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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] only two other candidates, and one of  them is totally  _____ , poor man.'  Next day Paul returned to Church and Ston     
[002] the poor girls she  had unknowingly put at such risk!   _____  to the offers he was receiving on all sides, Paul went     
[003] ss Bates loved to talk and  because her old mother was  _____  she repeated  conversations by shouting at her.  They      
[004] ctive 'Zami:  A  New Spelling of My Name' (1984). Tone- _____  and  rhythmless, Lorde  was not a gifted poet. She had     
[005] e  are getting guard dogs to protect them,  especially  _____   people  who may not hear someone breaking in. Others      
[006] only two other candidates, and one of  them is totally  _____ , poor man.'  Next day Paul returned to Church and Ston     
[007] the poor girls she  had unknowingly put at such risk!   _____  to the offers he was receiving on all sides, Paul went     
[008] ss Bates loved to talk and  because her old mother was  _____  she repeated  conversations by shouting at her.  They      


	
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[001] aid. 'You're a very brave woman,  Louise Baring. Don't  _____  it now.' He got up rather quickly.  'I  think you've h     
[002]  bent  her head. 'There's someone... We don't  want to  _____  things  by making any definite arrangement... It's hor     
[003]  still evening air.  'I'll carry Elfine. She mun never  _____  her shoes,' whispered  Seth, with unexpected thoughtfu     
[004] . It'll be a surprise. in can't tell you now. It would  _____   things. It will be simply lovely. Surprise!'  Her vof     
[005]  Mrs Clutterbuck.  We don't want any unpleasantness to  _____  the afternoon,'  said the vicar, who had joined the gr     
[006] character.' There was no way I  was going to let Frank  _____  the moment. Suddenly I was  laughing and doing a littl     
[007] t friend,' he said. 'He  is  a beautiful person. Don't  _____  him. Don't try and influence  him. Your influence woul     
[008] r. Perhaps it had begun already. He would never  again  _____  innocence. He would be good.  He began to wonder if th     
[009] ack will give  you another suit, my dear - you mustn't  _____  that Sunday suit.  '  At that moment Jack Dawkins pull     
[010]  - or at least  her past relationship with him - would  _____  their dream. She  tried to protect Pasha from her dark     
[011]  University. Of course, my  father and  mother used to  _____  me, my father especially. He used to call  me  his 'li     
[012] d their  opinion on  statements like'Spare the rod and  _____  the child'. In another,  Mrs Bajaj's son was turned do     
[013] aid. 'You're a very brave woman,  Louise Baring. Don't  _____  it now.' He got up rather quickly.  'I  think you've h     
[014]  bent  her head. 'There's someone... We don't  want to  _____  things  by making any definite arrangement... It's hor     
[015]  still evening air.  'I'll carry Elfine. She mun never  _____  her shoes,' whispered  Seth, with unexpected thoughtfu     
[016] . It'll be a surprise. in can't tell you now. It would  _____   things. It will be simply lovely. Surprise!'  Her vof     
[017]  Mrs Clutterbuck.  We don't want any unpleasantness to  _____  the afternoon,'  said the vicar, who had joined the gr     
[018] character.' There was no way I  was going to let Frank  _____  the moment. Suddenly I was  laughing and doing a littl     
[019] t friend,' he said. 'He  is  a beautiful person. Don't  _____  him. Don't try and influence  him. Your influence woul     
[020] r. Perhaps it had begun already. He would never  again  _____  innocence. He would be good.  He began to wonder if th     
[021] ack will give  you another suit, my dear - you mustn't  _____  that Sunday suit.  '  At that moment Jack Dawkins pull     
[022]  - or at least  her past relationship with him - would  _____  their dream. She  tried to protect Pasha from her dark     


	
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[001] ature off his hand.  'The little horrors certainly can  _____ . I don't know what  they are, but they're dangerous th     
[002]   bad state, really. It all started when she got a bee  _____   working  outside in the garden a week or so ago. Then     
[003] rs to protect me from snakes, bugs,  and  insects that  _____   or bite. In the jungle there was a lot of  wildlife,      
[004] ature off his hand.  'The little horrors certainly can  _____ . I don't know what  they are, but they're dangerous th     


	
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[001] went wrong. He was  a dependable  man.  It was a rough  _____  across the sea to Cladach Duillich.  Although it  was      
[002] I think I was right, said Lord Cregar.  It was a rough  _____  across the sea to Cladach Duillich.  This is an emerge     
[003] ded the  Captain a sheet of paper.  'Here's the latest  _____  report, sir,' he said.  Captain Winters took the sheet     
[004] r pretty. It had been very  cruel to bring her on this  _____ , he thought. Her fool of a  husband should have left h     
[005] sands of  European  refugees attempted the clandestine  _____  to Palestine. Mr.  Verhoeven, 59, is best known for an     
[006] e M. S. Anton Chekhov, for a 10-day, 2,600-mile river   _____   through the heart of central Siberia to Dudinka, a sm     
[007] k  on. The first part of the  expedition is a long sea  _____  to  distant Thule, in northeast Greenland. When  they      
[008] Hovercraft passenger: I've  been  sick for  the entire  _____ . I'll never cross the channel on that  awful thing aga     
[009] . But that now belonged to the past, like  Columbus's   _____  to America, and the Wright  brothers, who built and fl     
[010] went wrong. He was  a dependable  man.  It was a rough  _____  across the sea to Cladach Duillich.  Although it  was      
[011] I think I was right, said Lord Cregar.  It was a rough  _____  across the sea to Cladach Duillich.  This is an emerge     
[012] ded the  Captain a sheet of paper.  'Here's the latest  _____  report, sir,' he said.  Captain Winters took the sheet     
[013] r pretty. It had been very  cruel to bring her on this  _____ , he thought. Her fool of a  husband should have left h     


	
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[001]  anyone in Jericho.'  'But you used to, didn't you?'  ' _____ , Inspector?' Was he pretending not to hear?  'You knew     
[002] ease of Nelson Mandela. There was  also a story on the  _____  for Richard Nixon by President  Ford of the United Sta     
[003] ters had nothing to do in the  kitchen.  He begged her  _____  immediately for oending her, and  continued to apologi     
[004] tinate, foolish girl, but I'll make her accept you.'  ' _____  me, madam,' cried Mr Collins, 'but if she's really  ob     
[005] and Tristan appeared.  'Hello, I hope I'm not late.'  ' _____ ?' said Anna. 'Late for what?'  'Dinner. Stephen asked      
[006] : Hello, could I have your surname  please?  Customer:  _____ ?  Clerk: Your surname, sir, could I have  your  surnam     
[007] ing room. D: No, don't bother, it  doesn't  matter. B:  _____ ? D I said don't worry. It's OK.  ***   Dick:  Excuse m     
[008] get reduced  time for  good behavior, or a last-minute  _____  on the grounds  that  we  were both crazy and belonged     
[009]  corner of the room.  Then he turned to me. I beg your  _____ ,' he said. A  strange  way to behave, I know. But ther     
[010]  anyone in Jericho.'  'But you used to, didn't you?'  ' _____ , Inspector?' Was he pretending not to hear?  'You knew     
[011] ease of Nelson Mandela. There was  also a story on the  _____  for Richard Nixon by President  Ford of the United Sta     
[012] ters had nothing to do in the  kitchen.  He begged her  _____  immediately for oending her, and  continued to apologi     
[013] tinate, foolish girl, but I'll make her accept you.'  ' _____  me, madam,' cried Mr Collins, 'but if she's really  ob     
[014] and Tristan appeared.  'Hello, I hope I'm not late.'  ' _____ ?' said Anna. 'Late for what?'  'Dinner. Stephen asked      


	
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[001] u.'  'My living darling! So you aren't lying dead in a  _____   somewhere!  is it a dream? I've dreamed so often of y     
[002] ty with cardiovascular problems desperately  trying to  _____  his time share in Florida while sweating out a  securi     
[003] jected it to banter in his second  novel,  Blind Man's  _____  (1939). 'Even in the Thirties, if a young  English wri     
[004] Paternoster Row destroyed most  copies  of Blind Man's  _____ , a sort of thriller which owes much to  Graham Greene,     
[005] u.'  'My living darling! So you aren't lying dead in a  _____   somewhere!  is it a dream? I've dreamed so often of y     


	
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[001] t day I  walked from house to house again, looking in   _____  for work. I was now very weak from lack of food, and I     
[002] itten  twice to Mrs Fairfax. But after I had waited in  _____  for six  months,  I lost hope, and felt low indeed. Di     
[003]  and very pleased. But she and her daughters  tried in  _____  to persuade Mr Bennet to describe the wealthy  strange     
[004] ey's eorts to attract Mr Darcy,  which might all be in  _____ . The supper party came to an end,  and Elizabeth went      
[005] izabeth entered the hall at  Netherfield and looked in  _____  for Mr Wickham among the  red coats gathered there, sh     
[006] s her, with none of his usual  calmness, and said, 'In  _____  have I struggled. It is no good. I  cannot conquer my      
[007] lls  from  Ms. Moore last year as the actress tried in  _____  to enlist  official help. Ms. Moore plays an ambitious     
[008] t day I  walked from house to house again, looking in   _____  for work. I was now very weak from lack of food, and I     
[009] itten  twice to Mrs Fairfax. But after I had waited in  _____  for six  months,  I lost hope, and felt low indeed. Di     
[010]  and very pleased. But she and her daughters  tried in  _____  to persuade Mr Bennet to describe the wealthy  strange     
[011] ey's eorts to attract Mr Darcy,  which might all be in  _____ . The supper party came to an end,  and Elizabeth went      
[012] izabeth entered the hall at  Netherfield and looked in  _____  for Mr Wickham among the  red coats gathered there, sh     
[013] s her, with none of his usual  calmness, and said, 'In  _____  have I struggled. It is no good. I  cannot conquer my      


	
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[001]  out. But we'll need to talk about this  again. In the  _____ , I shall have to discuss this with my  colleagues.' Hu     
[002] ould like to  be  a theatre director or critic. In the  _____ , I have been  applying for research jobs, but I haven'     
[003] ether as  Discourses on Machiavelli (1969). But in the  _____  he  had been  happy to spend some years in the study o     
[004]  the end, whatever the process of justice does in the   _____ . It  is possible that they may turn into the kind of s     
[005]  out. But we'll need to talk about this  again. In the  _____ , I shall have to discuss this with my  colleagues.' Hu     


	
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[001] nt to buy one, but I went into a shop to ask for some   _____ , and they hadn't got the sort I wanted. I felt I could     
[002]   you. Come and sit down,' said Paul.  Have some of my  _____ ,' said Prendergast.  Thanks, Prendy. I just had to com     
[003] ers as he pushed past her. . He smelled  of  sweat and  _____  smoke.  'Sorry Hu, I'm a bit late. Had to go to the te     
[004] . "    Americans are highly suspicious of the proposed  _____   deal,  saying it would not achieve even the prime obj     
[005] , a ban on class-action lawsuits.  Two-  thirds expect  _____  companies to sell as many cigarettes  as  ever. Sevent     
[006] nd Chekhov and in the rustic  American environment of " _____  Road," although she  seemed  especially at home in the     
[007]  featured a central character  puffing on some type of  _____ , according to one study, as  do  five of this summer's     
[008] FBI and the ATF officers (from the Bureau of Alcohol,   _____   and Firearms) are seen as the instruments of this act     
[009] o'clock. I got my pipe and  started to fill it from my  _____  jar. As I put my fingers into  the                         
[010]                     jar. As I put my fingers into  the  _____ , I touched something hard, and pulled out  Scudder's l     
[011] at, Scudder's  notebook, my watch and even my pipe and  _____  were  with Mr Turnbull. All I had was some biscuits.       
[012] nt to buy one, but I went into a shop to ask for some   _____ , and they hadn't got the sort I wanted. I felt I could     
[013]   you. Come and sit down,' said Paul.  Have some of my  _____ ,' said Prendergast.  Thanks, Prendy. I just had to com     
[014] ers as he pushed past her. . He smelled  of  sweat and  _____  smoke.  'Sorry Hu, I'm a bit late. Had to go to the te     


	
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[001] as  called Frances, a thin, pale woman with a frequent  _____ .  Now that Hindley was the master of the house, he ord     
[002]  on a sofa. He looked feverish and ill, and  had a bad  _____ . .  'Will you shut the door?' he said crossly, as we e     
[003] ut her throat. As she pulled it tighter, she began to   _____ . Then she stopped and took off the towel. She  swallow     
[004] . When he didn't look round at first. I gave a little   _____  and at last he turned, lowering his binoculars.  'Hi,'     
[005] at he swallowed his beer the wrong way and  started to  _____ .  I didn't trust myself to hit him on the back; I felt     
[006]  into a bad cold. She's  still got a temperature and a  _____   and  sore throat that she can't quite shake  off, no      
[007] counter pharmaceutical advertising - for body rubs and  _____   syrups - featuring bare chests and Rodin poses.  SAX'     
[008] it, Peggy! Wait until I've run  upstairs! Then, when I  _____ , open the door.'  The                                      
[009]                                 , open the door.'  The  _____  came. Immediately, a maid opened the door  and showed      
[010] ld  teach reading? No. When she read aloud, she had to  _____   before each long word. Writing? Her  spelling was ter     
[011] as  called Frances, a thin, pale woman with a frequent  _____ .  Now that Hindley was the master of the house, he ord     
[012]  on a sofa. He looked feverish and ill, and  had a bad  _____ . .  'Will you shut the door?' he said crossly, as we e     
[013] ut her throat. As she pulled it tighter, she began to   _____ . Then she stopped and took off the towel. She  swallow     
[014] . When he didn't look round at first. I gave a little   _____  and at last he turned, lowering his binoculars.  'Hi,'     
[015] at he swallowed his beer the wrong way and  started to  _____ .  I didn't trust myself to hit him on the back; I felt