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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]  losing so  much money that I  couldn't find anyone to  _____  me more. I wished I could blow  up all my  ships and c     
[002] r find your way back in the dark.'  'Perhaps you could  _____  me a servant to guide me back to  the Grange?' I asked     
[003] r, on her  bed; even on the floor. Perhaps ,I ought to  _____  her some of  my plastic wallets!  Sighing, I sat down      
[004] urning the pages of  some music by Schumann. 'You must  _____  me these, Basil,'  he cried. 'I want to learn them. Th     
[005] borrow money on Tara and -' 'And who  has any money to  _____  you on this place? Only the  Carpetbaggers who are try     
[006]  I do want some money,' said  Scarlett. 'I want you to  _____  me three hundred dollars.' 'You  were talking about lo     
[007] uellen. For a moment she  wondered about asking him to  _____  her three hundred dollars.  'But he won't,' she though     
[008]  'That  would be nice, but -' 'Miss Melanie, I want to  _____  you the  money,' said Rhett.  'That's kind of you, but     
[009] n  Travolta, Julia Roberts and Winona Ryder seeking to  _____   nuance  to their characters by lighting up cigarettes     
[010] nd.  Remember, no one really 'gives' blood, they just ' _____ ' it. They  are quite  likely to get it back one day. A     
[011] n't keep  your  blood, we just borrow it  for a while.  _____  us your blood - we'll  save it for you (or, at least,      
[012] ers if you do not  know that they are valid. And never  _____  money or any other  household equipment  to a stranger     
[013]  bank was prepared to support the plan, and agreed to   _____  the  manager a suitable amount of money. Unfortunately     
[014]  16-19s and thirtysomethings. They think  silly  faces  _____  character. Models go along with it because they  affec     
[015] you're a man who likes a bit of fun. Can you  help me?  _____  me your hat and coat for a minute and you  can have th     
[016]  lived, and asked me what  more he could do.  'Can you  _____  me some old clothes and give me a map?  And if the pol     
[017] o I suggested Brierly's plan of escape to Jim. I would  _____   him  some money - he could pay it  back when he liked     
[018] eaver a little, and then Silas  would quickly agree to  _____  his money.  It was four o'clock in the afternoon, and      
[019]  losing so  much money that I  couldn't find anyone to  _____  me more. I wished I could blow  up all my  ships and c     
[020] r find your way back in the dark.'  'Perhaps you could  _____  me a servant to guide me back to  the Grange?' I asked     
[021] r, on her  bed; even on the floor. Perhaps ,I ought to  _____  her some of  my plastic wallets!  Sighing, I sat down      
[022] urning the pages of  some music by Schumann. 'You must  _____  me these, Basil,'  he cried. 'I want to learn them. Th     
[023] borrow money on Tara and -' 'And who  has any money to  _____  you on this place? Only the  Carpetbaggers who are try     
[024]  I do want some money,' said  Scarlett. 'I want you to  _____  me three hundred dollars.' 'You  were talking about lo     
[025] uellen. For a moment she  wondered about asking him to  _____  her three hundred dollars.  'But he won't,' she though     


	
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[001] d be a fine day tomorrow.  We told him that we were on  _____  on the river, and that we  were  going to leave the ne     
[002] d not live there.  We said  that we were only there on  _____ .  'Ah, well,' the man went on, 'it was nearly five yea     
[003]  you don't mind, but my  friend and I, who are only on  _____  here, would like to ask  you a  question. Could you te     
[004] as brave as he was honest,  spent the First day of his  _____  playing  golf with Colonel Wilson, and trying to impro     
[005]  these areas.'  And when you're at work?'  I'll take a  _____ .'  It's very nice of you, J. R. Isidore,' Pris said. B     
[006] ad  about 'his'  death.  Saturday afternoon had been a  _____  for the Ashby  children. Simon had  mechanical interes     
[007] one. The schools  were closed and the teachers were on  _____ . People who  were working away from home came to celeb     
[008] hicago and it was  still  winter. I took a cab to the   _____  Inn and slept late  after the long flight. My shoulder     
[009] is papers and I left  the  bridge.  I went back to the  _____  Inn, repacked my little bag, and  had some  lunch. I l     
[010] urg. A fine city, too. 'But you should take  a  little  _____  in Munich before you go.'  'Oh, I am afraid I could no     
[011] ranger in the Mist  Giles Hampton was spending a short  _____  in Wales. A  friend of his  had recently sold his busi     
[012] a young  lawyer from London. Mr Stevenson had been on   _____  in Wales, and he had been exploring our beautiful  mou     
[013] arried,  and then they left  Oxford for a long summer   _____ . During that time the young couple must have  decided      
[014] hat devil  Hindley isn't away very often. I'm taking a  _____ . I won't  work  any more today. I'm staying with you t     
[015] But in think it's an  excellent idea for you to have a  _____ .  It will do you  good.'  She said goodbye to Judith t     
[016] confidence. 'I'm taking the children  over on a little  _____ ,' she explained.  The oicial shook his head at the cra     
[017] razy things people do.  'You picked good weather for a  _____ ,' he murmured,  pushing a paper at her. 'Please write      
[018]  her passport and handed it back to  her. 'Have a good  _____ . And try to stay dry.'  They went out into the rain ag     
[019] OOL MAN  w  Six days later the school was given a half- _____ , and soon  after lunch Captain Edgar Grimes and Miss F     
[020]  relief when the holidays start.'  But Captain Grimes'  _____  came sooner than anybody  expected. Three days later h     
[021] t they  did nothing strange. It was as if they were on  _____ . I  began to  wonder if Ashton was having  his first e     
[022]  began to  wonder if Ashton was having  his first ever  _____   from the problems of his business life in England.  F     
[023] ar as we know, your  father was  having a long, quiet   _____  in Sweden. There  was nothing wrong in that, but we st     
[024] was  clearly not satisfied with his present life.  The  _____  was coming to an end. Soon Diana and Mary  would leave     
[025] couldn't do it for ever. Don't mention  school, I'm on  _____  now!'  He looked serious. 'What are your plans?'  'I w     


	
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[001] er any circumstances, and to  keep away from Longbourn  _____ .  'You have insulted me in every possible way.'  The n     
[002] eeded now, I  would have to unzip four plastic wallets  _____ . And then,  of course, they would all need to be  zipp     
[003] er going to be my boyfriend. Men are too  much trouble  _____ . If they're not smiling into your eyes  behind their g     
[004] traightaway. We were in that cupboard for three hours   _____ !  Gina was always getting me into trouble. Somehow I j     
[005] anadian development (in four panels, one per century,   _____   18 feet long and 8 feet high). It begins with the est     
[006] econd Symphony. Stratas is a  vocally  seductive Anna,  _____  more engaging than some of the  more  Germanic, more b     
[007] cept of national historic park to  encompass something  _____  new. Typically, once a site  is  given an imprint from     
[008] ity, they're his kind of fans. It's  his kind of place  _____ . Night matches - unique to this  Grand Slam event - se     
[009] ond novels  after that. Lucy: Yes, indeed -  fourteen   _____  before his death in 1964.  His last book was The  Man      
[010] isting  lifts by faster ones, or to take the lifts out  _____   and  install escalators. But the manager was worried      
[011] ttempt to educate an audience's consciousness  without  _____  abandoning the function of entertainment.  Laura Bowma     
[012]  is one way of finessing  that  little thought. But an  _____  cooler suggestion is the idea  of crime, conspiracy an     
[013] dea,' Tony said. 'Stratos wanted to keep out  the sun   _____ .'  'Who is "Stratos"?'  'The owner, Mr Stratos Alexiak     
[014] er any circumstances, and to  keep away from Longbourn  _____ .  'You have insulted me in every possible way.'  The n     
[015] eeded now, I  would have to unzip four plastic wallets  _____ . And then,  of course, they would all need to be  zipp     
[016] er going to be my boyfriend. Men are too  much trouble  _____ . If they're not smiling into your eyes  behind their g     
[017] traightaway. We were in that cupboard for three hours   _____ !  Gina was always getting me into trouble. Somehow I j     


	
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[001] o the tiny theatre and watched the last dance. It was   _____ ,  exciting. Afterwards, I  went backstage and  waited      
[002]  but an aair  with a  married woman had seemed  rather  _____   when he had considered it the morning after the party     
[003] imply laughed about it. Instead, he  invented  a long,  _____   explanation, which she  obviously did not believe. He     
[004] ed across Placid Cove Trailer Park.  Lightning made  a  _____  pattern  in the night sky.  Nudger held his umbrella a     
[005]  if I were rich,  you see.'  My darling, that's rather  _____ ,' said Margot, but I  think it may mean something rath     
[006] ped my identification for Level Yellow. This was more   _____   and took me four  minutes. Back came Nellie's  reply:     
[007] at I'm doing, but I don't know why. It's become  very   _____ . Let me tell you  how I got into this.'  So I told her     
[008] he railway more carefully. It was very big, and  very   _____  - all controlled  from a central desk. There  must hav     
[009] f, but without actually dying. He  made a  careful and  _____  plan,  and three months  later it was reported that he     
[010] y timetables and the  system runs  to time. It's very   _____ , so he's got a  computer, and he's managed to program      
[011] ed. 'I'm not a complete idiot, but don't  make it  too  _____ .'  'Well, in 1975 scientists studying genetics were ve     
[012] ecret for me.  The model railway was very big and very  _____   You can't blame yourself for what happened, I said.       
[013] l handles. However, I was very pleased when I  saw how  _____  it was inside. Nobody living in my  place in my centur     
[014]  going out with Caroline and  my life is already quite  _____  enough with Pete and  Gary.  He smiled at me as I carr     
[015] icans and parrots. Life  would certainly be a lot less  _____ . BUt then no doubt  I'd soon get bored of such a lifes     
[016] being with him. I just don't want to get into another   _____  situation.  'You know,' he said, 'you don't have to do     
[017] thusiastic about  discussing it. Things already seemed  _____  enough.  'Oh, that.' Ian stopped smiling and began to      
[018] e was Emperor of Rome, and for him life was  much more  _____ .'  In the cold morning, at the edge of the forest, a g     
[019] ad, the butter, the meat, and the  cheese.  "It's real  _____ . You do ten with meat and then ten with  cheese. OK?"      
[020] eople collected them to  make books. They were usually  _____  stories with a  lot  of characters, and readers waited     
[021] te to each other, too careful,  which made things more  _____ .  One night when he could not sleep, Pasha stood alone     
[022]  simple and to look for solutions. She was  born for a  _____  life, with adventure.  God keep you. I must stop becau     
[023] icating through religious oicials, the gods gave  them  _____  answers that could often be understood in  dierent way     
[024] s an old chariot. It  was tied to a piece of wood by a  _____  knot that no  one had ever managed to untie. According     
[025]  of Reed's take on Faubus.  The other is that he was a  _____ , interesting politician  whose story is worth telling.     


	
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[001] office!' And my cheeks were red as I  thought of those  _____  moments.  I was now even more impatient to see Mr Roch     
[002] ay carrying the extra weight.  Our Globe, with all the  _____  things in it, is lost. We have  nothing now with which     
[003] ery beautiful.  Feeling the ground beneath my feet was  _____  to me. I  had forgotten that it was possible to enjoy      
[004] e runway. A  small  Cessna 182 takes off, carrying its  _____  cargo: Kristin  Paquette and Ed Brouillet. Paquette's      
[005] office!' And my cheeks were red as I  thought of those  _____  moments.  I was now even more impatient to see Mr Roch     
[006] ay carrying the extra weight.  Our Globe, with all the  _____  things in it, is lost. We have  nothing now with which     
[007] ery beautiful.  Feeling the ground beneath my feet was  _____  to me. I  had forgotten that it was possible to enjoy      


	
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[001] ent environment investors might consider  stocks  with  _____  price-earnings ratios, especially in the oil,  paper,      
[002] eapons law is  concerned.  Lungren considers himself a  _____  on gun control, but his  apparent reluctance to enforc     


	
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[001]  the little way to the boat. He saw Karswell  show his  _____  to the                                                     
[002]                                                 to the  _____  collector  and pass on to the boat. As he did so, the      
[003] led after  him:  Excuse me, sir. Has your friend got a  _____ ?'  What do you mean, my friend?' shouted Karswell angr     
[004] I thought there was someone with you,' apologized  the  _____  collector. He turned to  another oicial beside him, Di     
[005] e's going to Abbeville,' said Dunning. I saw it on his  _____ .  Today is the 21st. We could send a  telegram in the      
[006] o all the main hotels in Abbeville  saying: Check your  _____  wallet.  Dunning. Then he would have a whole day.'  Af     
[007] here he  worked, and one day he had left, bought a day  _____  to  Dieppe and  never returned. He had planned to stay     
[008] en away, Mr Ashby?' said the man who collected Brat's   _____  as they  came out of the station.  'Yes, I've been awa     
[009] town  that he did not know. He found one, and bought a  _____   to go there. He did not tell anyone where he was goin     
[010]  back into Canal  Street. He thought  he saw a parking  _____  on a large, light-blue Rolls Royce  parked the  other      
[011] e had seen  the light-blue Rolls Royce, with a parking  _____  on its  window,  parked at the top of Canal  Reach tha     
[012] arrived in his  office.  'Tell me, if I get a parking   _____ , what do I do?'3  'Well, sir, there's an office where      
[013] y. The oicials there receive a copy of the  l  parking  _____ , and they also keep details of who paid the I  fine, a     
[014]  lie to you.  As I told your'  'Your car had a parking  _____  in Jericho that afternoon. So  someone  else must have     
[015]  head. 'I  never thought you'd  know about the parking  _____ . You police discover  everything! Let me  tell you the     
[016] eard  the  person leave I left too. I  found a parking  _____  on  the Rolls, so I paid the fine two days later, usin     
[017] ip. It was as big as  a city building. Monika bought a  _____  to Helsinki, and went  on to the ferry. She watched ca     
[018]  smiled to herself.  Now  all she had to do was buy  a  _____ . She looked at the TV screen with flight information.      
[019] he  hotel, and I'll let you know when I've got a plane  _____ .' They  said goodbye. Monika thanked Christ and left t     
[020] nto one of the Big Wheel's seats. A man  asked for her  _____ . 'My friends will pay,' Monika replied,  pointing to t     
[021] a taxi!' The next morning  Cabinda helped Monika get a  _____  for the Sunday flight.  She spent the rest of Saturday     
[022] uld she have done this? Did she feel  so unloved?  The  _____  inspector arrived and Tom had to look for his              
[023]         inspector arrived and Tom had to look for his   _____ .' He pulled it out of his pocket together with his  no     
[024] s in his pocket and,  after the inspector had seen his  _____ , Tom began to look  through the older notebook. It was     
[025] waiting for the bus. When it arrived  she  asked for a  _____  to the town centre and sat down in an  empty seat near     


	
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[001] el arouses serious heebie-  jeebies.  Highbrows easily  _____  Urkel (played by Ja leel White) as  the  high-I. Q. ge     
[002] his pervasive malady?  Abrams  and Gordis convincingly  _____  various possible answers to  the  problem of maintaini     


	
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[001]  loving brother he was, caring  so little for his own   _____ ! I've proved all this, using three letters I've  disco     
[002] his own pitiable level a lady of beauty and stainless   _____ .' The judge added sternly, Society is justly  disappro     
[003] very  unusual  situation.  You must be careful of your  _____ . I advise  you to keep him at a distance until you are     
[004] ho would lose their  inheritance because of him, had a  _____  for being  attractive and charming, and his idea of ma     
[005] s, she believed enough to feel sure that her sister's   _____  was already lost, and even Jane almost despaired  of r     
[006] Elizabeth and Jane were delighted that their sister's   _____  would be saved through marriage, even to such a  man a     
[007] as doubled to eight weeks  during  his tenure, and its  _____  as a school for promising young  musicians grew consid     
[008] s because, in his opinion,  Valentine  has an unsavory  _____ . But perhaps of most concern for  Valentine and the Me     
[009] loids have been having a field day  slam-  dunking the  _____  of one of England's most sainted  figures,  children's     
[010] ecter, a former Philadelphia district attorney, has a   _____  for turning his acid rhetoric on hapless staffers,  so     
[011] urrects the unfortunate Texas Sen. John Tower and his   _____  for roving eyes and hands. Then there are those  anony     
[012] the mainland and  Taiwan, and  border officials with a  _____  for corrupt and fickle  behavior.    Starting in 1998,     
[013] rets.  While the former Soviet Union justly earned its  _____  as  a  monstrous environmental despoiler, it did creat     
[014]  can satisfy its disgruntled members and clean up its   _____ , analysts and party loyalists agree, it has a chance       
[015] ld afford such a gamble, nor could any company with a   _____  to protect.    POWERS THAT be in the film industry do      
[016] t from Croydon, South  London,  is fast establishing a  _____   as one of the country's top  troubleshooters, the per     
[017] e Queen say they enjoyed  talking to her. She has  the  _____  of being a a thoughtful speaker - she  can  speak  at      
[018] to find work as a mechanical  engineer. Imperial has a  _____  for being a bit dull - all  scientists together. The c     
[019] ture and Philosophy in  Bucharest, where he gained the  _____  of a wild young  bohemian. Already he was subject to c     
[020] plains that  the 'terrible crimes . . . besmirched the  _____  of the  German people all over the world' - even thoug     
[021] nic of West London), says the university  has a strong  _____  for exchange courses, developed  over the  past 30 yea     
[022] e of the Royal  Institute,  'but it's also a matter of  _____ . People want to think their  country can do more than      
[023] han make its way in the global  economy.' The  British  _____  and the influence that flows from it are  valuable in      
[024]  of British eccentricity, but they  enhance  Britain's  _____  and the most hard-nosed marketing  adviser  will agree     
[025] ess over Bosnia has  done  much to undermine Britain's  _____  in the world,  particularly  in Washington. Shimon Per     


	
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[001] ou,' he said to  Catherine's companion. Though I can't  _____  that  Miss  Sloper's name did not enter our conversati     
[002] Penniman waiting for  her.  Dear Catherine, you cannot  _____  with me,' said her aunt.  I know everything. And it is     
[003] voffice to make connections  so fast, he thought. I'll  _____  to be an opera lover. We can  talk about music while I     
[004]   you know inside that you really are an Ashby. Don't   _____  that you don't care about Latchetts,' insisted the  vo     
[005] ment that he  was the real  Patrick. But why bother to  _____ ? Why hadn't he  said at once, 'You're not Patrick, and     
[006] t I looked like an Ashby, and suggested that I should   _____  to be Patrick.'  'And you have to pay her some of the      
[007] tions it to  me, I  shall say: "My cousin? Yes, he did  _____  to be my  brother. He is very like Patrick, isn't he?"     
[008] unny little cat she once had, who  used to scratch and  _____  to be fierce when she gave it  meat to eat . Things li     
[009] e everything this year.  Forget that I am your mother.  _____  I'm one of your guests.  '  But Meg could not possibly     
[010] an?'  'Stop the garden party, of course.' Why did Jose  _____  not  to understand?  But Jose was even more surprised.     
[011] one box at the  corner of Field House  Road. Then I'll  _____  to make a phone call, and put a  brown bag,  with the      
[012] son who wrote that  letter was well educated enough to  _____  to be  uneducated. I wonder  if Mrs Purvis went to a       
[013] y. Your crutch is  broken. You can't run after me. You  _____  you'll shoot me,  but I don't believe you.'  She looke     
[014]   'Who from?' asked Flora, who was bored by having to   _____  to be shocked at things, and really  wanted to know.       
[015] retending?'  My God, the doctor thought. How could you  _____  a  smashed forehead, or eyes swollen by the blood behi     
[016]  police officer repeated  fiercely.  'You... you can't  _____  a reflex, sir,' the doctor replied.  He looked down at     
[017] orth of Queenstown, on the Pretoria  road. Wendy would  _____  to go to the beach the next  morning, 1st January, but     
[018] mes, but I've never been worried in  that way. I don't  _____  to be a particularly religious man,  but I've never ha     
[019] I am glad I shall not  have to see him again. I cannot  _____  to understand your  attitude in this matter, but no do     
[020]  boys, but you know  I'm not, and at the pub they only  _____  to like me in the  hope I'll buy them drinks. Another      
[021] uble. Criminals are just as bad  as boys, I find. They  _____  to make confessions and tell  me the most awful things     
[022]  as if he had  received a physical shock.  He tried to  _____  to himself and to her that he had not  understood. He      
[023] r go  into outer space. It can be done, but I will not  _____  that  success is certain.  He stopped speaking, and lo     
[024] ng could make me more confused,' I told her. 'I  can't  _____  any longer that this is a dream. I shall go mad  unles     
[025] self in this place.  My position here is diicult. If I  _____  to be Stephen  Tallboy, I am a weak minded creature wi