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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]  in the world of imagination, I  forgot my sad, lonely  _____  for a while, and  was happy. I was only afraid that my     
[002] ge  cast as Seth, an angel who yearns to lead a mortal  _____   after he falls in love with a doctor (played by Meg R     
[003] office, speaking about brutalities of his neocolonial   _____ . Fadope, who grew up in Nigeria during the 1970s  and      
[004] ran said that  one of the greatest jokes in his absurd  _____  was when in  1974 the Spanish regime of Franco, alread     
[005] eath: Biology  blurs  the beginnings and ends of human  _____      By DR JOHN HABGOOD    One of the tasks of moral le     
[006] ll  in  our body is human. But what is at issue is the  _____  of 'a  new human being', and that - at the very minimu     
[007] rove of it, but rather that I have always  doubted its  _____ . Any cultural censorship that had  occurred  in modern     
[008] ject's felt reality -  of the messy, boozy, accidental  _____  which made him  what he  was. But there are substantia     
[009] s effects and success on his quick-fire, quick-change   _____ . Its rhythms race and tumble, and its clauses  spawn       
[010]  outbreak of war in  1939  slowed down the race of his  _____ , he continued to write  at  an exceptional rate. This      
[011] athroom wrapped in a large white  towel.  I've been in  _____  for two years now,' she said. How  much longer do you      
[012]  I think we know,' Roy Baty said. Mercerism came into   _____ ...'  But think about this.' Buster Friendly was still      
[013]  and turned the  pages to TOAD. There were no toads in  _____ .  A box. He looked in the back of the car and found on     
[014]  in the world of imagination, I  forgot my sad, lonely  _____  for a while, and  was happy. I was only afraid that my     


	
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[001] oaded with delicious-looking food, she was  completely  _____ . She went upstairs to visit  Aunt Ada for a short  tim     
[002] ering to think. Their planet  was dying, and they were  _____  to die with it.'  'Well,' said Duncan, 'this one's rat     
[003] retting the departure of her visitors,  appeared quite  _____  with her domestic arrangements. Mr  Collins took care      
[004] g their conversation with  the housekeeper, who seemed  _____  to talk about her  master.  'Mr Darcy is a very handso     
[005] erests, too. She worked constantly,  but she. was very  _____ .  This was exactly the life she had dreamed of. She wa     
[006] ing. As a family, they were closer than ever  and very  _____ . In fact, Yury wrote in his diary that his  profession     
[007] nts. Until recently, Western political  leadership was  _____  to see its troops keep the opposing  military forces i     
[008] helmed the scope of  this  simple, affectionate story.  _____  to let readers discover  Chatwin for themselves, she p     
[009] ed anyway. A court  ruled  that AOL was not liable for  _____  provided by someone  else. In  Doe v. America Online,      
[010] lowest) to four in six core areas:  curriculum design,  _____  and organisation; teaching,  learning  and assessment;     
[011] panies.' But Professor Farber agrees that the  course   _____ , though important, is only part of the draw of an MBA      
[012] eaves their  options open. 'It has sufficient academic  _____  to be  recognised by universities, but there is a lot      
[013] Anderson maintains that the diploma has more academic   _____   than the GNVQs and NVQs developed by further educatio     
[014] cer of the  liver, he still insisted that he was quite  _____  and  maintained  an unflinchingly optimistic outlook,      
[015] oaded with delicious-looking food, she was  completely  _____ . She went upstairs to visit  Aunt Ada for a short  tim     
[016] ering to think. Their planet  was dying, and they were  _____  to die with it.'  'Well,' said Duncan, 'this one's rat     
[017] retting the departure of her visitors,  appeared quite  _____  with her domestic arrangements. Mr  Collins took care      
[018] g their conversation with  the housekeeper, who seemed  _____  to talk about her  master.  'Mr Darcy is a very handso     
[019] erests, too. She worked constantly,  but she. was very  _____ .  This was exactly the life she had dreamed of. She wa     
[020] ing. As a family, they were closer than ever  and very  _____ . In fact, Yury wrote in his diary that his  profession     


	
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[001] n understand it in Grimes'  case. He has everything to  _____  by the arrangement, but  what  does Flossie expect to      
[002]  by the arrangement, but  what  does Flossie expect to  _____ ? Very little, if anything. But she  seems more enthusi     
[003] nt is too heavy for those evil men who make  financial  _____  from providing such pleasures.' So Paul was  sent to p     
[004] ve successfully in a  world I understand. So I think I  _____  more than I lose.  However, I am Terry Moreton. As you     
[005] ly  become a priest, and have been fortunate enough to  _____  the  patronage of lady Catherine de Bourgh, widow of S     
[006] t more important to  do what his sisters want, than to  _____  the happiness of being  his wife, I certainly advise y     
[007] change established perceptions that will be needed to   _____  23  owners voting to return to the Coliseum, and has y     
[008] ne of the first Southern California art  movements  to  _____  critical acclaim. Collectors and museums eagerly  purc     
[009] re made  up by  frustrated census takers who could not  _____  access to  homes,  according to the General Accounting     
[010] s of 1 percent from three-tenths of 1 percent. July's   _____  was the largest since a 1. 1 percent advance in Januar     
[011] eated Fame, the musical  fairy-tale  which is about to  _____  its third incarnation as a stage  production in London     
[012] ose of national curriculum tests at seven  and  11, to  _____  a fuller picture of primary schools' performance.  Mor     
[013] this summer the authority will  be one of the first to  _____  information about the 'value added'  in its primary sc     
[014] hemselves. 'For UK students, it is an  opportunity  to  _____  some international experience,' he says. 'Living in  B     
[015] ies in  the earnings of men and women graduates. Women  _____   least  financial advantage from a degree in Austria,      
[016] niversity  cities  have colleges where such people can  _____  valuable  qualifications  towards a future career - an     
[017] contrast with how I feel now is stark. Shared classes   _____  from the arrival of a fresh and enthusiastic face half     
[018] f 1,100 recognised sailing  schools around Britain, or  _____  experience in warmer waters  abroad. The Royal Yachtin     
[019] , 17, is taking four arts A-levels  and is expected to  _____  top grades in each. Her parents, an  electrician and a     
[020] l  position. What about motive? What did Celia have to  _____   from  Jessie's death? There's no money or property in     
[021] n understand it in Grimes'  case. He has everything to  _____  by the arrangement, but  what  does Flossie expect to      
[022]  by the arrangement, but  what  does Flossie expect to  _____ ? Very little, if anything. But she  seems more enthusi     
[023] nt is too heavy for those evil men who make  financial  _____  from providing such pleasures.' So Paul was  sent to p     
[024] ve successfully in a  world I understand. So I think I  _____  more than I lose.  However, I am Terry Moreton. As you     
[025] ly  become a priest, and have been fortunate enough to  _____  the  patronage of lady Catherine de Bourgh, widow of S     


	
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[001] During the years  after leaving prison, he produced no  _____  work. He died in  November 1900, at the age of forty-s     
[002] t it has produced a  combination of legal analysis and  _____  references. The  latter  are chiefly to the life and w     
[003] uspense story, yet attempts the thoughtful  stance of   _____  fiction, he undertakes to flesh out the cartoon  redne     
[004] eland, is one of these  rebel  leaders with remarkable  _____  achievements. Like almost  all  the others, Adams has      
[005] hat  has all of  Hollywood riveted recently acquired a  _____  bent. The Walt  Disney Co. said it won't fight a judge     
[006] and elegiac new novel, 'The  Farewell  Symphony,' is a  _____  hybrid, a vivid and variegated book.  Part confession,     
[007] the talking.' This conversation, mostly uninflected by  _____   gamesmanship, wholly uninhibited and urgent in its dr     
[008] k just the right note, marrying  memoir, biography and  _____  criticism. She wisely avoids  documenting Chatwin's fa     
[009] defined here in terms of Victorian  crime.  Unlike the  _____  creation he inspired-Sherlock Holmes'  fiendish enemy,     
[010] s  more  insight than any number of articles with more  _____   pretensions. It's daunting to consider that (Shelby)      
[011]  for the 1992 Booker  Prize and  also won the WH Smith  _____  Award. She lives between  houses in  north London and      
[012] as Ionesco's Nu ('No').  It was  the first of only two  _____  prizes that Cioran did not reject.  From 1933 to the e     
[013] ly seemed most at home in Paris cafes or  late-  night  _____  conversations was now to be found enjoying life  in  h     
[014] p lectures in creative writing, to join in the annual   _____  shindig, and wants to check up on his author's  progre     
[015]  buried in Tenerife, making the island a unique Irish   _____  landmark. Although she organised the funeral,  Pamela      
[016] as  profoundly serious and well beyond the concerns of  _____   fashions. His last book was a translation of some son     
[017] out 90 poems in the edition of his work  which, as his  _____  executor, I am now preparing for the  press. His first     
[018] he ensuing correspondence in the  columns of the Times  _____  Supplement, in which two  opposing  camps emerged, Jon     
[019] es received several  honours  during the course of his  _____  career. He was elected  President of the Welsh Academy     
[020] ys ready to encourage  younger  men and women in their  _____  endeavours, and never  sought the  limelight. With his     
[021] ing graphic novels are adult comics, sneeredat by the   _____  world. One US critic thinks he's worth a Pulitzer Priz     
[022] gment of the industry that is often sneered at by the   _____  world. At least three doctoral theses have been  writt     
[023] ound the fringes. He and Louis  MacNeice vied  for the  _____  rights in John Hampson's marriage of  convenience  to      
[024] e subject matter itself. Walter Ernest Allen,  writer,  _____  journalist: born Birmingham 23 February 1911;  Assista     
[025] urnalist: born Birmingham 23 February 1911;  Assistant  _____  Editor, New Statesman 1959-60,                             


	
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[001] in a drive to reverse a quarter-  century of declining  _____ , millions of workers will be  asked over the next few      
[002] gh he might find the Trout Brook Valley golf  course's  _____  fee of $100,000 a bit steep.    FORTY pounds of parach     
[003]  democratic Europe. It encourages  states  aspiring to  _____  to settle border disputes and protect  minority rights     
[004] s not automatically translate into a desire for union   _____ . The larger problem is America's near-mythic  emphasis     
[005] rs Assn., one of the only unions  in  the world with a  _____  of millionaires, said Disney  couldn't  do that, becau     
[006] ed about five years ago. Together they claim a  total   _____  of 3 million. Their first platform, the Right to  Carr     
[007] 993 Waco siege. From these  meetings came the surge in  _____  which turned the  citizens'  militias into a mass move     
[008] ned by the public quarrel about Britain's attitude to   _____  of the European Union. The row is revealing the  uglie     
[009] r sincere or uplifted by experience - to  hold  church  _____  or office without radical change. We are  not  here sp     
[010] heterosexual -  is  not in itself sin and is no bar to  _____  or ministry in the  church. Thus 'homosexuals' can rig     


	
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[001] an excellent  fortune on both sides. What can possibly  _____  them? The  desperate ambitions of a young woman withou     
[002] re holding flags. I guessed that 20 they  were used to  _____  the message into words.  'Then came the most diicult p     
[003] on. The people wanted to share all of the work  and to  _____  the land equally. But their independence lasted  only      
[004] .  Our different aptitudes are reflected in the way we  _____  the  curriculum. Few full- time teachers will be good      
[005] an excellent  fortune on both sides. What can possibly  _____  them? The  desperate ambitions of a young woman withou     
[006] re holding flags. I guessed that 20 they  were used to  _____  the message into words.  'Then came the most diicult p     
[007] on. The people wanted to share all of the work  and to  _____  the land equally. But their independence lasted  only      


	
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[001] ot show it. It was at this  moment that she decided to  _____  Elfine  and rescue her from  all the Starkadders.  'An     
[002] ined schools, and reports of the  Government's plan to  _____  some kind of voucher system for  nursery schools. Both     
[003] t  presidential elections if local universities do not  _____  it.  Some of the men of the Kabyle mountains, especial     
[004] hundredth time, to refuse him, when he  said we should  _____  a child? I believe  that if God hasn't given us a chil     
[005] ie's name.  She had always been the child he wanted to  _____ . He had  no idea that Silas would rather die than  los     
[006] go? I didn't know Eppie was  yours and so I refused to  _____  her.  Of course I'd accept your child into our home! B     
[007] s and I, you know, have no  children, and we'd like to  _____  a daughter to live with us in  our beautiful home and      
[008] d him and then said, Yes, I'm afraid we can't hope  to  _____  her, if she doesn't want to  come to us.'  No,' said G     
[009]  hadn't  died!' And if only they had  never decided to  _____ ... She would keep her guilty  secret  for ever  - she      
[010] ot show it. It was at this  moment that she decided to  _____  Elfine  and rescue her from  all the Starkadders.  'An     


	
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[001] paying me, but it is impossible for  me to accept your  _____ .' 'Of course I understand,' said  Mr  Collins, 'that y     
[002]  Mr  Collins, 'that young ladies often do not accept a  _____  of  marriage the first time. I am therefore not at all     
[003] be  very happy and very rich, but I cannot accept your  _____ .'  She got up and was going to leave the room, but Mr      
[004]  family,  and my relationship to your own, all make my  _____  a very  suitable one. And you should remember that in      
[005] n for the honour you have done  me, but to accept your  _____  is absolutely impossible.  Can I speak plainer than th     
[006] both your excellent parents agree, you will accept  my  _____ !' Elizabeth did not reply, but left the room  silently     
[007]  girls were  quite  excited by the news of Mr Collins'  _____ , and Mrs Bennet  was most annoyed with Elizabeth. .  '     
[008] alf an  hour. She was so astonished to have received a  _____   from Mr Darcy! His aection for her must indeed have b     
[009]  had still not recovered from the  surprise of Darcy's  _____  to her. Feeling in need of  exercise and fresh air, sh     
[010] nd Jane were alone, she told her sister about  Darcy's  _____  of marriage. Jane was astonished, but  soon her sister     
[011] e that she was now grateful and  pleased to accept his  _____ . When Darcy heard this, he  was probably happier than      
[012] , the administration  promises to deliver a tax reform  _____  next month.  Another  Riordan project, the New Los Ang     
[013] 97 that after careful review  of a  second acquisition  _____  from Carolina First Bancshares  Inc,  it had decided t     
[014]   newspaper one morning and learned about the stadium   _____  near  Laurel racetrack, they organized quickly.    A p     
[015] rass-roots campaign raised  questions over whether the  _____  would work as  advertised. The  measure, which until y     
[016] it more than a year  for  an NHS operation. He had his  _____  costed and told Mrs  Thatcher it would be 'the best po     
[017] ITH JUDD    When Manchester Grammar School floated its  _____  to  return to  the state sector last week, there was a     
[018] paying me, but it is impossible for  me to accept your  _____ .' 'Of course I understand,' said  Mr  Collins, 'that y     
[019]  Mr  Collins, 'that young ladies often do not accept a  _____  of  marriage the first time. I am therefore not at all     
[020] be  very happy and very rich, but I cannot accept your  _____ .'  She got up and was going to leave the room, but Mr      
[021]  family,  and my relationship to your own, all make my  _____  a very  suitable one. And you should remember that in      
[022] n for the honour you have done  me, but to accept your  _____  is absolutely impossible.  Can I speak plainer than th     
[023] both your excellent parents agree, you will accept  my  _____ !' Elizabeth did not reply, but left the room  silently     
[024]  girls were  quite  excited by the news of Mr Collins'  _____ , and Mrs Bennet  was most annoyed with Elizabeth. .  '     
[025] alf an  hour. She was so astonished to have received a  _____   from Mr Darcy! His aection for her must indeed have b     


	
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[001] 's  greater common sense) and for himself a fresh and   _____  interest in his job.  After a quick breakfast, Rick pu     
[002] did not  wish to discuss the matter further. He became  _____ ,  like someone preparing for a final departure. His wo     
[003]  a woman's voffice, warm and deep. 'No need  to sound   _____  with me,  darling.'  'Jenny, I told you not to ring me     
[004] ll be.'  Mrs Smiling was horrified at Flora's cold and  _____   attitude. She herself believed that a marriage  shoul     


	
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[001] as she felt she  needed to keep a clear  head for this  _____ , and might take too personal an  interest in the succe     
[002] d into Oxford from all over Europe especially for  the  _____  foreign royalty, country gentlemen, Scottish  landowne     
[003] ther prisoners just  had meat and potatoes. On another  _____  the Doctor  stopped at Paul's door, looked hard at him     
[004] r.  Paul rejoined the League of Nations Union. On one   _____  he and Stubbs went to the local prison to visit the  c     
[005] change.  'Thirdly,' Mr Grisman continued, 'that on one  _____  Mr  Stanyer invited her back to his apartment for furt     
[006] the village.  The hall was specially decorated for the  _____ . Many  local  people were present, and both teams were     
[007]  more perhaps.'  'That's true,' he said. 'On the right  _____  I would try not to  look like a sick cow.'  'On what       
[008]   I would try not to  look like a sick cow.'  'On what  _____ ?' I demanded.  'When you were singing, you looked just     
[009]  us. We laughed at each other, and we all enjoyed  the  _____ . Lord Trimingham was sitting beside her on a  low chai     
[010] s was my last visit to  the  farm, so it was a special  _____ . Ted must come to me.  He  was driving the machine, an     
[011] l and many crashed into, each other and  broke. On one  _____ , Alexander had to swim for his life.  Alexander wanted     
[012] of  honour,  the Prince of Wales. For this is to be an  _____  for  reflection, soul-searching and perhaps a little m     
[013] anding friend the organist  Timothy Bond was always an  _____  for excellent food and  wine,  much laughter and gossi     
[014]  any thought of a fee,  simply for the pleasure of the  _____ . This was a valuable  service in the days when Italian     
[015] as she felt she  needed to keep a clear  head for this  _____ , and might take too personal an  interest in the succe     
[016] d into Oxford from all over Europe especially for  the  _____  foreign royalty, country gentlemen, Scottish  landowne     
[017] ther prisoners just  had meat and potatoes. On another  _____  the Doctor  stopped at Paul's door, looked hard at him     
[018] r.  Paul rejoined the League of Nations Union. On one   _____  he and Stubbs went to the local prison to visit the  c     
[019] change.  'Thirdly,' Mr Grisman continued, 'that on one  _____  Mr  Stanyer invited her back to his apartment for furt     
[020] the village.  The hall was specially decorated for the  _____ . Many  local  people were present, and both teams were     
[021]  more perhaps.'  'That's true,' he said. 'On the right  _____  I would try not to  look like a sick cow.'  'On what       
[022]   I would try not to  look like a sick cow.'  'On what  _____ ?' I demanded.  'When you were singing, you looked just     
[023]  us. We laughed at each other, and we all enjoyed  the  _____ . Lord Trimingham was sitting beside her on a  low chai     
[024] s was my last visit to  the  farm, so it was a special  _____ . Ted must come to me.  He  was driving the machine, an     
[025] l and many crashed into, each other and  broke. On one  _____ , Alexander had to swim for his life.  Alexander wanted