ogether. 'Every animal, every tree, even the  smallest  _____  on the ground, everything had power. They  were all go     
[012] sted in nature.  'Even though they are so small, these  _____  are able to  carry pieces of leaf that are many, many      
[013] their own bodies,' he said. 'They are very determined   _____ .  When you are walking in the forest, you might see wh     
[014]  places we had passed. It was  hot, smelly and full of  _____ . The German's broken-down  house looked sad and useles     
[015] nd dust, and  the nights were filled with the noise of  _____  and the cries of  birds.  Nobody knew or could guess w     
[016] away, but Father  said, 'If you're frightened of a few  _____ , you shouldn't be  here!' He was soon covered in mosqu     
[017] d through the net. There are  all  sorts of snakes and  _____  and wild animals here. If anyone  slept outside here,      
[018] d I must give you somewhere safe to sleep -  away from  _____  and animals and Zambus. Come with me.  '  He led them      
[019] e me after midnight. The air was full of the noise  of  _____ . He put his hand over my mouth so that I wouldn't  mak     
[020] ,' Father said, 'because if you make any  noise, those  _____  are going to start shooting.' I did what  he  wanted.      
[021] d  that it was rich in gold, which was dug by enormous  _____ ,  and that Indian wool grew on trees. (Cotton was not      
[022] officers; probably he had caught a  disease carried by  _____  while he was travelling on  Babylon's waterways.  He h     
[023] ion programs have been too lax in keeping out foreign   _____  and plant diseases that can damage the state's $53  bi     
[024] t "Mimic, " which imagines  a  super-breed of predator  _____ , is meant to sound as scary  as it  looks. From its un     
[025] es and trousers to protect me from snakes, bugs,  and   _____  that sting  or bite. In the jungle there was a lot of