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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] im in the  fog. He  was walking very fast, and had the  _____  of his coat turned  up. He had a bag in his hand. Dori     
[002] re is in front of me now. I am  wearing a heavy, white  _____ . My thick suit fits me tightly,  from my neck to below     
[003]  smiled warmly. He was wearing  a dark suit and a high  _____ . He never seemed to look  natural  when he was dressed     
[004]  poor child do against all this? He was pulled  by his  _____  through the narrow streets.  Night came. At Mr Brownlo     
[005]  figuratively. With  some, it's not figurative. 'White- _____  boot camp,'  summarizes  Douglas Troutman, 27, a forme     
[006] g the  leading  exponent of what Macintyre calls 'wing- _____  crime.' He  never  disposed of his most famous theft,      
[007] dge. If someone isn't breathing, you must  undo  their  _____   and give them artificial respiration, and I think  mo     
[008] e undid the top button of his shirt and loosened  his   _____ . 'Blasted                                                  
[009]                                             . 'Blasted  _____ 's too tight, I must be gaining weight,'  Bond  thought     
[010] s head was bent to one side and his face  was white.  ' _____  bone,' he said, crossly. 'Could you possibly drive me      
[011] hurt!'  'It's not bad,' I said quickly. 'It's just his  _____  bone.'  I went outside and told Steve. 'Why?' he asked     
[012] me to come,' I said. 'He can't drive, because of  his   _____  bone. I'm so sorry about  the house.'  Mrs Millace ope     
[013] tay still for a moment, you've got an insect  on  your  _____ .'  She reached over and hit the back of his neck light     
[014] nge.  One of his eyes was  almost shut, and his  shirt  _____  was in a terrible state.  'You've been in a fight,' I      
[015] right, Wendy,' he  said, and Wendy took Charlie by the  _____  and pulled him  back to the kitchen. 'That's quick! I      
[016]  'Donald!' she cried once more, taking Charlie by the   _____ ;  but Woods was out of the back door.  He ran around t     
[017] imes and produced these bruises.' She  pulled down her  _____  to show large bruises on the side of  her  neck.  Wend     
[018] ack and dressed in a black suit  with a priest's white  _____ . He took the manuscript from its  hiding place and pac     
[019] er, put  her down on to the floor, and held her by the  _____ . He  shook her.  Try again,' he ordered.  She tried. A     
[020] im in the  fog. He  was walking very fast, and had the  _____  of his coat turned  up. He had a bag in his hand. Dori     
[021] re is in front of me now. I am  wearing a heavy, white  _____ . My thick suit fits me tightly,  from my neck to below     
[022]  smiled warmly. He was wearing  a dark suit and a high  _____ . He never seemed to look  natural  when he was dressed     
[023]  poor child do against all this? He was pulled  by his  _____  through the narrow streets.  Night came. At Mr Brownlo     


	
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[001] dier, and his orders  had come from the top. He had to  _____ .  Quintus ... promise me you'll look after my family,"     
[002] ent to do this he whispered softly, "I'm  a soldier. I  _____ ."  Someone was walking toward them. Quintus stood up a     
[003] mrade Doctor,' said the oldest of the three.  'If  you  _____  orders, you will be perfectly safe. If you don't, it's     
[004] , but make her come with me,' said  Komarovsky.  'I'll  _____  you for Lara's sake. I know that we'll be separated  s     
[005] uthorities, must carry only his own hunting gun, must   _____   the instructions of the police corporal. But how do y     
[006]  our friends, our family, and  others  - those whom we  _____  and those whom we love. More than  that, we have to me     
[007] robbing and  murdering, made the local Malays fear and  _____  him. They  could not get away, because they had nowher     
[008] e much.  Harold Osborne had told me that I must always  _____  Victor  Briggs. I  was Harold's jockey and  I needed t     
[009] e oldest, and you'll be the  Squire one day, I have to  _____  you. So what do you want?'  Just listen, will you?' re     
[010] dly, to see young Townsend again. And I expect you to   _____  me.'  Do you wish to murder your child?' Mrs Penniman      
[011] told her niece.  Catherine could not decide whether to  _____  her father's  wishes or not. She wrote to Morris and a     
[012] rried like a man who  is called by the gods... He must  _____ , or be lost for  ever.  The children watched him go. E     
[013] the doctor reattach my  arm to the pulley. I  hated to  _____  the doctor, but I was glad to be lying down.  The doct     
[014]  to go back  into the shed,  but his muscles would not  _____  the orders of his  mind. Suddenly Teesdale had an idea     
[015] ating! I'll pull that  long hair of yours if you don't  _____  me at once!' 'It is long,'  said Edgar. I'm surprised      
[016] er she wants, and don't  make her angry!' So we had to  _____  all her orders, and  Joseph and I were not allowed to      
[017] bade her to visit  Wuthering Heights again. She had to  _____  her father,  although it made her very sad.  Well, Mr      
[018] r you!' 'If you hit me, Hareton will hit you. He won't  _____   you any more, and soon he'll hate you as much as I do     
[019] aturally, you see.'  'Naturally! Yes, but it is God we  _____ , not nature! Miss  Temple, that  girl's hair must be c     
[020] very bad use of my  experience! But  will you agree to  _____  my orders anyway?'  I thought, 'He is peculiar, he's f     
[021] ar, he's forgotten that he's paying me  L30 a  year to  _____  his orders,' and I said, 'Not many  masters bother to      
[022] y at any time, and leave me. I need a wife, who  will   _____   me in life, and who will stay with me until death.  I     
[023] d and gasped with  the eort of trying to make his legs  _____  his commands, and  with the cruel pain that was creepi     
[024] dier, and his orders  had come from the top. He had to  _____ .  Quintus ... promise me you'll look after my family,"     
[025] ent to do this he whispered softly, "I'm  a soldier. I  _____ ."  Someone was walking toward them. Quintus stood up a     


	
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[001]  welcomed him as 'Son of  Zeus'. Was this just a Greek  _____  of the Pharaoh's  tide,  Son of Amun? Or had they hear     
[002]  to T. S. Eliot, Walt  Whitman and Edward FitzGerald's  _____  of 'The  Rubaiyat of  Omar Khayyam.' As Lorde's 'Colle     
[003] mes a  week. I write the English word first, then  the  _____ , and  a short sentence as an example. I try to learn t     
[004] nd was back home in Sibiu. In a preface to the  French  _____ , he wrote: The capital phenomenon, the  most  catastro     
[005] ays Robert, a  pathologist who finds the discipline of  _____  surprisingly  congenial. 'My wife's very grateful to y     
[006] he concerns of literary  fashions. His last book was a  _____  of some sonnets by  Mallarm (whose work preoccupied Co     
[007] s entanglements of totalitarian bureaucracy. To get a   _____  from Ptydepe, for example, you need an  authorisation      
[008]   His Giacomo Leopardi (1954) was followed by a verse   _____   of that poet's Canti (1962) and an edition of them fo     
[009] ing from stylish and  selfish to  open and authentic. ( _____ : we've read all about Court-  ney  Pine in Arena.) Thu     
[010]  welcomed him as 'Son of  Zeus'. Was this just a Greek  _____  of the Pharaoh's  tide,  Son of Amun? Or had they hear     


	
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[001] iredly, crossing the room towards my bed.  'I've got a  _____  to make,' she said, and I turned to look  at her.  'A      
[002]  to make,' she said, and I turned to look  at her.  'A  _____ ?' I repeated, beginning to feel worried.  She sat down     
[003]  a literary hybrid, a vivid and variegated book.  Part  _____ , part memoir, part social and sexual history  of  the      
[004] e problem that  faced him.  But one thing that Simon's  _____  meant was that Brat  could not go  on with his life at     
[005] can I  talk to  you, just between ourselves, a sort of  _____ ? I  mean, without your feeling that you must do someth     
[006] evenson to his death, and he  almost killed  me.'  The  _____  of Charles Linkworth.  Doctor Teesdale visited the con     
[007] t then, you see, in  wouldn't want to.'  This innocent  _____  had a surprising eect on Reuben.  He pushed his face f     
[008] to hear your hateful confessions.'  It isn't a hateful  _____ . It's a love-story, in fact the most  beautiful story.     
[009] s no reason to keep  silent. It was a sort of deathbed  _____ . I asked him  about  Mayberry's attack on Gillian. 8       
[010] of mine, if your pride had not been hurt by my honest   _____  of my reasons for not proposing to you earlier.  Perha     
[011] ing her sister. But his terrible pride, his shameless   _____  of what he had done to separate Jane and  Bingley, and     
[012] iredly, crossing the room towards my bed.  'I've got a  _____  to make,' she said, and I turned to look  at her.  'A      
[013]  to make,' she said, and I turned to look  at her.  'A  _____ ?' I repeated, beginning to feel worried.  She sat down     


	
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[001]  woes. Having lost market share to competitors such as  _____   Inc.,  J. Crew and Guess Inc., Esprit is making a maj     
[002] the  plight of  those on low incomes, produces its own  _____  between the  Islington  Blair-band that watch and list     
[003] ere funny  about it  because there was a four-year age  _____  - she was 16. It was  my  first relationship. It was s     
[004] s a foreign language. TEFL, formerly  the  preserve of  _____  year students and green graduates  garnering  'charact     
[005]  way forward. 'We see ourselves filling a  significant  _____  in the independent sector, where there are not  suffic     
[006] e says. Two-term  courses  attracted students taking a  _____  year and graduates who had  found  that a degree alone     
[007] arb. But how far  can  they take this? Examples of the  _____  between popular  attitudes and  the traditional teachi     
[008] n you do. But failure to make the  gesture can  open a  _____  of disappointment; images then may register,  perhaps      
[009] s were made. To some extent he enjoyed school but the   _____   between him and the other children was clear. 'What d     


	
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[001] this morning  was that kiss. Lisa was moving about the  _____  getting  dressed, but I just lay there in bed, running     
[002] ou coming to Lamanai?' Lisa asked me, standing at  the  _____  door with her bag.  I sat up in bed. 'Oh, er. . . yes,     
[003] had seen him. Several times he had said he was  coming  _____  each time something had happened to. stop the  visit.      
[004] that:  She went away with the young woman. There was a  _____  on  the bank of the river, and the women changed there     
[005] e was saying something nice  about me. She went to the  _____ . Soon the others came out of  the river. We had to wai     
[006] e for the ladies. But at  last  Marian came out of the  _____ , still holding her hair in front of her.  'Oh, I shall     
[007] denly I saw something which made me shake.  It was the  _____  where the deadly nightshade grew. And the  deadly nigh     
[008]  out of the door! The tree had  grown so much that the  _____  could not hold it.  We stopped at the door and looked      
[009] wn to a great height because there was no  roof on the  _____ . Some of the branches had grown higher than  the walls     
[010] o leave the place. But at last I  turned away from the  _____ . And at that moment we heard the  voffices.  One of th     
[011] s and leaves.  They held my hand. If I went inside the  _____ , I would learn its  secret, and it would learn mine. I     
[012]  dierent from any other day.  I was ahead to visit the  _____  where I had killed the deadly  nightshade. (I knew tha     
[013] listen to me  but hurried forward. Then we reached the  _____  where I had  killed the deadly nightshade. The broken      
[014]   lying on the path. She stopped and looked inside the  _____ .  'Not here,' she said, moving away, 'but here, perhap     
[015] roducts of greatness.    At the Be Hop Barter-Exchange  _____  o' Pancakes, I have to  provide  something of value in     
[016]  in squalor, as many as  eight people crowded into one  _____ , enduring malnutrition and  outbreaks of cholera, meas     
[017]  my bag, and turned to go. Then I saw  the  shepherd's  _____ . It stood in a  corner of the field under  the rocks.      
[018] ne sound, I  will kill you!' He  pushed me towards the  _____ . 'Inside!' he ordered.  The                                
[019]                           . 'Inside!' he ordered.  The  _____  was extremely dirty. In the far corner a man was lying     
[020]  path all the way? Does it come straight here? To  the  _____ ?'  This was Lambis, and his  voffice was sharp.  'No,'     
[021] , to the cup, to Mark, to the cup again, then left the  _____   without  a word.  'You're quite a girl, aren't you?'      
[022] ,  caught at my heart.  I turned quickly, and left the  _____ , with Lambis behind  me.  Murder  I will go first,' La     
[023] rst,' Lambis said.  When we could not be seen from the  _____ , I said, 'Lambis, one  moment.'  He turned unwillingly     
[024]  The place he chose was a wide shelf of rock above the  _____ . I  sat down  at the back of it. Lambis  lay full leng     
[025] to  take Mark back to the  boat, so when he found the   _____ , he carried Mark there. But Lambis had not been able t     


	
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[001] rated  and nonrated bonds, the bottom of the junk bond  _____ . The  appetite for junk's junk has been huge: at $9 bi     
[002] rete wharf. The driver of  the  crane was trapped in a  _____  of  metal, and the police  ran to help. An ugly sight.     
[003] n with blue eyes.  'That's Niels Grafalk. He owns that  _____  of metal.'0  Niels Grafalk, the man I wanted to see. I     
[004]  dreamed that Thornfield was totally destroyed, just a  _____   of  stones. I was still carrying the child, but now I     
[005] a fine,  impressive house, was nothing but a blackened  _____  of  stones with  the silence of death about it. No won     


	
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[001] re, in front. of me, was a  haystack with a convenient  _____  beside it.  I climbed the                                  
[002]                              beside it.  I climbed the  _____  to the top of the haystack and then threw  myself down     
[003] dows and only one  entrance  - a hatch high up, with a  _____  up to it. It was a plain wooden  building, made out of     
[004]  make noises. A few minutes later, Father  climbed the  _____  and disappeared through the hatch.  'I hope it's safe      
[005] became quieter. He went over  to  Fat Boy, climbed the  _____  and did some work on the hatch.  When he came back dow     
[006] .  '  He led them over to Fat Boy. They climbed up the  _____  and  went in through the hatch.  .    Father woke me a     
[007] pletely with this piece of wood. Can you climb up the   _____  and do it, without making a sound?' 'I think so,' I sa     
[008] Then he led an attack on the  city walls. He climbed a  _____  and jumped down inside the  city. But the enemy manage     
[009] the enemy managed to break the rest of the  Macedonian  _____  and only three of his bodyguards were  able to follow      
[010] h a hole  in the ceiling. You had to climb up a steep   _____  to go to the  shower and toilet - if you happened to s     
[011] etimes  I carry heavy loads up to the next floor  on a  _____ ! This is  not safe. How long until I have a serious in     
[012] ence  are tempted to accuse me of saying, 'Pull up the  _____ ,  Jack,  I'm alright', I went through university befor     
[013] outed. 'And bring me a  ruler, Tom. And Jim, I  need a  _____  - and a kitchen chair, too. Maria, you stay here  to h     
[014] out, and in the end the keeper  came. He  climbed up a  _____ , and he  called to them,  'Wait, there! I'll come and      
[015]  smooth,  she was huge. I followed Sheridan up a steel  _____   attached to her  side.  We met Captain Bemis on the b     
[016] m could  have fallen in unnoticed. I climbed the steel  _____  to the  deck,  where twenty people moved  busily aroun     
[017] n dust. The Lucella was loading. I climbed the  steel   _____  to the main deck. I  stopped to look at the  men worki     
[018] ty I went back to Wharf 67 and once more  climbed  the  _____  to the Lucella's  main deck.  The grain was loaded and     
[019]  Shouts came from inside the hold.  I started down the  _____  into the hold and Bledsoe  followed. Six or  seven men     
[020] et the police over here.'8  Bledsoe followed me up the  _____  to the deck and off the  ship. We  used the Plymouth o     
[021] ale brown  hairs caught in the deck at  the top of the  _____ .  I pulled out the hairs and put them in a little plas     
[022] tly around, looking to see if I could find a rope or a  _____   or something else to help. There was nothing. I went      
[023] re, in front. of me, was a  haystack with a convenient  _____  beside it.  I climbed the                                  
[024]                              beside it.  I climbed the  _____  to the top of the haystack and then threw  myself down     
[025] dows and only one  entrance  - a hatch high up, with a  _____  up to it. It was a plain wooden  building, made out of     


	
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[001]  - and because Mr. Read does not want to take  actual   _____  of live pigs and 42-gallon drums of oil - the fund  wo     
[002] he file on  sales  in France? I  just need to check on  _____  arrangements.  Oh,  and Anita I'd love a cup of  coffe     
[003] ng, when the  bread is made I carry it  all out to the  _____  van.  Sometimes  I carry heavy loads up to the next fl     
[004] ame signalling of long-term intent,  but opportunistic  _____  of short-term popularity, has  influenced his health p     
[005] s not confined  to his own students. He loved dramatic  _____  of a carefully  prepared lecture (whether by others or     
[006] e contracts again. 'No. Either they  promised  earlier  _____ , or they  offered lower prices.'6  'My other question      
[007]   letter 'P'. There was a Paula, the number of a pizza  _____   service and... Pete. There were two numbers listed fo     


	
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[001]  the White  House  raking in millions from Asians with  _____  to grind.    The D. C. Public Charter School Board, es     
[002]  dog sleds groaning under the  weight of tents and ice  _____  and boxes of dried beef. It  connects  me to the Okies