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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]  both thought  the  same of Mr and Mrs Elton and their  _____  to Harriet. It  seemed as if Harrier's eyes had sudden     
[002]  I choose not to."  Haken was surprised. Was this all,  _____ ? He looked to  Proximo for orders. Proximo made a sign     
[003]  said. Then he turned and  walked away. It was a great  _____  to turn his back on the  Emperor. The crowd were shock     
[004]  let him continue like this-every day he  adds another  _____ . It's like a bad dream." "Every day his  power is grea     
[005] s unhappy life had made him a quiet, sad boy, but the   _____  to his mother had upset him. He stared angrily at Noah     
[006] that jokes about mean Scotsmen in advertising are  an   _____  to the image of  their race. A case was put to  Strasb     
[007]   I pity you, sir, I do pity you.'  'Pity, Jane, is an  _____  from some people, but from you I  accept it as  the mo     
[008] wards me, but I could forgive him  anything except the  _____  to his father's memory.' Elizabeth  was fascinated, an     
[009] t as well ask why,  with so evident a wish to oend and  _____  me, you chose to  tell me that you loved me against yo     
[010]  both thought  the  same of Mr and Mrs Elton and their  _____  to Harriet. It  seemed as if Harrier's eyes had sudden     
[011]  I choose not to."  Haken was surprised. Was this all,  _____ ? He looked to  Proximo for orders. Proximo made a sign     
[012]  said. Then he turned and  walked away. It was a great  _____  to turn his back on the  Emperor. The crowd were shock     
[013]  let him continue like this-every day he  adds another  _____ . It's like a bad dream." "Every day his  power is grea     
[014] s unhappy life had made him a quiet, sad boy, but the   _____  to his mother had upset him. He stared angrily at Noah     


	
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[001] led trom her hand so roughly  that it almost broke her  _____ . Then she felt a hand at her  throat, and her dress wa     
[002] said. His voffice was cool but the hand he put on  her  _____  hurt.  'She said, 'Be kind to Captain Butler, he loves     
[003]   Scarlett told him.  He stared at her and dropped her  _____ . Suddenly he walked  across to the window. 'Is that al     
[004] l Blacks he carried a Bible in his kit bag and on his   _____  wore a sweatband decorated with a cross. Bernhard  Lan     
[005] re you, Lora?' Clyde's voffice asked crossly from the   _____  radio he had given her when she  agreed to marry him.      
[006]  moving. He wondered1  if he was dreaming. He felt his  _____ , and bent down and felt  his  legs. Then, with his wat     
[007]  of the shoe. Simon brought his  knife down on  Brat's  _____  and Brat shouted, but did not let go. He  pulled his r     
[008] t ankle, and his left hand was  holding  Simon's right  _____ .  Simon screamed and tried to pull away, but Brat hung     
[009] eamed and tried to pull away, but Brat hung on to  his  _____ .  He had a firm foothold, but Simon had nothing to hol     
[010]  hold  on to. He tore at the hand that was holding the  _____ , and Brat  suddenly took his right hand from Simon's a     
[011] right hand from Simon's ankle and caught  Simon's left  _____  with it. He was now holding Simon by both  wrists and      
[012]  lifted her hand to  hit me in the face. I  caught her  _____  and gently pushed her hand to her side.  'Who took you     
[013] w.  Terror made me cruel. I rubbed the creature's tiny  _____   against the broken glass so that blood poured down on     
[014] cli. He could not see me  I rubbed the creature's tiny  _____  against the broken glass.  behind the curtains, and cl     
[015] ed it  away from Hindley. The knife cut into Hindley's  _____ , and  blood poured out. Heathcli jumped into the kitch     
[016] ame back, Heathcli was  putting a bandage on Hindley's  _____ . Joseph was shocked  at  the sight of his master, and      
[017] ed his arm  Nudger saw  something blue and red  on his  _____ . A tattoo.  Which explained the long sleeved shirt.  '     
[018] led trom her hand so roughly  that it almost broke her  _____ . Then she felt a hand at her  throat, and her dress wa     
[019] said. His voffice was cool but the hand he put on  her  _____  hurt.  'She said, 'Be kind to Captain Butler, he loves     
[020]   Scarlett told him.  He stared at her and dropped her  _____ . Suddenly he walked  across to the window. 'Is that al     


	
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[001] '. Was this just a Greek translation of the Pharaoh's   _____ ,  Son of Amun? Or had they heard that Alexander's moth     
[002] n Atlanta,  Birmingham and  Nashville. The development  _____  that has swept across the  Florida  Panhandle has wash     
[003] tate schools are under-resourced  and  engulfed by the  _____  of India's growing population, which will  top a billi     
[004]  had written 'Thirty nine steps, I counted them - high  _____   at0. 17p. m.'  The first thing I learned was that war     
[005] and again,  'Thirty nine steps - I counted them - high  _____ , 10. 17 p. m.'  Whittaker clearly thought I had gone m     
[006] . Tomorrow was the day,  and it's somewhere where high  _____  is at 10. 17.'  'Perhaps they've already gone tonight,     
[007] know that we're after them.  Where can I get a book of  _____  Tables?'  Whittaker looked happier. 'It's a chance,' h     
[008] big room full of books and maps. We got a copy of the   _____  Tables, and I sat down and looked through it while the     
[009] no good. There were more than fifty places where  high  _____  was at 10. 17. We needed more information than  that.      
[010] ng England. There was no ship at 10. 17.  Why was high  _____  important? In a big harbour the                            
[011]                        important? In a big harbour the  _____   doesn't matter. It is only important in a small harbo     
[012] he sea.  One of these has thirty nine steps.  (2) High  _____  at 10. 17 p. m. A place where it is only possible  for     
[013] s only possible  for a ship to leave the coast at high  _____ .  (3) Probably not a harbour, but open coast with clis     
[014]  the east coast. Of course,  it's somewhere where high  _____  is at 10. 17 tomorrow night.  Who can we ask who knows     
[015] sort of  people who like to be private.'  I opened the  _____  Tables at Bradgate. High                                   
[016]                               Tables at Bradgate. High  _____  was at0. 27  on the 15th of June.  'This looks hopeful     
[017] ooks hopeful,' I cried. 'How can I find out when  high  _____  is at the Ru?'  'I can tell you that, sir,' said the s     
[018] ,' said the sailor. 'I used to go  fishing there. High  _____  is ten minutes before Bradgate.' I  closed  the book a     
[019] '. Was this just a Greek translation of the Pharaoh's   _____ ,  Son of Amun? Or had they heard that Alexander's moth     


	
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[001] ossibly be the same bird he had  seen before the first  _____  of battle? That seemed like a  hundred years ago. He s     
[002] y angry.  Lucilla watched him carefully waiting for an  _____ .  "I only did the things I had to do" said Commodus. '     
[003]  if something in his own  head was breaking.  Then the  _____  came. It filled the clearing with light that  made eve     
[004] d. 'Where's Father?' As if to  answer her question, an  _____  shook the air and flames  jumped out of the church win     
[005]  building when he was knocked down by the force of  an  _____ . He fell in the middle of the road, bleeding and  unco     
[006] mination of what they call 'the post-Watergate Ethics   _____ ' - one of my pet theories is that a tongue-twisting  t     
[007] is frenzied,  the  Mansions languid. And Hong Kong, an  _____  of girls in  miniskirts, boys in baggy hiphops and thi     
[008]  today by sporadic incidents of violence there and an   _____  in  the city of Banja Luka that killed one person and      
[009]  then went home. 'Suddenly there was a  flash  and  an  _____ . I don't know how it happened. Maybe the  gas  cooker      
[010] n electrical appliance like the washing  machine'. The  _____  caused a  small fire, which a helpful  neighbour - who     
[011] ------------------------    IND 24 JUN 95 / The degree  _____ : This is the summer  when  more - many more - people i     
[012] ailure.' At least part of the reason for the  apparent  _____  in pre-school courses is the guilt of  working  parent     
[013] ll of the room. From underneath the ground I heard an   _____ . The cli and the steps had been blown up.  The old man     
[014] arn.  Slowly he lifted his hand and gave the sign. The  _____   seemed to make no sound at all, and the  stones of th     
[015] ken ship lay still. 6  The air was quiet following the  _____ . My legs were  shaking. I rubbed the aching muscles of     
[016] wanted to  say something to him, but no words came. An  _____ .  Someone blew up a sixty thousand tonne ship. I saw       
[017]  windows shook violently.  Then the  sound of a heavy   _____  filled the air,  drowning out the noises of wind and f     
[018] . Maybe the storm had put out the lights,  caused the   _____ . Maybe.  I had an impression of great excitement down      
[019] been lights. I  turned  away from the window.  Another  _____  spun me back to it. It sounded nearer than  the  first     
[020]  robbed, and the chief of  police is dead! When  the7   _____  woke us, the general sent Ignati down to find out  wha     
[021] avely trying to repair the side rockets. There  was an  _____  that blew them all into space. That story  may be beli     
[022] g outside in the street.  'Help! Help! There's been an  _____  in Gergely utca. Help  everybody!' I ran out of the bu     
[023] he old buildings had broken, and that had  started the  _____ .  I took my handkerchief out and put it across my mout     
[024] the loud  noise of car alarms ringing - started by the  _____ .  I found I was walking on glass from all the broken w     
[025] worked there, and who  might have been inside when the  _____  happened. 'What  shall I do now?' I asked, feeling ver     


	
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[001] hasm that continues  to  separate contemporary musical  _____  from mainstream  popular  culture, from commercial rec     
[002]  who  constitute the Broadway and Off Broadway musical  _____   community, few answers emerged. But among the names       
[003] ser-lyricists; Ira  Weitzman, a prospector for musical  _____  talent; Garth  Drabinsky, a producer with deep pockets     
[004] Mr. Guettel nor Mr.  LaChiusa nor any of their musical  _____  contemporaries -  including composer-lyricist teams li     
[005]  through India.    The country is experiencing a movie  _____  building boom,  and  that is good news not only for pe     
[006] , if not hot, at least an interesting way to play  the  _____  building boom.  "This company really has the  ability      
[007] nd-rate form. By taking the  oblique  route to musical  _____ , a book writer - here, Sherman Yellen  -  sets himself     
[008] as just staged the drama for  the  intrepid Bay Street  _____  here, the woman's Lear-like fury  and  her ultimate be     
[009] fact, just wheeled him to the lobby of the  Bay Street  _____  from the nearby hotel where he has been  staying durin     
[010] lay,  'The Last Night of Ballyhoo,' at the Helen Hayes  _____  on  44th  Street. Friends are charmed by the effort Wi     
[011]  the whispers of  recognition  that ripple through the  _____  audience attest. But with his  black nail polish and c     
[012] s  Angeles, we have the nation's oldest Asian American  _____   company, East West Players, founded in 1965 (two of t     
[013] Repertory Theatre and San  Francisco's  Asian American  _____  Company. In the last two years,  West Coast  audiences     
[014] cter that really  moves me to want to portray it. Live  _____ , and particularly  opera, is so much about the human c     
[015] lves more. We can purge ourselves when  we are at  the  _____ ,' Martinez says. 'As far as I am concerned, the  perfo     
[016] r actress for more than 30  years  with the Long Wharf  _____  in New Haven, died on Thursday  at  Southport Manor, a     
[017]  Grand Slam event - seem made for his brand of tennis   _____ . So  he's always thrived on the courts of the National     
[018] he delighted recipient of the gift that is Washington   _____ . No, this is not New York, but who cares? One of the       
[019] re over the  years  focuses on the fact that the D. C.  _____  scene doesn't  measure  up to that of New York, which      
[020]  is where one must go to be  successful. To begin, few  _____  towns have the kind of  tightly  knit community that e     
[021] e is a remarkable degree of  mutual support here among  _____  artists. And take a look at  the  sparkling work by ar     
[022] d of applause to an  important  but unsung part of the  _____  web - invisible publicists such  as  Arena's Brook But     
[023] Davies. You all have  nagged me magnificently, and the  _____  scene is better for  your  tireless cheerleading. Now      
[024] uignal's main street has the usual bank, hotel, movie   _____  and  stores, but there are also  trees and lawns, and      


	
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[001] red straight from school, but I do think my wages are   _____ . Also, I have  no qualifications or certificates for       
[002] s the next one too! It was the  lift's fault they were  _____ ,  they insisted. However, the  psychologist started to     
[003] the area, do some sightseeing - if the  weather's not   _____ . There shouldn't be much traffic on  the  roads. I won     
[004] able ways to spend time, even if  the weather is a bit  _____ . If you  are thinking of a  motoring holiday, there's      
[005] t's one game you won't find amusing. Nothing  is  more  _____  than coming  home to find you've had a  surprise  visi     
[006] f the  ordinary people were soon at least as poor and   _____   as they  had been before. They regretted that the sol     
[007] EVENT  A COLD  Winter will soon be here, the season of  _____  little  diseases. Already I can hear people in the nex     
[008] ond to change, we will make ourselves poorer and more   _____ . So what are these global shifts? First, there is the      
[009] t the afternoon under a rock.  That night was the most  _____  of all. There were no  stars, and I got lost at least      
[010] so I went back. Miss Matty certainly looked white and   _____ . I called on Miss Pole next morning  and learnt that T     
[011]  too much for him.  Ah! So that was why Miss Matty was  _____ .  I must come back with you, my dear,' said Miss Pole,     
[012]  people's legs,  and said with a laugh,  'Look at that  _____  dog!' I saw Jim turn round  immediately. He  stepped f     
[013]  he would  survive.  I felt angry, however. 'The whole  _____  business is bitter  enough for a man like you...' I  s     
[014] rthless Portuguese  man, who  made her life extremely   _____ . Because  Stein felt sorry for her, he gave her husban     
[015] ing home, and he had come to me from there,  with his   _____  trouble and his  shadowy dreams, like  a man carrying      
[016] d sometimes  done in the past. It was clear to me what  _____  danger  he was  going . into. I believe I called  him      
[017] m told me later that he had never in his life felt so   _____  and tired as in that canoe.  He sat there, with his  b     
[018] usiness, and some of the papers were missing.  'It was  _____  there,' Jim told me. 'Cornelius was too  mean to give      
[019] usiness, and some of the papers were missing.  'It was  _____  there,' Jim told me. 'Cornelius was too  mean to  give     
[020] e to him, no doubt telling the white  lord about their  _____ , diicult lives, and he was listening  patiently. They      
[021] realized something was wrong. The old man was looking   _____ .  'Come and see the girl,' he said sadly. 'They arrive     
[022] ge.  I rode Daylight down to the start I was angry and  _____ .  wanted  to win. Daylight was a confident jumper and      
[023] t ground and took off my helmet, and felt  absolutely   _____ .   A Box of Rubbish  'Bad luck,' they said in the weig     
[024] ome. The next day he sat alone for the whole  day, too  _____  to do anything. On the  second day the minister came t     
[025] at the old man was trying to  be  kind, but he was too  _____  to  show any interest.  Come, Master Marner, what's yo     


	
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[001] ompletely unknown. Just a  stone's throw away from the  _____   Plato City was a great, silent emptiness that would t     


	
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[001] chael Bruce     By MICHAEL BRUCE    My father had been  _____  to managing 3,000 fighting  men  during the war, but t     
[002] sort of social education he lacked. He had grown more   _____   to his own dividedness. He knew his talent depended o     


	
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[001] r audience attest. But with his  black nail polish and  _____  angst, Harris' Mark is a long  way from the kid doctor     
[002]  by 14 diamonds that adorned her engagement ring. She   _____   her image, and if there is an early photo of her in o     
[003]  well as the observations of a  painterly eye which he  _____  as a young man. Jones's  early  poems appeared in the      
[004] le, in addition to Greek and Latin,  which  he further  _____  so that he could have taught them at  university level     


	
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[001] ome hot  water to make tea, so we put the water on the  _____  at the  front of the boat, and we went to the back. We     
[002] with sixteen small wood -  burning stoves. There was a  _____  for each family. Each  cook lit the                        
[003]                    for each family. Each  cook lit the  _____ , then cooked the food in a pot on the  burning wood. A     
[004] there.  She went to the kitchen and tried to light her  _____ . But  the wood would not burn. She knelt down and blew     
[005] they  seemed unusually quiet.  Dick was cooking at the  _____  next to Aku-nna. He  looked at her kindly. 'Your wood      
[006] 't dry enough,' he said.  'Here, move your pot onto my  _____ . I've finished now.'  Aku-nna was very surprised. Dick     
[007] urtains, cooking pots and plates and even a  small oil  _____ . Aku-nna had never seen anything like them  before. He