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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] utes - it's about the same as getting scratched with a  _____ .  You're  in the hands of pleasant people, and your bo     
[002] hors  and other publishers, and to make notices that I  _____  up on  the  office noticeboard. When someone from the      
[003] e  would have had a surprise. He kept it as neat  as a  _____ . Everything was arranged in its place, exactly like a      
[004] wearing a bright yellow sports  jacket and diamond tie- _____  while serving lunch. And I must  confess that  all the     


	
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[001] ce of  the people standing there. Would she be able to  _____   with  someone for fresh food for her family? At one l     
[002] rassed. Had she  cheated the woman or just made a good  _____ ?  There were several men travelling east for the labou     
[003] mic vinegar. Winn-Dixie  has  positioned itself as the  _____  shopper's alternative,  advertising cheap wine and bee     
[004] enerations may not be able to  keep  their part of the  _____ . In most developed countries, people  are living longe     
[005]  double  the cost of a regular employee and still be a  _____ .    FOR people living in an ostensibly free society, A     
[006] at dusk. Jennie also told me about  Columbia  County's  _____  prices on everything from farm-stand fruit  and  antiq     
[007] against the D.  C.  Corrections Department as 'quite a  _____ .' Seen from the  perspective of a government lawyer wh     
[008]  gun away, and the gun I had taken from the  girl.  'A  _____ , Flippo,' I said. 'You're in trouble with the police.      
[009]  was your body,' she told me.  'Then he got a very bad  _____  in the exchange,' I said.  'He'll find that my body, a     
[010] he must feel the greatest disdain. He had even had to   _____  with Wickham! She could not believe he had done all  t     
[011] ce of  the people standing there. Would she be able to  _____   with  someone for fresh food for her family? At one l     
[012] rassed. Had she  cheated the woman or just made a good  _____ ?  There were several men travelling east for the labou     


	
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[001]  center, where the meeting is to be held. And when  I   _____  about hotels, Larry mentioned one I never heard of.  H     
[002] e  considered him a rather sad figure.  'Who is that?'  _____  Claud, glancing in that direction.  'A Mr Mybug. in me     


	
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[001] ectors arrived unannounced this week  at the  offices,  _____  yards and dispatching centers of Union Pacific,  the       
[002] nd, underground lava tunnels wide  enough  for a Metro  _____  car-not to mention the smelly steam that  engulfs  you     
[003] e care with your luggage when travelling,  whether by   _____   or air, especially in the holiday season. Keep your h     
[004] d again until arrival. And moving cargo from ship  to   _____   or truck at the arrival port is much easier with cont     
[005] ome by  train - then you can take advantage of British  _____ 's popular  holiday  fares. You can arrange a bus tour      
[006] . D: Who do I make the cheque  payable to?  C: British  _____ , please,  sir. D: And do you need my cheque  card?  C:     
[007] hem.  If  they're going by  train, I check the British  _____  timetable for  the most convenient departure, and  the     
[008]  a question of  principle. Should we look  to  road or  _____  for our transport needs? Should the  government,  or       
[009] ry? It's an old trick  of Tory ministers in trouble to  _____  against a phantom 'liberal  establishment' within thei     
[010] along  the footpath at the edge, and put a hand on the  _____ . There  was  something about that lonely  figure, some     
[011] or a long time, then he threw his  cigarette over  the  _____  and watched it  hit the water. He  Burned to face the      


	
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[001] amilies in them, eating  and laughing and enjoying the  _____ .  Then I moved onto M Street. Friday night on M was al     
[002] s thoughts ofTonya, their son and their  home with its  _____ , sincerity and love. After more than two  years away f     
[003] ctual and motor  skills they claim to teach as for the  _____  of the carers. But  nursery or playgroup is just the b     
[004] . I was sitting up, with Mark's arm round me, and the   _____   of his body against my  own.  Colin spoke. 'Mark,' he     
[005] f the dining  room, still laughing about his name. The  _____  and  friendliness of her  hand sent a strange feeling      
[006] ligence, the unexpected sincerity in the eyes  and the  _____  of the smile. Then he put out his own hand  and took B     
[007] s sort of thing  happening.'  Woods was surprised. The  _____  and sincerity of  Kruger's response impressed him. 'We     
[008] ies. The door closed firmly,  shutting me out from the  _____  inside.  I dropped on to the wet doorstep, worn out an     
[009] age.'  'Really, Mr Collins,' cried Elizabeth with some  _____ , 'you  do puzzle me! I do not know how to express my r     
[010] n front  of his picture, she gratefully remembered the  _____  of his  feelings for her, and began to forget the way      
[011]   We slept closely together all night, feeling the new  _____  of  being on the same side.  At about six thirty the n     
[012] t Anna.  The sun was behind her and she could feel its  _____  on her  shoulders. There wasn't much traic about so sh     
[013] amilies in them, eating  and laughing and enjoying the  _____ .  Then I moved onto M Street. Friday night on M was al     
[014] s thoughts ofTonya, their son and their  home with its  _____ , sincerity and love. After more than two  years away f     


	
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[001] bright blue paint. Little smudges and stains of  color  _____  every room of his house. In the rearmost bedroom,  whi     
[002] h from the cooler and headed for  the  most intriguing  _____  on the map, labeled 'Devil's Kitchen.' The  Kitchen is     


	
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[001] I've. . . never done that kind of work."  "Can you put  _____  on bread?"  "I think so."  "Then you're the man for us     
[002]  and we work all  night".  He showed me the bread, the  _____ , the meat, and the  cheese.  "It's real complicated. Y     
[003] y was sitting in front of the house, eating bread and   _____ . He had small eyes and a red nose.  'Did you knock?' a     
[004] tea with sugar in  it and eating white bread with real  _____ . 'How did you get all  of this?' he asked Tonya.  'You     
[005] e inventive  fillips, lovely touches like the Bordeaux  _____  slathered on  satiny strip steak topped with frizzled      
[006] milk is there? S:  Only a  little. And there isn't any  _____ , and we haven't  got much  cheese. B: Well, we don't n     
[007] rns, for example, some people  put  cream or grease or  _____  on burned skin, and this in fact  makes  the burn  hot     
[008] assies have not always served the  country's bread-and- _____  interests as aggressively as they  might. According to     
[009] . The car went through  the hedge like a knife through  _____ , and immediately  began to fall. I jumped out and was      
[010] at or drink at their evening parties. Thin bread-and-   _____  was all that the Honourable Mrs  Jamieson gave and she     
[011] e of all  the ladies, passing round cups and bread-and- _____ . He  was clearly a favourite. But all the time he  kep     
[012]  plates were very thin and fine. So  was the bread-and- _____ . We were grateful  to Lady Glenmire for ordering more      
[013]  to a child, and she had gone out and  bought eggs and  _____  with her own  money to cook her something special.  We     
[014] rs how to reply, allow me to  offer you some bread-and- _____ .'  I did not reply very grandly. I just said that I wo     
[015] ry glad you're going to  have a dairy. Making your own  _____  will give you something  to think about all the time.      
[016] orge began. 'We need eggs, cold meat.  tea. bread  and  _____ , of course.  And for dinner we can  take cold chicken      
[017]   And then it was George's turn, and he stepped on the  _____ .  I did not  say anything, but I got  up and went over     
[018]  top of them.  Then it got worse. After George got the  _____  off his shoe,  they  tried to put it in the teapot. At     
[019] pot was  the wrong place. But they  could not get the   _____  out again. However, in the end they did manage to get      
[020] a  chair. Harris sat on it,  and when he stood up, the  _____  stuck to his trousers. Then  they  looked for the          
[021]      stuck to his trousers. Then  they  looked for the  _____  all over  the room. In the end,  George got behind Har     
[022] ly.  'Stand still!' George shouted.  When they got the  _____  off Harris, they packed it in the  teapot  again.  Mon     
[023] d eggs. In his fridge he found a  small piece of false  _____ .  His heart was beating fast as he left his apartment      
[024] istened. No sound and  no movement. I brought you some  _____ ,' he said. My  name's J. R. Isidore and I work for the     
[025]  he knew,  and she didn't seem to understand about the  _____ . Good  old Buster,' he said, trying to make conversati     


	
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[001] ishing that Miss Taylor was still there  too.  'What a  _____  Mr Weston ever thought of Miss Taylor,' said Mr  Woodh     
[002] lls without  Harriet but he surprised her. -" 'It is a  _____  our friend cannot  join our little party -but I am loo     
[003]  eye arid then he  smiled at her. She thought it was a  _____  he did not like either  dancing or Frank Churchill a l     
[004]  been there for half an hour and she  thought, 'What a  _____  I did not come home sooner!' The next  day brought new     
[005] to the royal tent, Lucilla was  already there.  It's a  _____  I only have one son," Marcus said to her. "You  would      
[006] to congratulate you.'  'Oh, you are the most -! What a  _____  they didn't hang you!'  'There are others who share yo     
[007] ur.'  'Why do you hate Ashley?' she said.  'I don't, I  _____  him. His world is gone and he's like a fish out of  wa     
[008] l I do?' she cried. .  He looked at her, and there was  _____  in his eyes. 'My dear,'  he  said, softly, 'I don't ca     
[009]  said, almost to  himself, 'We kill mosquitoes without  _____ .' I didn't know what  to  say.  'Charlie,' he said, 'I     
[010] most famous words that Charles Dickens ever wrote. We   _____   Oliver, a poor hungry boy, with nothing to eat except     
[011] was an orphan, born into a world which had no love  or  _____  for him.  No one was able to discover who the baby's f     
[012] ng more about her.' 'Don't be rude,  Workhouse. We all  _____  you, Workhouse, but your mother  was a bad woman. You      
[013] st house.  'Perhaps the people in that house will feel  _____  for me,' he  thought. 'And if they don't, it will be b     
[014]  streets with no friends, dear lady!' Nancy  wept.  'I  _____  you.' said Rose.' I am so sorry for you.' 'Heaven bles     
[015]  wedding? A: I'll just check my calendar. Oh, what  a   _____ .  That's when we're away on holiday. B: And when do yo     
[016] ciance is captured as 'an expression  halfway  between  _____  and disapproval, the way you look at a drunken  man  w     
[017] ermany of 40 years ago, which  did  not. It would be a  _____  if some politicians, with their dubious  attempts to c     
[018]  here, Austin,' Mrs  Penniman told her brother. What a  _____  you  missed  him.'  Who in the world is Mr Morris Town     
[019] e of children. Some of my  relations told me it  was a  _____  I didn't have a family to keep me busy. Others told  m     
[020] aring at us, and  went back into the kitchen.  'It's a  _____  he can't kill himself with drink,' muttered Heathcli.      
[021] e pushed her roughly out of the door.  'Don't you feel  _____  for her?' I asked, when we were alone.  'Have you ever     
[022] er?' I asked, when we were alone.  'Have you ever felt  _____  for anybody in your life?' 'Why should  I? She's just      
[023] n my heart,' said Catherine. 'And  you both want me to  _____  you! How strong you are, Heathcli!  You'll live for ye     
[024] cely at me. 'Don't be  sorry for me, I don't want your  _____ !' 'Poor creature!' I thought.  'You have a heart just      
[025] ve him my heart, and he  destroyed it, so I can't feel  _____  for him. But I must tell you how  I managed to escape.     


	
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[001] rusty  yellow ground all around us; vents are belching  _____  20 feet  in  the air, thick with foul-smelling hydrosu     
[002] enough  for a Metro Rail car-not to mention the smelly  _____  that  engulfs  your face at the discretion of the wind     
[003] ving toward the  surface, often followed by venting of  _____  and ash. The  1980  eruption of Mount St. Helens in Wa     
[004] were detected as early as 1992. Eruptions of ash  and   _____  began in July 1995. And the first pyroclastic flow  tr     
[005] t. We'd sit and have our picnic and listen to the old   _____  trains whistle past. We went to the pictures twice a       
[006]  water, put a towel over my head, and breathe the  hot  _____  down my throat. So  far, so good - no cold.  ***    WO     
[007] : his 67-page article on 'The  Prenatal History of the  _____ - Engine', which surveys the  Chinese, Indian, Greek, A     
[008]  Indian, Greek, Arabic, and early European usages  of   _____  power is a tour de force. It is replete with 35, often     


	
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[001]  the black earth. Hands touched his shoes-  expensive,  _____  shoesOther hands moved over his  soldier's clothes-fin     
[002] in my office had cost-the expensive old desk, the  red  _____  armchairs, and the Persian carpets. Weren't , we  just     
[003] and boats, so Alexander ordered his men to fill  their  _____  tent-bags with dried grass and use them to sail  acros     
[004] y swordswoman who traipses across  ancient  lands in a  _____  miniskirt and a bronze-plated bustier,  wiping  out ev     
[005] ped under the front and rear roof rack edges; smaller   _____   bag with wife's clothes to one side, shoulder strap s     
[006] e pilot arrived late,  with the stewardess. He wore a   _____  coat, old trousers,  and  wellington boots. The stewar     
[007]  anti-skin,  mimic nakedness,' that essay began. 'Like  _____  and  suede, only  more subtly, velvet simulates the fl     
[008] e.' Rick  chose question three. Right. You are given a  _____   wallet on your birthday.'  The needles on his instrum     
[009] cle and then returned to her seat.  Rick put his black  _____  bag on the table, took  out his instruments, and attac     
[010]  room for a talk.  It was a big, comfortable room with  _____  armchairs  and a lot of family photographs on the wall     
[011] loor. Holding tightly to the back of his father's  big  _____  armchair, he whispered, 'I think that noise is  coming     
[012] ady.  '  She was off the boat. Immediately, a man in a  _____  hat  came forward and touched her on the arm.  'Where      
[013] ss looked out of the window, and saw  - the man in the  _____  hat coming back  again. His arms were full of luggage.     
[014] t  was a kind of smoking room. There were comfortable   _____   chairs and  beautiful old wooden bookshelves. On the      
[015] ttom of the stairs he saw an expensive  looking brown   _____  jacket, still wet  from the rain. But  although he lis     
[016]  Anne Scott that  afternoon, and I was wearing a brown  _____  jacket, which I  can show  you if you like. Have  you      
[017] rder, isn't it?'  I was tired, and sat down in the old  _____  armchair. 'There  were no  witnesses,' I said.  'I hea     
[018] ing to  go down with the others?  She put me in a soft  _____  chair. 'You must be hungry,' she  said. 'I  will see'      
[019] ead to  foot in the most elegant flying suit of black   _____ , who came  forward to meet her family and visitors.  '     
[020]  while Paul was packing his three suits in  his little  _____  case, the Domestic Bursar sent a message  that he wish     
[021] chance of testing this. Have you any experience of art  _____   work?'  No, I'm afraid not, sir.'  Never mind. Do you     
[022] sharp tools you've allowed  the  men to use in the art  _____  class are just too tempting for  them.'  z  Paul looke     
[023] k and faint. At the baker's I offered to exchange  my   _____  gloves for a small cake, but the baker's  wife looked      
[024]  the black earth. Hands touched his shoes-  expensive,  _____  shoesOther hands moved over his  soldier's clothes-fin     
[025] in my office had cost-the expensive old desk, the  red  _____  armchairs, and the Persian carpets. Weren't , we  just