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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.
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[001]  gave her an egg.  The Doll's House  When dear old Mrs  _____  went home after staying with the  Burnells, she sent t     
[002] y, the smell of paint (so sweet of dear,  generous Mrs  _____ !) - but the smell of paint was  so strong that it was      
[003] afternoon, as Adele was ill,  so I  decided to walk to  _____ , a village two miles away,  to post a letter for the h     
[004] an fetch someone either from  Thornfield Hall  or from  _____ ,' I offered.  'Thank you, but I don't need anyone. I h     
[005]  all afraid of  being  out at night. I'm just going to  _____  to post a letter, and I'll be  happy to take a message     
[006] the horse's back.  'Thank you, now take your letter to  _____ , then hurry home!' he  called as  he rode off into the     
[007]  his leg when his horse  slipped on ice on the road to  _____ .  Getting to know Mr Rochester  Thornfield Hall became     
[008] ke  magic in your face.  When I met you on the road to  _____  last night, I almost thought  you had  put a spell on      
[009] . It was a large  piece of wood that was buried in the  _____  on the ground. I  watched the blood as it rushed out f     
[010]  you like to play on the haystack? I've put some more   _____  at the bottom.'  'No, thank you.'  He looked round the     
[011] You can't  mean six o'clock.  At that time there'll be  _____  in your hair and dust on your  clothes! I can't meet y     
[012]  gave her an egg.  The Doll's House  When dear old Mrs  _____  went home after staying with the  Burnells, she sent t     
[013] y, the smell of paint (so sweet of dear,  generous Mrs  _____ !) - but the smell of paint was  so strong that it was      
[014] afternoon, as Adele was ill,  so I  decided to walk to  _____ , a village two miles away,  to post a letter for the h     
[015] an fetch someone either from  Thornfield Hall  or from  _____ ,' I offered.  'Thank you, but I don't need anyone. I h     
[016]  all afraid of  being  out at night. I'm just going to  _____  to post a letter, and I'll be  happy to take a message     
[017] the horse's back.  'Thank you, now take your letter to  _____ , then hurry home!' he  called as  he rode off into the     
[018]  his leg when his horse  slipped on ice on the road to  _____ .  Getting to know Mr Rochester  Thornfield Hall became     
[019] ke  magic in your face.  When I met you on the road to  _____  last night, I almost thought  you had  put a spell on      
[020] . It was a large  piece of wood that was buried in the  _____  on the ground. I  watched the blood as it rushed out f     
[021]  you like to play on the haystack? I've put some more   _____  at the bottom.'  'No, thank you.'  He looked round the     
[022] You can't  mean six o'clock.  At that time there'll be  _____  in your hair and dust on your  clothes! I can't meet y     


	
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[001] n asked quickly.  Frank Merriwell,' Rick told him, and  _____  an address.  All that money, he thought, as he hung up     
[002] worried him - had anyone seen him then? Anyway he  had  _____   a clever little lie to  protect himself. He  finished     
[003] , he should have simply laughed about it. Instead, he   _____   a long, complicated  explanation, which she  obviousl     
[004] icine, cars' - he hit the roof of the Mercedes - 'all   _____  by white men. Even football.' He paused for a  moment.     
[005] rom him,  she'll be all right.  That's why he suddenly  _____  that job in Australia for  you.'  'Just a minute! I do     
[006] n  containers to Jupiter IV, he had nothing to do.  He  _____  a programme of work for himself, but as  most of it co     
[007]  think and plan once more. During the war  someone had  _____  an underground bomb that did not  explode until the se     
[008] fer machine, and  used it together with the one he had  _____  for transferring  across time. With these two machines     
[009] m looking now at those faint signs and letters. I had   _____  the signs, and they did not mean anything at all. But      
[010] ame was. Mr Bumble, an important officer  in the town,  _____  a name for the baby. He chose the  name Oliver Twist.      
[011] ern world's earliest works of history.  Philosophy was  _____  in Greece, and the work of Plato  and Aristotle is sti     
[012]   over one hundred and  sixty countries. The drink was  _____  by Dr John  Pemberton in  Atlanta, on 8 May 1886, but      
[013]   ***   NYLON - THE FIRST MAN-  MADE  FIBRE Nylon was   _____  in the early 1930s by an  American  chemist, Julian Hi     
[014] all my life  is  inseparable from what I have lived. I  _____  nothing. I've  been  the one and only secretary of my      
[015] Chih (fl. c732) and another T'ang scholar, Ta Yu, who   _____  a  new form of encyclopaedic institutional history, th     
[016] ften seen as pure fantasy. To her annoyance, Gollancz   _____  a  new category, 'Fantasy & Macabre', when they publis     
[017] ith not more than nine letters in an alphabet we have   _____ .'  And you have been doing this for three centuries?'      
[018] ing - God,  Allah, Jehovah, and so on - are just names  _____  by  humans. There are certain problems in  these ideas     
[019] n asked quickly.  Frank Merriwell,' Rick told him, and  _____  an address.  All that money, he thought, as he hung up     
[020] worried him - had anyone seen him then? Anyway he  had  _____   a clever little lie to  protect himself. He  finished     
[021] , he should have simply laughed about it. Instead, he   _____   a long, complicated  explanation, which she  obviousl     
[022] icine, cars' - he hit the roof of the Mercedes - 'all   _____  by white men. Even football.' He paused for a  moment.     
[023] rom him,  she'll be all right.  That's why he suddenly  _____  that job in Australia for  you.'  'Just a minute! I do     
[024] n  containers to Jupiter IV, he had nothing to do.  He  _____  a programme of work for himself, but as  most of it co     
[025]  think and plan once more. During the war  someone had  _____  an underground bomb that did not  explode until the se     


	
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[001] ve lost the fight already! You aren't a man, you're a   _____ !' 'So that,' said Heathcli, pointing at Mr Edgar, 'is      
[002] now lived in the  pleasantest of the three,  number 1,  _____  Place, facing the River Thames. One of  the  others ha     
[003] le nose.'  Later that evening they all drove away from  _____  Place in  Mrs Smiling's car. Bikki was plain and  thir     
[004] g might say, 'I told you so.'  And indeed, far away in  _____  Place, Mrs Smiling was at  that moment reading with so     
[005] o a suit, and  packed her bags, which would be sent to  _____  Place  tomorrow. She was taking with her only The  Tho     
[006] ink we ought to go, darling.  Mary's waiting for us at  _____  Place. What  do you think? We  can talk when we get th     
[007]  you remember how the other children  used to call her  _____ ? And now she's married this man  and is going to live      
[008]   young. Why is she so determined - not like my little  _____   at all?'  Mr Holding patted his wife's hand comfortin     
[009]  caused trouble, but luckily she was quiet and shy. A   _____  of a woman, he thought. She annoyed him because  she s     
[010] yes made him wonder why he had ever thought she was a   _____  of a woman.  'Captain. Look at me!' she said, her voff     
[011] e faces looked  surprised, as if they had just heard a  _____  shout. Alice was  embarrassed, but she sat still, and      
[012] ered with dust, and there were holes in the carpet. A   _____  ran across the floor.  'So you think that it is only G     
[013]  given up the fight, but he was like a cat watching a   _____ . He could see they were young and their armor was  sti     
[014] g!" said Commodus. "Even Gracchus was  as  silent as a  _____ . Why?" He stopped and looked out his  window over Rome     
[015] t fight a judge's order to turn over  excerpts of main  _____  Michael Eisner's unpublished  memoirs to  former studi     
[016] earing a  fake-fur G-string, rubber boots and a Mickey  _____  mask.    ** NOW REAL OMAN ONE    My grandfather is nin     
[017] n characters from  Disney movies, like Pluto and Micky  _____  and Goofy,  come up to  you and offer to talk, which t     
[018] er - I like to tap away on the  keyboard and click the  _____ . My least favourite is  secretarial  stuff - I find  i     
[019] good.'  'Oh, it's all right,' I said.  As I went up, a  _____  suddenly ran out in front of me. It was  carrying  a v     
[020] he windmill.' I told her  what I had seen. 'It was the  _____ ! That was why I looked for  the  bread. Frances, I'll      
[021] ve lost the fight already! You aren't a man, you're a   _____ !' 'So that,' said Heathcli, pointing at Mr Edgar, 'is      
[022] now lived in the  pleasantest of the three,  number 1,  _____  Place, facing the River Thames. One of  the  others ha     
[023] le nose.'  Later that evening they all drove away from  _____  Place in  Mrs Smiling's car. Bikki was plain and  thir     
[024] g might say, 'I told you so.'  And indeed, far away in  _____  Place, Mrs Smiling was at  that moment reading with so     
[025] o a suit, and  packed her bags, which would be sent to  _____  Place  tomorrow. She was taking with her only The  Tho     


	
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[001] k to other people anywhere on Earth just by pushing a   _____  on a computer, most of the  need for cities was gone.      
[002]  she so hard?' asked Mrs Penniman.  She doesn't care a  _____  for me,' said Morris. He stood for  a moment, with his     
[003] enly realized. With his foot he touched the  emergency  _____  on the fioor of his car.  My laser's not firing,' Kada     
[004] play a noise  or show a light and the suspect pushes a  _____ . We  measure the time of the reaction. Then we can do      
[005] y very much.  He stretched out his legs, played with a  _____  on his jacket  and looked around the room. But it didn     
[006] ied the bandage round my ankle  and was  fastening the  _____  on my  raincoat when there  was a knock on the front d     
[007] e got up and moved back to his  own seat. He pressed a  _____  and spoke to the Chief  Engineer.  'Jacks,' he said, '     
[008] disappeared onto the railway lines as Tom pressed  the  _____  above the toilet. For a few seconds he could still  he     
[009]  phone. She took a deep breath and pressed the memory   _____ . Hiroshi's number.  It was morning in Japan. Hiroshi w     
[010] d the bottle against Joyce's foot and pressed a  small  _____ . She didn't move.  'That should stop the poison. Now s     
[011]  sun. Then she picked up her  video-disk and pressed a  _____ . She spoke softly. 'Hi.  I'm in Mungwi. I'm just outsi     
[012] tor stopped at six. The man hadn't pushed an  elevator  _____ . When I stepped out and turned right, he  followed me.     
[013] y fragrant cohesive mass. A platter of apple  wedges,   _____  mushrooms, carrot slices and broccoli florets was  bro     
[014]  being the 90's, no one is irreplaceable: push another  _____   and  a brand-new critter pops to life.    Mr. (Frank)     
[015] et's  virtual death (which can be undone via the reset  _____ ), and  Toys 'R Us reports that each new shipment of th     
[016] nd his  hands were shaking  slightly. He undid the top  _____  of his shirt and loosened  his  collar. 'Blasted colla     
[017] ther to look  after  our world or, with the push of  a  _____ , destroy it.  ***    Travelling by train has many adva     
[018] a headache,  you can just catch the lift and push the   _____  for the nearest  floor that has a drugstore, buy some      
[019] l cliches are piling up. Peter York presses the  pause  _____  on some standard images of the electronic age     By P     
[020] k to other people anywhere on Earth just by pushing a   _____  on a computer, most of the  need for cities was gone.      
[021]  she so hard?' asked Mrs Penniman.  She doesn't care a  _____  for me,' said Morris. He stood for  a moment, with his     
[022] enly realized. With his foot he touched the  emergency  _____  on the fioor of his car.  My laser's not firing,' Kada     
[023] play a noise  or show a light and the suspect pushes a  _____ . We  measure the time of the reaction. Then we can do      
[024] y very much.  He stretched out his legs, played with a  _____  on his jacket  and looked around the room. But it didn     
[025] ied the bandage round my ankle  and was  fastening the  _____  on my  raincoat when there  was a knock on the front d     


	
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[001] ank,' he explained.  Harris, who is sometimes a little  _____ , said, 'Ah! And now  you're  going to have a bad time      
[002] d her for a moment and kissed  her. You won't think me  _____ ?' he said.  The question filled Catherine with fear, b     
[003] aughter miserable?'  I accept that she will think I am  _____  for a year.'  A year!' said Morris, with a laugh.  For     
[004] hard on the young man.  Lavinia thinks I am being very  _____ ,' said the Doctor.  And how is Catherine taking it?' s     
[005] hoose. But if you see him, you will be an  ungrateful,  _____  child; and you will give  your old  father the greates     
[006]  was silent for a while. Do you think that he will be   _____  to you for ever? That he will never  change  his mind      
[007] he will hate  her for his disappointment, and will be   _____  to  her. The poor girl will have a miserable life.'  B     
[008] d wanted  to get away from her; he had been angry and   _____ ,  and said strange things, with strange looks. She tri     
[009]  you that has taken him from me? How  could  you be so  _____ ? What have I ever done to you?'  You are a most ungrat     
[010] id Catherine.  You mean you don't care? You are rather  _____ , after playing  with him for so long.'  The Doctor had     
[011] h of his property. Mrs Penniman  thought that this was  _____  and unjust,  but  Catherine was neither surprised nor      
[012]   that he was not Patrick? Perhaps Simon was playing a  _____   game, like  boys who liked pulling wings off flies.       
[013]  opened her eyes, she  saw  Okoboshi. He was smiling a  _____ , unfriendly smile and he  smelt of whisky. Suddenly Ak     
[014] he ached all over. Just then  Okoboshi woke and gave a  _____  laugh.  'You'll have a busy day today, my educated bri     
[015]  know how  long - a  judge lived there. He was a hard,  _____  judge, sir real  hanging judge. He showed no mercy to      
[016] ove. It showed its great  white teeth angrily, and its  _____  eyes shone mercilessly in the  lamplight.  'Why, you'      
[017] w see it  quite  clearly.  It showed a judge. He had a  _____ , clever, merciless face,  with a big  curved nose and      
[018]  stared at Moore. There was a smile of triumph  on his  _____  mouth. Slowly he lifted up a black hat. Moore's  heart     
[019] udge's eyes never left Moore's.  Moore stared into the  _____  eyes, like a bird watching a  cat. He saw  the Judge c     
[020] chael's birthday was that day,  October 2nd!  Fate was  _____  to  Anne.'  'I thought you didn't believe in fate, sir     
[021]   'How I hate my brother Hindley!' it began. 'He is so  _____  to  poor Heathcli. If only my father hadn't died! Whil     
[022] child's face looking in at the window.  Terror made me  _____ . I rubbed the creature's tiny wrist  against the broke     
[023] e great friends, but Hindley hated  him, and was often  _____  to him. Old Mr Earnshaw was  strangely fond of this gi     
[024] li!' she cried, catching hold of his  hands.  'But how  _____  of you to run away and keep silent for four  years, an     
[025] s arms again. No one could have separated  them.  'How  _____  you've been to me, Catherine!' he cried wildly.  'You      


	
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[001] t for  that day  said, 'Rain, cold, wet to  fine, some  _____ ,  and an east wind'. But weather reports make me angry     
[002]  always  wrong. On Monday it said,  'Heavy rain, with   _____ '. So we did not go out that day. All day people  passe     
[003] 'She'll stop at  Pittsburgh, then Detroit,  then on to  _____  Bay. She won't be back in Chicago for  two weeks.'  I      
[004]   showed more3  than one carrier. For example, I found  _____  Bay to St  Catharines  on 15 June via Grafalk  Steamsh     
[005]  Star Line and found out that the Lucella would be in   _____  Bay  - Canada's  westernmost port on Lake  Superior -      
[006] ooked a flight from  Chicago to Toronto and then on to  _____  Bay that  afternoon. I  packed jeans and a shirt, and      
[007]  bright modern airport, I boarded  the small  plane to  _____  Bay.  We arrived at ten p. m.  We were a thousand kilo     
[008]  around? And what about Martin  Bledsoe?'  'They're in  _____  Bay this morning. They won't be back  until late  afte     
[009]  remembered  the figure swimming away from the ship at  _____  Bay.  That  was the person who had planted the explosi     
[010] d a seat on  it. Sault Ste Marie is  even smaller than  _____  Bay. A few private planes,  Cessnas and the  like, sto     
[011]  on  your plane?'  'I didn't. Cappy says I phoned from  _____  Bay and told  him to fly  someone back to  Chicago. Bu     
[012] uddenly there was lightning, followed by the crash of   _____ .  'Good thing the storm's come,' said Jo. 'I've been f     
[013] and.  Every minute the lightning grew brighter and the  _____   sounded nearer. I got up and went over to the  kid, w     
[014] arm. The kid did not make a sound.  We listened to the  _____ . Then the rain began to fall, hitting  the iron roof l     
[015] wels. Outside  there was a  sudden, deafening crash of  _____ . The Judge raised  his noose again, while the rats ran     
[016] und the  house. Suddenly there was a terrible crash of  _____ , and  the branch of a tree fell on to the roof. We wer     
[017] hop, and was looking at Flora with a face as black as   _____ .  'Wicked woman!' he cried, pointing at her.  'No, rea     
[018] ea!'  The crowd exploded with anger, their shouts like  _____ .  The posters were held high and waved backwards and       
[019] g wind was  now blowing and there was a loud  crack of  _____ .  Suddenly rain poured down, and although we hurried b     
[020] he plain became lighter. Then there  was a  noise like  _____ , and everything around us shook. A huge  object came d     
[021] it was diicult to talk with the noise  of the rain and  _____ . Suddenly there was a bang and all  the lights went ou     
[022] ainst my  small car.  And soon it became so dark, with  _____  and lightning all  around us, that I was driving along     
[023] , 'Scarlett, I wish you wouldn't -'  and it was like a  _____ -storm breaking!  'A baby,' he thought. 'She needs a ba     
[024] nch the sky was dark with clouds, and we all expected   _____ . Mrs Maudsley decided to wait for a quarter of an  hou     
[025] r a quarter of an  hour.  If then it still looked like  _____ , we would not go to Beeston  Castle. .  We were all st     


	
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[001] it when it  happened. I heard  something move in the3   _____  and stopped to see what it was. But I never heard  the     
[002] ed. 'He's the one in the dark  clothes,  hiding in the  _____ .'  Everyone but Susan laughed.  This was the third eve     
[003] later held their heads high and  didn't  walk near any  _____ .  Stan was amazed at how strong and confident Susan  s     
[004]  two  about looking  after herself. 1  A dark group of  _____  stood between her and her car. She  walked  confidentl     
[005] ht her to  use. Then, just as the man stepped past the  _____ , she  jumped behind  him so he couldn't see  her.  She     
[006] as a  path. On  either side of us were  high and solid  _____ .  A pale triangle showed on the path above - a triangl     
[007] ave seen him, and if he had raised himself  above the   _____ , one of us would  have seen him against .  . .'  He ta     
[008] , preaching-'  'Frightening the harmless birds off the  _____ , more like,'  interrupted Reuben crossly.  '-on market     
[009] h two pools  set  about with mango trees and flowering  _____ . But resort  towns  like Acapulco never die, they just     
[010] , down the steep side of the cli and  into some  thick  _____  at the  bottom, a long way below  the path. As he lay      
[011] it when it  happened. I heard  something move in the3   _____  and stopped to see what it was. But I never heard  the     
[012] ed. 'He's the one in the dark  clothes,  hiding in the  _____ .'  Everyone but Susan laughed.  This was the third eve     
[013] later held their heads high and  didn't  walk near any  _____ .  Stan was amazed at how strong and confident Susan  s     
[014]  two  about looking  after herself. 1  A dark group of  _____  stood between her and her car. She  walked  confidentl     
[015] ht her to  use. Then, just as the man stepped past the  _____ , she  jumped behind  him so he couldn't see  her.  She     
[016] as a  path. On  either side of us were  high and solid  _____ .  A pale triangle showed on the path above - a triangl     
[017] ave seen him, and if he had raised himself  above the   _____ , one of us would  have seen him against .  . .'  He ta     
[018] , preaching-'  'Frightening the harmless birds off the  _____ , more like,'  interrupted Reuben crossly.  '-on market     


	
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[001] hat it meant. Maximus gave  the  command and a flaming  _____  shot into the sky. Hundreds  more followed.  Thousands     
[002] ut onto the sand, smiling at him.  He noticed a broken  _____  in the sand and, as he fell to his  knees, he quickly      
[003] illed when Paris shot him in the heel  with a poisoned  _____ .  This was a story that Alexander had read from his ea     
[004] But when they reached their king,  he had a metre-long  _____  deep in his chest. They defeated  his attackers, then      
[005] uldn't see doing that and as a result never  loosed an  _____  at a deer, despite some opportunities. But  90  percen     
[006] over into  the design and dynamics of roller coasters.  _____  Dynamics,  which  thrived in the Cold War perfecting o     
[007] brave fighter, and was very skillful with the bow  and  _____ . Robin Hood's bow  was so strong, the story goes,  tha     
[008] soning him. In his dying moments, Robin shot a  final   _____  from his famous  bow, and asked Little John to bury  h     
[009] us  bow, and asked Little John to bury  him  where the  _____  landed.  ***   Interviewer:  How long have you  been       
[010] hat it meant. Maximus gave  the  command and a flaming  _____  shot into the sky. Hundreds  more followed.  Thousands     
[011] ut onto the sand, smiling at him.  He noticed a broken  _____  in the sand and, as he fell to his  knees, he quickly      
[012] illed when Paris shot him in the heel  with a poisoned  _____ .  This was a story that Alexander had read from his ea     
[013] But when they reached their king,  he had a metre-long  _____  deep in his chest. They defeated  his attackers, then      


	
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[001]  produce from a restaurant supplier, he sorts through   _____   baby lettuces, ruby berries and heirloom tomatoes to      
[002] -  making  looks at these gaps and the way they can be  _____ , both in  the  sense of sore and in the sense of delic