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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] s that are important to  you.  Of course you begin to   _____  things, too, but I mean that's  inevitable. Something      
[002]  in. Make them feel ashamed of themselves.  Make  them  _____  it! There's no valid reason for not giving blood.  For     
[003] pen  the door to them. Don't  trust anyone - you could  _____  it. 2  Make certain that you do not part  with any cas     
[004] he money it costs - it  won't  be wasted. You'll never  _____   it.  ***   Jane Simpson, a divorce  lawyer, is being      
[005] Try  us  - you can't fail to enjoy yourself. You won't  _____   coming.  You'll never want to leave. You'll hate to s     
[006] ng  this.  Sure, I'm grateful for the job, and I don't  _____  taking it,  but I don't enjoy it that much. I don't in     
[007] uld  worry herself to death if I went to gaol! I would  _____   driving so fast for  the rest of my life! The speed w     
[008]  made the choffice not to have children. I can't say I  _____  it,  because I did get the books written and lived the     
[009] 5 and the  second in 1993, and it is a matter of great  _____  that this fine  choir- trainer and organist did not ha     
[010] sked Mrs Smiling. She knew that  Flora did not greatly  _____  her parents'  death.  'It was dreadful,' replied Flora     
[011] s diicult, I became desperate,  and now  all I have is  _____ .'  'Asking forgiveness might cure it, sir.'  'No, it w     
[012] ad sworn never to call  her  aunt again, but I did not  _____  breaking that promise to  myself. I  held her hand.  A     
[013] ht of the  tears on  MY cheeks, he asked -me,  'Do you  _____  accepting this job, then'  sure I'll get used to it so     
[014]   the long years of their marriage, he had had time to  _____  his  mistake. He soon realized that his wife had littl     
[015] mother did not  think Jane's illness serious, began to  _____  asking her to  come, when she saw the Bingley sisters      
[016] Mr Darcy, I think  of his father with the most painful  _____ . Mr Darcy as  behaved wickedly towards me, but I could     
[017] er, who, according to Wickham, would make him quickly   _____   what he had thrown away.  At about this time, Elizabe     
[018] fortable, she was unable to please him  with a sigh of  _____ . In fact, she wondered how Charlotte  could look so ch     
[019] to persuade him not to  return to Hertfordshire.  I do  _____  one thing, however. Miss Bingley and I both knew  that     
[020] pity for his disappointment, but did not  for a moment  _____  her refusal, or have the slightest desire  to see him      
[021] d Elizabeth did not want to deepen  Jane's feelings of  _____  for her lost happiness.  Elizabeth in Derbyshire  Duri     
[022]  a lucky thought, which  saved her from something like  _____ .  She longed to enquire of the housekeeper whether her     
[023]  Darcy must necessarily be so happy that she could not  _____   her marriage.' 'Obstinate girl! Tell me, are you enga     
[024] s that are important to  you.  Of course you begin to   _____  things, too, but I mean that's  inevitable. Something      
[025]  in. Make them feel ashamed of themselves.  Make  them  _____  it! There's no valid reason for not giving blood.  For     


	
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[001] soup to warm him up, which he drank  right  out of the  _____  without using a spoon. Then they built a  roaring  fir     
[002] kroom... and found Jeremy  face  down on  the floor. A  _____  of  water had fallen beside  him. There was a smell...     
[003]  arranged in its place, exactly like a  painting - the  _____  of eggs, the cups and  the teapot on the shelf, the bo     
[004] ng man next  to  me, who was drinking his tea out of a  _____  and eating his  bread with unwashed hands. Perhaps the     
[005] e looked desperately around for a  weapon, picked up a  _____  of hot soup and threw it at Edgar,  who started scream     
[006]  punished! It's your fault, Edgar, you  He picked up a  _____  of hot soup and threw it at Edgar.  annoyed him! Why d     
[007] rtains (for the two  hundred photographs of Seth) in a  _____  of water. Her eyes  stared lifelessly out of her sorro     
[008] ut nine o'clock and sat down in the garden  with a big  _____  of spaghetti and plenty of bottles of cold beer.  'I w     
[009] s being very generous about the whole  business, put a  _____  of flowers in their bedroom and lit a  huge  fire ther     
[010] s, behind which his  cold eyes lay like slim fish in a  _____ .  His head is too big and his hands are too small,' sa     
[011]  take one of these pieces of folded  paper out of this  _____ . We will hold our piece of paper  unopened until I say     
[012] n back to the  kitchen. She had picked up the goldfish  _____  and emptied it  over the burning shirt. (She remembere     
[013]  iron  away first. ) It was not a real goldfish in the  _____ .  Marina liked animals too much to throw one on top of     
[014] nd returned the fish  to the water, he swam around the  _____ . He opened and  closed his mouth, trying to take in al     
[015] ow did it feel? It felt like  someone had thrown a big  _____  of very cold water over him,  on a hot day, when he wa     
[016] She sat at a tiny table on the  pavement and ordered a  _____  of noodles. They were hot and  delicious. But she coul     
[017]  warm lobster  pieces covered each plate, and a little  _____  of extra sauce  came with it. She dipped some bread in     
[018] ve  to say yes or no."  A young officer gave Maximus a  _____  of hot soup. He drank it  slowly as they talked, alway     
[019] cked up some of the flowers that she was  placing in a  _____ . She held them up and looked at them.  'They're not ve     
[020] d. And the flowers are  ready, too. Will you carry the  _____  for me?'  'Of course,' I said. 'But Marian-'  'Yes?'       
[021] n Her Hair' .'  I thought that was fair. I carried the  _____  of flowers for her  and  then looked for Lord Trimingh     
[022] going to take to Nannie Robson: a cake, perhaps,  or a  _____  of soup. And then a voffice behind me made me  jump.       
[023] ' It was Marian, but  she was not carrying a cake or a  _____  of soup. She was  carrying a letter.  'Will you do som     
[024] m the necessary things were ready. They were:  A small  _____  of oil (to heat the liquid) One silver cup One  soap d     
[025] od up  from the table and went to the master, with his  _____  and  spoon in his hands, (Please, sir,' he said, 'I wa     


	
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[001] ight have in Europe is being  undermined by the public  _____  about Britain's attitude to  membership of the Europea     
[002] hers - not to enforce  orthodoxy or morality. But your  _____  with us concerns  church  rites, not civil rights. We,     
[003]   discreet than any autobiographical account of family  _____   or  rupture that a novelist, for example, might give.     
[004] them that Hindley  had returned, I realized that their  _____  had only brought  them closer together.  Heathcli disa     
[005] would not discover that I had told Mr  Edgar about her  _____  with Heathcli.  'I'm wild with anger, ElIen!' she said     
[006] recover if I looked after him.  And I don't think we'd  _____  if we knew each other better.'  'Well, miss, if you tr     
[007] r  Hareton wants to learn: I said, hoping to prevent a  _____   between them. 'No doubt he took them away to study th     
[008] r leave, Cathy,' whispered Hareton urgently. 'I  won't  _____  with Mr Heathcli.' , But it was too late. I was  sure      
[009] ed.  '  He looked uncomfortable. There had been a long  _____   about old Joe  Hammond's picture.  Elinor had not car     
[010] g up  She was woken very early next morning by a noisy  _____   going on below her window. Male voffices  were raised     
[011] per. The first  part is all about horse-racing and the  _____  she's had with  Chokey. Apparently he doesn't like the     
[012] ant to read,' she  exploded, and  we had our first big  _____ . 5  Ashton and the Russian scientist  I was not in the     
[013] ittle progress. Penny wouldn't speak  to me after  our  _____  about the  search of her room and  nobody had seen Ash     
[014]  and left all his property, not  to us, because of his  _____  with our father, but to his  brother's  daughter. Then     
[015] And because they're so quiet, you can't have a  proper  _____  with them. They don't seem to be resisting,  but they      
[016] ight have in Europe is being  undermined by the public  _____  about Britain's attitude to  membership of the Europea     
[017] hers - not to enforce  orthodoxy or morality. But your  _____  with us concerns  church  rites, not civil rights. We,     
[018]   discreet than any autobiographical account of family  _____   or  rupture that a novelist, for example, might give.     
[019] them that Hindley  had returned, I realized that their  _____  had only brought  them closer together.  Heathcli disa     
[020] would not discover that I had told Mr  Edgar about her  _____  with Heathcli.  'I'm wild with anger, ElIen!' she said     
[021] recover if I looked after him.  And I don't think we'd  _____  if we knew each other better.'  'Well, miss, if you tr     
[022] r  Hareton wants to learn: I said, hoping to prevent a  _____   between them. 'No doubt he took them away to study th     
[023] r leave, Cathy,' whispered Hareton urgently. 'I  won't  _____  with Mr Heathcli.' , But it was too late. I was  sure      
[024] ed.  '  He looked uncomfortable. There had been a long  _____   about old Joe  Hammond's picture.  Elinor had not car     
[025] g up  She was woken very early next morning by a noisy  _____   going on below her window. Male voffices  were raised     


	
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[001] f a larger problem of  brutality in the department.     _____  clenched, hands clasped and eyes focused straight  ahe     
[002]   alone must protect the child and his family from the  _____  and  the killers.  But she has help: Mark is a clever      
[003] f a larger problem of  brutality in the department.     _____  clenched, hands clasped and eyes focused straight  ahe     
[004]   alone must protect the child and his family from the  _____  and  the killers.  But she has help: Mark is a clever      


	
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[001]  how the  words  are spelled, but I don't know how  to  _____  them until I  ask  an English speaker.  ***   STUDENT      
[002]  how the  words  are spelled, but I don't know how  to  _____  them until I  ask  an English speaker.  ***   STUDENT      


	
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[001] o  track whether 20 chefs, dishwashers and waiters use  _____   dispensers and wash their hands after using the toile     
[002] back. The smell wouldn't  go  away, no matter how much  _____  I  used! Now I have to avoid  being  near her so she w     
[003] the rooms we saw offered their guests a  towel or  any  _____ . In one, there  were no sheets on the beds and you  ha     
[004] rising.  Holocaust  was dismissed in most of Europe as  _____ -opera kitsch. In  Germany,  however, its effect was dr     
[005] ious tools like cliff-  hanging endings. 'These aren't  _____  operas,' he claims. One  of  his heroes is Charles Dic     
[006]  which make everything familiar  seem  strange again. ' _____  Suds', 'Deja Vu', 'After the Crash',  'Round  the Corn     
[007] thing again.  When I had finished, George asked if the  _____  was in the  suitcase. I  said I did not care about  th     
[008] as in the  suitcase. I  said I did not care about  the  _____ . I threw down  the lid of the suitcase, and I closed i     
[009] ite man, who took it back to England and made it into   _____ . Then she bought the white man's                           
[010]                      . Then she bought the white man's  _____  and sold it to  her people.  As the months passed, she     
[011] me with your old water-voles and a bit  more with some  _____   and hot water.' She turned to her daughter. 'Don't yo     
[012] do you do?' she said. I do hope you have brought  some  _____  with you. Masters are not provided with                    
[013]                with you. Masters are not provided with  _____  or  towels. Do you take sugar in your tea?'  Yes, usua     
[014] l bowl of oil (to heat the liquid) One silver cup One   _____  dish (with holes in it) Four small books (to support t     
[015] h (with holes in it) Four small books (to support the   _____  dish) Four boxes of matches Water Watch (to measure  t     
[016] gainst fire).  The success of my spell depended on the  _____  dish. I was  going to place the cup in the                 
[017]             dish. I was  going to place the cup in the  _____  dish so that the flames  from the oil passed through t     
[018] e flames  from the oil passed through the holes in the  _____  dish and  heated the cup. My plan was to put a little      
[019]  smoke and cheap wine and life on the streets  without  _____  His beard and hair were half-grey and very  dirty. He      
[020] n I went shopping. Candy and  small toys for the kids,  _____  for them all, warm clothes in 'lots  of children's siz     
[021] . Dianne had tears in her  eyes.  Mark smelled fresh -  _____  and noticed her hair was wet. She  had changed her clo     
[022]  meat - and don't even bother to stock  toothpaste or   _____ . The company also has two convenience-style stores  ca     
[023] c ending to a  life  that was part fairy tale and part  _____  opera and that had  captivated millions for nearly two     
[024] o  track whether 20 chefs, dishwashers and waiters use  _____   dispensers and wash their hands after using the toile     
[025] back. The smell wouldn't  go  away, no matter how much  _____  I  used! Now I have to avoid  being  near her so she w     


	
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[001] und the  world.  ***   Of all my relatives, I  like my  _____  Emily the best. She's my  mother's youngest  sister.       
[002]   are very upset. We  are  going to fight the will. My  _____  didn't know what she  was  doing  - she was senile in      
[003] rpins  slipping out, and the awful time when Jo thinks  _____  March is  going to take her to France, even though she     
[004] ile talking to each other all the  time. Nancy met her  _____ , Mrs Osgood, who introduced her  to  some visitors of      
[005] ,  Priscilla said to Mrs Osgood, Look at  our dresses,  _____ ! Of course Nancy looks beautiful in hers,  but this co     
[006]  Podger did  a job. When  they bought a picture  once,  _____  Podger  asked, 'Now, where shall we put this?'  'Oh, I     
[007] sic was beautiful, but Uncle Podger's words  were not!  _____   Maria was not  pleased. She said that she  did not wa     
[008] e young woman cried wildly, 'Oh, Henry, then  where's   _____  Mary?'...  'Did they ever get the old lady back?' Harr     
[009] hat many times.'  Half an hour later Catherine saw her  _____  Penniman sitting  by a window, with Morris Townsend sh     
[010]  Mrs Penniman. He  talked to me about Catherine.'  Oh,  _____  Penniman!' Catherine murmured.  He is very handsome an     
[011] e murmured.  He is very handsome and very clever,' her  _____  went on. He  spoke in a in a very charming way.'  The      
[012] cousin called at Washington Square.  Catherine and her  _____  were sitting together by the fire in the  parlour.  Ar     
[013] ere Morris Townsend was deep in conversation  with her  _____ . Every few minutes he  looked over  at Catherine and s     
[014] y from New York he has been all  round the world.'  My  _____  likes him very much,' said Catherine.  Most people lik     
[015] or  coming  another time. I am not afraid of what your  _____  will say when I  go.'  After the two young men had lef     
[016]  than you think. I have  told him all about you.'  Oh,  _____  Penniman!' said Catherine in a frightened voffice.  He     
[017] therine, you know very well that you admire him.'  Oh,  _____  Penniman!' said Catherine again. Perhaps she  did admi     
[018]  wished to court her; only a  romantic  woman like her  _____  would believe that.   Who is Morris Townsend?  Half an     
[019]  was not at home at the time. Catherine  was  with her  _____  when a servant announced the young man's  name. Mrs Pe     
[020] out of their  diiculty.  She received no help from her  _____  in this search. Mrs  Penniman was enjoying all the exc     
[021] orry for him and you wouldn't see him, my dear,'  said  _____  Lavinia.  I have not seen him because my father has fo     
[022] not  move. Then she lifted her head and looked at  her  _____ .  Why do you make it so diicult for me?' she said. I d     
[023] hey parted.  Catherine, of course, knew nothing of her  _____ 's meeting  with Morris, and she had not spoken to her      
[024] d in New York, but she did hear news  of him  from her  _____  during her first evening home. In fact, while she  had     
[025]  is always  thinking of her. I am not at all like her;  _____   Penniman has told me that. Of course it isn't my faul     


	
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[001] ers put out the word that there's no way -zip,  zilch,  _____  -their man can possibly prevail. In political-speak,       
[002] n,  when  he lost  his way and spent three days in sub- _____   temperatures.  'My friends laughed at  me for having      
[003] er and closer. Its temperature  was many degrees below  _____ . There was no life of any sort  on it. There was no gr     
[004] tem on the  suit. The needle on the dial was nearly at  _____ . The suit must  have been losing heat for some time, a     
[005] ers put out the word that there's no way -zip,  zilch,  _____  -their man can possibly prevail. In political-speak,       
[006] n,  when  he lost  his way and spent three days in sub- _____   temperatures.  'My friends laughed at  me for having      
[007] er and closer. Its temperature  was many degrees below  _____ . There was no life of any sort  on it. There was no gr     
[008] tem on the  suit. The needle on the dial was nearly at  _____ . The suit must  have been losing heat for some time, a     


	
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[001] throw them in the back seat and get in.  ***   A solar  _____  was  built in a poor, traditional desert village in an     
[002] here the  climate was  particularly dry and dusty. The  _____  used the  desert's most common resource,  sunlight, to     
[003] ate into an advantage rather than a disadvantage. The   _____   could deliver three times as much water as the old we     
[004] . However, in the  end  the  introduction of the solar  _____  was not the success it seemed  at  first.  The project     
[005] itional  power structure of the  village, and soon his  _____  project ran  into some trouble that he had not  intend     
[006] e two richest, most powerful men took control of  the   _____  and made everyone else pay them for their water!  No o     
[007] y them for their water!  No one  else could touch  the  _____  without paying cash in advance.  The  result was that      
[008] s they  had been before. They regretted that the solar  _____  had  been  put  in their village, and wished they had      
[009]   put  in their village, and wished they had their old  _____  again.  ***    We  haven't  conquered space. Nor have      
[010] f sick.'  'Couldn't do it? Well, we'll try the stomach  _____ ,' the doctor  said.  It was very unpleasant, but final     
[011] ou talk about suicide. There's the doctor  who had to   _____  your stomach this  afternoon. It was  most unpleasant.     
[012] ause when it rains here, it  rains hard. We can have a  _____  here and a bath-house  there, and-' All this time the      
[013] home. There were paths, houses, buildings,  gardens, a  _____ .  Father looked around proudly and said, 'You feel a l     
[014] ry to keep  the small plants alive. Father had built a  _____ , but it needed  seven men to make it work. 'Don't worr     
[015] throw them in the back seat and get in.  ***   A solar  _____  was  built in a poor, traditional desert village in an     
[016] here the  climate was  particularly dry and dusty. The  _____  used the  desert's most common resource,  sunlight, to     
[017] ate into an advantage rather than a disadvantage. The   _____   could deliver three times as much water as the old we     
[018] . However, in the  end  the  introduction of the solar  _____  was not the success it seemed  at  first.  The project     
[019] itional  power structure of the  village, and soon his  _____  project ran  into some trouble that he had not  intend     
[020] e two richest, most powerful men took control of  the   _____  and made everyone else pay them for their water!  No o     
[021] y them for their water!  No one  else could touch  the  _____  without paying cash in advance.  The  result was that      
[022] s they  had been before. They regretted that the solar  _____  had  been  put  in their village, and wished they had      
[023]   put  in their village, and wished they had their old  _____  again.  ***    We  haven't  conquered space. Nor have      
[024] f sick.'  'Couldn't do it? Well, we'll try the stomach  _____ ,' the doctor  said.  It was very unpleasant, but final     
[025] ou talk about suicide. There's the doctor  who had to   _____  your stomach this  afternoon. It was  most unpleasant.     


	
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[001] d a 34-page ruling that found  the $5. 5 million award  _____  in comparison with the  $1,402  that the jury awarded      
[002]  whom he had an unbounded admiration  because of  the ' _____ ' nature of his characters. His Cartea  Amagirilor  ('T     
[003] ure,  she is remarkablytolerant. For who could be more  _____   than  dandy Sebastian Dangerfield, the whoring, boozi     
[004] on of law and morality. The Pope's stand  against  the  _____  claims of personal autonomy, the belief that  human  b     
[005] r drafts that the president  had  rightly denounced as  _____  and unfair. The principal  beneficiaries will still be     
[006] he Hill. They are guilty of  sex  in lavish hideaways,  _____  drinking and expensive tastes  supported by public fun     
[007] d a 34-page ruling that found  the $5. 5 million award  _____  in comparison with the  $1,402  that the jury awarded      
[008]  whom he had an unbounded admiration  because of  the ' _____ ' nature of his characters. His Cartea  Amagirilor  ('T     
[009] ure,  she is remarkablytolerant. For who could be more  _____   than  dandy Sebastian Dangerfield, the whoring, boozi     
[010] on of law and morality. The Pope's stand  against  the  _____  claims of personal autonomy, the belief that  human  b