1. To raise money for a special one-day trip to Bluestone Mountain, Mr. Clarkson's class________cookies, pies, and other baked goods this Friday from 11:00 A.M. until 2:00 P.M.
2. All the delicious desserts will be fresh and homemade_____________his students.
3. Please plan to stop by our sales table, which will be set up just outside the cafeteria for your____________
4. We will be giving out free samples of brownies and oatmeal cookies
5. ___________this experiment, you will need several things.
6. The______________procedure is to get all your materials ready first, so that once you begin you will not have to stop your work to go get anything. You will need three clean glass containers, a pitcher of cold water, and a basin of warm water.
7. You should also have tape and a pen to
8. It is also a good idea to have a notepad handy to write down___________
9. Mr. Weston: You said in class on Friday that it would be all right______________students to send you an e-mail this weekend if we have any questions on the research assignment you gave.
10. Well, I brought home_____________books from the library to use for my report on ocean life.
11. But after looking at some of the information, I realize that the topic I wanted to use is much too broad for______________
12 .Could I change my topic to one that___a more limited subject area? I was thinking of focusing on deep-ocean plant life.
13. The T-shirt is a common item of clothing valued by wearers around the world for its comfort and casual style. T-shirts come in all colors, and very_________________they carry a picture, a logo, or some writing.
14. It is even possible for individuals to custom order T-shirts with unique designs. T-shirts as we know them today, however, are__what they were in the past.
15. The first T-shirts were usually white, plain-looking undergarments with no designs_____________on them.
16. ______________by another shirt, they were considered inappropriate for wearing around the house, much less in public.
17. Many people believe that the practice of wearing a T-shirt as an outer shirt entered into mainstream culture_______________the popularity of movies of the 1950s starring the American actor James Dean.
18. ________________just a simple T-shirt, as Dean had done, soon became recognized as an expression of one's individuality.
19. A spectacular highlight of the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Japan was__________of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy."
20. Choirs in Australia,China, South Africa, the United States, and Japan all performed at the same time without________________
21. To make it appear as though the singers were actually performing together, the organizers_____________an interesting technical challenge.
22. Because the satellite__________carrying the performance had to travel thousands of miles, the broadcasts from the different continents arrived at a central studio in Japan at different times.
23. A signal from South Africa arrived at the studio a full second_______________a signal from China.
24. Nonetheless, the musicians were coordinated_________________well that the viewers enjoyed a perfectly synchronized performance.
25. Once received at the studio in Japan, the signals from the different continents_______________immediately.
Instead, the first signals received were delayed.
26. __________all the different signals had come in, they were combined and broadcast to the world.
27. Until the 1930s, the indigenous Australian language Dyirbal had two varieties,________________with the same grammar but a completely different set of names for things.
28. All Dyirbal speakers knew both varieties and used one or the other___________on whom they were speaking to.
29. In most situations, speakers of Dyirbal___________one set of vocabulary;
30. however, when addressing certain family members, such as a mother- or father-in-law,_the other variety.
31. We should__that this situation is quite unlike the familiar scenario
32. ____________a person uses a different language to communicate with someone from another country.
33. In Dyirbal, all people spoke what____________like two different languages
34. one when talking to certain people_______________their own family and the other when conversing with friends or strangers.
35. An aqueduct is a waterway__for delivering water to areas with little rainfall.
36. Unlike canals,__in the ground, aqueducts are built above ground.
37 . They originate at high elevations___water can easily be moved downward to lower-lying areas.
38. Ancient aqueducts____________all over the world. Many of them were constructed independently by societies that had no contact with each other.
39. The reason why______________was built in so many different places around the world is probably because the idea behind it is simple.
40. It is_____________possible that rather than being purely human inventions, aqueducts were copied from nature.
41. People could simply have noticed________________downhill in a straight line over a great distance,
42. as long as no_________block its passage.