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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]  whole village, and all its  people, as well as their   _____  and goats. The project leader  was  hopeful that the i     
[002]  do you account  for the  old boy who climbed out of a  _____ -wagon in Igoujdal with an  Italian hunting gun, only t     
[003] orchards, their fig  trees and potato fields and their  _____  pastures, country  boys  for whom the words 'civil war     
[004] ow Christianity should  be  'uncomfortable for the fat  _____  . . . both about human hearts  and social structures'.     
[005] s of inner-city schoolchildren singing  'Baa Baa Green  _____ ' and Shakespeare being thrown off  American  literatur     
[006] er grandmother lived,  away from  wartime bombing. The  _____  on the hills, she told me, were  always  black. Her un     
[007]  hills later in the  evening. We talked about cows and  _____  and markets,  and I tried to remember some of the info     
[008] . Far below  the sea shone.  Silence. No bird song. No  _____  bells.  I picked up my suitcase and started down the p     
[009]  Frances  had  given to me. Up on the cli I  noticed a  _____ . It  was lying very still and the wind was making its      
[010]  lunch and continued up the path. When I  reached the   _____ , I saw that it was  dead. It had been dead  for some t     
[011] ng, Sofia  came. She  untied me, gave me  soup and the  _____ 's  coat. Then she led me downstairs. On the way, I man     
[012]  a lot of noise from the shed and a cat ran  out.  The  _____ 's coat was being worn by a boy.  A bit of grey trouser     
[013] ith it again for  life.  Do Androids Dream of Electric  _____ ?  Stage 5  The challenge  Rick Deckard woke up to the      
[014] . Instead of saving,' he added, so we can buy a  real   _____  in place of that fake electric one upstairs.'  He wond     
[015] hing  and hurried up to the roof garden. His electric   _____  was chewing calmly, just like a normal                     
[016]                 was chewing calmly, just like a normal  _____  in a field  of grass. The neighbours, of course, never     
[017] e, never asked  if it was a fake. The question Is your  _____  real?' would be  even ruder than Are those your own te     
[018]   against the whole idea of Mercerism.'  You have your  _____ . There are about fifty families in this  building one      
[019] ent down and searched in the thick, white wool of his   _____ . He found the hidden door of the control  box, and ope     
[020] now why I  want that horse so badly? I care about this  _____ ,  but it's not the same. I'm always afraid that someon     
[021] '  I want a large animal,' Rick answered. I had a real  _____   once, but it died.' If he killed five androids, he  t     
[022] mber of the false-animal shop where he had bought  his  _____ .  Dr McRae.' The figure of the man himself appeared mo     
[023] too about  his own need for a real animal. An electric  _____   was nothing nothing at all. It had no feelings and di     
[024] u have?' Rachael's voffice  seemed a long way away.  A  _____ ,' he answered slowly.  Well, then you should be happy.     
[025] lowly, I'll go now. If I get them, I'm going to  buy a  _____ .'  You have a                                              


	
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[001] t I do think my wages are  miserable. Also, I have  no  _____  or certificates for  any other type of work, and I fai     
[002] g.  Right now I'm still studying, so  I don't have any  _____   for other jobs. But next year I'll have a BSc.  So at     
[003]  you. After three years I am more confident.  Academic  _____  are really important. I chose Durham  because I wanted     
[004] ciation, 'and I would want to know far more about the   _____  of the teachers before I recommended any  such  course     
[005] h-  language  newspapers. Although she had no teaching  _____   Berlitz  has its own training course and demands only     
[006]  demand for internationally recognised post- graduate   _____  has grown, and universities have responded by  offerin     
[007] es  have colleges where such people can gain valuable   _____   towards a future career - and share in the excitement     
[008] n leading to London Chamber of  Commerce  and Industry  _____ . Marilyn Coles, secretarial faculty  head, says the op     
[009] new and different,  because the combination of the two  _____  broadens  a  teacher's prospects,' she says. The cours     
[010] is  heavy, partly reflecting the need to condense two   _____   into one year and partly to prepare students for the      
[011] rse is unique because of the way the two postgraduate   _____  are integrated. But we also spend a lot of time  prepa     
[012] ing education.  Anyone over 18 can enrol and no formal  _____  are  needed.  Those seeking to broaden their horizons      
[013] cheme. But not  every  attendee is keen to boost paper  _____ . For many, the  drive to acquire new skills or beef up     
[014]  the school teach the new General National  Vocational  _____  (GNVQs) and, if so, how far do  pupils  mix A-levels a     
[015] is being  taught  by teachers who not only lack formal  _____  but who  are,  in certain cases, insecure in their gra     
[016] nt her fortnight in a  job  centre. The people without  _____ , she says, are  getting  bad jobs. 'My brother left co     
[017] school-leavers entering the job  market without graded  _____  has halved. Their  parents do  not have degrees, but t     
[018]  to women except in situations so hedged  around  with  _____  that you might as well say, like my mother  used to sa     
[019]  they own their degree  and they have a right to their  _____ . The number of  appeals by students against poor marks     
[020] dio English. He told me  they had checked Mr Stanyer's  _____  back in the  USA...' Mr Grisman looked at his hands.       


	
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[001] s  getting just the effect he wanted, noting that "the  _____  was  laid as irregularly as the deadly mechanical perf     
[002] arting  on Monday.    A FENCED-IN patch of red and tan  _____ , smooth and flat,  doesn't  look like much of an attra     
[003] e options: more concrete, a multicolored  tapestry  of  _____ , or old-fashioned pine.    Reports of rabid foxes thre     
[004] teresting at  all. This one's a  big, solid, stone and  _____  house. As you  know, we were always worried about  fir     
[005] , say, Oxford, Cambridge or one of the top five  red-   _____  universities. 'When they find themselves in a differen     
[006] e children and two cats have  lived  in a three-storey  _____  house near snowbound Minneapolis,  Minnesota - a class     
[007] he  jumped.'  We stopped in front of Aunt Helen's tidy  _____  house. The  next two  hours were diicult for  me. The      
[008] utside  the Grafalks' house. It  was an enormous, red   _____  house, with a huge garden. Suddenly, a dark blue  Ferr     
[009] ust go.'  I left and drove to Astor Place, a huge pink  _____  building. I  rang  the bell to Paige's apartment,  and     
[010] house. It had tiny windows like a prison,  and a  high  _____  wall all round it. It would be hard to imagine a  more     
[011] . They all went into the outhouse,  which was built of  _____ , with a floor of wooden boards.  The meteor lay in the     
[012]   The 14th. Street Law Center was in an old, tall, red  _____   house that had seen better days. The windows on the t     
[013] p. On one side of the  square there was a row of small  _____  houses, all quite old.  The house at the corner was la     
[014] f to their holes. Yury's heart jumped  when he moved a  _____  and found the key where Lara always  used to hide it.      


	
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[001] a $12 million restoration, has become a major tourist   _____ . And what do most visitors want to see in these  hallo     
[002] nt to see in these  hallowed halls? What is the single  _____  that pulls them in  like a magnet? Wilson H. Faude, th     
[003] o have worked last year on 246 projects involving the   _____  or retention of 36,000 jobs.    As attorney general, D     
[004] ne of Butte's main  distinctions - perhaps its central  _____ , town leaders  argue  - is that it is one of the world     
[005] brick, smooth and flat,  doesn't  look like much of an  _____ , but it's enough to draw some  visitors who peer past      
[006] dopted and stayed with him for a week. He had  afatal   _____ .' When he met Pamela, fresh out of college and  from a     
[007] ticks', 'spandy nice', 'niminy-piminy').  But the main  _____ , of course, is Jo, whether she's curled  up in the att     
[008] siting Derbyshire, an area with a particularly  strong  _____  for her, as she had spent a large part of her  early l     


	
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[001]  plants.  That  happens with all our food plants. With  _____ ,  with potatoes,  with  wheat, with barley, all that a     
[002] rms will be arranged  in terraces with fish  ponds and  _____  paddies in transparent tanks on the top  layer;  wheat     
[003] e,  isn't it? And they only2  gave me a small plate of  _____  and a bit of fried fish to eat!  They  took my gun awa     
[004] ar. It shows  a meal. The main dish is boiled dog with  _____ .'  Nobody kills and eats dogs,' Luba Luft said. They'r     
[005] ck was losing his patience.  Because they ate dog with  _____  in the Philippines. I  remember that.'  But your react     
[006]  woken by  the voffice of a food seller. 'Buy my tasty  _____ ! You'll love it!'  Nna-nndo woke Ma. 'We're hungry, Ma     
[007] er too, so that I can wash my face.'  'But I want some  _____  now, Ma,' begged Nna-nndo.  'No wash, no                   
[008]               now, Ma,' begged Nna-nndo.  'No wash, no  _____ , do you hear me? Nice people wash  before they eat. Go     
[009]  his sister obediently,  looking back longingly at the  _____  seller.  The sun rose, warm and golden. Ma Blackie and     
[010] golden. Ma Blackie and the  children all enjoyed their  _____ , and little hot cakes too. While  they ate, their bags     
[011] r other cousins.  The meal itself was a meat soup with  _____  and bread,  served  on big plates. There was no electr     
[012]  City workers sat and ate bowls of  khao dhom, a thick  _____  soup. They wore their office clothes,  and they ate qu     
[013] had her own food from  home. Her mother had prepared a  _____  dish for her. It  smelled  delicious, and Marwa ate qu     
[014] melled more strongly of cigarettes,  and, she guessed,  _____  whisky.  'Any problems?' 'No, I got all the answers ri     
[015] f bread or potatoes. Oh, I miss nshima!'  'Yes, I miss  _____ . They have                                                 
[016]                                            . They have  _____  in the hostel but it's dierent  from the                   
[017]               in the hostel but it's dierent  from the  _____  in Japan. It's hard,' said Ikuko.  'And in Japan you e     
[018]  me; it was the  traditional Belizean dish of chicken,  _____  and beans.  I've eaten it many times before on this ho     
[019] you have  written. And he brought us wonderful things:  _____ , dried  fruit, sugar. I think he has a connection with     


	
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[001] nce, Brouillet and Paquette  surrender themselves in a  _____  leap of faith, and are  sucked  into the empty blue. T     
[002] e Village (1956), brims with character,  incident, and  _____  description of places and people. In  The  Learning La     


	
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[001] hich  the colors are applied contrast with the paint's  _____   regularity. Color as a complex combination of tonal l     
[002] ol tones, smooth  and  rough textures, and natural and  _____  colors. The varied  character of paint is a preoccupat     
[003] y as Clinton's claim  that enlargement will 'erase the  _____  line in Europe drawn  by Stalin at the end of World Wa     
[004] breathing, you must  undo  their collar  and give them  _____  respiration, and I think  most people know how to do       
[005] e victims are  breathing. I mean  if they're not, give  _____  respiration. The most common  injuries in car accident     
[006] ere  it falls away it enfolds equally sinuous, curving  _____   lakes which twist like the moat of a canal or a river     
[007] p as the cone of a volcano. Look again: this, too, is   _____ , named 'snail mound': a fat, green helter- skelter  ca     
[008]  of about thirty  came into the Common Room. He had an  _____  leg, and a  short red moustache, and was slightly bald     
[009] eerful  figure, who made a good deal of noise with his  _____  leg.  Here we are again, old boy!' he said, when they      
[010] issing.'  'One of the experts thinks that it may be an  _____   meteor. But the other experts disagree. They say that     
[011] y can make any sense of  this hollow metal ball.'  'An  _____  meteor built to visit us is much more exciting  than a     
[012] hey  built spaceships to travel between moons, real or  _____ ,  with little or no atmosphere or gravity. These ships     
[013] ully grown trees. The building rose before us like an   _____  mountain.  We flew gently in through an entrance sixty     
[014]  was twelve she did her first underwater dive. A  new   _____  gill, which allowed divers to take oxygen from the  wa     
[015] to her swimming things, put on a skirt, picked  up her  _____  gill and left the room.  She was just passing receptio     
[016] she pulled the mask down over her  face, turned on her  _____  gill and dived under. Suddenly,  she was in a new worl     
[017] e around his own head.  They put on their flippers and  _____  gills.  'Ready?' he asked. Then he was over the side o     


	
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[001] and Tomatoes. Well, they don't want to be known  as a   _____  of Pikers, and the state's most famous veggie was  con     
[002]  John F. Kennedy's shining optimism and ended  with a   _____  of once venerable, now nearly forgotten voffices  croa     
[003] rt of long-form music video made in 1994-is a  motley   _____ , each known in a corner of the entertainment galaxy,       
[004] al ways (in  Wisconsin),'  Portch said, 'I got a whole  _____  of letters from high school  superintendents and princ     
[005] slim volume, subtitled 'Stories and  Drawings  About a  _____  of Women Named Mae,' author Sharony  Andrews Green  pr     
[006] ng that British education is inadequate, and the  next  _____  of students will go to America instead,' he says.  And     
[007] o us. England isn't a feudal  country and we are not a  _____  of peasants . . . if this forces  the church establish     
[008] at the faithless Verdi did  for her was to pick a tiny  _____  of November violets for her  on  her deathbed. With a      
[009] accompanied Mrs Smiling, and Charles came too, with a   _____  of spring flowers which he nearly  forgot, but put int     
[010]  Silently, another woman had entered the room,  with a  _____  of keys on her belt. She was younger than her  sister,     
[011] heavy with perfume. His table was filled with a large   _____  of winter roses, which had cost half a crown each in a     
[012] eing dead.  That morning he had received from Margot a  _____  of  newspaper articles about himself, together with al     
[013]  knew then how he was going to die. He  picked  up his  _____  of keys and hurried across to the prison rooms.  He wa     
[014] e gates.  Maximus knew he had to go now. He handed the  _____  of  keys to Juba.  Juba took them, understanding. "Go!     
[015] e running around a corner in front of Yury  carrying a  _____  of freshly printed newspapers under his arm  and shout     


	
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[001] elt a twinge of anxiety in 1992 when  he picked  up an  _____  from the New York State Department of  Taxation and  F     
[002] he checks and money orders were  delivered in a Manila  _____  by Yah Lin 'Charlie' Trie, a  former Little Rock, Ark.     
[003] ly kept it  in the fridge.'  I picked up a large black  _____  which contained a piece  of clear  thick plastic. Ther     
[004] ome  negatives, and another very dark photograph in an  _____ .  'Those were all in Dad's box of rubbish,' Steve said     
[005] one said that it3  was bad luck.' He picked up a large  _____  and held it out  to me.  'This is my thank you,  Phili     
[006] se like that.'  Victor Briggs said nothing. He put the  _____  down again.  Harold was angry. 'Philip!' he said loudl     
[007] 'Don't be so  stupid.  There's a lot of money in that   _____ . Victor's being  very generous. Take it, and thank him     
[008] rubbish.  'It's just rubbish,' I said. I picked up the  _____  and slid out  the  dark photograph on to my  hand... a     
[009] y exciting.  On the back of the photograph was another  _____  and in  that                                               
[010]                                          and in  that   _____  was the negative.  The photograph was  black and grey,     
[011] secrets? I didn't  know.  I lifted out the large black  _____  from the bottom of  the box. Inside there was a piece      
[012] f  clear plastic. Why had George kept them in a black   _____ ? I put them back. Then I looked at the colour  negativ     
[013] of  himself as a  film-maker. He took  them out of the  _____   and looked at them.  'Well, well,' he said. 'I like t     
[014] ore,' Lord White said comfortably.  I opened the large  _____  I carried and pulled out the three  photographs of the     
[015]   'Not this one.' 'It can't be true.'  I took from the  _____  a print of the letter which George  Millace  had writt     
[016] tograph which you ought to see,' I said.  I passed the  _____  to him and he looked at the picture. Of  Terence  O'Tr     
[017] ox  was still on the table in  the kitchen. The  black  _____  was still there, with the piece of clear plastic.  I h     
[018]  rubbish and took the piece  of plastic from the black  _____ . I put it on a plate and put  some  ammonia on it.  Im     
[019] d George's letter. And a copy of the  letter  is in an  _____  in my  bank. The bank will open  the                       
[020]                   in my  bank. The bank will open  the  _____  if I die.'  Lance looked at the photographs on the flo     
[021] side and his face was white.  Victor picked up a large  _____  and held it out to me.  I can see that you're Philip.      
[022] ctory was on the planet Mars.  Rick took a large brown  _____  from his desk drawer,  then looked at the time. It was     
[023] e down, feeling depressed. His eyes fell on  the brown  _____  in front of him and he looked  through it until he fou     
[024]  nine thirty. Rick quickly put the papers back in  the  _____  and hurried to Holden's room.  Inspector Bryant was al     
[025] etter that Simon is  dead.'  He took something from an  _____  and laid it in front of her  on the  table. It had bee     


	
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[001] and failure: Childhood  friendship with a prince whose  _____  brother rediscovered  and  married her; royal marriage     
[002] on. In a balanced and often admiring  biography of the  _____  Hoffa, the historian Arthur Sloane  writes  that, as e     
[003] merset: She and her husband, Martin, have moved their   _____  son  to a private school where class sizes are smaller     
[004] k. If we lost a teacher, they would be 35 or 36.  'My   _____  boy could not cope in a large class. He is a very able     
[005] e, though he looked  younger. In fact, Miss Brown, his  _____   daughter, looked almost as old as he did. She was onl     
[006] y a favourite. But all the time he  kept an eye on his  _____  daughter a sick woman, I was  sure. Miss Jessie seemed     
[007] ally  giving her own opinion but more often giving her  _____   sister's. And Miss Deborah Jenkyns herself  wrote gra     
[008] emed as bright as ever,  unless he was asked about his  _____  daughter's health.  She's in great pain,' he replied,      
[009] nd his  deep voffice trembled when he spoke about  his  _____  daughter. There is no hope,' he said. Thank God  we ha     
[010]  daughter of the late Mr  Jenkyns's clerk. She and her  _____  sister (who had  worked for Mrs Jamieson) had been lad     
[011]  the widow of Lord Glenmire, and he was  Mr Jamieson's  _____  brother. But I wonder  what we should call her...'  Mi     
[012] ouseboy in the apartment house in Lagos  Okonkwo Odia,  _____  brother of Ezekiel, uncle of Aku-nna  and  Nna-nndo, a     
[013] their home  town, Ibuza, where Okonkwo, Ezekiel Odia's  _____  brother,  and his family lived.  The children were sad     
[014] I'm sure we shall be friends,' said  Ogugua. Ezekiel's  _____  brother Okonkwo was her father,  so she was Aku-nna s      
[015] you to think about.  Good night.'  Bye, bye,' said the  _____  Miss Fagan brightly.  Paul was guided to the dining-ha     
[016] be married to Flossie.'  Good God! Which is she?'  The  _____ . Their names are Florence and Diana, but the  boys cal     
[017] n express is the information  that he is engaged to my  _____  daughter. I had not expected  such shame to descend on     
[018] d wanted to keep the  family property together, so the  _____  brother inherited most  of it.  I don't know what happ     
[019] ividing the family property, so he  left  it all to my  _____  brother. But that meant I would be poor  unless  I mar     
[020]  had brought his two sisters, with the  husband of the  _____ , Mr Hurst, and another young man, Mr  Darcy. Mr Bingle     
[021] ordshire before I noticed that  Bingley preferred your  _____  sister Jane to any other young  woman. But I had often     
[022] lts, it may comfort you to  consider that you and your  _____  sister have avoided any  share of blame, and deserve n     
[023] Meryton area became extremely  depressed. Only the two  _____  Miss Bennets were still able  to  eat, drink, sleep an     
[024]  the young couple arrived at  Longbourn House, the two  _____  Bennet sisters were  shocked to see how unashamed Lydi     
[025] at home, as Kitty  spent most of her time with her two  _____  sisters, which  greatly improved her behaviour, charac