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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] e newspaper man arrived on  his motorbike and gave his  _____  of newspapers to the man  at the entrance of the apart     
[002] ters' success in their two-week strike against  United  _____  Service, and with the A. F. L. -C. I. O. training  tho     
[003]  the union's victory in its strike  against the United  _____  Service, Teamster President Ron  Carey  seems the favo     
[004] ugust,  two  years later, the Teamsters stunned United  _____  Service,  winning  wage increases and promises of more     
[005]  Carey led the teamsters in the strike against  United  _____  Service. Mr. Hoffa had earlier filed a complaint  accu     
[006] soon choose whether to  sell USEC  in one piece, or to  _____  out shares in a public offering. That  has touched off     
[007] in the envelope. I  drove to the Port and  dropped the  _____  with Janet. As I left the of fice, I met  Phillips.  '     
[008] y!' Mary called excitedly. 'It's for me and  Duncan! A  _____ !'  Duncan rushed out of the living room. 'It's true, M     
[009] . 'Of course, if it's for  you.'  Duncan tore open the  _____  and held up a T-shirt. There  was a picture of Biko pr     
[010] ll dark outside, I wrapped up some spare  clothes in a  _____ ,. and put a little money in a purse. As I  crept  down     
[011] he coach. As it rolled away, I  realized I had left my  _____  inside, and given the coachman  all the  coins in my p     
[012] e newspaper man arrived on  his motorbike and gave his  _____  of newspapers to the man  at the entrance of the apart     


	
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[001] xcept for Joseph and me. Joseph enjoyed being able to   _____  his wicked employer, with warnings from the Bible, and     
[002]  all her orders, and  Joseph and I were not allowed to  _____  her any more.  Edgar Linton was still in love with her     
[003] en  Heathcli entered the house, Catherine was ready to  _____   him.  'Leave Isabella alone, Heathcli!' she ordered.      
[004] elp  you!' she told her husband. 'That'll teach you to  _____  me!' Mr  Edgar tried to get hold of the key, but she t     
[005] didn't forbid me to leave the Grange  garden! He won't  _____  me, Ellen. He's never cross, like you!  And I've been      
[006] gain.  But I was surprised to find that Bessie did not  _____  me at all.  In  fact she was so kind to me that I beca     
[007] oing my  homework. You see, Miss Scatcherd is right to  _____  me.'  'Is Miss Temple as strict as that?' I asked.  A      
[008] d so sincere that I forgave him at once in my heart.  ' _____  me, Jane! Tell me how wicked I am!' he said.  'Sir, I      


	
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[001] kham looked a little embarrassed, and made no further   _____  to charm Elizabeth.  They separated at last with mutua     
[002] t thank me, let it  be for yourself alone. I shall not  _____  to deny that wishing  to give happiness to you was one     
[003] aught my eye and  raised his wine glass. I made a poor  _____  at a smile and,  as I did so, I noticed Lisa frowning.     
[004] ontentedly -  she understood that her mother's suicide  _____  had failed,  but that their secret was still safe.  Yu     
[005] er took Misha  and me to her flat because of a suicide  _____ . Well, that  girl  was Antipova. .  I keep trying to g     
[006] to cause any  damage to them. The Whites made one last  _____  to trick  Liberius?s men.  They began to attack one co     
[007] d large  numbers of  weapons in preparation for a coup  _____  against his  successor,  Biljana Plavsic, the Bosnian      
[008] r perfunctory hearings, no real debate and no  serious  _____  to draw on the wisdom of a Congress that  has a  moral     
[009] ir local bishops. The  new  guidelines appear to be an  _____  by the Catholic Church,  which  maintains its centurie     
[010] ps  surrounded the local police station in Brcko in an  _____  to  hand it over to police officers loyal to Ms. (Bilj     
[011] Boorman's Beyond Rangoon is a  remarkably  well-judged  _____  to educate an audience's consciousness  without altoge     
[012] ffling insights of  complexity theory. It's a quixotic  _____  - but Jencks cuts a  quixotic figure, long, lean, gent     
[013] ions between teaching and research, or of any serious   _____  to grapple with methods of financing. The contrast  wi     
[014] id not know  about  the camps, and why any large-scale  _____  at rebellion  'would  have been' doomed from the start     
[015] l ingredient of a successful school. The most  notable  _____  at achieving a balance of pupils was the  system  of b     
[016] e  first  to admit. The ignominy that he sensed in the  _____  - sized  up  straightaway by that astute figure, the s     
[017] ngela, then in her late twenties, would have  made  no  _____  to hide the blanks. I never found out why they were  m     
[018]  I4  was becoming exhausted, but I made one last great  _____   and at  last felt myself creeping  weakly out of the      
[019] about your  kind offer of help.'  In a Final desperate  _____ , the Thaarns sent their thoughts  along the tunnel bet     
[020] part of the country, I'd go much madder. In  fact, any  _____  by any of them to get  away from the farm  always make     
[021] nt a prize to him. I  won't.'  The Doctor made a brave  _____  to calm the situation, but  despite this, things were      
[022] dequacy in the  presence  of others. Therefore I shall  _____  to break down your social  reserve in the following wa     
[023] nd, and  he was within a metre of it. He made one more  _____  to  move, but he could not reach it. He cried and gasp     
[024] teel line at  the Hunter without success. At the sixth  _____  they  managed to attach the line. Then it took them th     
[025] d.' Her daughters listened in silence, aware that any   _____  to  calm her would only increase her annoyance. Elizab     


	
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[001] hape itself as the party of the center, rather than a   _____  core, and convince Mexicans it represents an  alternat     
[002] at her fat white legs. 'The old cat,' she  said,  'the  _____  old cat!' Then she began to pull on her clothes.  'Oh,     
[003]  won't catch him. Not if I  can stop them. Men are all  _____ . I don't  care what he's done or not done. Do what you     
[004] wled. 'Then, watch out!'  Biko sat down near Woods. 'A  _____  policeman is a                                             
[005]                                         policeman is a  _____   policeman,' he said quietly. 'He breaks heads for the     


	
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[001] ge and black animal, a squirrel, was running along an   _____  line over the Soi.                                         
[002]                                     line over the Soi.  _____  lines ran across the  Soi in a hundred dierent directi     
[003] of the street in big balls. Hu thought these balls of   _____  lines looked like spaghetti. The squirrels used the        
[004]   lines looked like spaghetti. The squirrels used the   _____  lines like motorways, running to and from whatever  im     
[005]  went out. 'Don't worry,' said Bernard. 'It's just an   _____  cut. Beatrice, get the candles and then go to bed.'  B     
[006] lary at Corvo Pharmaceuticals.  There was some kind of  _____  between us in the car as  we drove along the lakeside      
[007] e in the top of the box. The smell  was terrible.  'No  _____  needed, no moving parts. This machine will  keep going     
[008] ' Father asked, 'when it's  no longer possible to make  _____ ?' 'I won't be here in the  future.' 'That's typical to     
[009]  it.  'There are no policemen there, no telephones, no  _____ ,  no aeroplanes - nothing. It's about as unimportant a     
[010] en the petrol finishes, we'll pull the boat along. No   _____ . no machines, no chemicals. Just hard work. The  rest      
[011]  Sixty-nine thousand volts surging through that line.   _____ . Poisoned juice. Silent death. Kelly can't forget.  Hi     
[012] 00, for letting traders buy a big  stake  in Yorkshire  _____  Group P. L. C. in late 1994, when  other  SBC executiv     
[013] meone  had  removed the plug. One hotel turned off the  _____   at nine  o'clock, and when the guest complained they      
[014] out setting off the security alarm by cutting off the   _____  supply.  ***    Here is the ten o'clock news from CNN:     
[015] ometimes these  simple things get forgotten. There is   _____  available... ?'  Yes, we brought in machinery for maki     
[016] ailable... ?'  Yes, we brought in machinery for making  _____  about  Five years ago and it works very well.  It's ma     
[017] it, Walters,' said Bell, smiling. 'Perhaps it was the   _____  Man! Let me tell you  something. That woman  killed he     
[018] y five  years.  'They're going to shoot Curtis full of  _____  next Saturday,  Mr  Nudger,' Holly Ann said. Her  wide     
[019] h rice and bread,  served  on big plates. There was no  _____  in the house but two  oil  lamps hung from the ceiling     
[020] rooms long after all Lord Pastmaster's  neighbours had  _____ .  In the last fifty years, Hampshire people had gradua     
[021] ere the electrical  equipment was. He switched off the  _____  that was  heating the dome. The house would take a lon     
[022] r coming through the  wires as he had switched off the  _____  to freeze Lellie  out. He. went back to the small buil     
[023]  He. went back to the small building and switched the   _____  on again. The lights in the house went on, and he  kne     
[024]  went on, and he  knew that Lellie would guess why the  _____  had been  switched on.  In a few minutes he had cut a      
[025] se  up and meet the other plate. When they connected,   _____  would flow along the wire to the box that would  set o     


	
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[001] r brushed, and it often  had  flowers worked into it. ' _____  will  never touch my hair  again,' they used to say. S     
[002] ife, and he cut  himself badly. George tried with some  _____ . The                                                       
[003]                                                 . The   _____  flew up, and nearly hit him in the eye. I tried to mak     
[004] r are enough. Cut four o  and see.' She took a pair of  _____  out of her  bag and passed them to Pris.  J. R. Isidor     
[005] t around here. It'll die anyway.' She reached for the   _____ .  Please,' Isidore said.  Pris looked up at him. Is it     
[006] orth something?'  Don't hurt it,' he begged.  With the  _____ , Pris cut off one of the spider's legs. In the  living     
[007] And nobody knows. No  humans, I mean.'  Pris, with the  _____ , cut another leg off the spider.  Suddenly John Isidor     
[008] im. Was it the same spider  that Pris had cut with her  _____ ? Probably not. He would  never know. But at least it w     
[009] I was there.  . But one day I managed to get a pair of  _____ , and -  would  you believe it, madam? - I cut off all      
[010] The  second evening they had learned how keys and nail  _____   could be  used as weapons. Now  they had learned  'Wh     
[011] eally?' said Flora, looking in her sewing-box for her   _____ .  'Aye. That's all women want - a man's life. Then whe     
[012]  'But what else?' screamed the Frenchman, seizing his   _____  to cut the silk. 'It is to wear white that  God, once      


	
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[001]  was a loud noise as a boat raced down the klong, the   _____  at the end of the Soi. Water flew into the air. The sm     
[002] tasks of tending to both ends of a virtual  alimentary  _____ . Poor caregiving is punished with the pet's  virtual d     
[003] rving artificial  lakes which twist like the moat of a  _____  or a river winding  across a flat plain. Peering out o     
[004] eatcoats  and  explore the hidden sides of London in a  _____  boat: 'mile  after  mile of abandoned factories return     
[005] he wrote her  address quickly on a  piece of paper - 9  _____   Reach - and gave it to him. He took it, and turned to     
[006] s politely.  'By the way, Lewis,' said Morse, 'where's  _____  Reach?'  'It's in Oxford, sir, near the                    
[007]                Reach?'  'It's in Oxford, sir, near the  _____ , down in Jericho.'  The first death in Jericho  Oxford     
[008] north-west of the  city, between Walton Street and the  _____ , is called Jericho.  Its  houses are small and narrow,     
[009]  turn off Walton Street  and drive  slowly towards the  _____ .  Surely                                                   
[010]                                              .  Surely  _____  Reach  must be very close? The narrow streets made par     
[011] ut at last he managed to park in a street next to the   _____ , and walked back into                                      
[012]                                 , and walked back into  _____   Street. He thought  he saw a parking ticket on a larg     
[013]  problems  no longer interested him. He had arrived at  _____  Reach,  and now he  hesitated, wondering  why he was t     
[014]  to traic by three solid  posts at one end, and by the  _____  at the other. Although it  was  getting dark, there we     
[015]   drinks he said, 'There's a  bit of trouble near the   _____ . Police cars, ambulance... Something's happened.  '  B     
[016] ps he had always been too late. And as he turned into   _____   Street, there, ahead of him,  stood an ambulance  and     
[017] who he was to the  policeman guarding  the entrance to  _____   Reach, and was  allowed to pass.  Inside number 9 the     
[018] adness. But not tonight.  Suicide or murder?  Inside 9  _____  Reach, Constable Walters entered the  kitchen.  'Inspe     
[019] ote which was delivered and  received.  From number 10  _____  Reach, George Jackson continued4  to watch the house o     
[020]  Inspector Bell searched the two  small bedrooms  of 9  _____  Reach,  looking for clues. They  found large piles of      
[021]  the inquest too, would you?'  So Walters went back to  _____  Reach that afternoon.  Morse's question  about Anne's      
[022]  was almost out of  the door  and then - 'Somebody in   _____  Reach knows something about those keys. Try  number  .     
[023] ld see that the wall between the back  garden and  the  _____  had recently  been repaired. He  went up to the front      
[024] est,  Morse  interviewed most of Anne's  neighbours in  _____   Reach. Some of the information he received was useful     
[025]  a police inspector, and needed to get  into  number 9  _____  Reach (which  was quite true), but  that he had left h     


	
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[001]  yes! Look at her nose, Mike.  It's just like yours!' ' _____ !' said Mike. He turned the photo  over and read the me     
[002] ld sheets of metal, pieces  of wood and useful bits of  _____ . Babies were crying,  women were washing clothes, them     
[003] ned it out.  'That,' said Hu, 'is my English essay. My  _____  essay.  My forty-six per cent essay. My failed essay.      
[004]  said slowly and angrily, 'Don't you ever  repeat that  _____  again!' There was a moment of total  silence. Suddenly     
[005] it's true. People are saying it. Don't be angry.  It's  _____ ,' said Yoshiko.  Hu was frightened, angry. 'They say??     
[006] ily. 'Free at last! Goodbye, America!  Goodbye to your  _____  and your poisons. if anyone asks,  don't tell them whe     
[007]   screaming 'Scavengers!' at them - for other people's  _____   and took it home to use. I was old enough to help fat     
[008] pily. 'Free at last! Goodbye America!  Goodbye to your  _____  and your poisons. If anyone asks,  don't tell them whe     
[009] mo first.' 'God sent me here,' explained  Mr Struss.  ' _____ ,' Father said. 'God doesn't know about Jcronil11o.  If     
[010] r  Haddy said, 'there are plenty of villages which are  _____ .  We should be there.' At last we arrived at a village     
[011] etimes found useful tools. Soon we had a  big  pile of  _____  behind us, on the bank at the top of the beach.  There     
[012] e able to escape. 'I  hid the tank of petrol among the  _____  behind our boat-  house. Just then Father returned.  '     
[013] und and tell  me  what you see.' 'Do you mean all that  _____ ?' Mr Haddy  said.  'I see a village here,' Father said     
[014] . One room had  a  full ashtray and a  dustbin full of  _____  from the previous  inhabitant. None of the rooms  prov     
[015]  What I do throw away, I separate  into three kinds of  _____ . I have  different bags for different  things. One bag     
[016] s very crowded. The  streets are clean and there's no   _____  lying around, but in the centre the air  can get quite     
[017] ed. I've met so many people. The Freshers'  Fayre  was  _____ . I found out about it by chance when I went to the  St     
[018]  worker. My mum has had loads of jobs. But they're all  _____   jobs.' All of them want to go on to further education     
[019] uth east Europe and people wanting to start wars  were  _____ . But although he had told me lies, there was  truth un     
[020] Scudder's black book in my pocket.  But behind all the  _____  I could see that Sir Harry was  a nice man. And he spo     
[021] honest too. Everything you said tonight was dangerous   _____ .'  'Was it? I wasn't sure myself. Do you think Germany     
[022] my helmet, and felt  absolutely  miserable.   A Box of  _____   'Bad luck,' they said in the weighing room.  I felt a     
[023] is?' I asked Steve.  'That's Dad's box of photographic  _____ ,' he said. 'He  never threw  it away. He usually kept      
[024] graph in an envelope.  'Those were all in Dad's box of  _____ ,' Steve said. 'He  wanted to  remember his worst  mist     
[025] w  them away.'  I put George's worst mistakes into his  _____  box. Why had  George  kept them? I wanted to  discover     


	
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[001]  of another. Normally Marina  just  pushed them into a  _____  beside the bed, happy not to  have to look at them any     
[002] n of  clothes disappear into something as small as the  _____ .  But these shirts were so beautifully ironed - they l     
[003] e shops that she did  not want to put them away in the  _____ .  So she left them on the bed where Tom would see them     
[004]   A moment later his grandmother got up and went to a   _____ . She reached inside, right to the back, and took  out      
[005] e, two armchairs, a large clock  showing one thirty, a  _____ , a TV, a bookshelf. . . My  eyes  went back to the         
[006]    , a TV, a bookshelf. . . My  eyes  went back to the  _____ . I thought I could see some keys  and papers on it.  A     
[007] t seemed safe to  move, I walked quietly across to the  _____  and felt for the  keys and papers I'd seen when the li     
[008]  me it would be a good  idea for us to hide in the art  _____ . We stood in there in  the darkness, listening to the      
[009] ven notice we weren't in class.  We couldn't leave the  _____  because we would get into  trouble, so we just had to      
[010] lass came into the  room straightaway. We were in that  _____  for three hours  altogether!  Gina was always getting      
[011]  wildly around. Something shone on top of the  painted  _____  that faced him. It was a knife he had left  there some     
[012]  must be hidden away somewhere. He  unlocked  a secret  _____  and threw them in. He could easily burn  them later. T     
[013] fter I had written those spells, I put the diary in my  _____ .  It was soon discovered by the boys. They attacked me     
[014] d to take another boy's letters from inside a  desk or  _____ .  In school we often passed notes round. If the envelo     
[015] rom Nancy's  head and threw it up to the top of an old  _____ .  'Let me go, Bill.' cried Nancy, sitting on the floor     
[016] 'Take that.' Fagin took the bag and locked  it  in the  _____ . He sat down again without speaking. He  stared at the     
[017] ill drop down at the back.' Toby pointed  in fear at a  _____  where there was some rope. Sikes  took the longest pie     
[018] see those letters and papers?' he said, pointing to a   _____  across the bedroom. 'Please put them on the table  her     
[019] d I are alone. Watson, I want you to hide  inside that  _____ .' Holmes pointed to a large                                
[020]                           .' Holmes pointed to a large  _____   at  the side of the room.  'What?' I asked with surpr     
[021] nearly forgot poor Dr Watson. Please  come out of that  _____  now, Watson. There. Thank you.  I  believe you already     
[022]  in  the refrigerator? S: Well, I'll just  look in the  _____  and  tell you. I can see some onions and potatoes, and     
[023]  bottles, and then found a door in the wall. It was a   _____  door, and it was locked. I had nothing else to do  so      
[024] t do you do with all those?' he asked.  'Put them in a  _____ .'  Steve looked at the Nikon camera. 'Dad saw some of      
[025]  into the sitting room with our coee. I pulled  open a  _____  and took out some boxes. 'Here you are  - Lambourn vil     


	
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[001]  the journey in Egypt  over  the hills on the backs of  _____  and down to the Valley of  Kings. . . sitting on Croag     
[002] nt you to take the two  young ladies for a ride on the  _____ .'  O we went. Quiet little girls, they were. They both     
[003] were. They both held my  hand. But when we came to the  _____ ,  they were too shy to  go for a ride. So we stood and     
[004]  shy to  go for a ride. So we stood and watched. Those  _____   were  so beautiful! They were a lovely silver-grey co     
[005] ng themselves. I don't know why, but when I saw  those  _____ , with their little feet and their  eyes - so gentle -      
[006] .  But  all the rest of the day I thought about  those  _____ . I had nothing but                                         
[007]                                    . I had nothing but  _____  on my mind. I felt I  would burst if I didn't tell som     
[008] on  as the lights were out, I could see them again. My  _____ ,  with their neat little feet and sad eyes.  Well, mad     
[009]  the journey in Egypt  over  the hills on the backs of  _____  and down to the Valley of  Kings. . . sitting on Croag