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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] . Have  you tried this with your boys? I must say I do  _____  you your  opportunities.  How about a party?' said Gri     
[002] ew.    Executives of Esprit, a brand that was once the  _____  of the  fashion industry, today live for such customer     
[003] ists here. While it is not entirely free of  backstage  _____  and whining, there is a remarkable degree of  mutual s     
[004] 35 are in  prison right now, which would have been the  _____  of  apartheid  South Africa. So, says Mr Howard, this      
[005] home and wait for them to return, feel both rage  and   _____ . Nick Leeson was given the power and freedom he  enjoy     
[006] e standards which most state secondary  schools would   _____ . There are two computer rooms, separate and fully  equ     
[007] . Have  you tried this with your boys? I must say I do  _____  you your  opportunities.  How about a party?' said Gri     


	
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[001] ick dark hair hanging  down. She took up the beautiful  _____  you bought me) put it on  her  own head, then turned t     
[002] en that  I saw her wild, inhuman face! She removed the  _____ , tore it in  two and  threw it on the floor.'  And the     
[003] ning,  but  when I looked on the  floor, there was the  _____ , torn in two  halves!' I felt Mr Rochester suddenly tr     
[004] ing his  arms around  me  . 'Thank God it was only the  _____ !'  After a few moments he said calmly, 'Now Jane, be s     
[005] s in such a hurry that  to put on my wedding dress and  _____ .  'Jane, you look lovely,' he said. 'But you can only      
[006] ked  the door.  Slowly I took off my wedding dress and  _____ . I was weak and  exhausted,  and only just beginning t     
[007] ure, was  standing beside him. When she threw back her  _____ , she  revealed a face  of perfect beauty. St John glan     
[008]   dreadlocks, from the headscarf of Islam to the nun's  _____ .  Such  gestures are not always accompanied by ritual      
[009] dy of a young man, or on fine  muslin  which acts as a  _____ . These are images of partings,  mementoes  that are qu     
[010] ide-ranging than might have been  expected. A discreet  _____  remains drawn over the worst  crimes of  the former re     
[011] ick dark hair hanging  down. She took up the beautiful  _____  you bought me) put it on  her  own head, then turned t     
[012] en that  I saw her wild, inhuman face! She removed the  _____ , tore it in  two and  threw it on the floor.'  And the     
[013] ning,  but  when I looked on the  floor, there was the  _____ , torn in two  halves!' I felt Mr Rochester suddenly tr     
[014] ing his  arms around  me  . 'Thank God it was only the  _____ !'  After a few moments he said calmly, 'Now Jane, be s     
[015] s in such a hurry that  to put on my wedding dress and  _____ .  'Jane, you look lovely,' he said. 'But you can only      
[016] ked  the door.  Slowly I took off my wedding dress and  _____ . I was weak and  exhausted,  and only just beginning t     
[017] ure, was  standing beside him. When she threw back her  _____ , she  revealed a face  of perfect beauty. St John glan     


	
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[001] prise, some fuses and several small  square packets of  _____ .  I knew that with these I could blow the house up. Th     
[002] d be dead in three hours.  I put one of the squares of  _____  near the door, and  put a fuse from there to the other     
[003] y face was real. Perhaps Mattingly had used too  much   _____ . Why had Bledsoe  offered to give me a ride  on his pl     
[004] er to a box standing  by a bundle of several sticks of  _____ .  Duncan realized immediately what her plan was, and h     
[005] e had got tired  of cutting by hand, and had used some  _____  to try to  make a hole.  It depressed everyone to see      
[006] 0%  in the  next decade. But the point here is not the  _____   population  growth, it is the early decentering-the c     
[007] ts have little inkling of what to expect. In  general,  _____  volcanoes like Soufriere Hills follow a  predictable s     
[008] rent  kind of university, the results can sometimes be  _____ .'  According to Professor Shanin, British universities     
[009] ic Cantona, carried off to a chorus of boos  when  the  _____  temperament that had been so productive  when reined       
[010] prise, some fuses and several small  square packets of  _____ .  I knew that with these I could blow the house up. Th     
[011] d be dead in three hours.  I put one of the squares of  _____  near the door, and  put a fuse from there to the other     
[012] y face was real. Perhaps Mattingly had used too  much   _____ . Why had Bledsoe  offered to give me a ride  on his pl     
[013] er to a box standing  by a bundle of several sticks of  _____ .  Duncan realized immediately what her plan was, and h     
[014] e had got tired  of cutting by hand, and had used some  _____  to try to  make a hole.  It depressed everyone to see      


	
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[001] ow her, she's got long red hair and she  sings  like a  _____ ! Quack, quack!' he shouted.  'You are unkind, Thomas!'     
[002] . She was searching for  words.  'Melanie sings like a  _____ ,' thought Hu, but she didn't say  anything.  'I think      
[003] 'Mostly your  understudy, Melanie Gibson, the singing   _____ . You should be careful of her, Hu. She has a nasty way     
[004] f it for your towel.' The woman showed Tonya a cooked   _____  - fat and juicy and just the thing for her family. She     
[005] y, I'd spent the first  two relaxing at the minimalist  _____  Cove Inn in Margaree  Harbour,  weighing the natural o     
[006]  He has added new  appetizers,  like his famous smoked  _____  breast salad, and strengthened  old  ones. What were t     
[007] ith a touch of cassis  brought up  the gamey flavor of  _____  breast, and a crust of ground  hazelnuts  and garlic s     
[008] nges - almost as if Squirrel Nutkin or  Jemima  Puddle- _____  had left it ajar in their haste to wander the  meadow,     
[009]  side  of the hedge he saw a  pond  with a large white  _____  swimming round and round on  it. The  tramp had a good     
[010] ately, he jumped over the  hedge and  ran  towards the  _____ . Soon he was sitting by the pond with a  large pile of     
[011]  'Get off  my  property!' Hurriedly, the tramp put the  _____  back into the  water.  The  farmer was very angry. He      
[012] as very angry. He pointed to the pond where  the poor   _____  was swimming  without any feathers, and shouted,  'Wha     
[013] ny feathers, and shouted,  'What's the  matter with my  _____ ?" He waited  for the tramp's reply. 'Ah!'  said the tr     
[014] he tramp's reply. 'Ah!'  said the tramp quietly, 'your  _____  wanted to go  for a swim. It  got undressed, and I'm l     
[015] ' is the excuse Strepponi offered  when  she wanted to  _____  outof an engagement, and her  biographer's  style can      
[016] ow her, she's got long red hair and she  sings  like a  _____ ! Quack, quack!' he shouted.  'You are unkind, Thomas!'     
[017] . She was searching for  words.  'Melanie sings like a  _____ ,' thought Hu, but she didn't say  anything.  'I think      
[018] 'Mostly your  understudy, Melanie Gibson, the singing   _____ . You should be careful of her, Hu. She has a nasty way     
[019] f it for your towel.' The woman showed Tonya a cooked   _____  - fat and juicy and just the thing for her family. She     


	
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[001] well enough.  On my way up I had seen a small piece of  _____  and I looked  at it again  more closely as I went  dow     
[002] at I saw  the blood.  It was in several places on  the  _____ .  Sofia's bag was near the door. She was still upstair     
[003] to keep him quiet. And then I noticed that beside the   _____  there  was a spade. Yesterday,  on my way down to  Agi     
[004]  against my  own.  Colin spoke. 'Mark,' he said, 'this  _____  came up with her.  There's a  kind of pot on the end o     
[005] g towards our boat and me  with a knife.  I lifted the  _____  I was  holding, and it caught  Stratos straight across     
[006]  shone as Stratos drove it down,  straight at me.  The  _____  caught Stratos straight across the legs.    Level 4 Ox     
[007] was trying to  steer the boat, and he pulled the wrong  _____ . The boat  turned sharply  and bumped into the  bank o     
[008]  both look tired.'  Our only reply was to give him the  _____ . So he started  walking, and he  pulled the boat behin     
[009] alking by the  side of the river. They  were pulling a  _____   behind them and they were talking to each other. They     
[010]  not notice  that there was no boat on  the end of the  _____ .  Of course, they probably had a  boat on the end of t     
[011] Of course, they probably had a  boat on the end of the  _____  when they started out.  But it had disappeared. The tw     
[012] g people were0  not worried about this. They had their  _____ . They did not  seem to care  that there was no boat.       
[013]  But, just then, he had an idea.  He  took hold of the  _____ , and he  tied it to his own boat.  Then he and his thr     
[014] eed three girls  to tow  a boat. Two of them hold  the  _____ , and the other  one runs here and there and laughs all     
[015] ime.  They usually begin by tying themselves up in the  _____ . They  get it  round their legs, and then  they have t     
[016] our and found a shop where he  bought a long  piece of  _____ ; it was very thin and light, but also very  strong. He     
[017] very thin and light, but also very  strong. He put the  _____  in a box and put the box in the back  of  Eleanor's sm     
[018] , to be honest about it. 'If  you must know, it's some  _____ . I used to be able to do tricks  with                      
[019]                . I used to be able to do tricks  with   _____ , and I want to practice again.'  Eleanor was delighted     
[020]  her.  When they arrived back at Latchetts he took the  _____  out and  left it in  the hall. No one took any more no     
[021] ter midnight, Brat went quietly  downstairs,  took the  _____  and went softly out into the night. He made his  way a     
[022] footholds at  regular  intervals all the way along the  _____ . When he had finished,  he put the                         
[023]                    . When he had finished,  he put the  _____  over his shoulder and walked towards the  Tanbitches       
[024] all the sleeping countryside.  Brat carefully tied the  _____  round the largest of the young  beech trees  and let t     
[025] the quarry.  There was no water in it. Brat tested the  _____  several  times and then slid slowly over the edge and      


	
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[001] ed  all our luggage into the  road. We tried to get a   _____ . Usually taxis come along every three minutes. In fact     
[002]  However, that morning  we waited twenty minutes for a  _____ . A crowd of interested  people  collected to watch us.     
[003] five  coats and  raincoats. After a very long  time, a  _____  arrived and  stopped for us. We packed our things into     
[004] o it, kicked two of  Montmorency's friends out of the   _____ , and started on our  holiday. The crowd of people wave     
[005] ho was taking vegetables to  the market, and one was a  _____  driver.  George looked at his watch. It was five to ni     
[006] im  her help! What kind of world was this?  A hovercar  _____  landed on the roof. A man with a red face in  his mid-     
[007] He smiled at Rick and walked across to his car  as the  _____  left.  Mr Deckard?' the man said, with a strong accent     
[008] egan  to cross the road.  'Look out, Fatty!' shouted a  _____ -driver. Miss Moss pretended  not to hear.  'No, I won'     
[009]  after playing bridge, the night before her death? By   _____ ? By  bicycle? With someone?  According to the  medical     
[010] office. According to his  secretary, he  had left in a  _____ , with  two suitcases. Morse  was very angry with himse     
[011] y glances. 4  Afterwards, Nudger watched her walk to a  _____ . She never  looked back.  That night Nudger realized w     
[012] ressed in  her yellow waitress  uniform and got into a  _____ . Nudger followed in his  Volkswagen as the                 
[013]           . Nudger followed in his  Volkswagen as the   _____  drove her the four  miles to her job at the  restauran     
[014] er job at the  restaurant. At six that evening another  _____  drove her home,  making a  short stop at a food  store     
[015] t work one evening,  she  didn't go home. Instead her   _____  drove east. Nudger  followed through several narrow st     
[016] li's Car Repairs'.  Nudger parked and waited until the  _____  went by without a  passenger.  Ten minutes later, Holl     
[017] know,  but she had to hear it.  Had to share it.  'The  _____  fare to and from work must make a big hole in your  wa     
[018] ole in your  wages.  And you seem to go  everywhere by  _____ .'  'My car's been in the garage for repair,' she said.     
[019] ith her. Or knew it was not in the bag.  She stopped a  _____  and got into it. I don't know why I followed  her,  ex     
[020] wed  her,  except she was the only  suspect I had. The  _____   went on and on, and I began to feel rather silly. The     
[021] r with  her was7  Mrs Thompson, from the inquest.  The  _____  passed me but Margaret didn't even see my car.  Mrs Th     
[022] om town.  There he waited. A few minutes later a black  _____  drove up  and stopped beside him. The door opened.  'G     
[023] petla smiled for the first  time.  The car was a black  _____ . The law said that some taxis  were  for blacks and so     
[024] . There was an atmosphere of fun  and adventure in the  _____  as the men joked with each other.  But as the              
[025]          as the men joked with each other.  But as the  _____  reached the black township outside East  London; and m     


	
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[001] r gave a party and her little  maid had to get the tea- _____  from  under the sofa on which we sat, everyone just we     
[002] ter pretended  she did not know what cakes were on the  _____ , no one  looked surprised. But we knew, and she  knew      
[003] ated up  from the kitchen, and she noticed a breakfast  _____  outside  one of the bedrooms. 'Good,' she thought. 'If     
[004] oise might upset her.'  'She could stay in her room. A  _____  of cake can be taken up  to her. Yes, in think that wo     
[005] s it  was lunch-time, asked Mrs Beetle to give her the  _____  upon  which was arranged Aunt Ada's lunch.  'Oh, no, m     
[006] o heavy,' said Mrs Beetle.  But Flora quietly took the  _____ , and, watched with fascination  by Reuben, Mrs Beetle,     
[007]  cake.  If in am not down by  seven, please bring up a  _____  with supper for two, and we will  have hot milk at ten     
[008] e well.'  And slowly Flora went upstairs, carrying the  _____ . They heard  her knocking on the bedroom door and  cal     
[009] as a silence, then the door  opened, and Flora and the  _____  entered.  That was the last anyone  saw or heard of he     
[010]  company is seen desultorily sorting through his  in-   _____ , when all of a sudden he's arrested by the contents of     
[011] r gave a party and her little  maid had to get the tea- _____  from  under the sofa on which we sat, everyone just we     
[012] ter pretended  she did not know what cakes were on the  _____ , no one  looked surprised. But we knew, and she  knew      
[013] ated up  from the kitchen, and she noticed a breakfast  _____  outside  one of the bedrooms. 'Good,' she thought. 'If     
[014] oise might upset her.'  'She could stay in her room. A  _____  of cake can be taken up  to her. Yes, in think that wo     
[015] s it  was lunch-time, asked Mrs Beetle to give her the  _____  upon  which was arranged Aunt Ada's lunch.  'Oh, no, m     
[016] o heavy,' said Mrs Beetle.  But Flora quietly took the  _____ , and, watched with fascination  by Reuben, Mrs Beetle,     
[017]  cake.  If in am not down by  seven, please bring up a  _____  with supper for two, and we will  have hot milk at ten     
[018] e well.'  And slowly Flora went upstairs, carrying the  _____ . They heard  her knocking on the bedroom door and  cal     
[019] as a silence, then the door  opened, and Flora and the  _____  entered.  That was the last anyone  saw or heard of he     


	
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[001] I did wonder if this was part of your programme to get  _____  of  your  smaller ships,' Bledsoe said.  Grafalk dropp     
[002]  we thought the criminal was an angry seaman  we'd got  _____   of a few days ago, but  Boom Boom said there  was mor     
[003] oom had  found out the truth, he wanted Clayton to get  _____  of Boom  Boom immediately. But I told him not to.' She     
[004] at lunch,  my first day at the Port, was about getting  _____  of your  unprofitable  old ships.'  He pushed the bott     
[005] collect the  insurance. Then I had a  better idea. Get  _____  of the Lucella and close the upper lakes  to the  bigg     
[006]  been having a terrible day, but now that she  had got  _____  of those little animals the  Kelveys and shouted at Ke     
[007]  game. I'm sure I'm being  very silly. But I can't get  _____  of the idea that we've got an extra  player... somebod     
[008] ly.  'She was pregnant, wasn't she?'  'But you can get  _____  of a baby these days, can't you?'  'Some women would b     
[009] t, so it was adopted. That's a  modern  way of getting  _____  of a baby.  The Greek king and queen had left their ba     
[010] ,' he said. 'And the house is hot.  I've been  getting  _____  of a lot of stu.  Burning it in the  boiler.'  He smok     
[011] boat,' he whispered. 'They've got it, and they've  got  _____   of the others.'  'That means they're going to leave b     
[012]  And at that time  of night! No, I think we should get  _____  of him completely. That  sort of young man does the Co     
[013]  ourselves, Pennyfeather, I think I shall have to get   _____  of Grimes quite soon.' He stood up, and put his hat on     
[014] fact, it was probably Potts' visit which finally  got   _____  of the Professor, who left early the next morning,  wi     
[015]  to  school. Abbott said Mrs Reed would be glad to get  _____  of  me. In  this conversation I also learned for the f     
[016] endlessly  round the ship. There was no way of getting  _____  of it, so in  order to show Bowman some respect and to     
[017] be done?' I wanted to  know. 'Who grows the food, gets  _____  of the waste, and  provides the power?'  'The machines     
[018] her dear friend Jane was  increased by her wish to get  _____  of Elizabeth.  Fortunately perhaps, for almost everyon     
[019] lt greatly relieved by this conversation. She had  got  _____  of two of her secreTS, and was certain of a willing  l     
[020] net was a happy mother indeed on the day when she  got  _____  of her two most deserving daughters. It may be  guesse     
[021] d,  not a shallow liar like Ian. And yet I want to get  _____  of him.  What's the matter with me? Lying there in my      
[022] mell doesn't kill you first,' Polski said.  'I can get  _____  of the smell. This is just a model. I think it's  read     
[023]  water or light.  They say the new government will get  _____  of money. Nothing  will be coming into the city. We ne     
[024] e Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's intense lobbying to get   _____   of the state and city sales taxes on clothing this ye     
[025] t in my back yard  and  cried. He begged me not to get  _____  of him,' said Thompson.  Mourning stayed at Georgetown     


	
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[001] kes to do our repairs. We have to  make a new starship  _____ , you see, as the  old one was destroyed when something     
[002]  us would  burn up the ship immediately. So we carry a  _____  about a  kilometre ahead of us, and let that get  burn     
[003] freeze it and  shape it, and turn it into a travelling  _____  for the starship. In  a  few days the ship would be re     
[004] rough television cameras, the making of the great  ice  _____  that would ride ahead of the  Magellan on its way to t     
[005] rd  from another side. Each man marched behind a large  _____ ,  each carried a sword. The Germans were caught betwee     
[006] it them.  The wheel of one chariot hit the corner of a  _____ , and the  chariot turned over. Another driver, close b     
[007] He was carrying only a  short sword and a round silver  _____ . He had no armor or  helmet.  Among the crowd that day     
[008] d tiger but he  still had enough strength to throw his  _____  up at Tigris. It hit  Tigris hard on the face guard of     
[009] le of Athene, where he exchanged  his own armour for a  _____  which, according to legend, had  been used in the Troj     
[010] , had  been used in the Trojan War. With his beautiful  _____  from  the Age of Heroes, he went to rejoin his army as     
[011]  defeated  his attackers, then carried him away on his  _____ , but they  had little hope that he would live.  The Ma     
[012] ated a square in Rome to look like  Alexander's famous  _____ . The French ruler Napoleon used  to read about Alexand     
[013] iffs, a kind of  Bryce  Canyon by the sea, effectively  _____  the beach from the sight  and sound of two parallel tr     
[014] kes to do our repairs. We have to  make a new starship  _____ , you see, as the  old one was destroyed when something     
[015]  us would  burn up the ship immediately. So we carry a  _____  about a  kilometre ahead of us, and let that get  burn     
[016] freeze it and  shape it, and turn it into a travelling  _____  for the starship. In  a  few days the ship would be re     
[017] rough television cameras, the making of the great  ice  _____  that would ride ahead of the  Magellan on its way to t     
[018] rd  from another side. Each man marched behind a large  _____ ,  each carried a sword. The Germans were caught betwee     
[019] it them.  The wheel of one chariot hit the corner of a  _____ , and the  chariot turned over. Another driver, close b     
[020] He was carrying only a  short sword and a round silver  _____ . He had no armor or  helmet.  Among the crowd that day     
[021] d tiger but he  still had enough strength to throw his  _____  up at Tigris. It hit  Tigris hard on the face guard of     
[022] le of Athene, where he exchanged  his own armour for a  _____  which, according to legend, had  been used in the Troj     
[023] , had  been used in the Trojan War. With his beautiful  _____  from  the Age of Heroes, he went to rejoin his army as     
[024]  defeated  his attackers, then carried him away on his  _____ , but they  had little hope that he would live.  The Ma     
[025] ated a square in Rome to look like  Alexander's famous  _____ . The French ruler Napoleon used  to read about Alexand     


	
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[001]  the  ravine. I  dropped my bag among the  flowers and  _____  at the  edge of the pool. The sun was hot on my back.      
[002]  - the broken  back door. It was Jeremy.  'Philip!' He  _____  down beside me. 'Your face! You've  got blood everywhe     
[003] ront door bell rang again. The visitor was Clare.  She  _____  beside me and said, 'This isn't a fall, is it?  Someon     
[004]  with me  and we got him outside. I  shut the door and  _____  on the ground. My chest hurt as I  breathed the  dean      
[005] ees to ask for God's help in Finding  the truth. Silas  _____  with them, sure  that God would prove his honesty. The     
[006]  grass had been  pulled away from one corner of it. He  _____  down and, using  his pocket-knife, dug away some more      
[007]  to light her stove. But  the wood would not burn. She  _____  down and blew and  blew. The smoke blew into her eyes      
[008] ts, but they did not  help.  Every night she and Chike  _____  down together and asked  God to help them through this     
[009] een carpet  looked a  dierent colour. I went over  and  _____  down near it:  the carpet was wet and there was a stro     
[010] didn't move. 'Oh, my God, I believe he's dead.  '  She  _____  down and rolled him onto his  back. She sat in the dus     
[011] n't know. I never saw  anyone unconscious before.' She  _____  down,  put her arm under the boy's head, and poured br     
[012] s so  grateful to the god of love that she could  have  _____  down and  thanked him. Did Father Bertrand not say in      
[013] all. He was breathing heavily.  The doctor went in and  _____  down by the body. The body  was covered with bruises,      
[014]  open,  looking at the sky. George Ashton was dead.  I  _____  there in the snow thinking how badly I had done my  jo     
[015]  the  ravine. I  dropped my bag among the  flowers and  _____  at the  edge of the pool. The sun was hot on my back.      
[016]  - the broken  back door. It was Jeremy.  'Philip!' He  _____  down beside me. 'Your face! You've  got blood everywhe     
[017] ront door bell rang again. The visitor was Clare.  She  _____  beside me and said, 'This isn't a fall, is it?  Someon     
[018]  with me  and we got him outside. I  shut the door and  _____  on the ground. My chest hurt as I  breathed the  dean      
[019] ees to ask for God's help in Finding  the truth. Silas  _____  with them, sure  that God would prove his honesty. The     
[020]  grass had been  pulled away from one corner of it. He  _____  down and, using  his pocket-knife, dug away some more      
[021]  to light her stove. But  the wood would not burn. She  _____  down and blew and  blew. The smoke blew into her eyes      
[022] ts, but they did not  help.  Every night she and Chike  _____  down together and asked  God to help them through this     
[023] een carpet  looked a  dierent colour. I went over  and  _____  down near it:  the carpet was wet and there was a stro     
[024] didn't move. 'Oh, my God, I believe he's dead.  '  She  _____  down and rolled him onto his  back. She sat in the dus     
[025] n't know. I never saw  anyone unconscious before.' She  _____  down,  put her arm under the boy's head, and poured br