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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] ered softly, 'Have you had tea? Won't  you have an ice- _____ ? The coee and  brandy ice-creams really are rather spe     
[002] to see,  and you have not yet tried our delicious  ice- _____ !'  'Oh,' cried the little governess, 'I have enjoyed m     
[003] e will sit down in this cafe  and have a chocolate ice- _____ .'  She was happy again. The ice-                           
[004]                       .'  She was happy again. The ice- _____  slipped down  beautifully, and she sat with her back t     
[005] was at the beginning of everything.  'How about an ice- _____ ?' said her partner. And they went  through the doors,      
[006] the morning and  Ken went out of the office to buy ice- _____  with Doreen, the  prettiest typist in the office. They     
[007] lding.  Ken turned and took a spoonful of Doreen's ice- _____ .  'Stop it!' she laughed. 'You've got your own ice-        
[008]    .  'Stop it!' she laughed. 'You've got your own ice- _____ .'  'If you let me have a little bit of yours, HI let y     
[009] ped out and took  hold of Mapetla. Ken dropped his ice- _____ , took his  camera  from where it hung on his belt, and     
[010] uare. We ordered two of the large bowls of  fruit, ice- _____  and                                                        
[011]                                                    and  _____  which the Swiss like so much.  After a few moments, Sa     
[012]  back to  our cafe.  I sat down again and ate some ice- _____ . My heart was  beating fast and I wondered what was go     
[013] then I took  too long doing my make-up.' 'Eat your ice- _____ . It's  melting,'  I heard myself say.  Apparently I ha     
[014] f the cottage and you've got  enough bottles of suntan  _____  to protect an army. Now,  come on! We're wasting valua     
[015] th smoky chicken and Gruyere and festooned with  sour   _____  and black olives - plenty for two to share. Or start w     
[016] eue  with the fairly large  crowds if we wanted an ice- _____  or anything. I got a bit  annoyed with all those silly     
[017] n the subject of burns, for example, some people  put   _____  or grease or butter on burned skin, and this in fact       
[018]   salads  and  Paul's favourites which are pea soup or  _____  of  tomato soup  made from home- grown tomatoes and on     
[019] sandwiches and  cakes, and, of course, a cup of tea.  ' _____  teas' are popular - you have scones  (a kind of cake)      
[020] are popular - you have scones  (a kind of cake)  with   _____  and jam. The evening meal is the main meal of the  day     
[021] ered softly, 'Have you had tea? Won't  you have an ice- _____ ? The coee and  brandy ice-creams really are rather spe     
[022] to see,  and you have not yet tried our delicious  ice- _____ !'  'Oh,' cried the little governess, 'I have enjoyed m     
[023] e will sit down in this cafe  and have a chocolate ice- _____ .'  She was happy again. The ice-                           
[024]                       .'  She was happy again. The ice- _____  slipped down  beautifully, and she sat with her back t     
[025] was at the beginning of everything.  'How about an ice- _____ ?' said her partner. And they went  through the doors,      


	
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[001] ose conversation was the only  pleasure  he allowed to  _____  his daily writing schedule. Glyn's last  years were ma     
[002]  'Good morning,' said Flora brightly. 'I'm so sorry to  _____   you if you are busy. in just wanted to  know if you w     
[003] u  please, Robert Poste's child, as long as you  don't  _____  my  loneliness. Give me time, and in will put right th     
[004] econd time I refused. I'm sure I was  right. She would  _____  my work terribly. Besides, she's  getting old. In ten      
[005] after we are married.' It was  absolutely necessary to  _____  him now.  'Sir, you forget I have given no answer. Acc     
[006] rcy changed colour, but he listened without trying to   _____  her as she continued.  'I have every reason in the wor     
[007] arian was walking with a man I had not met.  I did not  _____  their conversation, but a moment later they  stopped t     
[008] ant  them to see me, either.  'No; I whispered. 'Don't  _____  them. That wouldn't be  polite,  would it? Let's leave     
[009] nd speak to Lara, but he felt shy and did  not want to  _____  her work. He turned away from her and  tried to read h     
[010] now how to escape those unsolicited  phone  calls that  _____  my peas and quiet, it ought to be Douglas  E.  Palley,     
[011] n interview  and no job description...  Wife: Sorry to  _____ , darling. I  think the baby's crying. Do you think  yo     
[012] the  skin off. And the other thing... I: I'm  sorry to  _____ . What should we do  about burns, then? Dr  C:  Well, y     
[013] ose conversation was the only  pleasure  he allowed to  _____  his daily writing schedule. Glyn's last  years were ma     
[014]  'Good morning,' said Flora brightly. 'I'm so sorry to  _____   you if you are busy. in just wanted to  know if you w     
[015] u  please, Robert Poste's child, as long as you  don't  _____  my  loneliness. Give me time, and in will put right th     
[016] econd time I refused. I'm sure I was  right. She would  _____  my work terribly. Besides, she's  getting old. In ten      
[017] after we are married.' It was  absolutely necessary to  _____  him now.  'Sir, you forget I have given no answer. Acc     
[018] rcy changed colour, but he listened without trying to   _____  her as she continued.  'I have every reason in the wor     
[019] arian was walking with a man I had not met.  I did not  _____  their conversation, but a moment later they  stopped t     
[020] ant  them to see me, either.  'No; I whispered. 'Don't  _____  them. That wouldn't be  polite,  would it? Let's leave     
[021] nd speak to Lara, but he felt shy and did  not want to  _____  her work. He turned away from her and  tried to read h     


	
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[001]   your  wallet,' said the policeman, as he got out his  _____  and  started writing a traffic  ticket. I started wond     
[002]  been condemned to  death,'  it announced in ballpoint  _____ . 'Ahmed Boutdra, mayor of  Igoujdal,  his father Si Ah     
[003] e in there.'  And this extraordinary man picked up his  _____  and  started to write.  I did what he said, and found      
[004] eorge  Millace!'  He brought out his cheque book and a  _____ . He wrote a  cheque. 'Not Hong  Kong,' he said  wildly     
[005] ely. He was wearing the same  hat, too.'  I gave her a  _____ . 'Please write on the back for me, Mrs  Jackson, and       
[006] nearly killed my friend.' I took out a  notebook and a  _____ . 'Write now,' I said.  He sat down and wrote a name an     
[007] The ostrich in your window,' Rick said, playing with a  _____   on his desk. How much would the first payment  be?'       
[008] The girl was studying her sheets of music and  using a  _____  to make notes on them.  Yes?' she said, looking up. I      
[009] rmgard. We got  your card.'  Pris stood up and found a  _____  and paper. She wrote a  message and passed it to Isido     
[010]  it to Isidore. YOU GO TO THE  DOOR.  Isidore took her  _____  nervously and wrote: AND SAY  WHAT?  Angrily, Pris rep     
[011]  She explained that a stylograph was a special kind of  _____   that Patrick  owned. It was black and had thin yellow     
[012]  could  still be recognized. It was a black stylograph  _____  with thin  yellow  lines round it.  She looked at the      
[013]  with thin  yellow  lines round it.  She looked at the  _____  for a long time without touching it, then  looked  up      
[014] t bones, my dear. And some pieces of cloth.'  'And his  _____ ?'  'That was separate,' he said carefully.  'You mean,     
[015] hing to Morse, who appeared to  agree. Picking up  his  _____  and  notebook Lewis went out.  There was silence in th     
[016] t down at your desk.  Take out a piece of paper  and a  _____ . There's a message I want you to write.'  'You can't '     
[017] he papers he was working on and  Ntsiki  took away the  _____ . According to the banning order, he was  not allowed t     
[018]  her. She sat at her desk,  looking  cool and eicient,  _____  in hand. One by one, the girls were  shown in.  Name?'     
[019] ound. It was a small piece of metal, like the top of a  _____ .  'What do you think it is?' Monika asked.  'I don't k     
[020] r down and put a line under the phone  number with his  _____ , picked up his phone and rang the  number. Almost imme     
[021]  threw it onto the  back seat of the car.  'I'll use a  _____  and paper,' he said in a loud and angry voffice,  as i     
[022]  to make notes now,' he said to himself, throwing the   _____  and the notebook onto the back seat of the car to join     
[023] Maybe he was right  about travelling  She put down her  _____  feeling close to tears. This was not  how she had expe     
[024]  everything  down she'd feel clearer. She took out her  _____  and started.  An hour later she was still writing.  I      
[025] k number. I took the book over to my  own bag, found a  _____  and a piece of paper, and wrote both  numbers down. Th     


	
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[001]  of excitement that British commonsense was  going to   _____  Europe from its rigidity and red tape. 'But then it  b     
[002]  to  go back to the Grange as quickly as possible, and  _____   her later. .  What a welcome I received from the serv     
[003] ner in the castle!'  Heloise  shouted.  'Yes, and I'll  _____  her, Lucille!' shouted Nicky.  When the castle was fin     
[004] e, until it almost  rushed into the nursery. She would  _____  the children and  swim with  them to safety.  Or if th     
[005] ation  with Flora. 'I shall probably have to come  and  _____  you,'  she said coldly, 'from some impossible relation     
[006] h  it, wherever you are,  phone me and I will come and  _____  you in my plane.'  'Really, Charles? Do you think a pr     
[007]  at this  moment that she decided to adopt Elfine  and  _____  her from  all the Starkadders.  'And does this Someone     
[008] ted to hear no more. She felt she could not  possibly   _____  these women as well as Elfine.  They would just have       
[009] ly. She patted  Samora's nappy. 'I think we had better  _____  these,' she  whispered.  And they both gasped with sil     
[010] onder, he thought, that Margot  had been so anxious to  _____  her girls from this place of  temptation and danger. H     
[011]  since the morning in June when she had sent him  o to  _____  her girls in Marseille. The meeting took place in  a s     
[012] nd soon everyone would know.  They would know that the  _____  ship reported to be  speeding towards them had, in fac     
[013] oulder.  'Of course it's her,' said the Captain of the  _____  ship.  'What else would you expect to find spinning he     
[014] nd the doctor put on  their space-suits. They left the  _____  ship and used the  steel  line to guide themselves on      
[015] nt on, and entered the large central room. Though  the  _____  ship had stopped the Hunter spinning, all the  loose       
[016] as  painfully crowded' with new feelings. He wanted to  _____   the  girl, but he could see that it was impossible fo     
[017] agnosed, suffers a vomiting fit he can't stifle. 'When  _____   came, it was almost an assault. The woman seized my a     
[018] eeling from a  scorching electoral defeat July 6. 'Why  _____  the PRI?  Because  there are still great people in the     
[019]  or if not a neighbour  might hear you and come to the  _____ . IF YOU PLAN TO  BE AWAY: 1  Make  certain that your h     
[020] . I forgot to bring my  sharp knife along'. A mountain  _____  team went out to look  for  Gary, and  found him at 1      
[021]  of excitement that British commonsense was  going to   _____  Europe from its rigidity and red tape. 'But then it  b     
[022]  to  go back to the Grange as quickly as possible, and  _____   her later. .  What a welcome I received from the serv     
[023] ner in the castle!'  Heloise  shouted.  'Yes, and I'll  _____  her, Lucille!' shouted Nicky.  When the castle was fin     
[024] e, until it almost  rushed into the nursery. She would  _____  the children and  swim with  them to safety.  Or if th     
[025] ation  with Flora. 'I shall probably have to come  and  _____  you,'  she said coldly, 'from some impossible relation     


	
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[001] chance to  experiment with wattle daubs, make pottery,  _____  textiles,  and  even have a bash at making a coracle.      
[002]  believe me!'  However, the housewives needed Silas to  _____  their linen,  and they could Find nothing wrong  with      
[003] help feeling  relieved when she had gone. Now he could  _____  and moan  as much as he liked.  Mr Macey and Dolly had     
[004] chance to  experiment with wattle daubs, make pottery,  _____  textiles,  and  even have a bash at making a coracle.      
[005]  believe me!'  However, the housewives needed Silas to  _____  their linen,  and they could Find nothing wrong  with      
[006] help feeling  relieved when she had gone. Now he could  _____  and moan  as much as he liked.  Mr Macey and Dolly had     


	
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[001] ? A: Well, apparently they've found a cure for  tooth   _____ . B: Really? I  can't believe that's possible. A: Yes.      
[002] social structures'. This week we have a book on moral   _____   and the family from the Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks,      
[003] ler recites example after example of (rumored)  moral   _____  and bad manners, thinking, apparently, that readers  n     
[004] ng giant vegetables, ancient alphabets and  images  of  _____ . The first full day of camp dawned and with it the  re     
[005] ? A: Well, apparently they've found a cure for  tooth   _____ . B: Really? I  can't believe that's possible. A: Yes.      
[006] social structures'. This week we have a book on moral   _____   and the family from the Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks,      


	
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[001] Mystery Lover's Tour  of  England.' In exchange for my  _____  insights into the work of  Agatha Christie, Arthur Con     


	
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[001] 5 / Theatre: You know it makes sense: The  Memorandum   _____  Tree, London     By PAUL TAYLOR    At the start of Vac     
[002] 5 play (now spiritedly revived by Sam  Walters  at the  _____  Tree) is written in 'Ptydepe'. Sounding like  gobblede     
[003] re were footmen, there was a four-  poster  bed, fresh  _____  juice and croissants in the morning - and a  fresh cop     
[004] 's World  According to Garp. There's a blue one in the  _____   telecoms ad,  and a spoof of it in the Energis one. A     
[005]  early  Welfare State, bred on 'all that free milk and  _____  juice and  cod liver oil'. But she was also a child of     
[006] f magazines and newspapers and then picked up a  small  _____   box.  'Where shall I put this?' I asked Steve.  'That     
[007] x. There were thirty six negatives.  Some of them were  _____  and some of them were                                      
[008]                                  and some of them were  _____   with red shapes on them. Perhaps yellow pictures were     
[009] n them. Perhaps yellow pictures were  hidden under the  _____  negatives.  I went into the darkroom and turned on the     
[010] developer. I discovered almost at once that under the   _____  there was yellow, which became blue when I  printed it     
[011]  the river  is full of colour - yellow,  and blue, and  _____   and green, and white, and red and pink.  At Hampton H     
[012] r? She did not know. She sat down heavily  under a big  _____  tree at the end of the school field, and  cried and cr     
[013]  She let them flow. It was quiet and private under the  _____   tree. She watched two little birds feeding their babi     
[014]   her eyes again. Chike sat down beside her under the   _____   tree. He said, 'I will help you to pass your examinat     
[015]  there.  Then she went to the fruit shop and bought an  _____ . As he  watched her, he knew more surely than  ever th     
[016] rees were so lovely, with their big,  shiny leaves and  _____  fruit. Must they be hidden by a  marquee?  They must.      
[017] .'  There was only a little round window at the Bitter  _____   Company. No waiting-room, nobody at all  except a gir     
[018] ouses were closer together now. Below, the occasional   _____   flash of a gun could be  seen through the rain.  We g     
[019]   A waitress brought her coee, a piece of cake and an   _____ . Flora drank her coee, ate her cake and  started putti     
[020]  coee, ate her cake and  started putting sugar  on her  _____ . Suddenly she heard a voffice behind her.  'Hullo, Flo     
[021] ve.'  Evalina, their black servant, brought a glass of  _____  juice  for Wendy and put it down on the table. Then sh     
[022] hs on the walls.  Vitjord offered Monika a drink.  'An  _____  juice, please,' she replied.  'Nothing stronger?' Virj     
[023] e next street. There  was light in the sky now, a soft  _____  light in the grey dawn.  It was always diicult to slee     
[024]  rising over the block  opposite hers like a big, wet,  _____  ball. A man in yellow  clothes, a Buddhist monk, was w     
[025] mething caught her eye in the Soi below. A very large   _____  and black animal, a squirrel, was running along an  el     


	
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[001] ys he has  quietly stood out against papal attempts to  _____  debate and  silence dissent. Consider this quotation f     
[002] almost a daily presence in Princess  Diana's life, the  _____  intensified after an Italian fashion  photographer rec     
[003] ys he has  quietly stood out against papal attempts to  _____  debate and  silence dissent. Consider this quotation f     


	
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[001] ed at a rather  fortuitous moment. I was footloose and  _____ -free, on my own  with  a ticket to nowhere. One thing      
[002] of human  character in all its astonishing variety. 'I  _____  words,' he  wrote in his panegyric to his home-town of     
[003] e tried it on with her. When I  saw  the film I didn't  _____  Jo anymore because she was played by  June  Allyson an     
[004] ikan is the local beer made in Belize. When you  don't  _____  drinking rum, it's a delicious alternative.  'Yes, tha     
[005]  looked at me. I couldn't tell what he was thinking.  ' _____  another race?' I asked, and he smiled.  'What for? I'd     
[006] ed at a rather  fortuitous moment. I was footloose and  _____ -free, on my own  with  a ticket to nowhere. One thing      
[007] of human  character in all its astonishing variety. 'I  _____  words,' he  wrote in his panegyric to his home-town of     
[008] e tried it on with her. When I  saw  the film I didn't  _____  Jo anymore because she was played by  June  Allyson an     
[009] ikan is the local beer made in Belize. When you  don't  _____  drinking rum, it's a delicious alternative.  'Yes, tha     
[010]  looked at me. I couldn't tell what he was thinking.  ' _____  another race?' I asked, and he smiled.  'What for? I'd