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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]  Then Elfine, gently  urged forward by Flora, began to  _____  the red-carpeted  stairs.  It was at this moment that      
[002]   God bless us.  Woza Moya! Yihla Moya!  Come, Spirit!  _____ , Spirit!  Woza Moya Oyingcwele!  Come, Holy Spirit!  W     
[003] hat no one  could overtake. Then, as the road began to  _____  steeply,  Wendy found herself behind a slow tractor. T     
[004]   God bless us.  Woza Moya! Yihla Moya!  Come, Spirit!  _____ , Spirit!  Woza Moya Oyingcwele!  Come, Holy Spirit!  A     
[005] o my elder daughter. I had not expected  such shame to  _____  on my family. I could have forgiven  him his wooden le     
[006]  Who will  pity me in that dark hell into which I must  _____ ? I have  boasted in my youth and held my head high and     
[007]  Then Elfine, gently  urged forward by Flora, began to  _____  the red-carpeted  stairs.  It was at this moment that      
[008]   God bless us.  Woza Moya! Yihla Moya!  Come, Spirit!  _____ , Spirit!  Woza Moya Oyingcwele!  Come, Holy Spirit!  W     
[009] hat no one  could overtake. Then, as the road began to  _____  steeply,  Wendy found herself behind a slow tractor. T     
[010]   God bless us.  Woza Moya! Yihla Moya!  Come, Spirit!  _____ , Spirit!  Woza Moya Oyingcwele!  Come, Holy Spirit!  A     
[011] o my elder daughter. I had not expected  such shame to  _____  on my family. I could have forgiven  him his wooden le     
[012]  Who will  pity me in that dark hell into which I must  _____ ? I have  boasted in my youth and held my head high and     


	
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[001] , if they don't wish to. I am  slightly embarrassed to  _____  that when I was growing up  the  character I identifie     
[002] don't  remember,' he answered.  Silas, Silas, you must  _____ !' cried the minister. Tell us  the truth! This knife,      
[003] under Silas's  bed.  Silas, my friend,' cried William,  _____  your crime to us  now! Send the devil away from your       
[004] s  Marner, and you will not be accepted back until you  _____   your crime.'  Silas listened in horror. At last he wa     
[005] far, you know. Perhaps I'll go  to  the Squire now and  _____   everything to him. He'll discover the truth one day,      
[006] n have to do. There was no longer any  escape. He must  _____  the whole truth to  his father. For the rest of the da     
[007] oke up  in the morning, he could not see any reason to  _____  to the  marriage. Why should he lose the  chance of ma     
[008] 's  heart banged in sudden alarm. He was not  ready to  _____  everything yet. Well, sir,' he said, trying to  speak      
[009] tan would never come home. What a good thing I didn't   _____  everything to the Squire!' he  thought. Now I can make     
[010] h a secret ever since I married you, but I'm going to   _____  it now. I don't want you to  discover it from someone      
[011] pent all  these years with no children! Why didn't you  _____  the truth  before we married? We could be so  happy no     
[012] gry. Then, sir,' he answered bitterly, why didn't you   _____  this sixteen years ago, before I  began to love her? W     
[013] I was right.'  'But I didn't come here tonight just to  _____  that I am not  Patrick.'  'No?'  'No, that is only a p     
[014] rison chaplain, did his best to persuade  Linkworth to  _____  his crime. Linkworth refused to admit  his guilt.  Now     
[015] ness. Everyone  knew that he was guilty; why didn't he  _____ ?'  About half past nine that evening, after one of Mrs     
[016] le himself believed that the unhappy spirit wanted to   _____ .  And there was no need to ask what it wanted to           
[017]      .  And there was no need to ask what it wanted to  _____   . . . 'Yes,' said Teesdale aloud, 'I'll ask him to co     
[018] bled  spirit, a  spirit that had something terrible to  _____ .  He telephoned the prison. 'Draycott?' he asked. The      
[019] frowned. 'Something - somebody said, "I killed her. I   _____ . I want to be forgiven." It's a joke, my dear  Teesdal     
[020]  to laugh  when music or books  were mentioned, and to  _____  that she was not brainy.  She  must learn to be polite     
[021]  boys. I will give the guilty boy until  lunch-time to  _____ . If I do not hear from him by then, the  whole school      
[022] t and diamond tie-pin while serving lunch. And I must   _____  that  all the sports days we have had at Llanabba up t     
[023]  I'm very ill,' she said weakly. 'Before I die I must   _____   what I've done wrong.  First, I broke my promise to m     
[024] Is that all? What a relief! All right, I shall have to  _____ ,  although you may be angry with me, Jane - as angry a     
[025] past? It  was not by Beethoven or by Mozart: it was, I  _____ ,  'Home, Sweet Home'...  'Do you ever work? Does anybo     


	
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[001] said I did not care about  the soap. I threw down  the  _____  of the suitcase, and I closed it again. Then I found m     
[002] e.  He carefully guided it into the bottle and put the  _____  on. There  were tiny breathing holes in the top. He ra     
[003] cine bottle into the kitchen, Pris sat down,  took the  _____  off the bottle, and knocked the spider  out onto Isido     
[004] d the man who was digging . Edgar's grave to open the   _____  of Catherine's coin for me. Her face looked just the       
[005] ould not stop looking at her. When the man closed  the  _____ , I broke open one side of her coin, the side away  fro     
[006] he loose  earth to her coin, and was about to pull the  _____  o, when I felt  a warm breath on my face. She seemed t     
[007] e left  some  food for you - mostly potatoes - put the  _____  on the pot to keep  the rats out.  You know that your      
[008] said I did not care about  the soap. I threw down  the  _____  of the suitcase, and I closed it again. Then I found m     
[009] e.  He carefully guided it into the bottle and put the  _____  on. There  were tiny breathing holes in the top. He ra     
[010] cine bottle into the kitchen, Pris sat down,  took the  _____  off the bottle, and knocked the spider  out onto Isido     
[011] d the man who was digging . Edgar's grave to open the   _____  of Catherine's coin for me. Her face looked just the       
[012] ould not stop looking at her. When the man closed  the  _____ , I broke open one side of her coin, the side away  fro     
[013] he loose  earth to her coin, and was about to pull the  _____  o, when I felt  a warm breath on my face. She seemed t     
[014] e left  some  food for you - mostly potatoes - put the  _____  on the pot to keep  the rats out.  You know that your      


	
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[001] ay, the cousins  were beginning to get ready. It was a  _____ ,  rosy spring evening,  with birds singing in the tree     
[002] eturned, alone,  to Cold Comfort that  night. It was a  _____  and lovely evening, with no clouds in the  sky. The fa     
[003]  salad) of cubed green grocer fresh crunchy cucumbers,  _____   sweet  onions and red tomatoes was especially impress     
[004]  until 1920, James 'Bluebeard'  Watson, a soft-spoken,  _____ -mannered Southerner, eluded  law  enforcement official     
[005]  are  amazing!  ***   HOLIDAY TWO: It's  usually quite  _____  in Egypt  in  January, and it doesn't often rain, so y     
[006] f the  bastions of the Independent cause in Cardiff. A  _____ -  mannered,  diffident man, loth to say anything ungen     
[007] ay, the cousins  were beginning to get ready. It was a  _____ ,  rosy spring evening,  with birds singing in the tree     
[008] eturned, alone,  to Cold Comfort that  night. It was a  _____  and lovely evening, with no clouds in the  sky. The fa     


	
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[001]  pieces covered each plate, and a little bowl of extra  _____   came with it. She dipped some bread into the              
[002]           came with it. She dipped some bread into the  _____ , 'This is  seriously delicious!' The lobster was follo     
[003] ones  with  crisper skin and creamier filling, and the  _____  on almost  every  pasta is lighter, more appealing. Mi     
[004] hich were placed a  reamed  lemon half filled with soy  _____  and "flowers " of carved  radishes and carrots. Entree     
[005] ker than the other,  needed  more cooking. Tart cherry  _____  with a touch of cassis  brought up  the gamey flavor o     
[006] th  potatoes,  vegetables, and gravy. Grave is a thick  _____   made from the  meat  juices.  ***   CM: OK, I'll guid     
[007] Newman's Own salad  dressing, popcorn,  and  spaghetti  _____ , now a multimillion dollar business, goes  to  charity     
[008] tly famous in the whole world. I mean, sweet and sour   _____ , beef and  green peppers, garlic...  ***   Angela is a     
[009]  pieces covered each plate, and a little bowl of extra  _____   came with it. She dipped some bread into the              
[010]           came with it. She dipped some bread into the  _____ , 'This is  seriously delicious!' The lobster was follo     


	
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[001] mplete the course because of overcrowding and student   _____ .  The CVCP insists the figure is lower - around 13 per     
[002] d or  two. Why,  you've saved my life. I hate being in  _____   to anyone, but with you it's dierent, Jane. I'm happy     
[003] d  all his money and some of his mother's, and been in  _____  or  in prison  most of his life, had killed  himself a     
[004]   market countries are included, issuance of low-rated  _____   has  nearly doubled, to more than $12 billion. Most o     
[005] manages the fund. The  notes are  privately negotiated  _____  instruments issued by commodity  producers like Exxon      
[006] (3. 6 percent of sales versus 2. 6 percent)  and  less  _____  - and it pays a dividend. Could the disparity have  an     
[007]  of pools of J. C. Penney and Home Depot  credit  card  _____ . How could derivatives be made interesting? The  conce     
[008] on  sits there at the sheriff's commissary, paying his  _____  to  society by sorting county jail inmates' requests f     
[009] nia.    Q A recent article discussed the importance of  _____   retirement,  especially credit card                       
[010]                    retirement,  especially credit card  _____ . But mortgage                                              
[011]                                         . But mortgage  _____  may also be  worth  retiring early, especially on an a     
[012] ve you more money for investing or even more mortgage   _____   retirement. A First let's give you the numbers, then      
[013] factors  such as price-to-earnings ratios, book value,  _____ , tax rates,  dividend policy, management succession, m     
[014] elieved.  True, there would  be an initial increase in  _____  load,  because  the money to borrow the ships and  con     
[015]  money we  still owe on our  credit  card. We'll be in  _____  for years!) All the time in  America we  missed good o     
[016]  back in order. She  says  she owes the  clinic a huge  _____  for helping her in her time of  trouble. Today she is      
[017] re leg  room, and you don't  want  to go too deep into  _____ , you can meet a car made for  you at  the  London Moto     
[018] n evenings and campaign  over issues  such Third World  _____ , the arms trade and military research  on  campus. I r     
[019]  in the town among non-students. Most  students are in  _____  and aware that there's a tough job  market  out there.     
[020] ardship,  according to the National Union of Students.  _____  levels  increase  with age. A survey by the NUS and Na     
[021] ounds 1,548;  22- to  26-year-olds reported an average  _____  of pounds 4,301 and  those  over 26 had an average         
[022]     of pounds 4,301 and  those  over 26 had an average  _____  of pounds 7,187. One in four  sixth-  formers say worr     
[023] s 7,187. One in four  sixth-  formers say worries over  _____  could prevent them from  applying to  university, acco     
[024] saintly' and  'blessed'. Perhaps he is repaying an old  _____ , long owed to  the  original Ginger Man. What does Pam     
[025] ed against a backdrop of  grinding poverty, increasing  _____ , escalating interest on bank  loans and impossible tax     


	
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[001] f the  most evil  seamen in the Western  Pacific. From  _____  York  to Eden Bay he was famous for cheating, robbing      
[002] lice raid on the black township called Crossroads, in   _____  Town, more than a thousand kilometres away on the  sou     
[003] are use them ?'  Woods examined the pictures again. In  _____  Town black  workers could get work without work permit     
[004] t,' he said finally. I'll give it to you  on my way to  _____  Town in a few days.' '                                     
[005]                                  Town in a few days.' ' _____  Town?'  Wendy protested.  'Steve, you're out of your m     
[006] ion in his voffice.  'You  shouldn't make that trip to  _____  Town,' she said. 'It's too  dangerous.'  Biko looked a     
[007] m in the front seat. They were on  their way back from  _____  Town, driving along the main  coastal road with the oc     
[008] ' Biko  asked.  'No. All the posters were given out in  _____  Town. I've only  got a spare tyre back there.'  The ca     
[009]  Steve Biko! The buses from Soweto, from Durban, from   _____   Town have all been turned away! And road-blocks have      
[010]  the living room.  When Woods left Pretoria, he phoned  _____  Town to ask  Bruce McCullough to come to East London a     
[011] ically.  'And I'm getting the newspaper to fly me from  _____  Town to  do a story on Lesotho's three planes.'  Five      
[012] rail, the  two-lane road that loops around and through  _____  Breton  Highlands  National Park, it takes only a glan     
[013]  ago, spare bits of three continents collided to form   _____  Breton Island, which lingered near the Equator million     
[014] ing in Margaree Harbour, a one-lighthouse  village  on  _____  Breton's western shore. The Cabot Trail describes  a       
[015] e coast,  up  and across the highlands proper and down  _____  Breton's  eastern,  Atlantic shore to Baddeck. Winneba     
[016]  he  brought 'In Patagonia' to the publisher, Jonathan  _____ , and,  in  'With Chatwin,' she has struck just the rig     
[017] ele, now 49, is vice chancellor of  the  University of  _____  Town, the first black person-male or  female-to  run t     
[018] f the  most evil  seamen in the Western  Pacific. From  _____  York  to Eden Bay he was famous for cheating, robbing      
[019] lice raid on the black township called Crossroads, in   _____  Town, more than a thousand kilometres away on the  sou     
[020] are use them ?'  Woods examined the pictures again. In  _____  Town black  workers could get work without work permit     
[021] t,' he said finally. I'll give it to you  on my way to  _____  Town in a few days.' '                                     
[022]                                  Town in a few days.' ' _____  Town?'  Wendy protested.  'Steve, you're out of your m     
[023] ion in his voffice.  'You  shouldn't make that trip to  _____  Town,' she said. 'It's too  dangerous.'  Biko looked a     
[024] m in the front seat. They were on  their way back from  _____  Town, driving along the main  coastal road with the oc     
[025] ' Biko  asked.  'No. All the posters were given out in  _____  Town. I've only  got a spare tyre back there.'  The ca     


	
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[001] estating the traditional church position  but  in such  _____  language that it sounds more liberal, so that  even  P     
[002] eth, or  especially  Marmee. Jo is the great heroine -  _____  determined, and apt  to  exclaim 'Christopher Columbus     
[003] ere saying, that it may have been criminal but it was   _____ . 'Not                                                      
[004]                                                 . 'Not  _____ ,' said a patrician voffice, reprovingly,  'cunning'. A     
[005] ,  'cunning'. At what point did Nick Leeson stop being  _____   and  become cunning, I wonder? The narrow margin betw     
[006] r in undergraduate magazines, also  tended to  let his  _____  head follow wherever his inexperienced heart  led  him     
[007]  else was, or what the tutor expected - he  seemed so   _____ . When I did say something he was really nice and  didn     
[008] he class there, whereas at university there are  more   _____  people. Sometimes I think, I just can't do this. 30  O     
[009]  up in Northland with her  beloved grandmother. She is  _____  but fat (her nickname is  'Tub'). After she goes back      
[010] retly to push Europe towards a war.  These people were  _____ , and dangerous. Some of them  wanted to change the wor     
[011] t to him for  nearly half an hour.'  'That's what's so  _____ ,' I said. 'You were too interested  in other things to     
[012] ve. These were  two normal, boring Englishmen, not the  _____  murderers  that I had met in Scotland.  Then a third m     
[013]  the same game. A  stupid man tries to look dierent; a  _____  man looks the  same and is dierent.  My friend had als     
[014] sorry, because she wanted to tell  me how good and how  _____  Deborah had been. She and  her mother had taught cooki     
[015] nd I had just been discussing Signor Brunoni and that   _____  Mr Hoggins when someone knocked  at the door.  We were     
[016] though  a little rough, is very nice. I've known good,  _____  people  who were not "in society" but were both  true      
[017] m Miss Pole, was that Mrs Jamieson was  indeed going.   _____  Mr Peter had arranged for Signor Brunoni,  Conjurer to     
[018] rested in  keeping his son safe.  Kassim was playing a  _____  game, hoping that these white  men would  attack and d     
[019] He knew  nothing  of Jim's past, but he was  extremely  _____  at  finding the weakest place in a man's soul, and, by     
[020] e were never going to see George  again - his  bright,  _____  eyes, his long nose and moustache,  his thin mouth. Wh     
[021] .'  'I don't understand.'  'I'm talking about Millace.  _____ , dangerous Millace.  As soon as I print those pictures     
[022] trangers and travellers.  They were also suspicious of  _____  people, people who  could do something they themselves     
[023] ret! That's it, isn't it?'  The Squire had made a very  _____  guess, and Godfrey's  heart banged in sudden alarm. He     
[024]  kind of man is he?'  Dr Hastings? A diicult man. Very  _____ , but not easy to  work with.'  What could he be trying     
[025]   that the problem was  my heart. Doctors  were not so  _____  then. They just thought that I was lazy!  'Why, you la     


	
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[001]  the road. The  friendly sound of  the engine began to  _____  away, until it disappeared  completely in the quiet of     
[002] . My hopes of starting -a new life at  school began to  _____ .  'Do not worry, madam,' Mr Brocklehurst said, 'the te     
[003] rant scene is a mix of brightly colored beauties that   _____   with winter's first cold blasts and sturdy blooms tha     
[004] ther may mean something'), an approach that begins to   _____  in  'The Beautiful Room.' Late in this second novel, a     
[005]  the road. The  friendly sound of  the engine began to  _____  away, until it disappeared  completely in the quiet of     
[006] . My hopes of starting -a new life at  school began to  _____ .  'Do not worry, madam,' Mr Brocklehurst said, 'the te     


	
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[001] rom Miss Lecky at the post office, and had a  long red  _____  stuck in it. What a sight  she looked! It was impossib     
[002]  the angry lady. She put out a finger and  touched the  _____  on Lil's hat. She smiled her rare smile.  'I seen the      
[003]   The machine was on the table beside me, and I saw a   _____   of smoke rising from it. Cautiously, I switched off t     
[004] d by Meg Ryan).    This is La Danza de la Pluma or the  _____  Dance, the  traditional climax to the Guelaguetza, an      
[005] rom Miss Lecky at the post office, and had a  long red  _____  stuck in it. What a sight  she looked! It was impossib     
[006]  the angry lady. She put out a finger and  touched the  _____  on Lil's hat. She smiled her rare smile.  'I seen the      
[007]   The machine was on the table beside me, and I saw a   _____   of smoke rising from it. Cautiously, I switched off t