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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] a gentleman upstairs with his arm round Miss  Jessie's  _____ !' Miss Matty's eyes were  large with horror.  Miss Jen     
[002]  still holding the torch. Her  black hair fell to her   _____ , and her white dress touched the ground as she  walked     
[003] veranda - two  figures very close, his  arm around her  _____ , her head on his shoulder.  He called her Jewel. Prett     
[004] ress, and some of the  material was pulled away at the  _____ . Nancy asked Godfrey  to take her to a quieter place,      
[005] ' said  Priscilla impatiently, looking closely at  the  _____  of Nancy's dress.  Do you want me to go?' Godfrey aske     
[006] footsteps, and strong hands caught  Aku-nna around the  _____ .  'Here she is!' cried a voffice. 'Let's go!'  Aku-nna     
[007] er short dancing  skirt and tied a new skirt round her  _____ .  Then they took her into a room with a new, colourful     
[008] kirt and stood there  while Aku-nna tied it around her  _____ .  Then Aku-nna went to fetch the water, while everyone     
[009] shed  with mud, and whose  rough shirt was open to the  _____ . The firelight played on the  muscles of his manly che     
[010] etle, deeply  shocked.  Urk put one arm round Meriam's  _____  and tried to lift her, but  she was too heavy for him.     
[011]  like a leaf,' Woods said, putting his arm  around her  _____ . 'And if you let go, I think I'll fall fiat on my  fac     
[012] autiously, he moved forward and the water reached  his  _____ . He lifted the bag and held it on his head. He went  f     
[013] ing to her other  hand  and put her arm around Wendy's  _____ . Wendy leaned down  and kissed the top of her head as      
[014] aking or smiling, he  was holding me tightly round the  _____ , as if he would never  let go.  'Who are you?' he grow     
[015]  released his hand and seized my arm, shoulder, neck,   _____   and held me close to him.  She is here , I said, 'and     
[016] heck on the meteor,' he said.  'I tied a rope round my  _____  so that my men could pull me  out through the door if      
[017] iss back, at first, but then I put my arms around  her  _____  and it turned into a long, deep kiss. And it felt so       
[018] jumped at him with an angry cry. He held her round the  _____   as she tried to bite and kick him.  'Let me go!' she      
[019] oat, and her dress was torn open from her neck to her   _____ . The black hand pushed between her breasts, and  Scarl     
[020] mediately to Scarlett's side and put an arm  round her  _____ . 'What a lovely dress, my dear,' she said in  her smal     
[021] f the room. He had five  or  six red sticks around his  _____ , tied there with string. 1 had  never seen dynamite be     
[022] e building. Mister pointed at the dynamite around  his  _____ .  "I pull this," he said, "and we die." For a second w     
[023]  and tied the boat to a tree. The water came up to his  _____ .  There was a hole in the side of Mr Haddy's boat.  'M     
[024] order.  She checked the recorder and tied it to Mark's  _____ . Mark  pulled down his shirt.  'Perfect,' said Reggie.     
[025] oorly.  Doctor: I see. Well, just undress down to your  _____ - you can  hang  your shirt on the hook here - and stan     


	
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[001] resented with a piece of wedding cake, to his obvious   _____ . Aunt Ada said goodbye to her family  and guests, and      
[002] on the other side.  Lesotho.  Woods dropped his bag in  _____ . The river was too fast  and too wide for him to walk      
[003]  woman of about forty. That,' said Dr Fagan  with some  _____ , is my daughter.'  Pleased to meet you,' said Miss Fag     
[004] omily.  Nothing I have ever done has caused me so much  _____ .'  With a deep sigh he rose from the table and left th     
[005]  was not mentioned, although the judge  remarked  with  _____  that just before his arrest for this most horrible  an     
[006] .  'Yes, of course. He understands.'  I felt sick with  _____ . Even Ogilvie seemed to be willing to  hide  the truth     
[007] hton for your silence.'  I looked at Cregar with total  _____ . He had said that the  solution  to his problem would      
[008] ie's hand.  'She's not even hurt,' said Miss Abbott in  _____ . 'She  screamed just  to bring us here. I know all her     
[009] ndows on the top floor of his house. It was a look of   _____ , pain  and shame. I could not understand what he  mean     
[010] und him talking to Miss Ingram, who looked at  me  in   _____  when I interrupted their conversation.  "Well, Jane, w     
[011] g. Mr Rochester dropped his  arm,  and turned  away in  _____ .  'Sir,' said the priest, frowning, 'don't forget we a     
[012]  the  man who can save us?' asked Yury with a sound of  _____  in  his voffice.  'Yes, I can and I will if you will u     
[013] resented with a piece of wedding cake, to his obvious   _____ . Aunt Ada said goodbye to her family  and guests, and      
[014] on the other side.  Lesotho.  Woods dropped his bag in  _____ . The river was too fast  and too wide for him to walk      
[015]  woman of about forty. That,' said Dr Fagan  with some  _____ , is my daughter.'  Pleased to meet you,' said Miss Fag     
[016] omily.  Nothing I have ever done has caused me so much  _____ .'  With a deep sigh he rose from the table and left th     
[017]  was not mentioned, although the judge  remarked  with  _____  that just before his arrest for this most horrible  an     
[018] .  'Yes, of course. He understands.'  I felt sick with  _____ . Even Ogilvie seemed to be willing to  hide  the truth     
[019] hton for your silence.'  I looked at Cregar with total  _____ . He had said that the  solution  to his problem would      
[020] ie's hand.  'She's not even hurt,' said Miss Abbott in  _____ . 'She  screamed just  to bring us here. I know all her     
[021] ndows on the top floor of his house. It was a look of   _____ , pain  and shame. I could not understand what he  mean     
[022] und him talking to Miss Ingram, who looked at  me  in   _____  when I interrupted their conversation.  "Well, Jane, w     
[023] g. Mr Rochester dropped his  arm,  and turned  away in  _____ .  'Sir,' said the priest, frowning, 'don't forget we a     
[024]  the  man who can save us?' asked Yury with a sound of  _____  in  his voffice.  'Yes, I can and I will if you will u     


	
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[001]  minute,' and she ran into the house for  brandy and a  _____  of water. 'What are you  going to do, Millie Evans? Oh     
[002] against metal came from the  foul-smelling cowsheds. A  _____  was held between Adam  Lambsbreath's knees, and his ol     
[003] it you into  our society, then...'  Tenjy put down the  _____  of water she was carrying. 'Yes.  You want to give us      
[004]   place?'  'All right, Jerry,' Father said. 'Drop your  _____  and go. Just  go. But remember: if you go, you can nev     
[005] r a walk,' he thought.  Yury lit the fire, picked up a  _____  and went outside for  water. A few yards from the door     
[006] an old lace doily, gridded hot plate, bubble  wrap, a   _____  of rubber stamps on loan from a friend's preteen  daug     
[007]  off in  my hand. The  only water in the room was in a  _____  that  someone  had put on a chair to catch  the rain d     
[008]  minute,' and she ran into the house for  brandy and a  _____  of water. 'What are you  going to do, Millie Evans? Oh     
[009] against metal came from the  foul-smelling cowsheds. A  _____  was held between Adam  Lambsbreath's knees, and his ol     
[010] it you into  our society, then...'  Tenjy put down the  _____  of water she was carrying. 'Yes.  You want to give us      
[011]   place?'  'All right, Jerry,' Father said. 'Drop your  _____  and go. Just  go. But remember: if you go, you can nev     
[012] r a walk,' he thought.  Yury lit the fire, picked up a  _____  and went outside for  water. A few yards from the door     


	
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[001]  officially with their divorce a year ago Aug. 28, the  _____  for  public attention and approval continued until her     
[002] radzic,  holds court. In the months since then, as the  _____  and the  power struggle have deepened, so has the comm     
[003] s historic links with religion: witness the sectarian   _____  between Glasgow Rangers and Celtic and the number  of      


	
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[001]   Marley and the Wailers, Toots and the Maytals, Jimmy  _____   and  other Jamaican musicians who went on to achieve      
[002] dered the idea of trying to scale the  almost vertical  _____  in order to find out. Prudence prevailed,  however, an     
[003] the edge of a  steep rock. I landed at the bottom of a  _____ . I  hurt both my  knees, twisted my shoulder, and brok     
[004] your workforce to be flexible and motivated,' explains  _____   Bloomfield, operations manager at CII, organisers of      
[005]  serial format, he eschews the more obvious tools like  _____ -  hanging endings. 'These aren't soap operas,' he clai     


	
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[001] ime again, include Jo standing in the  rain  under the  _____  with Professor Bhaer with her hairpins  slipping out,      
[002]  at everyone and patiently  helped Miss Brown with her  _____ .  I wondered what the Cranford ladies did with him at      
[003] ing. Then he caught hold of his coat,  his hat and his  _____ , and ran to the front door. It was  locked!  George sa     
[004] ce he pushed me over  onto my side. 'Wherever can that  _____  be?' he was  saying.  We woke up late the next morning     
[005] e thought it was much more serious, and he put up  the  _____ .  Before lunch, he put the cover on the boat, and it s     
[006]  he  arranged a blanket, held up with a  stick and his  _____ , which would stop the moonlight  shining on to his bed     
[007] he museum, it was raining. The  grandfather put up his  _____ , and held it  over her as they walked to a restaurant      
[008] the  walk was so interesting that he forgot to put the  _____   down even when the rain stopped.  After lunch they we     
[009] d to go. That afternoon he had noticed a large  black   _____  near the door. It was  no longer there.  'Have you mov     
[010] her way to the kitchen, she saw Charles's large black   _____  near  the front door. She put  it back where it was  a     
[011] been raining all afternoon. When I  arrived  I left my  _____  just inside  the front door.'  'Just on the right of t     
[012] t afternoon, went into the house, and saw  your black   _____  by the door, and  your dark blue  raincoat by the stai     
[013] omplicated pattern  in the night sky.  Nudger held his  _____  against the wind as he walked, and  pulled a  piece of     
[014]  a pile of magazines from a chair. Nudger  folded his   _____  and sat down.  She started to speak,  then there was t     
[015] ng, miss. A nasty wet day,' she said,  closing a large  _____ .  Flora was so surprised that anyone in Sussex should      
[016] stone, Woods saw a man wearing a suit and carrying  an  _____ . He might have the information Woods needed.  'Excuse      
[017]   The man looked calmly at Woods and then pointed his   _____ . 'The British High Commission? It's there on the  righ     
[018]  out into the rain again. Wendy's mother had  found an  _____  in the van, and the boys got out the  suitcases. As th     
[019] called, her voffice full of  emotion.  Wendy waved the  _____  and moved on with the  children. They reached the midd     
[020] arkness and under it stood a young man  holding a huge  _____  and smiling brightly at Wendy. As  they came closer, t     
[021]  top of her head as they walked on towards  that  huge  _____ .  The next morning, having heard the news that his wif     
[022] here sixteen pipes on a shelf,  a walking stick and an  _____  in a corner, a typewriter,  some very old books, yeste     
[023] ntly there is a monkey at the zoo who juggles  with an  _____  and two oranges.'  I know what I'll do,' said Grimes.      
[024] ndy was telling me about a monkey who juggled with an   _____  and two oranges.'  Why, that's nothing. I can juggle w     
[025] ediately, but he did not because he was busy with the   _____ . Then they both went to the other side of the shop  an     


	
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[001]  tears: 'There are  so many worlds, and I have not yet  _____  even one.  Alexander became king of Macedonia 336 year     
[002] rty-two  Caesar had achieved nothing and Alexander had  _____   an empire.  About three-quarters of a million Asians      
[003] e friends as well as  enemies among the people that he  _____ . He married  three Asian women, and filled his army an     
[004] he threw all his  energy into increasing his power. He  _____  the lands  east of Macedonia, which were rich in gold.     
[005] ow learnt of trouble in the lands that he had  already  _____ . The people of Sogqiana (present-day  Uzbekistan) and      
[006]  tears: 'There are so many worlds, and I have  not yet  _____  even one.'  Chapter 9  The Last Years  Alexander refus     
[007]  Carmania, an easy march from  Persepolis.  Few of the  _____  lands had stayed loyal in the six years  since the Bat     
[008]  now  wanted to stay and enjoy the lands that they had  _____ .  They refused to leave. The rest of the Macedonian so     
[009] he Macedonians soon sold the lands that Alexander had   _____  in India; they received 500 elephants for them.  Many      
[010] es of both  men stayed in power until their lands were  _____  by the  Romans in the first century BC. All over Alexa     
[011] ed they had their old pump again.  ***    We  haven't   _____  space. Nor have we explored the entire  universe. Not      
[012]  tears: 'There are  so many worlds, and I have not yet  _____  even one.  Alexander became king of Macedonia 336 year     
[013] rty-two  Caesar had achieved nothing and Alexander had  _____   an empire.  About three-quarters of a million Asians      
[014] e friends as well as  enemies among the people that he  _____ . He married  three Asian women, and filled his army an     
[015] he threw all his  energy into increasing his power. He  _____  the lands  east of Macedonia, which were rich in gold.     
[016] ow learnt of trouble in the lands that he had  already  _____ . The people of Sogqiana (present-day  Uzbekistan) and      
[017]  tears: 'There are so many worlds, and I have  not yet  _____  even one.'  Chapter 9  The Last Years  Alexander refus     
[018]  Carmania, an easy march from  Persepolis.  Few of the  _____  lands had stayed loyal in the six years  since the Bat     
[019]  now  wanted to stay and enjoy the lands that they had  _____ .  They refused to leave. The rest of the Macedonian so     
[020] he Macedonians soon sold the lands that Alexander had   _____  in India; they received 500 elephants for them.  Many      
[021] es of both  men stayed in power until their lands were  _____  by the  Romans in the first century BC. All over Alexa     


	
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[001] equipment and  garden  tools. There was a new  fishing  _____  against the  wall. Morse looked around helplessly. Who     
[002] ery good.  'And how much do you think that new fishing  _____  of  Jackson's cost?'  Morse asked suddenly.  'I don't      
[003]  An idea came to him.  'Jackson was buying his fishing  _____  from there, wasn't he?'  'That's right, sir.'  In Cana     
[004]   Morse opened the door of the shed, and found the new  _____ .  Carefully he  looked inside it. 6  'You see, Lewis?      
[005] searching, there was no sign of anything hidden in the  _____ .  'Never mind, sir, it was a good idea,' said Lewis. '     
[006] ly this morning,  and found it hidden in Jackson's new  _____  in the shed. I'm  sorry I  didn't tell you before, but     
[007] lmon directly  opposite us well within range of my fly  _____ . I stood, my                                               
[008]                                          . I stood, my  _____  in  hand and all but forgotten, savoring the sight. It     
[009] cads of big names in that group,  including cornerback  _____  Woodson, another future Hall of  Famer,  who went from     
[010]  hoped - the group's efforts have become a  lightning   _____  for lenders and creditors alike, and seem likely to  p     
[011] . Which brings us to the Falcons.    Ron Hickman's fly  _____  bent double and line stripped from his  heavy-duty ree     
[012] essments of Fela - musical genius, political lightning  _____ ,  courageous artist, prolific pot-smoker and arch-sexi     
[013] ich asked their  opinion on  statements like'Spare the  _____  and spoil the child'. In another,  Mrs Bajaj's son was     
[014] d siege to the Arkansas  farmhouse and  shot him dead.  _____  Steiger portrayed him sympathetically in  the  inevita     
[015] equipment and  garden  tools. There was a new  fishing  _____  against the  wall. Morse looked around helplessly. Who     
[016] ery good.  'And how much do you think that new fishing  _____  of  Jackson's cost?'  Morse asked suddenly.  'I don't      
[017]  An idea came to him.  'Jackson was buying his fishing  _____  from there, wasn't he?'  'That's right, sir.'  In Cana     
[018]   Morse opened the door of the shed, and found the new  _____ .  Carefully he  looked inside it. 6  'You see, Lewis?      
[019] searching, there was no sign of anything hidden in the  _____ .  'Never mind, sir, it was a good idea,' said Lewis. '     
[020] ly this morning,  and found it hidden in Jackson's new  _____  in the shed. I'm  sorry I  didn't tell you before, but     


	
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[001] the plans, said Winstanley 'He  saw them, but could he  _____  away pages of information in  his head?'  'It's not di     
[002] ! About six  weeks ago, the landlady said, a horse-and- _____  turned over  right outside the inn. In the                 
[003]             turned over  right outside the inn. In the  _____  were two  men, one woman and this child, plus a great      
[004] twin brother, she believes) drove  quickly away in the  _____ , and took the box with him. Well, my  dears, the man w     
[005] afternoon train and would have his  luggage put on the  _____  for the station. Then, just before  leaving, he would      
[006] lunch his luggage was taken  downstairs and put on the  _____  for the  station. Mr and Mrs Betts came to the front d     
[007] living there, Scott he's called, he's got  a horse and  _____ . Something frightened the  horse in town this morning,     
[008] ething frightened the  horse in town this morning, the  _____  turned over, and this  fellow Scott was thrown out. He     
[009] amilies sometimes moved  in one  generation from an ox  _____  to a Mercedes-Benz, from  peasants to  billionaires. E     
[010] rilled  chicken and steamed vegetables in her shopping  _____ .  Harry's  operates three warehouse-size stores that s     
[011] 's Story, and John  Mulligan's just-published Shopping  _____  Soldiers. A thread of  sublime absurdity runs through      
[012] ng its way through one  man's  consciousness. Shopping  _____  Soldiers is a novel of  questions -  many explicit, so     
[013] dreds of fellow homeless veterans,  pushing a shopping  _____  as he continued down toward self-  destruction. It was     
[014] the plans, said Winstanley 'He  saw them, but could he  _____  away pages of information in  his head?'  'It's not di     
[015] ! About six  weeks ago, the landlady said, a horse-and- _____  turned over  right outside the inn. In the                 
[016]             turned over  right outside the inn. In the  _____  were two  men, one woman and this child, plus a great      
[017] twin brother, she believes) drove  quickly away in the  _____ , and took the box with him. Well, my  dears, the man w     
[018] afternoon train and would have his  luggage put on the  _____  for the station. Then, just before  leaving, he would      
[019] lunch his luggage was taken  downstairs and put on the  _____  for the  station. Mr and Mrs Betts came to the front d     
[020] living there, Scott he's called, he's got  a horse and  _____ . Something frightened the  horse in town this morning,     
[021] ething frightened the  horse in town this morning, the  _____  turned over, and this  fellow Scott was thrown out. He     


	
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[001]  It was  Stratos.  His voffice came over the  water.  ' _____  there! Would you like to come with me?'  'Not now, tha     
[002] ck towards the  rocks, and then I  turned and called, ' _____ !' Silence. I lifted my body against  the  rocks to sho     
[003] t  the  rocks to show myself, white in  the darkness. ' _____ !                                                           
[004]                                                     !   _____ !' I cried again - and the boat turned round and came       
[005] r. He stopped a  few metres away from her and smiled.   _____ ,' he said. I was just taking a late walk - I hope I ha     
[006]  the other side of the room, and  jumped to his feet.   _____  - I didn't know you worked here.'  I live here. My fat     
[007]  cats. Montmorency does not.  When I meet a cat, I say  _____  to it. Then I bend down and I  stroke it  gently, behi     
[008] ng. Rick answered, and Rachael Rosen's  face appeared.  _____ , officer Deckard.' Her voffice  was friendly. Are you      
[009] He saw his wife's miserable  face in front of him.  Oh  _____ , Rick.'  What happened to the 594 mood that I dialled      
[010] ut the  phone to the police officer.  officer Crams...  _____ ?' The man listened for a moment  and then turned to Ri     
[011] ght eyes but made no sound. Rick hurried  downstairs.   _____ ,' Iran greeted him, busy with the dinner. You're late      
[012] .  I'm not here,' he said, and went into the bedroom.   _____ ,' Iran greeted the caller. Yes, he's here. We bought a     
[013] e said.  A few minutes later, Rachael's face appeared.  _____ , Mr  Deckard. Your ear is cut.'  Did you think I would     
[014]  door.  Rick! She jumped up and opened the door wide.   _____ !' he said. There was blood on his face and dust in his     
[015]  when a man  stopped in the  street and greeted him.  ' _____ , Simon.'  'Oh! Sorry!' the man said at once. 'Thought      
[016] nd had almost jumped when she heard a voffice  saying ' _____ ' behind her.  She had turned to find the teacher behin     
[017] grey business  suit who had walked up  to the table.  ' _____ , Martin.'  '                                               
[018]                                           , Martin.'  ' _____ , Niels... Hi, Sheridan. Niels trying to get you to hel     
[019]  with Captain  Bemis, looking down towards the deck.  ' _____ , Miss Warshawski.' They turned towards me.  Bledsoe's      
[020]  waited fifty minutes  before  she finally appeared.  ' _____ , Paige.'  She looked surprised. '                          
[021]                      , Paige.'  She looked surprised. ' _____ , Vic. What questions have you  come to  ask me tonight     
[022] t  had left a message that I could call her at home.  ' _____ , Vic. I got the information you wanted.'  'I hope you'     
[023] ng  is owned by a Niels  Grafalk - Vic. Are you there?  _____ ?'  'Thanks, Adrienne,' I said mechanically. 'Let me kn     
[024] he must do. She started swinging on the gate  again.  ' _____ ,' she said to the Kelveys.  They were so surprised tha     
[025] ound the walls, talking and  joking with the ladies.  ' _____ ,' said Miss Moss, in her friendly way. 'Here we are  a