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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] g  reggae and ska instrumentals with a jazz musician's  _____   touch, as is his wont these days.  "To me, I still ha     
[002] s when even a healthy pregnancy was  looked upon  as a  _____  condition requiring constant bed rest or some  measure     
[003] h  later works as the choral work Scale (1988) and the  _____   Second String Quartet (1986) revealed a more intimate     
[004] ender, both in  the  sense of sore and in the sense of  _____ , pleasurable,  caressing. She has created photographs      
[005] d Hawk-Monitor spent together,  and although it was a   _____  matter, she asked Adam when the young couple  were pla     
[006] on't mean you, who do you  mean?'  Flora abandoned the  _____  approach and said, 'You.'  'Me?'  'Aye, you.' She pati     
[007] in want  passion. in want red blood. in don't want any  _____   sensitive types, see? The great American public  have     
[008] a  fascinating face,' he said,  staring up at Rennet. ' _____ , nervous... She has that  untamed look you see sometim     
[009] htful. Keep an eye on Clutterbuck, by the way, a  very  _____  little chap. I have also put you in charge of  sports,     
[010] or a month or two, because she thought his health was   _____ .  John did not love his mother or his sisters, and he      
[011] tor to himself as he got up, 'we'll see.  The child is  _____ , she ought to have a change of air.'  I heard later fr     
[012]  a half  metres tall. Her face and her hands were very  _____ . Her  eyes were unnaturally large and round, so that s     


	
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[001] tkin or  Jemima  Puddle-Duck had left it ajar in their  _____  to wander the  meadow,  where a shepherd collie darts      
[002] g, but Elizabeth's obvious embarrassment, and  Darcy's  _____  in making the visit so immediately, soon  provided the     


	
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[001] ), The Tears of the Saints (1988), On the  Summits of   _____  (1990), Breviary of the Vanquished (1992) among a  hos     
[002] irst book, Pe Culmile disperarii ('On the Summits  of   _____ '). He had finished his university studies with a thesi     
[003] riei, where Cioran proposed his  nightmare  visions of  _____  to Eugene Ionesco, Mircea Eliade and an  assortment of     
[004] blazoned with 'Prison works!' Inside the Home Office,   _____   about their political masters has turned to overt cyn     
[005] to the world. I  think there might have been a kind of  _____  within me  there:  that the world outside would be too     
[006] le, himself  and his wife, so when she died, he was in  _____ . He  neither  cried nor prayed. Instead he swore at Go     
[007] ecognizing Edgar. My  poor master was in the depths of  _____ . I thought it was  very unfortunate that Catherine had     
[008]  other world!' 'Where are you, Catherine?' he cried in  _____ .  'Don't leave me here, where I can't find you! I pray     
[009] de the bedroom door. But they were  both calm. Cathy's  _____  was as silent as her father's  happiness. He died in p     
[010]  Woods had never before understood the emptiness, the   _____  of the black community. Biko's words made him feel  it     
[011] ite faces here and there. He turned to  Wendy, 'When I  _____ , remind me of this. There are whites  in South Africa      
[012] No, no.'  A trembling hope?'  Certainly not.'  A sweet  _____ ?'  Nothing of the sort.'  You're lying!' said Grimes.      
[013] ept it as  the mother of love. Well, I had moments of   _____  when I intended to shoot myself, but in the end I  dec     
[014] he road, I could not help thinking of Mr  Rochester's   _____  when he found himself abandoned. I  hated myself for w     


	
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[001] n  Mulligan's just-published Shopping Cart Soldiers. A  _____  of  sublime absurdity runs through all three - a kind      
[002] her, and would she advise her to leave him? The  black  _____  that ties love to violence ran through all h er work       


	
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[001] ked up and saw a boy of about eighteen, in a reindeer   _____  and a sti reindeer coat. The boy was dark and had  nar     
[002] d. The boy had narrow eyes and was wearing a  reindeer  _____ . Yury thought he was the spirit of death, but how  cou     
[003] ll of us,' Tonya  explained.  'Does he wear a reindeer  _____  and a reindeer coat?' 'That's  right. So you did see h     
[004] gid funding squeeze. The Government plans to ease the   _____  in  1998 to allow three per cent growth by the start o     
[005] of the themes.  At the end of the show, we see them in  _____  and gown  graduating  and they sing a song called 'Bri     
[006]  clogger and a Christian'. Knowles was a Young England  _____   strongly tipped for a place in the senior squad for t     
[007] ands, and  the  centreboard case savaging my shins. To  _____  it all was the  shouting; about where to sit - forward     
[008] I saw that  she still loved him. She now wore her best  _____  every day,  and sat near the window to see down into       
[009] o her  mistress. Miss Matty disappeared to  change her  _____  and Miss Barker came upstairs,  apologizing again and      
[010] ind and calm, was  really annoyed. And I ordered a new  _____  this morning, in  order to be quite ready!'  When we c     
[011] do the same...'  The fact was that Miss Pole had a new  _____  and wanted to  wear it. So in the end Miss Matty bough     
[012] ed to  wear it. So in the end Miss Matty bought  a new  _____  too, and so did Mrs Forrester, and we all went to  Mrs     
[013]   so exciting was going to happen. She must have a new  _____ ,  and perhaps she was too old to care about  such thin     
[014] her gentle little head. So I bought  her a pretty blue  _____  instead, which  disappointed her terribly. She followe     
[015] hoping to find  a sea-green turban somewhere inside my  _____ -box.  I'm sure you tried, my dear,' she said sadly, lo     
[016] e you tried, my dear,' she said sadly, looking at the   _____ . It's just like the caps all the ladies  in Cranford a     
[017] . This yellow silk will match the ribbons in your new   _____ ,' I continued quickly, holding it  up and wishing the      
[018] me  near, but I moved the boat  quickly, and Harris's   _____  fell into the water. We had to get it back, of course.     
[019] uted, and  Harris called out  wildly. George waved his  _____  and yelled back to us. The  lock  keeper  ran out beca     
[020] h and the day was still full of  promise.  Her nurse's  _____  sat comfortably on her short blond hair.  She looked f     
[021] ked up and saw a boy of about eighteen, in a reindeer   _____  and a sti reindeer coat. The boy was dark and had  nar     
[022] d. The boy had narrow eyes and was wearing a  reindeer  _____ . Yury thought he was the spirit of death, but how  cou     
[023] ll of us,' Tonya  explained.  'Does he wear a reindeer  _____  and a reindeer coat?' 'That's  right. So you did see h     


	
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[001]  realised that he was in a  clean bed, wearing a clean  _____ . He was comfortable and  not  hungry, thirsty or tired     
[002]  Ali al-Fayed, ran Harrods  and  Turnbull & Asser, the  _____  makers of London. The younger  man  showed up only occ     
[003] ame, grabs a small clear  plastic cup and a man in a T- _____  and drooping shorts follows  him to a bathroom just a      
[004] to his cowlicky  country-boy hair, rope necklace and T- _____ . When he invokes  such  places as Bobcat Hollow and Bl     
[005] were shaking  slightly. He undid the top button of his  _____  and loosened  his  collar. 'Blasted collar's too tight     
[006]  fibres. I myself feel most comfortable in jeans and T- _____ . I  don't really spend that much - even though Paul pa     
[007] . Imagine you can  walk out of your front  door in a T- _____  and shorts on a cold  winter's day and take a lift dow     
[008] , just undress down to your waist- you can  hang  your  _____  on the hook here - and stand over here  against  the X     
[009] lking  and some strong walking boots. I pushed another  _____  and  a toothbrush into my pockets. I had taken a lot o     
[010] .  He looked at my riding boots and my red and yellow   _____ . 'A jockey,' he said to himself. 'With a Nikon.'  How      
[011]  and have a drink,' Clare said. She was wearing a  red  _____   and black trousers and  looked very9  pretty. 'I watc     
[012]  to the boat, I was very cold. I wanted to put  on my   _____  as quickly as possible. By accident, I  dropped it int     
[013] ghed more  loudly. And then, just as I was getting the  _____  back out of the  water, I noticed that it was not my       
[014]   back out of the  water, I noticed that it was not my  _____ . So I began  to laugh, too. I looked at George, who wa     
[015] , who was laughing so much.  Then I  looked at the wet  _____  - and I laughed more and  more. Because I was laughing     
[016] d  more. Because I was laughing so much, I dropped the  _____   in the water  again.  'Aren't you going to get it out     
[017]  so  much. In  the end, I managed to say, 'It isn't my  _____ . It's  yours!'  I have never seen a man's face change      
[018]  the  pan with  some wood and grass - and George's wet  _____ .  Then we started to move up the river again, past Old     
[019] e to an android before?'  No,' he said, taking off his  _____  and tie.  They tell me it's almost the same if you don     
[020] . But Simon recovered quickly and  turned round with a  _____  in his hand.  'Here you are. I think you'll find that      
[021] think you'll find that fits all right.'  Brat took the  _____  and went off to his own room, feeling rather  shocked      
[022]  with one hand while she caught the insect inside  his  _____   with the other hand.  'Got it?' he asked.  But Eleano     
[023] oo sore. Her chest felt heavy.  She pulled at her thin  _____ .  'Aku-nna!' said Uzo crossly. 'You'll tear your           
[024]      .  'Aku-nna!' said Uzo crossly. 'You'll tear your  _____ ! You  have no father now, to buy you new clothes. Nobo     
[025] he tablets and put on her best skirt and her  new pink  _____ . Already she could hear the voffice of her first  visi     


	
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[001] s about half past four, the time I take Mr Soames his   _____ .'  'How long did you stay here?'  'I left when I saw M     
[002] I forgot to take the key,  because  I was carrying the  _____ .'  'Soames says that when he told you about what happe     
[003] ath.  Little by little he noticed that he was drinking  _____  with sugar in  it and eating white bread with real but     
[004] to Lara's small flat like two old friends. They  drank  _____ , talked about their children and discussed the  revolu     
[005] ek, over a breakfast of berries and herbal  peppermint  _____  - he seemed almost alarmed ('Oh, no!') when  a  waiter     
[006] he Mansions. Hong Kong is  dim sum,  clear Iron Buddha  _____  and linen tablecloths. The Mansions is  curry, sweet m     
[007]  linen tablecloths. The Mansions is  curry, sweet milk  _____  and linoleum. Hong Kong is frenzied,  the  Mansions la     
[008]  old ham  sandwich to  eat after a few minutes, but no  _____  to  drink - those old planes  shook and rolled so much     
[009] and rolled so much that passengers would spill  their   _____   all over themselves, so it was never served. Soon lan     
[010] finally  managed to ask a girl I like to have a cup of  _____  with me. I  put  some sugar in her                         
[011]                     with me. I  put  some sugar in her  _____  started to stir it with a spoon, and  somehow I spille     
[012] a handkerchief. But when I  was  doing that I got some  _____  on the sleeve of her  expensive silk  blouse and it ma     
[013] ALL  lovely, traditional, tidy little villages full of  _____  shops,  sweet old ladies,  and of course people on sig     
[014] ) All the time in  America we  missed good old English  _____ . We were always thirsty for                                
[015]                           . We were always thirsty for  _____ .  We  would always order it in cafes, but they were un     
[016]  a cold, I heard the other day! Oh, come on. You  have  _____  breaks that get longer and longer. In that respect  we     
[017] it's crispy. To drink, one of the best  things is mint  _____ ,  especially if it is hot. It is very  refreshing. If      
[018] , and I do this  deliberately, I make myself a cup  of  _____ , and I sit outside my  van because I think it, it plea     
[019] ns to  see a  sweet  old English lady having afternoon  _____ . But as soon as I  really...  as  soon as I arrive, es     
[020] getting a meal ready. But I do  try  to get my  cup of  _____  in first. I: Not only are you a woman,  travelling alo     
[021]  from other fruit. The  traditional breakfast drink is  _____ , which people have with cold  milk. Some  people have      
[022] wich, a drink, some fruit,  and  perhaps some crisps. ' _____ ' means two things in Britain. It is a  drink and a  me     
[023] t is a  drink and a  meal! Some people have 'afternoon  _____ ,' which  is a  plate of sandwiches and  cakes, and, of     
[024] ate of sandwiches and  cakes, and, of course, a cup of  _____ .  'Cream teas' are popular - you have scones  (a kind      
[025] on to boil and we'll  talk about it over a nice cup of  _____ .  ***   A: Hello? B: Hello -  is Betty there? A: You j     


	
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[001] e  change of a patch of green leaves into a patch  of   _____  ground. And even on that  level the rate at which the      
[002] tom pants,' or  long skirts, and often went  around in  _____  feet. These jeans, of course, were  covered in  stains     
[003]  the womb: Baby Gym, Baby Swim and Baby Dance are the   _____   minimum; more ambitious parents join organised music      
[004] oin trade visits  suggests that it does. These are the  _____  facts that underpin  the  tilt devised by Number 10 an     
[005] ertising - for body rubs and cough  syrups - featuring  _____  chests and Rodin poses.  SAX'N'JAZZ, NOT  ROCK'N'ROLL      
[006]   were white, and two great boxes of tea  stood on the  _____  wooden floor. I spent my small savings on  sweets for      
[007] he thought of her long blonde hair  falling  on to her  _____  shoulders. 8  'Look, Jenny,' he said softly, 'I'll exp     
[008] 'll kill you, do you hear  that? I'll kill you with my  _____   hands!'0  Finally the answer came. 'You'll be glad yo     
[009] gh the glass again, I still saw nothing.  The sound of  _____  feet hurrying came from the hall. A voffice  was  anxi     
[010]  been awake all night, wandering  in thought over the   _____  shoulders of the hills after his wild bird, his little     
[011] ung man stood in the warm light of the  dying sun, his  _____  throat and handsome  face looking as  though they were     
[012] opened and the doctor saw a naked figure lying on  the  _____  floor. The doctor moved forward into the room. He  saw     
[013] all sides, Paul went  on walking. Suddenly a girl with  _____  legs took his hat from  his head, and then appeared at     
[014] he felt so much alone. The cruel, dead  heights of the  _____ , sharp rocks of his moon rose above  him.  There was n     


	
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[001]  theatre, not in our daily lives.  'But then something  _____  came into our country. Do you  know  what I think was      
[002] s invoked. In Zeran v.  America  Online, a user posted  _____  information about Kenneth Zeran,  who  was not an AOL      
[003] do? A: People of your age, especially boys, often tell  _____   stories about  their experiences. I'm sure some of yo     
[004] in my  sleep!'  They weren't acting. There was nothing  _____  about  them. At first I wanted to apologize and leave.     
[005] id, turning to me. His voffice now sounded completely   _____ .  'I'm afraid he must wait,' I said.  'Oh, no!' said t     
[006]   best  for your future? I know how bad men can be how  _____ .'  She moved away from him. He is not                      
[007]                 .'  She moved away from him. He is not  _____ ! What has he  done what do you know?'  He has never do     
[008] have enough to buy them. He dialled the  number of the  _____ -animal shop where he had bought  his sheep.  Dr McRae.     
[009] very unhappy. Sometimes androids didn't know,  because  _____  memories were programmed into their  brains.  No. But      
[010] o the two of them he said, Is the owl real?'  No, it's  _____ ,' Eldon Rosen answered. There are no owls.'  Rick left     
[011] . But he survived. He had a job driving a truck for a   _____ -animal repair company, and Mr Sloat, his boss,  accept     
[012] ilk and eggs. In his fridge he found a  small piece of  _____  butter.  His heart was beating fast as he left his apa     
[013] hey've never  admitted it, of course... This cat isn't  _____ ! I knew  that one day this would happen. And it's dead     
[014] otice, but  the owner always does. When you get near a  _____  animal, .  .  .'  My husband never really went near Ho     
[015] osing him. I looked after him. I think  I would like a  _____  animal. I don't think my husband could  survive Horace     
[016] . When I first worked for the police.'  Maybe that's a  _____  memory. Don't androids sometimes  have                     
[017]                 memory. Don't androids sometimes  have  _____  memories? I'll take the test if you take  it first.'       
[018] s,' Luba Luft said. They're too  expensive. You mean a  _____  dog. But those are  made of wires and motors. You can'     
[019] I agree with Miss Luft. Maybe you're an android with a  _____   memory. Have you thought of that?' Crams  smiled.  Ri     
[020] ars. Not  Resch he stayed another week and was given a  _____   memory. When he learns the truth, he'll probably kill     
[021] ndroid thought he was human.'  So why do you put these  _____  memories in if it's so  dangerous?' Rick asked.  It's      
[022] im.  Then there was once a real Garland. Or I've got a  _____   memory system.' His face turned grey. Only  androids      
[023] ory system.' His face turned grey. Only  androids have  _____  memory systems. Those systems don't  work in human bei     
[024] on Luba Luft. That's going to be hard.'  It's not just  _____  memory systems,' Phil Resch said. I own  an animal; no     
[025] ory systems,' Phil Resch said. I own  an animal; not a  _____  one, but the real thing. A  squirrel. Its name's Buy.      


	
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[001] ere he was for several minutes. When he  shook himself  _____ , Yury thought of his father. He had  forgotten to pray     
[002] k and quiet, but  one  nervous, angry person was still  _____ , trying to decide on his  next course of action.  Koma     
[003] ed to be just around the corner. Yury's  dreams - both  _____  and asleep - were about Moscow,  about his work, about     
[004] urites. He would invite Yury to his tent and keep him   _____  with long, drunken explanations of his plans and  ambi     
[005] in your room.  And if there  was  no noise to keep you  _____ , there was probably a flashing  light  outside instead     
[006] e  seems to  come natural, whether she's tired or wide- _____ .  And  what does she do to  relax? You won't believe i     
[007] hat are the  skills  imparted when children are barely  _____  from their long  sleep in  the womb: Baby Gym, Baby Sw     
[008] to the writer, an 'emotional  insomnia' that keeps him  _____  at night, or the 'concomitant  inability to let go of      
[009] rday morning between 7 and 8, while I was  still  half- _____ , I heard Peter Lilley in my bedroom. He was on  the  r     
[010] edly. 'For the  moment you are safe - they know you're  _____ , they know  you're big, strong, fearless - but what ab     
[011]  went into the darkness of the hut. But Mark was  now   _____ . I tried to persuade  him not to worry, and I  explain     
[012] nd fast.  Hidden list  The hospital phoned. Jeremy was  _____ . He was still very  ill, but he  was not going to die.     
[013]  Year's  Eve,  and the villagers had told him to  stay  _____  until midnight, because it would bring him good  luck      
[014] Fire, with the child on his knees.  The little one was  _____ , but her wide open blue eyes  looked up into Godfrey's     
[015] ry angry  when I see another man  9    asleep and I am  _____ . We decided to wake George. We  ran  across the room,      
[016] 'clock the next morning, and I found that  George was   _____ , too. We both tried to go to sleep  again, but we coul     
[017] ,' George answered. 'It'll be all right, if Harris is   _____ .'  'And if he isn't                                        
[018]                                   .'  'And if he isn't  _____ ?' I asked.  But we decided not to think about that.  W     
[019] is. 'You're  always  asleep. Have you ever seen Harris  _____ ,  except at meal times?' George asked me.  I had to te     
[020] ,' he said to her. If I turn  it up for you, you'll be  _____  and...'  Don't touch my mood settings.' Her voffice wa     
[021]  Her voffice was sharp and  bitter. I don't want to be  _____ .'  He sat down on her bed, bent over her and explained     
[022] tly,  At a high enough setting, you'll be glad you're   _____ ; that's the whole point.' He touched her shoulder  gen     
[023] asleep when he remembered something  and was  suddenly  _____  again. He knew who it was that Simon  Ashby reminded h     
[024] kes  failing.  A nurse came into the room. 'Oh, you're  _____  now. That's  good. We'll  take your temperature.'  'I      
[025] my mind, somewhere hidden.  If  I could get away, stay  _____ ... I started towards the  bridge, to  look for my bag.