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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] ife, and he cut  himself badly. George tried with some  _____ . The                                                       
[002]                                                 . The   _____  flew up, and nearly hit him in the eye. I tried to mak     
[003] r are enough. Cut four o  and see.' She took a pair of  _____  out of her  bag and passed them to Pris.  J. R. Isidor     
[004] t around here. It'll die anyway.' She reached for the   _____ .  Please,' Isidore said.  Pris looked up at him. Is it     
[005] orth something?'  Don't hurt it,' he begged.  With the  _____ , Pris cut off one of the spider's legs. In the  living     
[006] And nobody knows. No  humans, I mean.'  Pris, with the  _____ , cut another leg off the spider.  Suddenly John Isidor     
[007] im. Was it the same spider  that Pris had cut with her  _____ ? Probably not. He would  never know. But at least it w     
[008] I was there.  . But one day I managed to get a pair of  _____ , and -  would  you believe it, madam? - I cut off all      
[009] The  second evening they had learned how keys and nail  _____   could be  used as weapons. Now  they had learned  'Wh     
[010] eally?' said Flora, looking in her sewing-box for her   _____ .  'Aye. That's all women want - a man's life. Then whe     
[011]  'But what else?' screamed the Frenchman, seizing his   _____  to cut the silk. 'It is to wear white that  God, once      
[012] r brushed, and it often  had  flowers worked into it. ' _____  will  never touch my hair  again,' they used to say. S     
[013] ife, and he cut  himself badly. George tried with some  _____ . The                                                       
[014]                                                 . The   _____  flew up, and nearly hit him in the eye. I tried to mak     
[015] r are enough. Cut four o  and see.' She took a pair of  _____  out of her  bag and passed them to Pris.  J. R. Isidor     
[016] t around here. It'll die anyway.' She reached for the   _____ .  Please,' Isidore said.  Pris looked up at him. Is it     
[017] orth something?'  Don't hurt it,' he begged.  With the  _____ , Pris cut off one of the spider's legs. In the  living     
[018] And nobody knows. No  humans, I mean.'  Pris, with the  _____ , cut another leg off the spider.  Suddenly John Isidor     
[019] im. Was it the same spider  that Pris had cut with her  _____ ? Probably not. He would  never know. But at least it w     
[020] I was there.  . But one day I managed to get a pair of  _____ , and -  would  you believe it, madam? - I cut off all      
[021] The  second evening they had learned how keys and nail  _____   could be  used as weapons. Now  they had learned  'Wh     
[022] eally?' said Flora, looking in her sewing-box for her   _____ .  'Aye. That's all women want - a man's life. Then whe     
[023]  'But what else?' screamed the Frenchman, seizing his   _____  to cut the silk. 'It is to wear white that  God, once      


	

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[001] t do you do with all those?' he asked.  'Put them in a  _____ .'  Steve looked at the Nikon camera. 'Dad saw some of      
[002]  into the sitting room with our coee. I pulled  open a  _____  and took out some boxes. 'Here you are  - Lambourn vil     
[003] '  I smiled. 'All right.'  I put the box back into the  _____ . When her boss  returned, he saw  only the photographs     
[004] ou want anything? Tea?'  'Find some champagne. Kitchen  _____ .'  Jeremy thought that I was mad, but he found a bottl     
[005] st of all, there was  a second bottle of whisky in the  _____ . He got to his feet  and walked drunkenly across the r     
[006] empty room.  There, he locked it, face downwards, in a  _____ , then  closed and locked the door of the empty  room.      
[007]  excited, hurried to the  empty room. He unlocked the   _____ , took out the picture, still face downwards, and,  wit     
[008] l well,' Isidore said. He took a cup out of a  kitchen  _____  and stood holding it for a while  he didn't know for h     
[009] imon brought a jacket and a pair of trousers out of a   _____  and saw  Brat looking at a small silver cup. He smiled     
[010] e put his hat on his shaved head. 'The key to the big   _____  is in my grey trousers. If you want any money,  take i     
[011] trousers. If you want any money,  take it from the big  _____ . But spend it very carefully.'  The children did not u     
[012] . 'Thank you, Mr  Grafalk.'  Grafalk opened the drinks  _____ . 'A drink, Vic? You  don't mind if  I call you that, d     
[013] own it to my hand.  In the dining room I kicked over a  _____  with glasses in  it. The                                   
[014]                              with glasses in  it. The   _____  crashed to the  floor. I ran behind the  table and wip     
[015]  ready. Laura! Get me the big basket  from the kitchen  _____ .'  'But mother, do you really think it's a good idea?'     
[016] home?' He took a bottle and two pink  glasses out of a  _____ . 'If ever you want to  spend one or two days in Munich     
[017] e and found you, I went  east.  There's a deep clothes  _____  in my bedroom. It  looked like a good hiding-place. I      
[018] ure I touched a hand. And nobody could get out of  the  _____ , because I was standing in the doorway. What  do you       
[019] n imagined  he had touched someone's hand in an empty   _____ ? I tried to laugh at myself, but I did not succeed.  W     
[020] ibly, just as I  was about to hide little Hareton in a  _____ .  I was always afraid that Hindley would hurt his smal     
[021] indley  discovered my plan.  'Ah, you keep my son in a  _____ , do you!' he cried angrily,  picking up a sharp kitche     
[022] ne, pointing at one who was  crying half inside a boot  _____ .  ''Tes poor Rennet,' said Elfine sleepily. 'You see h     
[023] eep the children inside,' Woods ordered.  He went to a  _____  in the hall, reached up, and pulled  open the top draw     
[024] ll! I  must have a drink.'  There's some whisky in the  _____ . You're drinking  rather a lot these days, aren't you,     
[025]  sort of work Ashton had done there.  Hidden behind  a  _____  in  Ashton's bedroom, was a  heavy steel door with the     


	

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[001] . The women wore coloured  woollen hats and scarves. A  _____  was shaving a man's  head by the side of the road. Mon     
[002] er his name. The most recent of those, "In  Memory of   _____  Mack, " which is expected to be released this fall,  w     
[003] ably wide receiver Ike Hilliard and running back Tiki   _____ ,  (Jim) Fassel said: "I can't be afraid of playing roo     
[004] sive work has been  with  the rookie running back Tiki  _____  and the rookie wide  receiver  Ike Hilliard. Unlike fo     
[005] . The women wore coloured  woollen hats and scarves. A  _____  was shaving a man's  head by the side of the road. Mon     


	

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[001] yer looked in the drawer in his desk. He pulled  out a  _____  book and threw it on the desk in front of Hu.  'Yeah,      
[002] d to the Chinese  shop.  Hu looked up 'used to' in the  _____  book. The explanation  didn't help her. . She started      
[003] d the shops where you buy them together. I have  some   _____  pages where I write irregular verbs, or a page for  pr     
[004] ion at regular intervals.' He  strolled on again. 'His  _____  is perfect,' said my friend, 'if  a little formal, but     
[005] ere to do lots of undulations, but  also to work out a  _____ . The                                                       
[006]                                                  . The  _____ 's important: it's a  worked-out piece of architecture      
[007]  the age of eight. He  went to a  local elementary and  _____  school and then read English  at  Leeds University. Af     
[008] rs of teaching practice and 15  hours  of methodology ( _____ , language awareness, workshops)  per week,  plus essay     
[009]  home, he  suffered a  wholly English education at the  _____  School at Cyfarthfa  and,  after nearly losing his Wel     
[010]  low-income area     By JUDITH JUDD    When Manchester  _____  School floated its proposal to  return to  the state s     
[011] to douse speculation  about a  revival of direct-grant  _____  schools. The scheme,  however, is  a child of its time     
[012] sive just as frantically as they lobbied to  get  into  _____  schools. Perhaps the least controversial way of  addre     
[013] born in  Wednesbury in 1906 and educated at Handsworth  _____   School and  Magdalen College, Oxford, from which he g     
[014] yer looked in the drawer in his desk. He pulled  out a  _____  book and threw it on the desk in front of Hu.  'Yeah,      
[015] d to the Chinese  shop.  Hu looked up 'used to' in the  _____  book. The explanation  didn't help her. . She started      


	

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[001] ometimes these  simple things get forgotten. There is   _____  available... ?'  Yes, we brought in machinery for maki     
[002] ailable... ?'  Yes, we brought in machinery for making  _____  about  Five years ago and it works very well.  It's ma     
[003] it, Walters,' said Bell, smiling. 'Perhaps it was the   _____  Man! Let me tell you  something. That woman  killed he     
[004] y five  years.  'They're going to shoot Curtis full of  _____  next Saturday,  Mr  Nudger,' Holly Ann said. Her  wide     
[005] h rice and bread,  served  on big plates. There was no  _____  in the house but two  oil  lamps hung from the ceiling     
[006] rooms long after all Lord Pastmaster's  neighbours had  _____ .  In the last fifty years, Hampshire people had gradua     
[007] ere the electrical  equipment was. He switched off the  _____  that was  heating the dome. The house would take a lon     
[008] r coming through the  wires as he had switched off the  _____  to freeze Lellie  out. He. went back to the small buil     
[009]  He. went back to the small building and switched the   _____  on again. The lights in the house went on, and he  kne     
[010]  went on, and he  knew that Lellie would guess why the  _____  had been  switched on.  In a few minutes he had cut a      
[011] se  up and meet the other plate. When they connected,   _____  would flow along the wire to the box that would  set o     
[012] f there was any air still left in the Hunter, and  any  _____  to drive the motor.  The Captain held a microphone aga     
[013]  to be careful. If he went too far, there would  be no  _____ , and certain metals would be unknown. So  he would not     
[014] ge and black animal, a squirrel, was running along an   _____  line over the Soi.                                         
[015]                                     line over the Soi.  _____  lines ran across the  Soi in a hundred dierent directi     
[016] of the street in big balls. Hu thought these balls of   _____  lines looked like spaghetti. The squirrels used the        
[017]   lines looked like spaghetti. The squirrels used the   _____  lines like motorways, running to and from whatever  im     
[018]  went out. 'Don't worry,' said Bernard. 'It's just an   _____  cut. Beatrice, get the candles and then go to bed.'  B     
[019] lary at Corvo Pharmaceuticals.  There was some kind of  _____  between us in the car as  we drove along the lakeside      
[020] e in the top of the box. The smell  was terrible.  'No  _____  needed, no moving parts. This machine will  keep going     
[021] ' Father asked, 'when it's  no longer possible to make  _____ ?' 'I won't be here in the  future.' 'That's typical to     
[022]  it.  'There are no policemen there, no telephones, no  _____ ,  no aeroplanes - nothing. It's about as unimportant a     
[023] en the petrol finishes, we'll pull the boat along. No   _____ . no machines, no chemicals. Just hard work. The  rest      
[024]  Sixty-nine thousand volts surging through that line.   _____ . Poisoned juice. Silent death. Kelly can't forget.  Hi     
[025] 00, for letting traders buy a big  stake  in Yorkshire  _____  Group P. L. C. in late 1994, when  other  SBC executiv     


	

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[001] he wrote her  address quickly on a  piece of paper - 9  _____   Reach - and gave it to him. He took it, and turned to     
[002] s politely.  'By the way, Lewis,' said Morse, 'where's  _____  Reach?'  'It's in Oxford, sir, near the                    
[003]                Reach?'  'It's in Oxford, sir, near the  _____ , down in Jericho.'  The first death in Jericho  Oxford     
[004] north-west of the  city, between Walton Street and the  _____ , is called Jericho.  Its  houses are small and narrow,     
[005]  turn off Walton Street  and drive  slowly towards the  _____ .  Surely                                                   
[006]                                              .  Surely  _____  Reach  must be very close? The narrow streets made par     
[007] ut at last he managed to park in a street next to the   _____ , and walked back into                                      
[008]                                 , and walked back into  _____   Street. He thought  he saw a parking ticket on a larg     
[009]  problems  no longer interested him. He had arrived at  _____  Reach,  and now he  hesitated, wondering  why he was t     
[010]  to traic by three solid  posts at one end, and by the  _____  at the other. Although it  was  getting dark, there we     
[011]   drinks he said, 'There's a  bit of trouble near the   _____ . Police cars, ambulance... Something's happened.  '  B     
[012] ps he had always been too late. And as he turned into   _____   Street, there, ahead of him,  stood an ambulance  and     
[013] who he was to the  policeman guarding  the entrance to  _____   Reach, and was  allowed to pass.  Inside number 9 the     
[014] adness. But not tonight.  Suicide or murder?  Inside 9  _____  Reach, Constable Walters entered the  kitchen.  'Inspe     
[015] ote which was delivered and  received.  From number 10  _____  Reach, George Jackson continued4  to watch the house o     
[016]  Inspector Bell searched the two  small bedrooms  of 9  _____  Reach,  looking for clues. They  found large piles of      
[017]  the inquest too, would you?'  So Walters went back to  _____  Reach that afternoon.  Morse's question  about Anne's      
[018]  was almost out of  the door  and then - 'Somebody in   _____  Reach knows something about those keys. Try  number  .     
[019] ld see that the wall between the back  garden and  the  _____  had recently  been repaired. He  went up to the front      
[020] est,  Morse  interviewed most of Anne's  neighbours in  _____   Reach. Some of the information he received was useful     
[021]  a police inspector, and needed to get  into  number 9  _____  Reach (which  was quite true), but  that he had left h     
[022] t Morse carried out his plan. He walked rapidly  along  _____   Reach to the                                              
[023]                                           Reach to the  _____  at the  end. There were no  lights on at number 9 or n     
[024] ater, he walked  along beside the low wall between the  _____  and number 9,  and jumped  quickly over into  Anne Sco     
[025] all in the same way as before. But as  he walked  into  _____  Reach,  thinking he was safe at  last, a heavy hand fe     


	

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[001] xcept for Joseph and me. Joseph enjoyed being able to   _____  his wicked employer, with warnings from the Bible, and     
[002]  all her orders, and  Joseph and I were not allowed to  _____  her any more.  Edgar Linton was still in love with her     
[003] en  Heathcli entered the house, Catherine was ready to  _____   him.  'Leave Isabella alone, Heathcli!' she ordered.      
[004] elp  you!' she told her husband. 'That'll teach you to  _____  me!' Mr  Edgar tried to get hold of the key, but she t     
[005] didn't forbid me to leave the Grange  garden! He won't  _____  me, Ellen. He's never cross, like you!  And I've been      
[006] gain.  But I was surprised to find that Bessie did not  _____  me at all.  In  fact she was so kind to me that I beca     
[007] oing my  homework. You see, Miss Scatcherd is right to  _____  me.'  'Is Miss Temple as strict as that?' I asked.  A      
[008] d so sincere that I forgave him at once in my heart.  ' _____  me, Jane! Tell me how wicked I am!' he said.  'Sir, I      
[009] xcept for Joseph and me. Joseph enjoyed being able to   _____  his wicked employer, with warnings from the Bible, and     
[010]  all her orders, and  Joseph and I were not allowed to  _____  her any more.  Edgar Linton was still in love with her     
[011] en  Heathcli entered the house, Catherine was ready to  _____   him.  'Leave Isabella alone, Heathcli!' she ordered.      
[012] elp  you!' she told her husband. 'That'll teach you to  _____  me!' Mr  Edgar tried to get hold of the key, but she t     
[013] didn't forbid me to leave the Grange  garden! He won't  _____  me, Ellen. He's never cross, like you!  And I've been      
[014] gain.  But I was surprised to find that Bessie did not  _____  me at all.  In  fact she was so kind to me that I beca     
[015] oing my  homework. You see, Miss Scatcherd is right to  _____  me.'  'Is Miss Temple as strict as that?' I asked.  A      
[016] d so sincere that I forgave him at once in my heart.  ' _____  me, Jane! Tell me how wicked I am!' he said.  'Sir, I      


	

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[001] in the envelope. I  drove to the Port and  dropped the  _____  with Janet. As I left the of fice, I met  Phillips.  '     
[002] y!' Mary called excitedly. 'It's for me and  Duncan! A  _____ !'  Duncan rushed out of the living room. 'It's true, M     
[003] . 'Of course, if it's for  you.'  Duncan tore open the  _____  and held up a T-shirt. There  was a picture of Biko pr     
[004] ll dark outside, I wrapped up some spare  clothes in a  _____ ,. and put a little money in a purse. As I  crept  down     
[005] he coach. As it rolled away, I  realized I had left my  _____  inside, and given the coachman  all the  coins in my p     
[006] e newspaper man arrived on  his motorbike and gave his  _____  of newspapers to the man  at the entrance of the apart     
[007] ters' success in their two-week strike against  United  _____  Service, and with the A. F. L. -C. I. O. training  tho     
[008]  the union's victory in its strike  against the United  _____  Service, Teamster President Ron  Carey  seems the favo     
[009] ugust,  two  years later, the Teamsters stunned United  _____  Service,  winning  wage increases and promises of more     
[010]  Carey led the teamsters in the strike against  United  _____  Service. Mr. Hoffa had earlier filed a complaint  accu     
[011] soon choose whether to  sell USEC  in one piece, or to  _____  out shares in a public offering. That  has touched off     
[012] in the envelope. I  drove to the Port and  dropped the  _____  with Janet. As I left the of fice, I met  Phillips.  '     
[013] y!' Mary called excitedly. 'It's for me and  Duncan! A  _____ !'  Duncan rushed out of the living room. 'It's true, M     
[014] . 'Of course, if it's for  you.'  Duncan tore open the  _____  and held up a T-shirt. There  was a picture of Biko pr     
[015] ll dark outside, I wrapped up some spare  clothes in a  _____ ,. and put a little money in a purse. As I  crept  down     
[016] he coach. As it rolled away, I  realized I had left my  _____  inside, and given the coachman  all the  coins in my p     
[017] e newspaper man arrived on  his motorbike and gave his  _____  of newspapers to the man  at the entrance of the apart     


	

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[001] at her fat white legs. 'The old cat,' she  said,  'the  _____  old cat!' Then she began to pull on her clothes.  'Oh,     
[002]  won't catch him. Not if I  can stop them. Men are all  _____ . I don't  care what he's done or not done. Do what you     
[003] wled. 'Then, watch out!'  Biko sat down near Woods. 'A  _____  policeman is a                                             
[004]                                         policeman is a  _____   policeman,' he said quietly. 'He breaks heads for the     
[005] hape itself as the party of the center, rather than a   _____  core, and convince Mexicans it represents an  alternat     
[006] at her fat white legs. 'The old cat,' she  said,  'the  _____  old cat!' Then she began to pull on her clothes.  'Oh,     
[007]  won't catch him. Not if I  can stop them. Men are all  _____ . I don't  care what he's done or not done. Do what you     
[008] wled. 'Then, watch out!'  Biko sat down near Woods. 'A  _____  policeman is a                                             
[009]                                         policeman is a  _____   policeman,' he said quietly. 'He breaks heads for the     


	

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[001] my helmet, and felt  absolutely  miserable.   A Box of  _____   'Bad luck,' they said in the weighing room.  I felt a     
[002] is?' I asked Steve.  'That's Dad's box of photographic  _____ ,' he said. 'He  never threw  it away. He usually kept      
[003] graph in an envelope.  'Those were all in Dad's box of  _____ ,' Steve said. 'He  wanted to  remember his worst  mist     
[004] w  them away.'  I put George's worst mistakes into his  _____  box. Why had  George  kept them? I wanted to  discover     
[005]  left soon afterwards. I took with me George's box of   _____ .  'Can I take it?' I asked Steve.  'Of course,' Steve      
[006] I know that you like photography.  Dad liked  that old  _____ , too, so  you take it.'  He watched me put the box in      
[007] ldn't turn  back.  I picked up George Millace's box of  _____  from the car and  opened it  on the table in the  kitc     
[008] n the table in the  kitchen. Why had George  kept this  _____ ? His mistakes didn't look interesting or  special. I       
[009] made coee. Jeremy  looked at  George Millace's box  of  _____ .  'It's just                                               
[010]                                          .  'It's just  _____ ,' I said. I picked up the envelope and slid out  the       
[011] uld burn my house or beat me. I left  George's box  of  _____  on the table  in the kitchen.  The next day I rode aga     
[012] rank champagne and looked at  George  Millace's box of  _____ .  'I want to spend today on that,' I said.  Jeremy ope     
[013] out. He was  disappointed.  'These are nothing - just   _____ .'  'Mmm.' I picked up a piece of dear looking film. 'L     
[014] '  We went back into the kitchen. 'Look at that box of  _____ ,' I  said.  'I've discovered two of  George's secrets.     
[015] n at the table in the kitchen and looked again at the   _____  in George Millace's box. I wanted to discover his  sec     
[016]   it's my fault. Why hadn't I  burned George Millace's  _____ ?  The ambulance arrived, and a police car, and Harold,     
[017] . I began to feel  better. I  fetched George's box of   _____  and took the piece  of plastic from the black envelope     
[018] 5 had been pushing out paper covered with  meaningless  _____ . Patiently, endlessly, the  computer had been rearrang     
[019] The book was indeed badly  written and a lot of it was  _____ , but one bit caught my eye.  It was about Casting the      
[020] d said something wrong.  The whole building is full of  _____  that people left when  they died or emigrated. As you      
[021] e left when  they died or emigrated. As you sleep, the  _____   grows and grows.'  I see,' said the girl uncertainly.     
[022] 't win.'  Why not?' she asked.  Nobody can win against  _____ ,' he answered. In my  apartment the situation is under     
[023] uation is under control, but if I die  or go away, the  _____  will cover it again. The whole world  is  moving that      
[024]  of paper. Polokov has taken a  job with the city as a  _____  collector.'  Don't only specials do that kind of work?     
[025] g you could become  very rich these days by collecting  _____ . An oicial there  checked the timetables.  Polokov sho