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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] 00 women - lesbian and not - and a  scattering of men,  _____  and straight. Posters of Xena adorn  the  walls for th     
[002] lot to  evoke a toujours-gai Paris of the 1920's, when  _____  referred  to an  inclusive style of life rather than a     
[003]  realize what that something was. In Walt Whitman:  A   _____  Life, Gary Schmidgall seeks to get at that something -     
[004] sexual  orientation cannot really be known or that, if  _____ , he never  actually acted on his impulses or that, eve     
[005] high schools and shopping malls have been named -  was  _____ ?  YET these responses, Schmidgall argues, are precisel     
[006] ight  readers  'civilians,' and proposes that he, as a  _____  man who has lived  many years in Whitman's 'Manhatta,'     
[007]  a 'city of eros,' can read Whitman - or at least his   _____   references - better than they can. Mixed book review.     
[008] cial and sexual history  of  the last three decades of  _____  life in America, the novel  completes the trilogy Whit     
[009]  important historical  moment in what would become the  _____  liberation movement,  but it  left the narrator-'This      
[010] nt page to revealing him as the country's first openly  _____   footballer, and a fairly sexually active one at that.     
[011] ely a  week goes  by without some new media hype about  _____  bishops with or  without  leathers, word-juggling card     
[012]  standards are required. I would support you and other  _____   rights  activists in encouraging Christians to think      
[013]  phonecall from someone who  thought we  were an anti-  _____  group and wanted to make a considerable  donation. FIO     
[014] philis result in her subsequent barrenness? Was she 'a  _____   coquette', more like Callas than Sutherland on stage?     


	
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[001]  There's a whole world out there.' He pointed with his  _____  half  finger, surprising people on the street with his     
[002] sitting in a chair near the  fire. I saw a large, fat,  _____ , cruel-looking face looking at me  angrily.  'What is      
[003] er my dead body.  "    The Louima brutality case is an  _____  reminder that New York  City  has yet to establish a s     
[004] rrifically: the sample from 'The Good, the Bad and the  _____ '  and guest rapping by Wyclef Jean add dimension to th     
[005] do have some savings to fall  back on, but it would be  _____ .' Bill Conroy, a Riverdale  insurance agent, suggested     
[006] ens  of this strange world, rich  and poor, lovely and  _____ , honest  and dishonest. It is the Airport  Internation     
[007]  I'm  getting interested in girls, and suddenly I have  _____  pink spots  all  over my skin on my neck and face! Wha     
[008] m. So I just sit there in  the  evenings, lonely in my  _____  room on my one chair.  Sometimes  I can't afford  dinn     
[009] . Why do people love it so much? Man:  They're noisy,   _____   really, but so full of character. They're not very  c     
[010] a tidy  little museum, rather than a real country with  _____   bits and urgent problems of  every type. They imagine     
[011] ple see it they are  shocked because it is so huge and  _____ . The poor  monster  has no  friends and feels lonely a     
[012] time he replied: 'What? She wasn't beautiful, she was   _____ ! I  am a man with good taste, which is why I married y     
[013] en valley. The  scenery  should be quite lovely, after  _____  old London! SB: Yeah, I see  on  the  map here that th     
[014]  being intouch with your feelings doesn't  make you an  _____  wimp. And it says soft, strong and very,  very  long.      
[015] Superman is what's behind this  shot.  BEAUTIFUL GIRL,  _____  FACE This is a staple of  advertising in  'younger-ori     
[016] s captain politely, but moved a little away from  the   _____  figure who had destroyed  the night's peace.  The ship     
[017] ers from the Patna. I  recognized the captain,  a fat,  _____  German, who was well known in all the Eastern  ports a     
[018]  it!' She stood up. Her beautiful face was  angry and   _____  with fear. 'You  haven't got it! I came here...  I tol     
[019] se we're  sisters, although I'm Five years older!  I'm  _____ , I know I am. But I don't mind!' She turned to Mrs  Os     
[020]  stay single. That's what  I'm going to do, anyway. We  _____  girls don't need husbands!'  Mrs Osgood stood up and s     
[021] ou were very impolite! You  almost told them they were  _____ !'  Did I?' asked Priscilla in surprise. Well, that's t     
[022] s the way I am. I  always tell the truth. But I'm the   _____  one , just look at me!'  Priscilla, you know I asked y     
[023] Never happy with what  they've got! I'm glad I was too  _____  to get married! I'm much  happier with father!'  Oh Pr     
[024] l, and threw a bright blue-green  light over the hard,  _____  land of the  Moon. It was diicult, Cooper told himself     
[025] efore, anyway) and in Clyde's  opinion the dances were  _____  and Leon was an awful dancer.  He had been foolish eno     


	
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[001] hair I have been given. In fact, I hate my hair.  It's  _____  and  straight! All the other girls my age have soft, f     
[002]  for the rest of the meal. These rules may  seem a bit  _____ , but in  fact people who have eaten to the right  or l     
[003] provement. You will have to  expect  sore  muscles and  _____  joints to begin with. If soreness  changes  to aches a     


	
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[001]  not 'nice' places to  stay in at all. Other  than the  _____  location, they usually  offer few comforts or services     
[002] rk in New York an  hour  earlier. You can't get a more  _____  arrival time.  Concorde  is much used by business peop     
[003] subject  to delays. What is more, trains are not very   _____ . You have to travel at  certain times that may not  be     
[004] rain, I check the British Rail timetable for  the most  _____  departure, and  then call the booking-  office  at the     
[005] ition that it had  always been there, and it was not a  _____  house to live  in. The front door was never used as it     
[006]  her that Aunt Ada  Doom's madness had taken the most   _____  form possible.  'Well, anyway, just because Aunt Ada i     
[007] eption should be held at  Cold Comfort.  'So much more  _____  than coming all the way back to  Hightree Hall, don't      
[008] e  Flora had been forced to reply that it was  not yet  _____ . But  now things had gone far enough, and when she arr     
[009] e or 'so from the village of Longbourn. It was a most   _____  distance for the Bennet girls, who were usually  tempt     
[010] he house. There  were stairs there, too, and they were  _____  for our room.  The room had a wide window high in the      
[011] ent in. There, in front. of me, was a  haystack with a  _____  ladder beside it.  I climbed the ladder to the top of      


	
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[001]  of this much-maligned place would wish the world  to   _____  upon, they are hoping the book is something they can       
[002] eady exist. Third, when we talk about passing laws to   _____  and destroy dogs that "spark fear or apprehension "  w     
[003] d hate her,' I cried. 'If she hit me with a stick  I'd  _____  it and break it under her nose.'  I don't think you wo     


	
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[001] r.  Aren't you afraid of it? '  'No!' said Oliver in a  _____  voffice.  Mr Bumble was very surprised by this answer.     
[002] ould like  flying. Maybe he would be a pilot.  'He's a  _____  kid,' said Trumann to Reggie.  A black FBI jet landed.     
[003]  as the plane moved away, Trumann said again,  'He's a  _____  kid.' Reggie looked at the plane and said  nothing. Th     
[004]  then went off to war to show her that I was  good and  _____ . After I escaped from the Germans, I had to  finish my     
[005] surprising, with parents like this that Alexander was   _____  and adventurous. His teachers too helped to make  him      
[006] ly be hurt on his heel.  Achilles grew up handsome and  _____ . At the start of the  Trojan War, his mother gave him      
[007] He had many qualities - he was a  great  sportsman, a   _____  fighter, and was very skillful with the bow  and arrow     
[008] vonic Studies at Nottingham University. His words are   _____ ,  but behind his smile is a flicker of anxiety. For th     
[009] vagant and 'irredeemably  heterosexual'.  Theirs was a  _____  show of sophistication, but when the  bright  sparks b     
[010] the sound of him. And you blew up his house. You're a   _____  man.'  I reached the end of my story. He stood up, by      
[011]  once he nearly knocked Miss Jenkyns  down.  The poor,  _____  captain! His clothes looked very old and  worn, but he     
[012] the newspaper had the full story of the accident.  The  _____  gentleman,' it said, was  reading this month's Pickwic     
[013] ened  sailors  to save their lives. He was  always the  _____  man  who did his duty, just like the heroes in the sto     
[014] ter dangers than that,  and  would show the world how   _____  he was. That night  he sat alone, while the boys who h     
[015] om this  experience than any of them. The  next time a  _____   man was needed, he alone, he felt sure, would know ho     
[016] him, because he looked so  clean faced, so strong,  so  _____ . I felt almost angry. If a man who looks like that can     
[017] Captain Brierly, known in all  the  Eastern ports as a  _____   officer and an excellent4  seaman. Young, healthy and     
[018] o arrange Jim's escape, and because I  thought it  was  _____  of Jim to accept the  blame. I certainly  did not real     
[019] elp me. I think Mr  Stein saved his life once - he's a  _____  man, isn't he? He's  hoping  things are all right in P     
[020] m.  It was certainly  wonderful. He had shown he was a  _____ , intelligent, well  organized  leader of men. He clear     
[021] ed him as soon  as I met  him. I realized he was both   _____  and intelligent,  and I believe he trusted and even un     
[022]  me, will never  understand? If you asked  them who is  _____ , who is faithful, who they would trust with  their  li     
[023]   are you afraid? You know  he's strong, faithful and   _____ . He is more than that. He has greatness - and the  wor     
[024] that Daylight is only  four. He's fast and strong  and  _____  and I like him; and I'm not going to destroy his  enth     
[025]  let me speak to her father for you, since you aren't   _____  enough to do it yourself.  She's a pretty girl, and in     


	
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[001]  A dip, a turn and then, beyond the  road's  edge, the  _____  collapses, green tumbles into blue, sheer  granite cli     
[002]  night, as the sun Trilorne was  always high above the  _____ , dropping  down closer to it only in the long months o     
[003] here Trilorne was  no more than a faint circle on the   _____ .  All these things Shervane knew, and while he was a c     
[004] st, then south, until Trilorne  was quite close to the  _____  and it  was better to turn east again. Shervane stared     
[005]  of the world. But not quite black,  because along the  _____ , between the  land and the sky but belonging to neithe     
[006] of the Wall marched out into  the waves and beyond the  _____ . In  summer it was possible to make the journey to the     
[007] during the summer months while Trilorne was above  the  _____ , and there was always  the worry that the winter storm     
[008] he Wall's edge, and in a while he  could see a distant  _____  of low hills, as grey and lifeless as  those he had le     
[009] ching the sea. She could  just see Clyde's boat on the  _____ , and  soon it grew bigger and bigger as it came quickl     
[010] as he  walked, Selene, the second moon, rose above the  _____ ,  Filling the beach with golden light.  And in that su     
[011] Starkadder tonight.'  So there was a new horror on the  _____ ! Really, thought  Flora, there was no end to her worri     


	
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[001]  he almost fell against a  tall man in a black coat.  ' _____  you.' said the man in a voffice of terrible anger. 'Wh     
[002] ue?'  'True,' said Charley.  They were silent again.  ' _____  you both!' said Sikes. 'Have you nothing to say  tome?     
[003] she tells them.  She's a bit naughty  sometimes  and I  _____  her when she gets me up at six o'clock  in the  mornin     
[004] torway!' Winston Churchill  described the  car as 'the  _____  of the twentieth century'. This will probably  be true     
[005] n I feel depressed about the way my life  is  going, I  _____  Little Women for encouraging me to believe  that  goin     
[006] imals  have no young ones.  An' why? Because there's a  _____  on us, Robert Poste's  child.'  'But, look here, could     
[007] mos could sell the farm,  and buy another, without any  _____  on it,  somewhere else?'  Adam shook his head. 'Nay, t     
[008] nswer!' she was thinking.  'Old Mrs Starkadder  is the  _____  of Cold Comfort! She must be Aunt Ada Doom.'  Flora si     
[009] th suddenly, 'look at him - the shame of  our house. A  _____  on the day he was  born, and a                             
[010]                         on the day he was  born, and a  _____  on  his silver tongue, that leads weak women to shame      
[011] side his face plate.  'But you'll be blown up with it,  _____  you.' But naturally, he  had no real intention of blow     
[012]  he almost fell against a  tall man in a black coat.  ' _____  you.' said the man in a voffice of terrible anger. 'Wh     
[013] ue?'  'True,' said Charley.  They were silent again.  ' _____  you both!' said Sikes. 'Have you nothing to say  tome?     


	
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[001] ou remember my words.'  .    Father's next plan was to  _____  a hole until he reached water. It  was the dry season,     
[002] .  'Okay, Muldanno,' said one of the men. 'Where do we  _____ ?'  Mark's heart was in his mouth. He crawled back to R     
[003] l that exist in a community once you  start  trying to  _____  it  out. The range of people that have helped us,  or      
[004] f things, like charity - the important thing is not to  _____   in your pocket and make a donation, but address the w     
[005]  then Colin threw himself  to the  ground. He began to  _____   wildly, where the head  would be. The body was lying      
[006]  likes me, but there's something in me  if you care to  _____  for  it.'  Flora did not care to                           
[007]                       for  it.'  Flora did not care to  _____ , but she said goodbye again and  hurried across the ro     
[008] n look  good in evening  clothes, but ride a horse and  _____  a field as well. in gotta find  somebody.'  'Have you      
[009]   ground,' said Sally's father. 'We'll get some men to  _____  it out  tomorrow.'  From Onns's Diary  The best way to     
[010] ou remember my words.'  .    Father's next plan was to  _____  a hole until he reached water. It  was the dry season,     
[011] .  'Okay, Muldanno,' said one of the men. 'Where do we  _____ ?'  Mark's heart was in his mouth. He crawled back to R     


	
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[001] appeared in front of him. 'Who gave you  permission to  _____  around? What are you looking for?'  'What river is thi     
[002] ny approaches to art, are expected.  Festivalgoers may  _____  among art pieces like Dimitri  Rotov's  photo essay on     
[003] Jemima  Puddle-Duck had left it ajar in their haste to  _____  the  meadow,  where a shepherd collie darts among youn     
[004]  she was setting out on her  current venture,  another  _____  around America, Canada and Mexico. That'll  take  her      
[005] just have cleaned them out before your visit.  Ask to   _____  around on your own for a while; that way, you can be       
[006] appeared in front of him. 'Who gave you  permission to  _____  around? What are you looking for?'  'What river is thi