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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]  few days later, Paul met a short man with  a long red  _____  walking towards Margot's study.  My God!' he said.  No     
[002]  made them suspect  me. That's why I'm wearing a false  _____ . Good disguise,  eh?'  They led him back to the house,     
[003]  a large, frightening-  looking man, with red hair and  _____ , and red eyes, and  huge red hands which kept opening      
[004] uch older, at least sixty. He had white hair, a white   _____ , a dark sun-tan, and was very fat.  'Damn!' Monika sai     
[005] man was walking towards them. He had white hair  and a  _____ . It wasViljtord.  'Hi,' Vitjord said again to the thre     
[006] ker  was  a short man with a smiling, round face and a  _____ .  'My name's Cabinda,' he said. 'Passport police.' 'I      
[007] he Swedish Consul.  He was tall and thin with a blonde  _____ . He was a nice man  and after making a few phone calls     
[008]  her table.  'We said we'd find you,' the man with the  _____  said.  Monika looked around. She couldn't see Cabinda      
[009] to  say, everywhere.  The garden looked a bit like the  _____  Tom had tried to grow  as a student. Parts of it were      
[010] gs and coconuts do not normally go  together. So Tom's  _____  did not really look like a                                 
[011]                             did not really look like a  _____ ,  and  this garden did not really look like a garden.      
[012]  just the way Tom had described it like a young man's   _____ '. The detective had parked his car a few houses away       
[013] t agree either.' Lord Henry touched his pointed  brown  _____  with his finger, and the toe of his boot with his  sti     
[014]  his horse and  stared at the army below. His hair and  _____  were white, but  only his eyes really showed his age a     
[015]  and their chief was a big  mountain man, with a black  _____ . They found the man lying  dead on the black earth. Ha     
[016] e men  and touching them. There was a man with a black  _____   standing near them, calling out to tell people about      
[017] as a  large man with big, blue eyes and white hair and  _____ . He  looked like a man who enjoyed the good things in      
[018] m.  "Proximo,' my friend!" said the man with the black  _____ ;  Proximo recognized the man immediately and turned aw     
[019] d cheap wine and life on the streets  without soap His  _____  and hair were half-grey and very  dirty. He was wearin     
[020] d very heavy. He was in his early fifties, with a grey  _____   and round red glasses. Be shouted something about a f     
[021] hrough the shop quite frequently with  his fashionable  _____  and expensive clothes. He looked  down his  fine nose      
[022] g day was a thin,  wild-looking man with long hair and  _____ , wearing dirty bits  of rags and old army boots. The p     
[023] d of his army. Unlike most of his  soldiers, he had no  _____ . His skin was fair and his light-  coloured, wavy hair     
[024] m  in his  armchair  now, bald with a neat little grey  _____ , peacefully smoking his  pipe. He's still good-looking     
[025] iest,  unluckiest person on earth.  ***    Q: STILL NO  _____  - I am  seventeen and I still have no hair on my face.     


	
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[001] l  have hot milk at ten. Now, goodbye, all  of you. in  _____  of you not  to worry. All will be well.'  And slowly F     
[002] no  money and your father left you none. You  ought to  _____  in the streets, not live here in comfort with a  gentl     
[003] people could help me, and I could not bring myself to   _____  for  food, although by  now I felt weak and faint. At      
[004] should stop thinking of her own beauty. Mr  Bennet,  I  _____  you to visit him. You know it's correct for the gentle     
[005] hear, Yury? I know you can do it. .  Please, for me, I  _____  you to.' They had no more discussions  of this kind, a     
[006] d  change. He had decided to tell Tonya everything and  _____   her  to forgive him. He had told Lara that afternoon      
[007]  to owe my life to  you. One day I may come to you and  _____  you to save me, but  not now. For now, I'll worry abou     
[008]  gone straight to Mr  Hoggins, the Cranford doctor, to  _____  him  to ride over to the Rising Sun' that same afterno     
[009] e this to you?  How can you be kind? Please, please, I  _____  you... give it  back.'  'Is he your father?'  'No.' A      
[010] 'll be happy to come and  cook or clean for you. But I  _____  you,  please stop weaving on Sundays. It's bad for sou     
[011] s!' to Montmorency, he looks up at you,  and his  eyes  _____  you, 'No, please!'7  After this we did our shopping, w     
[012] nto every corner of the room.  Then he turned to me. I  _____  your pardon,' he said. A  strange  way to behave, I kn     
[013] f the door.  The children followed him. They wanted to  _____  him to  wait. But Ezekiel did not wait. He hurried lik     
[014] ver her father's body.  She wanted to call to them, to  _____  them to be gentle. Then  she realized how silly that w     
[015] were looking at her in church. Everybody noticed it. I  _____   you not to harm that girl.'  Chike was surprised. He      
[016] me months... Are you driving  back to  the city? Can I  _____  a  ride?'  'Of course.'  I followed Paige Carrington d     
[017] g room. 'Dawkins,' he said,  'Please listen  to him. I  _____  you to listen to him.'  The chaplain hesitated a momen     
[018]  know  you  didn't like him,' she said, 'but please, I  _____  you to be friends  with him now. Shall I ask him to co     
[019] eights.'  comes to find me. And anyway I don't want to  _____  for  Edgar's  help, or make trouble for him. To escape     
[020] wer-face, me knowing' what I know? Oh, Miss  Judith, I  _____  you not to send me.  Besides,' he added, more  practic     
[021] l  have hot milk at ten. Now, goodbye, all  of you. in  _____  of you not  to worry. All will be well.'  And slowly F     
[022] no  money and your father left you none. You  ought to  _____  in the streets, not live here in comfort with a  gentl     
[023] people could help me, and I could not bring myself to   _____  for  food, although by  now I felt weak and faint. At      
[024] should stop thinking of her own beauty. Mr  Bennet,  I  _____  you to visit him. You know it's correct for the gentle     
[025] hear, Yury? I know you can do it. .  Please, for me, I  _____  you to.' They had no more discussions  of this kind, a     


	
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[001] ped Yury's face. He  had  frightened himself with this  _____  action and burst into sad,  confused tears. .  'Sasha,     
[002] often penetrating biography of Faubus that this 'first  _____   symbol of resistance,' early as it was in the long st     
[003] y, the new tax act seems  more  like a Band-Aid than a  _____  initiative. Its $6 billion a year in  tax relief won't     
[004] rs ago, when the million was  first  offered to anyone  _____  enough to win three of Winston Cup's  four  'major' ra     
[005]  way,  believe it or  not,  is by motorbike, if you're  _____  enough to face the Cairo  traffic  on two wheels! Don'     
[006] arliament and  10  Downing Street. They had to be very  _____  and courageous,  because  angry crowds came and threw      
[007] d/or making  funny  faces close-up. Carlton, being the  _____ , leading-edge  company it  is, uses this device in its     
[008] ped Yury's face. He  had  frightened himself with this  _____  action and burst into sad,  confused tears. .  'Sasha,     


	
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[001] e same - aye, and worse, him coming' from  London, the  _____ 's city,' said Amos darkly.  But he did not take his ac     
[002] was walking away, he  added, 'So ye went with' the old  _____ , did  ye?'  Flora was learning how to translate the St     
[003] late the Starkadder language,  and understood 'the old  _____ ' to refer to  Amos. She replied,  with a touch of poli     
[004]  the Shaking Brothers, yes, in did.'  'And did the old  _____  say anything about me?'  Flora could only remember a r     
[005] ll have to take charge of it in any case  when the old  _____  dies,' said Reuben. Passion  made his eyes flash  and      
[006] ful.  Why did you help  us?'  'Because you got the old  _____  out o' the way for me. The  farm will be mine now, sur     
[007]  the farm will  make lots of money.'  'Aye, if the old  _____  doesn't change his mind and come back  from America,'      
[008] I gave those cigars to Clutterbuck. I  hope the little  _____  has the sense to keep quiet.'  Prayers were now over,      
[009] reliable about that  man,' said Mr Prendergast.  Lucky  _____ !' said Grimes miserably.  z  I'm worried about Grimes,     
[010] e tapped.'  He looked at the list again. 'But what the  _____  do you need  a gun  for? Is it really essential?'  'We     
[011]  Professor Lumsden?' I replied. 9  'He's her boss, her  _____ !'  'If you thought she was doing wrong, why didn't you     
[012] s, who  was just  leaving the Ashton house.  'What the  _____  are you doing here?' I asked.  'Playing model trains,'     
[013] nd his  back: 'Here comes Amalia's Don Juan.' 'The old  _____ .' 'The  king of hearts!' They knew he was not good for     
[014] size to Norway.    My friend Ann and I are standing in  _____ 's Kitchen, in the  middle of Lassen Volcanic National      
[015] ded for  the  most intriguing dot on the map, labeled ' _____ 's Kitchen.' The  Kitchen is part of the geothermal sys     
[016] l realms who are vying for the keys to hell after the   _____  has abdicated. Two humans in pyjamas make a brief  app     
[017] te frightening. Where  did they come from? Was it the   _____  who sent them? Who were their parents? How could  you      
[018] e doctor himself could  do no more for her. That's the  _____ 's work, believe me!'  However, the housewives needed S     
[019] reed  with the minister.  To me it looks more like the  _____ 's work than God's,' William  had said. Look deep into      
[020] cried William, confess your crime to us  now! Send the  _____  away from your  soul!'  Silas turned to the man he had     
[021] id William, smiling sadly. This is  the voffice of the  _____  speaking.'  Silas went home. The next day he sat alone     
[022] the truth. They had suspected him of  working  for the  _____ , but they knew now that  the                               
[023]                          , but they knew now that  the  _____  was no longer taking care of him.  Well, Master Marner     
[024]  high old voffice, I  used to think you worked for the  _____  ,  you've always looked strange, you know. But now I'm     
[025] nd Willie Cox saying,  'Lie down, lie down, you little  _____ ,' to his  dog.  The house grew quiet. She lay there an     


	
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[001] rld of the  dead. - I  think you must be a spirit. And  _____  for a  whole month! I'm sure you've quite forgotten me     
[002] ed him to be careful not to oend his  patron, by being  _____  from his duties too often, but Mr  Collins, although e     
[003] ire of the housekeeper whether her  master were really  _____ , but luckily her uncle asked the  question instead. It     
[004] ,  isn't Marcus here?' She had not noticed that he was  _____ .  She went to his room immediately. A few minutes late     
[005] erything  seemed easy or natural when Mrs Maudsley was  _____ . I  was glad, too, that Marian would be away until Wed     
[006] ioms, the  vernacular  and naughty words are virtually  _____  from Lorde's 'First  Cities' vocabulary. The 'N-word'      
[007] dedicated 'to MLK, Jr.' (The dedication is noticeably   _____  when reprinted in 'Coal' six years later.) Admirably,      
[008] eir hands and  wait.  They are never excused for being  _____ . If anyone  cheats  during an examination  they must l     
[009]  after her father. But in Little Women, the father is   _____ .  (He is a chaplain at the war.) Part of the book's pl     
[010] ut  Martha. Had the girl had a follower' while we were  _____ ?  However, there was no sign of a follower' as Martha      
[011] control. She also kept the ammunition,  while Jim  was  _____ . Doramin, his  son, Jewel, the  Rajah's adviser Kassim     
[012]  it's  much more than that. In that moment, when he is  _____  from  us, our young friend Silas's soul is  open, open     
[013] d invited Edgar Linton to visit  her while Hindley was  _____ .  'Catherine, are you going anywhere this afternoon?'      
[014] rld of the  dead. - I  think you must be a spirit. And  _____  for a  whole month! I'm sure you've quite forgotten me     
[015] ed him to be careful not to oend his  patron, by being  _____  from his duties too often, but Mr  Collins, although e     
[016] ire of the housekeeper whether her  master were really  _____ , but luckily her uncle asked the  question instead. It     
[017] ,  isn't Marcus here?' She had not noticed that he was  _____ .  She went to his room immediately. A few minutes late     
[018] erything  seemed easy or natural when Mrs Maudsley was  _____ . I  was glad, too, that Marian would be away until Wed     


	
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[001] d the dying woman. She lay  there asleep  in her room,  _____  by her daughters  and servants. As I looked out of the     
[002]  take them to him.  The blind man was sitting near the  _____  fire in the dark  room.  'Put' down the candles, Mary,     
[003] s ever let her go out  of  their sight? I am sure they  _____  her. . Of course, I did  not  want her to go to Bright     
[004] Britten's  music, his works for chorus may be the most  _____ , at  least  in the United States. But Mr. Gardiner spi     
[005] awthorne's novels. Or they may be happy to discover a   _____   gem, like A. J. Liebling's 'Between Meals.' But O'Har     
[006] new methods of assessment. You can look for  hitherto   _____  types and ages of students, especially part-time  stud     
[007]  composer that should be remembered. He  was  unjustly  _____  in his lifetime, and it is a fitting tribute  that a C     
[008] hed), and his work has been under- valued or actually   _____ . Would things have been different if a biography  had      
[009] d the dying woman. She lay  there asleep  in her room,  _____  by her daughters  and servants. As I looked out of the     
[010]  take them to him.  The blind man was sitting near the  _____  fire in the dark  room.  'Put' down the candles, Mary,     
[011] s ever let her go out  of  their sight? I am sure they  _____  her. . Of course, I did  not  want her to go to Bright     


	
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[001]  courtyard.  The fines!' said Mr Sniggs, as he lit his  _____ . Oh, yes! The  fines they'll have to pay after this  e     
[002] e voting system in Poland. He was  planning to smoke a  _____  and read a little before going to  bed.  He entered th     
[003] diicult to manage?' asked Mr  Prendergast, filling his  _____ .  Not at all,' said Paul.  Ah, you're lucky. I find al     
[004] t,' said Paul. He put the cake tin away, refilled his   _____ , and sat back comfortably in his chair.  Soon he heard     
[005] e old woman laughed and started smoking a short black   _____ .  'I can prove that you're cold, and ill, and a fool,'     
[006] ing, and the smell of gas was terrible. Perhaps a gas   _____  in one of the old buildings had broken, and that had       
[007] nd it was against school rules.  Mr Riding got out his  _____  and started to light it.  'No, go ahead,' said Hu.  'L     
[008] r Riding sat, leaning back and playing  with his empty  _____ . On his right was Khun Preecha, chair of  the Board of     
[009] e man had a rubber  tube. He put one end into the tail  _____  of the car, and the  other end through a window. He go     
[010] ooked  around, then he put the tube back into the tail  _____ . He got  back into the car with his whiskey.  'Mark, p     
[011] re on Jerome's whisky bottle, and  they're on the tail  _____  too.' 'How did you check his prints?'  asked Foltrigo.     
[012] watched him. Maybe they pulled his tube from the tail   _____ . We're not sure, and the kids aren't telling. The litt     
[013]  figure, but her body  is  pierced by a bronze culvert  _____  that casts a long shadow on  the  lower part of her ro     
[014] thorities  said, they found explosives that included a  _____  bomb. It was  described by prosecutors yesterday as "f     
[015] with a neat little grey beard, peacefully smoking his   _____ . He's still good-looking, but in a gentler way. He has     
[016]  offered to study the problem. He sat  down, lit  his   _____ , and started thinking. He had noticed that many people     
[017] oment I'm dead.'  I sat down in an armchair and lit my  _____ .  'How does it feel?' I asked. I was now almost sure t     
[018] ime  I had finished it was about six o'clock. I got my  _____  and  started to fill it from my tobacco jar. As I put      
[019] the bridge, was a young man. He was sitting  smoking a  _____ , dreamily watching the water, and holding  a book. He      
[020] ne for a week.'  [ sat down next to him and got out my  _____ . I began to  think this young man might help me.  'You     
[021] and gave him  good clothes. I also borrowed a very old  _____ . My new  walked off slowly to his bed. I hoped he woul     
[022] ld. My coat, Scudder's  notebook, my watch and even my  _____  and tobacco were  with Mr Turnbull. All I had was some     
[023]  white men decided to go  back to  the boat to get his  _____ .  When he reached the  creek, there was a bang, and he     
[024] ossible to hurry Chandra. He just went on smoking  his  _____  until he was ready to answer.  What people?' he asked      
[025] too quickly. That was rather  strange.  George lit his  _____  and sat  back in the armchair.  Harris put his feet on     


	
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[001] for Elfine when she went out for  walks on the hills.   _____ , Aunt Ada Doom sat in her room upstairs, alone.  She w     
[002] sing secrets.  Perhaps he was in love with Mrs Beetle?  _____ , his  news was so surprising that she could only  star     
[003] t real cleaning  it had received for a  hundred years.  _____ , she kept an eye on the  relationship between Mr Mybug     
[004]   oicial watching him, their mouths open in surprise.   _____ , Wendy was on the road to Umtata with the  children. D     
[005] l see the Light, and then I'll go back to the  Church.  _____  '  A boy ran past the door, whistling horribly.  That'     
[006]  story. It is stranger  than anything you can imagine.  _____ , I have to be back  at the Castle. Good night.'  They      
[007] en he  rejoined her and told her of the conversation.   _____ , half the shops in London were involved in the  weddin     
[008] essed  it.  I  shall consider what to do about it. But  _____   I'm glad you're the only person who knows anything ab     
[009] ked a little ashamed of his aunt's insensitive  words.  _____ , Colonel Fitzwilliam had persuaded  Elizabeth to play      
[010] to be  searched and all the rooms were being checked.   _____ , Millham United were in Russia. Their ferry  arrived       
[011] e looked at her watch again.  Nearly twelve 0' clock.   _____ , in another part of the school, Hu and her mother  and     
[012] inless, marinaded chicken breasts. Behind the scenes,   _____ , store operators are working to shave pennies off  the     
[013] g home the millions  of  persons displaced by the war.  _____ , the Bosnian  Muslims, the  war's main victims, became     
[014] ndustry, Turner rarely skippers  small  craft anymore;  _____ , his entire crew hadn't been  together  since they won     
[015] l investment decisions. Professional money  managers,   _____ , make decisions based on the analysis of  company  fin     
[016]  its officer  corps  to carry out such extermination.'  _____ , the pictures are  all  of Germans' own suffering, wit     
[017]  of nature, for which  nobody can be held responsible.  _____ , there is a  description  of the 'terrible suffering,      
[018] ctory  celebrationsin Moscow. It's humiliating to me.'  _____ ,  whatever influence Britain might have in Europe is b     
[019]  night there. So that was very pleasant.  Mrs Jamieson  _____  began to wonder aloud why  Mulliner did not bring in t     
[020] d come from  India. That was almost all I discovered.   _____ , however, something extraordinary was going  on around     
[021] attack and defeat  Doramin's men before Jim  returned.  _____  he smiled and listened, pretending to  offer the  Raja     
[022] ves, but they would never be able to understand  him.   _____  in the village there was great sadness, and2  anger, a     
[023] I had discovered. I could get on with my holiday.  And  _____ ? what about Colin Langley, aged fifteen?  I bit my lip     
[024] rey doesn't lose his chance of  marrying Miss Nancy.'   _____ , at the Red House, Godfrey Cass was waiting for  his b     
[025] both call out, 'There you are! What did I tell  you?'   _____ , the third man has been trying to get the water out  o     


	
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[001] ed as one of the originators of  the  style now called  _____  'n' bass. 'Grooverider Presents the  Prototype Years'      
[002] f acid  house,  most of this album is spooky, abstract  _____  'n' bass. That  means  spacey drones accented by metal     
[003] e v. America Online, someone was using a chat room to   _____  up  interest in a questionable videotape that he had m     
[004] n who can hardly sit up are praised when they  bang a   _____ . And then there are the toys. Although the makers of s     
[005] ut British interests. This is then  meant to lead to a  _____ -banging exercise for what might be  called  a policy o     
[006] suffused  with images of Elizabethan England - Drake's  _____ , cheeky  privateers, merchant adventurers in brine-sta     
[007] s on me.' He walked faster, and  his heart beat like a  _____ .  Then he heard a gun. It was followed by another shot     
[008] ore. She was terribly angry.  Her  heart banged like a  _____ . 'I'll teach you  to frighten a woman,' she shouted, a     


	
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[001] opped near the main  entrance to the hotel, to let his  _____  get out. Flora  instructed him to return to pick them      
[002]  Gourd and a Skin, to the  great interest of the other  _____ . So  it was a great relief to  Flora to watch Dr Mdel      
[003] ere usually  very old cars and usually carried as many  _____  as  could  be squashed in them. John turned down anoth     
[004]   road. It arrived, pulled by four horses, and full of  _____ .  The  coachman took my luggage and called me to  hurr     
[005] hich looked too huge to lift off from the ground. The   _____  left the bus and stood looking upwards along the  shin     
[006] ced herself to  shake hands with her son-in-law.  'All  _____  aboard, please.' The metal voffice of the  public addr     
[007] er. Six of the men were his crew; all the others were   _____ . The male                                                  
[008]                                             . The male  _____  would cause the trouble,  Captain Winters thought to h     
[009] ent inside and had a meal. The restaurant was full  of  _____ , but she couldn't see any who looked like  English foo     
[010] d stopped  outside a small green airport building. The  _____  got  o the plane and walked to the building.  There wa     
[011] n Johannesburg for forty-five minutes to take  on more  _____ . You may stay on the plane if you wish.'  'Oh, yes,' M     
[012] 'There are three people on  the coach. Usually all the  _____  walk on and only the  driver stays with the coach.' Mo     
[013] t's just a question of  waiting now.' They watched the  _____  leave their cars  on the TV screens. They saw the Mill     
[014] ed.  'This is where we get o.' They followed the other  _____   o the bus. Then Bernard tUrned to her. 'If you want.      
[015]  like insects  in the sky, flew here and there, taking  _____  to beaches  along the coast or to the airport at Marsa     
[016]  ones were owned by visitors.  Tristan's boat, full of  _____ , went out, and she decided  she'd find out where he wa     
[017] at him carefully. He told a few funny stories  and the  _____  laughed in the right places. Anna found  herself think     
[018] ould soon begin to think 1 was a bit careless with my   _____ , and there are one or two people in this village  who      
[019] violence that they saw.  As the journey continued, the  _____  were often called  on to help the train crew. Sometime     
[020] you?' 'I am a doctor  from Moscow. My family and I are  _____  on this train.  Here are my papers.' 'I can't read you     
[021] later, the Zhivagos finally got o.  They were the only  _____  to leave the train at Varykino,  and after the train h     
[022] e latest bewildering trend in air travel,  many of the  _____  packed nine abreast applauded  wildly.  "Welcome to Ne     
[023] rink - those old planes  shook and rolled so much that  _____  would spill  their  tea  all over themselves, so it wa     
[024] list of both international flights and  international   _____ . In 1989, it handled 355 thousand  flights and over 38     
[025]  it handled 355 thousand  flights and over 38 million   _____  with 57 million items  of  luggage. Three-quarters of