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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] n  unhappy child. It  was almost impossible for her to  _____  to other girls of her  age, and there was a lot of tea     
[002] mportant to  show them something contemporary they can  _____  to.' 'I  don't  like to play up the social consciousne     
[003] f paragraphs. Other similarly original  Needham essays  _____  to the use of the compass; clocks;  metallurgy; astron     
[004]  he inspire  confidence on first meeting? How does she  _____  to the  children  you meet around the school? Could yo     
[005] th taking his clothes off at all times. A man who can   _____  to children and do his share of the affect side of  pa     
[006]  scheme is based on the belief that individual people   _____   much  more easily to the needs and problems of one ot     
[007] n  unhappy child. It  was almost impossible for her to  _____  to other girls of her  age, and there was a lot of tea     
[008] mportant to  show them something contemporary they can  _____  to.' 'I  don't  like to play up the social consciousne     
[009] f paragraphs. Other similarly original  Needham essays  _____  to the use of the compass; clocks;  metallurgy; astron     
[010]  he inspire  confidence on first meeting? How does she  _____  to the  children  you meet around the school? Could yo     
[011] th taking his clothes off at all times. A man who can   _____  to children and do his share of the affect side of  pa     


	
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[001]   that.' I had really curly hair and went through this  _____  for  ages - shall I have my head shaved or not? A frie     
[002] e  cease to  exist. Here everyone is mobilised for the  _____  against the  terrorists.' And the villagers dutifully      
[003] thing  of  his father's character. Whether it was this  _____  with the  past or pressure of other work, Allen stoppe     
[004] .7. Parents range from the very  wealthy  to those who  _____  with fees, but the only problem children  here are the     
[005]   structure  of English starting at 9am. But we always  _____  in, bleary-  eyed, even though there's no register. I      
[006]  Biko continued, 'but let us  remember  we are in this  _____  not to kill someone but to kill the  idea that one kin     
[007] ll for black violence?'  'Ail these men are willing to  _____  and fight against the  situation of black people in th     
[008] ys. Gott! What is  here was made by Afrikaner work and  _____  and blood.  The blacks came to us for work - remember      
[009]  beings are more good than bad. Biko had  expected the  _____  in South Africa to continue for twenty  years, but he      
[010] ing, until finally he made up  his mind. It was a hard  _____ , but his early training was  victorious. He tried to e     
[011] ow Mr Rochester 33  I was younger, but life has been a  _____  for me, and I've  become as  hard and tough as a rubbe     
[012] the  top floor. Then I heard the sounds of a desperate  _____ ,  just above  my room. 'Help! Help! Help! Won't anyone     
[013] hester, taking me in his arms and  kissing me.  'Don't  _____ , Jane, like a wild restless  bird!'  'Let me go, Mr Ro     
[014] ent, Jane?'  This was a terrible moment for me. In the  _____  and  confusion that  was going on in my heart I knew t     
[015] rom lack of food, and I  began to  wonder why I should  _____  to stay alive,  when I did not want to live.  it was g     
[016] Rosamund.' It seemed clear to me that St  John had  to  _____  with himself to refuse this smiling  invitation.  Jane     
[017] s sense of her social inferiority, which had made him   _____  against his feelings for so long.  In spite of her dis     
[018]  extraordinary events of  the Russian Revolution. They  _____  to define their roles in  a constantly changing world,     
[019] waiting for him.  After  almost three years of war and  _____ , coming home had  become his purpose in life - coming      
[020]  - to Moscow.  Spring, 1922  After a long, frightening  _____  to get home, Yury walked  into the great city, thinner     
[021]  military forces remain at least neutral in his power   _____  with Ms. Plavsic.    Rioting broke out this morning at     
[022] ld  symbol of resistance,' early as it was in the long  _____  for  black civil rights, signaled the beginning of the     
[023] n the months since then, as the rivalry and the  power  _____  have deepened, so has the commitment of  the  American     
[024]   that.' I had really curly hair and went through this  _____  for  ages - shall I have my head shaved or not? A frie     
[025] e  cease to  exist. Here everyone is mobilised for the  _____  against the  terrorists.' And the villagers dutifully      


	
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[001] staken; they immediately  were  regarded as the second  _____ . This was more a gut  opinion than  an academic judgem     
[002] ts about comprehensives, but many  teachers resist the  _____  of pupils according to ability on  the grounds that it     
[003] d Irish teacher who felt  'betrayed' by this. 'Oh this  _____  of allegiance', the older  poet exclaimed on behalf of     
[004] ldren - is the dream of the girls.  They know that the  _____  of household tasks still weighs  more  heavily on them     
[005] 000 a pop. (Indeed, Ballantyne's  Sharp  International  _____  sold AMC the 30 projection booths at  Ontario Mills. O     
[006] 11-5 and  to the  NFL playoffs, either as the NFC East  _____  winner or a  wild-  card entry. Part of the reason is      
[007]  that  same month, Judge Colton, who presides over the  _____  of  the  criminal court where Mr. Ray's original guilt     
[008] old its Miles  Kimball home and gift product catalogue  _____  to a  management-  led group for $27 million.    Perso     
[009] staken; they immediately  were  regarded as the second  _____ . This was more a gut  opinion than  an academic judgem     
[010] ts about comprehensives, but many  teachers resist the  _____  of pupils according to ability on  the grounds that it     
[011] d Irish teacher who felt  'betrayed' by this. 'Oh this  _____  of allegiance', the older  poet exclaimed on behalf of     
[012] ldren - is the dream of the girls.  They know that the  _____  of household tasks still weighs  more  heavily on them     


	
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[001] one,' Tenjy replied.  'This inquest has been called to  _____  the reason for  the death of Mapetla Mohapi, who was f     
[002]  of Union Pacific,  the  nation's largest railroad, to  _____  why it has had a series  of fatal train wrecks. In the     
[003] tored by the National Labor Relations Board  (NLRB) to  _____  whether a majority of the workers in the  bargaining u     
[004] ttended-and what they tell us about, in fact how they   _____ , character. 'To read him on a fashionable bar or  the      
[005]  right to a Vatican-appointed defender who  will  help  _____  whether or not their views are erroneous or  even  her     
[006] w stones at a  United Nations team that had come in to  _____  whether it  was  safe for the police monitors, who had     
[007] one,' Tenjy replied.  'This inquest has been called to  _____  the reason for  the death of Mapetla Mohapi, who was f     


	
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[001] as a case which justified not merely  resistance,  but  _____  retaliation against the federal authorities. Though  t     
[002] y the fluid visionary quality of his oratory, but the   _____  proposals did not rise above the municipal,' he said.      
[003] he 1980s,  Nights  at the Circus, she gave her heroine  _____  wings.) I went to  the  York conference, to talk about     
[004] , I suppose there were only seven and a half  hours of  _____  bumping along. Mary had the bright idea of  stopping a     
[005] ry month - and because Mr. Read does not want to take   _____   delivery of live pigs and 42-gallon drums of oil - th     
[006] e we  retreated  on our second day. Here we discovered  _____  houses,  smaller  family-style hotels frequented by mi     
[007]  of Appearances' in which what matters most is not the  _____   regulation of ethics but the appearance of regulation     
[008] or  'internees' to Cage 11, reserved for those serving  _____   sentences. His sketches of prison life, smuggled out      
[009] e than 60 miles, stopped only by  ocean and  mountain.  _____  'traditional' downtowns are so rare that  versions of      
[010] comparison with the  $1,402  that the jury awarded for  _____  damages suffered by Food  Lion.  Judge Tilley gave the     
[011] tionship with a pet without the continuing  expense of  _____  pets, without the risks of bites,  communicable  disea     
[012] as a case which justified not merely  resistance,  but  _____  retaliation against the federal authorities. Though  t     
[013] y the fluid visionary quality of his oratory, but the   _____  proposals did not rise above the municipal,' he said.      
[014] he 1980s,  Nights  at the Circus, she gave her heroine  _____  wings.) I went to  the  York conference, to talk about     
[015] , I suppose there were only seven and a half  hours of  _____  bumping along. Mary had the bright idea of  stopping a     


	
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[001] duct  endorsements, which many Christians might almost  _____   as  sinful. And in rugby you have to sing a lot of di     
[002] icipation in sports which  demand behaviour some would  _____  as far from holy?  These issues  are being played out      
[003]  excited discussions about  music, his  curiosity with  _____  to young composers undimmed. In the  last  year of his     
[004]  actually interfere with the learning process. Pupils   _____   school primarily as a social centre, and many are  pr     
[005] describes himself as 'a literary critic  in what I now  _____  as the worst of all times for literary  criticism', he     
[006] s a naughty or disturbed child. As it is, his teachers  _____   his presence in the school as a challenge, and have g     
[007] tions  that experienced World War II and its aftermath  _____  the  generational contract as part of a sacred commitm     
[008] ecific breeds like pit bulls and  Rottweilers, with no  _____  for the temperament or behavior  of an  individual dog     
[009] ords, 'NATO  is  a defensive alliance that... does not  _____  any state as its  adversary, certainly not a democrati     
[010] es that  he  rigorously enforce all state laws without  _____  to his  personal  views. Yet as Times staff writers St     
[011] duct  endorsements, which many Christians might almost  _____   as  sinful. And in rugby you have to sing a lot of di     
[012] icipation in sports which  demand behaviour some would  _____  as far from holy?  These issues  are being played out      
[013]  excited discussions about  music, his  curiosity with  _____  to young composers undimmed. In the  last  year of his     
[014]  actually interfere with the learning process. Pupils   _____   school primarily as a social centre, and many are  pr     
[015] describes himself as 'a literary critic  in what I now  _____  as the worst of all times for literary  criticism', he     
[016] s a naughty or disturbed child. As it is, his teachers  _____   his presence in the school as a challenge, and have g     


	
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[001] ouncils some of the former fiefdom of the  Countryside  _____  for Wales, it is unclear quite how far and  how fast h     
[002] per adult job  as a  librarian, working at the British  _____  in Bangkok. I felt very  rootless, and I didn't fit in     
[003] g flowing skirts,  cheesecloth shirts and beads at the  _____ . So it was a  great  relief to find that Sarah's cloth     
[004] 'd been doing this  very  straight job for the British  _____  and reached the point  where  she decided it wasn't fo     
[005] . Dad works in the education  department at  the local  _____ . Eventually, I want to be an education officer  for a      
[006] lass -  Lesley Gerard joins a Higher Education Funding  _____   assessment  team as it makes the rounds at Nottingham     
[007] cised by assessors from the Higher Education  Funding   _____  for England. The stakes are high. The department is  o     
[008] iversities submitted self-assessments to the  funding   _____ , upon which a decision to visit was based. Under the       
[009] ated 'excellent' in the 1994 Higher Education Funding   _____   for England's assessment of teaching quality. Open le     
[010] have a permanent seat  on  the United Nations Security  _____ , we have an arsenal of  modern  nuclear weapons, we ar     
[011] ecome of its responsibilities? How would the Security   _____  seat be justified? Would it be shared with our  Europe     
[012] nes. In Bosnia, for example, it voted in the  Security  _____  for a mandate to protect the enclaves but  gave  inade     
[013]  1993 and a net surplus of pounds 517m. 3 The British   _____  operates in 109 countries, teaching English to  100,00     
[014]   middle class. 'It was about the real concerns on the  _____   estates, where young people are terrorising old peopl     
[015] gby,  Warwickshire.  In Warwickshire alone, the county  _____  is predicting the  loss  of up to 240 teaching jobs ou     
[016]  full teaching  timetable himself next year unless the  _____  can find more  money. Jonathan Riley, headmaster at Em     
[017]  project, funded  by  the Economic and Social Research  _____  to the tune of  pounds  1m, was set up to find practic     
[018] re has been a change of emphasis  across all  research  _____ -funded activities towards projects that are  more  rel     
[019] pily  ever  after.' In a critical study in the British  _____ 's newly revi  ved 'Writersand their Work' series, Lorn     
[020] ed by Northcote House in association with the British   _____ . The Independent on Sunday FEATURES 14,15,16    Articl     
[021] ort Learning From Audit, the Higher  Education Quality  _____  - the Committee of Vice  Chancellors and  Principal's      
[022] rsity London, Dr  Roger  Brown, chief executive of the  _____ , said: 'The increase in  student numbers and in the di     
[023] e a high  drop-out  rate. The Higher Education Funding  _____  has approved  our  courses and the science faculty was     
[024]  monitor  and  investigate police misconduct. The City  _____  created such  an  agency in 1994, but Mayor Rudolph Gi     
[025] but Mayor Rudolph Giuliani vetoed the bill.  When  the  _____  overrode the veto, the Mayor successfully  challenged      


	
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[001]  population  at  home likes to see them do it. London,  _____ , is far more  than  just a national capital. Heathrow      
[002] Pelican A Short History of Italian Literature  (1960).  _____ , his articles and reviews took him far  beyond  the su     
[003] s. Our secondary classes are just above average size.   _____ , a survey of 11 of our economic competitors,  conducte     
[004] uld wish. So I will not be  continuing your allowance.  _____ , I am sure you will  realize how impossible it would b     
[005] ble to bear are Mrs Beste-  Chetwynde and Lady Circle.  _____ , I have just had an  extremely unpleasant conversation     
[006] h grateful respect  towards her ladyship. As a priest,  _____ , I feel it my duty  to encourage all families in my ar     
[007] no sonatas, 20 operas and thousands of  other  works).  _____ , Beethoven was probably not so perfect a  craftsman as     
[008]  with the  expected single-family homes on large lots.  _____ , a  freeway-  based view of spread-out Los Angeles giv     
[009]  United States citizens currently denied  due process?  _____ , my provision does not alter the  substantive principl     
[010]  population  at  home likes to see them do it. London,  _____ , is far more  than  just a national capital. Heathrow      
[011] Pelican A Short History of Italian Literature  (1960).  _____ , his articles and reviews took him far  beyond  the su     
[012] s. Our secondary classes are just above average size.   _____ , a survey of 11 of our economic competitors,  conducte     
[013] uld wish. So I will not be  continuing your allowance.  _____ , I am sure you will  realize how impossible it would b     
[014] ble to bear are Mrs Beste-  Chetwynde and Lady Circle.  _____ , I have just had an  extremely unpleasant conversation     
[015] h grateful respect  towards her ladyship. As a priest,  _____ , I feel it my duty  to encourage all families in my ar     


	
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[001] sumption, but counters it with the statement that 'the  _____   probability that a human person is involved would suf     
[002] ling a human being'. But suppose there is not even a  ' _____   probability', in that the claim simply cannot be squa     
[003] This takes us a  long way from acting on the basis of ' _____  probability'. In its  treatment of euthanasia the ency     
[004] ange of  style  that would enable them to be more than  _____  minions to 'an  Atlas  holding up the world on his own     
[005] owards modernity. In case this  defence is regarded as  _____  testosterone confederation, I  should  mention that am     
[006]  myself.  A search  Now I'll continue my story.  I lay  _____  in the snow for a few moments, trying to  understand w     
[007] tthew Robbins) described the creatures'  approach as a  _____  "clickety-clack.  "The director asked the  sound desig     
[008] f playing rookies. I'm a  rookie head coach.  " By his  _____  presence, Parcells has  created  a new sensation among     
[009] , and a sharp nose for people who  merrily settled for  _____  appearance in themselves. Mixed  book  review.    I kn     
[010] , turned homemakers into opposition spokespeople  and   _____  couch potatoes into savvy deal breakers. Before  Cooke     
[011] sumption, but counters it with the statement that 'the  _____   probability that a human person is involved would suf     
[012] ling a human being'. But suppose there is not even a  ' _____   probability', in that the claim simply cannot be squa     
[013] This takes us a  long way from acting on the basis of ' _____  probability'. In its  treatment of euthanasia the ency     
[014] ange of  style  that would enable them to be more than  _____  minions to 'an  Atlas  holding up the world on his own     
[015] owards modernity. In case this  defence is regarded as  _____  testosterone confederation, I  should  mention that am     
[016]  myself.  A search  Now I'll continue my story.  I lay  _____  in the snow for a few moments, trying to  understand w     


	
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[001] AT on fuel. But then, to date, he hasn't  been leader.  _____ , wherever the journey may end, Redwood  was  careful y     
[002] erse. Western philosophy and physics and architecture   _____   form a continuum. But we know now - have learnt only      
[003]  two decades, resulted in a series of  tragic  sieges.  _____ , as sieges go, Waco is only the most widely  reported      
[004] al  methods of contraception. But if moral theology is  _____  to  take  account of biology, then it must surely pay      
[005]  through this present millennium of European history.   _____ ,  in assessing the volume of Science and Civilisation      
[006] government's on many international  activities. It was  _____  he became persona non grata to UK  establishment repre     
[007] ronomical instruments; hydraulics; navigation.  It  is  _____  invidious to compare him with the 'notable historians'     
[008] nd is no bar to membership or ministry in the  church.  _____  'homosexuals' can rightly become ministers or  bishops     
[009] e smile', a slicing open of their  throats. FLN terror  _____  cut down many villagers in these  remote  hills as bro     
[010] hildren who are then  less  likely to commit crime and  _____  save the taxpayer policing  bills.  But for the religi     
[011] ion: we've read all about Court-  ney  Pine in Arena.)  _____  in the old Red Stripe commercial our  hero is  a young     
[012]  services  are  losing money, with the odds of success  _____  favoring  companies  with pockets deep enough to pursu     
[013] ic genius. He also has a  genius for  surviving and is  _____ , inevitably, a symbol of hope. Their  movies  together     
[014] AT on fuel. But then, to date, he hasn't  been leader.  _____ , wherever the journey may end, Redwood  was  careful y     
[015] erse. Western philosophy and physics and architecture   _____   form a continuum. But we know now - have learnt only      
[016]  two decades, resulted in a series of  tragic  sieges.  _____ , as sieges go, Waco is only the most widely  reported      
[017] al  methods of contraception. But if moral theology is  _____  to  take  account of biology, then it must surely pay      
[018]  through this present millennium of European history.   _____ ,  in assessing the volume of Science and Civilisation      
[019] government's on many international  activities. It was  _____  he became persona non grata to UK  establishment repre     
[020] ronomical instruments; hydraulics; navigation.  It  is  _____  invidious to compare him with the 'notable historians'     
[021] nd is no bar to membership or ministry in the  church.  _____  'homosexuals' can rightly become ministers or  bishops     
[022] e smile', a slicing open of their  throats. FLN terror  _____  cut down many villagers in these  remote  hills as bro     
[023] hildren who are then  less  likely to commit crime and  _____  save the taxpayer policing  bills.  But for the religi     
[024] ion: we've read all about Court-  ney  Pine in Arena.)  _____  in the old Red Stripe commercial our  hero is  a young