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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]  mother died? And, Misha and I once  saw her in a poor  _____  of Moscow - your father took Misha  and me to her flat     
[002] ng to me. Please do  not forget that.'  Throughout the  _____  around Melyuzeyevo,people were  feeling the eects of t     
[003] rom morning to night. He's the chief oicial  from this  _____ . Can you believe it?' Tonya led Yury up the  back stai     
[004] cularly noticeable. Vassya  Brykin was from the Vyatka  _____ . His father had been  killed  in World War I, and his      
[005] rance. Strelnikov won't have any more trouble in this   _____ ,' said the station master.  This was not the first tim     
[006]  for all its  isolation, it shares an acclaimed school  _____  and is close  to  shopping and restaurants in Port Was     
[007] on and boating  are  also important drawing cards. The  _____  has four  elementary  schools, one middle school and o     
[008] r pops to life.    Mr. (Frank) DeStefano's takeover of  _____  15 is but one  component of a broad turnover in educat     
[009] e school year begins on Wednesday, a third  of  the 32  _____  superintendents will be new. And all will have  souped     
[010] After a  particularly hard day spent crisscrossing the  _____ ,  compiling  a wish list of needs, Mr. DeStefano's min     
[011]  the  public for new independent public schools in the  _____ ,  schools that would offer students, teachers and pare     
[012] nt  and  teaching problems that plague too many of the  _____ 's  public  schools. In 24 pages, the board lays out de     
[013] f a  sorely needed new era in public education for the  _____ .  The                                                      
[014]                                                .  The   _____  already has two charter schools, with two more set to      
[015] not stifle the  creation of independent schools in the  _____ . People who  want  to start new schools in the             
[016]        . People who  want  to start new schools in the  _____  can now seek charters  from  either board.    Presiden     
[017] the  perspective of a government lawyer who feared the  _____   might  have been forced to shell out more had it gone     
[018] rts. The eastern half is the glitzy, highly commercial  _____   into whose clutches the first-time visitor immediatel     
[019] on the doorstep of what was  once  her cottage in Lake  _____  National Park - the same cottage  where Mrs. Tiggy-Win     
[020] ioning of Anita  Hill,  Specter, a former Philadelphia  _____  attorney, has a  reputation for turning his acid rheto     
[021] Avenue and 'Brazilian Art in Washington' at the U. S.   _____  Court building on Cherrywood Lane in Greenbelt.  Emano     
[022] ultural Faire  at  Rancho Cienega Park in the Crenshaw  _____ . The two  Dorsey High  School students are among 50 yo     
[023]   the  dramatic rebirth of the Fairlie-Poplar Historic  _____  into a  lively a 24-hour community. To date, the scene     
[024] n legal across the U. S., except in Virginia  and  the  _____  of Columbia. Radar is a wide radio wave and  bounces       
[025]  " The  judge, N.  Carlton Tilley of the United States  _____  Court for the  Middle                                      


	
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[001] inishing off' in another session is an administrative   _____ ,  so we push the children on at a faster pace. Similar     
[002] rms are  always called Seth or Reuben, and are such a   _____ . Her husband  will probably be called Amos.'  Mrs Smil     
[003] name like that would have changed  it by now.  'What a  _____ !' she thought. 'Haven't in got enough to do  at Cold C     
[004]  old  friend Mr Neck again. Of course, Mr Mybug  was a  _____ , but  she could deal with him easily enough.  She went     
[005] hat any more. I was  only  it's not surprising I was a  _____ .'  a child,  'You were always so angry and violent, su     


	
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[001] nd  wellington boots. The stewardess had holes in  her  _____   and  wore mirrored sunglasses. They both went into th     
[002] ecame  successful, especially in the making of ladies'  _____ . The  name 'nylon'  refers to the two places where the     
[003] , the best present for many women was a pair of nylon   _____ , but more importantly, it was used to make  parachutes     
[004] bald chapter and  verse  from Women in Love. For him, ' _____  have supplanted  legs; clo  theshave supplanted flesh.     
[005] began to move towards the front. Roger Clint's  horse,  _____   seemed the best of the others, the one that he  would     
[006]  was having to push his horse hard. Brat  decided that  _____  was getting very tired. About four  hundred  metres fr     
[007] ut of  the race. Chevron was running side by side with  _____ ,  but Brat  pulled her back a little so that               
[008]          ,  but Brat  pulled her back a little so that  _____   went a little in front. Clint thought that this meant     
[009]  Clint realized what had happened, Chevron had  passed  _____  and Brat had stolen the race.  'What a fool I am to fa     
[010] easily! And Miss Temple, please make  sure the girls'   _____  are mended  more carefully. Some of them have a lot of     
[011] en she arrived at Netherfield, with tired feet, muddy   _____  and a face healthily pink with exercise, she was  show     


	
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[001]  enough about Tristan,' laughed Stephen. 'I might  get  _____ . Anyway, he can't be so good-looking and a  really  ni     
[002]  a bit strong sometimes.'  'Have they got reason to be  _____ ?' Anna asked,  remembering the conversation. that she      
[003]  birds, aren't they?' By now I was  definitely feeling  _____  of the pelican.  tan still didn't lower his binoculars     
[004] sure aboUt  what she wanted in life, and I felt really  _____  of that  confidence. But then I expect it's easy to be     
[005] llward by the  arm and almost led him into the house.   _____  of his Own Portrait  As they entered they saw Dorian G     
[006] ke you, and I will never have another. How can  you be  _____  of a painting?  You are more beautiful than any work o     
[007] ?  You are more beautiful than any work of art.' 'I am  _____  of  everything whose beauty does not die. I am .           
[008]       of  everything whose beauty does not die. I am .  _____  of the  portrait you have painted of me. Why should it     
[009] d  worship of this actress did not make him annoyed or  _____ .  He was pleased by it. It made the boy more interesti     
[010] aordinary influence over me. I worshipped you.  I  was  _____  of everyone you spoke to. I wanted to have you  all to     
[011] n. And now he  understood  more the painter's wild and  _____  feelings, and he felt sorry.  There was something trag     
[012] nk took their  family name. But Mrs Churchill was very  _____  and wanted  to.  keep Frank far herself. Although Fran     
[013] at  his father had not put his arms around him. He was  _____   because Maximus was asked to help Marcus onto the hor     
[014]  but he tried not  to believe that.  There were always  _____  people saying bad things about  the  royal family.  Ma     
[015] ty-  four days-and one morning." Marcus laughed. "I am  _____   of you, Maximus. Your home is good something to fight     
[016] od  up. 'You don't understand Ashley or me, and you're  _____  of  something you can't understand.' She turned and wa     
[017] d the terrible lie about Ashley and Scarlett, and was   _____ ?' she thought suddenly. "No, he's too sensible. He's       
[018]  of them then, and I am  not ashamed of them now. I am  _____  of the strength of  character that I used to have. Whe     
[019] he got in the way of Marian's  plans. I felt angry and  _____ . If Trimingham came with us,  the trip would not be as     
[020]  in silence. I did not like it at all. I  already felt  _____  of Trimingham, and this news about what  had happened      
[021]  browner than before. He looked  so strong that I felt  _____ . It was not easy to connect him  with spooning or with     
[022] ' He  stopped.  'Yes?' I looked at him.  'When they're  _____ . They'd like to do it themselves.'  'If you spoon with     
[023] talked about my success. I  wondered if he was feeling  _____  of it.  I said, generously, 'You could do as much, or      
[024] armer, I admired his strength. At the  same time I was  _____  of him. He had some power over  Marian that I did not      
[025] e?'  'He thought that she loved another man.'  'Was he  _____ ?' I asked.  'Yes. It happened in France. The two men f     


	
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[001] hier-looking than the  crowd  at the Professional Golf  _____  tournament he attended  several weeks ago.    AT ESPN      
[002] he Houston Comets for the Women's National  Basketball  _____  title. "We want New York to win," said  Rebecca, a gua     
[003] nd  leading  scorer of the Women's National Basketball  _____ ,  ended the  Liberty's first season. Houston's one-wom     
[004] h a large central community park that the condominium   _____  would maintain. Skidmore Owings & Merrill's  New York      
[005]  was absorbed into what is now the Jewish  Child Care   _____ . According to Jane Barowitz, a spokesman for  the  org     
[006] n the October  convention of the National Storytellers  _____  in  Jonesborough, Tenn. But in more central ways, this     
[007]  industry,  as the recent rapid growth of the National  _____  of  Investors attests. The                                 
[008]                             of  Investors attests. The  _____ , founded in 1951 by four  investment clubs in Detroit      
[009] ublic offerings. In 1987, 7,500  clubs belonged to the  _____ ; today that number is  31,000,  and collectively they      
[010] ut the Women in Military Service for America Memorial   _____ . Griggs, who'll be 75 on New Year's Eve, has  been  he     
[011] tioning in America. The  Recreational Vehicle Industry  _____  reports that in  1996 RV  sales reached a record $12.      
[012] d up to say  he is  going to the Southeast Booksellers  _____  meeting in  Mobile,  Ala, in September, he knows I am      
[013] in  the semifinals of the Women's National Basketball   _____   playoffs, the air of confidence that had surrounded t     
[014] between Canada-based Loewen and the  nation's  largest  _____  of African American churches, (Charles)  Johnson's chu     
[015]  after match point.    The Women's National Basketball  _____ , which wraps  up its  inaugural season this afternoon      
[016] en conducting for 32 years for the Muscular Dystrophy   _____ . The pressure on Lewis this year will be to pass  the      
[017] spoke to the team manager of the English  Lawn  Tennis  _____ , Pam de Gruchy. PG: You see, we've  already  seen two      
[018] in an article in the  Journal of the  American Medical  _____  (Volume 248,  page  3113), it is necessary to take 20      
[019] s money in.' Speech to Oxford University  Conservative  _____ , November 1994 On the welfare  state: 'I  believe that     
[020] swegians that don't' Speech to Wokingham Conservative   _____ , February 1995 On the Labour leadership: 'Tony  Blair      
[021] y love to say so.'  Chesham and  Amersham Conservative  _____ , May 1995 On  education: 'Only  the Conservative Party     
[022] lifornia at Los Angeles and at London's Architectural   _____ , it is Modernists, with their conceptions of rigour  a     
[023] t had the results externally validated. The  National   _____  for the Teaching of English, which represents  English     
[024] k by tomorrow.  Anne  Barnes, general secretary of the  _____ , said SCAA  should  take immediate action to calm scho     
[025] says Margaret Lochrie from the Pre-School Play-groups   _____ , 'and I would want to know far more about the  qualifi     


	
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[001]  Rosa  doesn't mean  I like roses. I actually like the  _____ , and some of the art  you'll see here is thorny, so I      


	
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[001] ependent man. There's almost  nothing he can't make or  _____ . When he gives an opinion,  he is right.  So when he t     
[002] , and anything which had gone  wrong. He could make or  _____  anything. But he was really  an inventor - the great A     
[003] e did, he'd make it a better place. Instead, I have to  _____  it  and make it better.' 'Cod wants mc here,' Mr Strus     
[004] eks were nearly defeated.  Patroclus,  Achilles's best  _____ , fought in Achilles's armour to give the  Greeks confi     
[005]   diaspora.    Six months after the state GOP vowed to  _____  relations with  Latino voters, the party's rehabilitat     
[006] , do you throw it  away and  buy a new  one, or try to  _____  it? J: I try first to                                      
[007]                                  it? J: I try first to  _____   anything that breaks, then if I  can't I try to get i     
[008] bed and I began to  wonder what to do next. I couldn't  _____  roads for ever.  Just before five o'clock an open tour     
[009] as  taken to hospital. His broken  leg needed time to   _____ , and so he was left behind when his ship sailed away.      
[010] swered.  'What happens if you're badly injured?'  'You  _____  as fast as possible and get back to work.'  'And what      
[011] e and get back to work.'  'And what if it's too bad to  _____ ?'  'You've got a problem. But there's always the Injur     
[012] ependent man. There's almost  nothing he can't make or  _____ . When he gives an opinion,  he is right.  So when he t     
[013] , and anything which had gone  wrong. He could make or  _____  anything. But he was really  an inventor - the great A     
[014] e did, he'd make it a better place. Instead, I have to  _____  it  and make it better.' 'Cod wants mc here,' Mr Strus     
[015] eks were nearly defeated.  Patroclus,  Achilles's best  _____ , fought in Achilles's armour to give the  Greeks confi     


	
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[001] e kissed and then walked along to one of the extremely  _____   cafes in the square. We ordered two of the large bowl     
[002] y happy in Mr  Brownlow's house. Everything was quiet,  _____  and clean.  Mr Brownlow bought him new clothes and a p     
[003] . He was left in a clean, comfortable carriage  where   _____ , well-dressed people were working. Yury was surprised      
[004] s:  'The old lady who owned the house before me was so  _____ ,  everything was in perfect condition when I moved in.     
[005] ding around to watch what's going on - it's not safe.   _____  up any  glass etc on the road. A) Obtain the following     
[006] owever, these  hotels are mainly quiet and clean, they  _____  your room for you,  and some reduce  their prices in t     
[007] policemen to guide our people. They see  England  as a  _____   little museum, rather than a real country with ugly       
[008] stic. I mean, England isn't  ALL  lovely, traditional,  _____  little villages full of tea shops,  sweet old ladies,      
[009] ine.  'We  raised our children to always look neat and  _____  - and  now  look at them!'  complain their parents.  *     
[010] Paul never helps me. He likes tidiness but is not too   _____  himself! If I'm  working or going out I have a cleanin     
[011]  Every  morning I get the papers at the newsagents and  _____  up  the  office. When the postman brings the day's mai     
[012] ad been a very careful  man, and always kept the place  _____ . Someone had been  searching for something, and perhap     
[013] else perfectly well themselves.  They keep the gardens  _____  and their  maid-servants busy. They have opinions on e     
[014] saw Sofia go  into  Stratos's office.  My room was now  _____  and my jacket was over the back of a  chair.  Frances'     
[015] upper.  After that, I  began to make the sitting  room  _____ . I put away  a lot of magazines and newspapers and the     
[016] lly felt sleepy, he  forgot, for the First time in his  _____ ,  sensible life, to blow out the candle, and the next      
[017] nds were  never dirty and her hair was always neat and  _____ .  Eight years, thought Bee. Eight years since the sudd     
[018] hink he  jumped.'  We stopped in front of Aunt Helen's  _____  brick house. The  next two  hours were diicult for  me     
[019] make-up. She took  me to Boom Boom's  office, a small,  _____  room with maps of the Lakes covering  the walls.  'Can     
[020] . As she turned, she put her hands up to  her  hair to  _____  it, and looked down at the  market and up at the sky.      
[021] r, and she kicked it out of the way.  'The place isn't  _____ . Had no time. Been ironing. Come in.'  It was a large      
[022] ed to Edgar and Isabella, who are always so clean and   _____ . Well, Heathcli, have you forgotten me?' But, ashamed      
[023] ace, and he did not even try to keep himself dean and   _____ . He seemed to want people to dislike him. Catherine  a     
[024] sure, but on the whole I liked  having everything very  _____  and calm all  round me, and not  being asked to do thi     
[025] n common with Jane Austen. She  liked everything to be  _____  and pleasant  and comfortable about  her, and so do I.     


	
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[001]  a "gloomy little  town" with "everything submerged in  _____  darkness." Long  considered Ireland's most entrenched      
[002] led with smoky chicken and Gruyere and festooned with   _____   cream and black olives - plenty for two to share. Or      
[003]   rightly famous in the whole world. I mean, sweet and  _____   sauce, beef and  green peppers, garlic...  ***   Ange     
[004] evelops it as a  tale  of complicated involvements and  _____  exclusions.  MacNeice's  father's family, we gather, w     
[005] om the cellar!' Joseph was a very old servant,  with a  _____  expression on his face. He looked crossly up at  me as     
[006] down the old well.  'Tes Nature, ye might  say, turned  _____  in her blood.'  Flora wanted to hear no more. She felt     
[007] ainly had. Eliza was very tall and thin, with a rather  _____   face,  dressed in very plain clothes,  and with a cro     


	
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[001] o spill out of doors, into  full public view, like the  _____  scheduled for Sunday  afternoon, Sept. 7, in Flushing,     
[002] all over her desk and did not notice until  the little  _____  had entered Woods' office.  Ken Robertson was sitting      
[003] the funeral. In Crossroads, ?i  thousands marched in a  _____  that went on for a whole  i  day and into the night, w     
[004]   Suddenly they heard a song in the distance, and the   _____  arrived, moving slowly through the crowd and  across t     
[005] h the crowd, hands  reached out to touch it.  When the  _____  reached the platform, the coin was  lifted on to the p