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My name is Reese Johnson, and I ____ for the Tuscanyville Homerun Derby.

We recently saw a video of your baseball ____ and were especially impressed by your power hitting.

____ year, we gather together all of the best baseball hitters from Tuscanyville for a homerun competition.

It is a very popular event in our community, and we would like ____ ask you to join the competition this year.

You would be an excellent participant, ____ we know you would enjoy the experience.

Based on the popularity you gained from the video, we have no doubt the crowds ____ will love you.

We ____ looking forward to your positive response.

Mark’s friends had invited him to Sky National Park to ride the Cloud Monorail, which went ____ the top of the mountain.

____ didn’t feel like going, but he went because he had nothing better to do.

He checked his watch as the monorail departed and ____ blankly looked out the window.

Clouds surrounded the monorail, so all he saw ____ grey for what felt like forever.

Just as ____ started feeling sleepy, the monorail rose above the clouds.

He opened his mouth as he saw the most beautiful mountains spreading out before him all the way ____ the ocean.

He couldn’t believe how marvelous nature could be and wondered what he would have ____ if he hadn’t come.

Instructors of physical activities often focus more ____ the activities themselves than on the participants who perform them.

People may believe that training our bodies is ____ to training our minds.

However, participants’ ____ determine their attitudes and level of effort toward physical development.

In usual practice, instructors ____ just tell their participants to exercise regularly, warm up before exercising, or use a particular strategy.

However, it is not ____ for instructors to expect participants to blindly follow their directions in physical activities.

Instructors ____ raise participants’ awareness of how these activities enhance their physical performance.

For example, an instructor ____ explicitly explain how warming up before exercising improves their performances.

If participants understand the principles of these ____ it enables them to gradually take fuller ownership of their own development.

In fact, scientists attributing consciousness to ____ animal is so recent that the internet is older.

In 1976 a zoologist named Donald Griffin published The Question ____ Animal Awareness, a book arguing that animal cognition ought to be taken seriously.

He and a colleague had been responsible in 1944 for discovering that bats navigate ____ echolocation.

Now, after a lifetime spent watching those ____ he became convinced they had inner worlds.

They had flexible behavior, he ____ or the ability to change their behavior as external circumstances changed, a hallmark of true intelligence.

He’d watched bats ____ clever techniques for finding food; they could clearly make decisions on the fly, and exhibited many of the same problem-solving abilities as humans did.

Animal thought ____ reason ought to be seriously studied, he argued.

After all, despite the flourishing ____ neuroscience, no one had yet found any part of the brain unique to humans that might be responsible for this hallowed “consciousness.”

Wasn’t ____ time to give up the ghost?

Car manufacturers know people form emotional attachments to automobile ‘faces’ and use the fact to guide their design and marketing ____

“In today’s hyper-competitive car ____ designers are focusing on faces as part of a broader effort to design cars that appeal to buyers ― tapping psychologists, anthropologists and other experts in human behavior, and even monitoring the brain waves of focus-group participants,” the Wall Street Journal reported in a 2006 article entitled ‘Why Cars Got Angry.’

Automotive research shows “70% of ____ identify and judge vehicles by the headlights and grille,” the article reported.

In ____ first years of the twenty-first century, the trend was toward angrier, scarier vehicles’ faces.

The article hypothesized that these faces ____ drivers feel safer in heavier traffic amidst more oversize SUVs.

Reflecting our tumultuous times, the ‘scary look’ shows no sign ____ slowing in the new millennium.

“Buoyant sales of cars with styling which suggests power or bad temper seem to confirm that customers are happy with this look,” an international automotive site ____ in 2017.

A telescoping of time correlates with ____

Small animals’ reflexes must be quicker in ____ to control much smaller limbs and respond to rapid locomotor feedback.

Further, decision making must be streamlined in ____ species because their high metabolic rates and minimal energy reserves offer few choices in food-searching activities, defending against predators, or mating behaviors.

And, ____ most important, a short lifetime offers little time for learning from experience.

As a result, being short-lived puts a premium on the effectiveness of preprogrammed behavior patterns that require little in the ____ of environmental fine-tuning.

Large animals, in comparison, can get by with rather slower reflexes, can afford to vary their mating and food-searching behaviors in an effort to better optimize their behaviors, and ____ have a considerable opportunity to learn by observation and trial and error.

Being longer-lived puts a greater premium on learning ____ memory, and less on automatic preprogrammed behaviors.

In addition, living a long time or having the capacity to travel for long distances is more likely to expose an animal to significant changes in the ____

Before the 1950s, tourism was very much an industry which was fragmented; hotels, transport operators, travel agents, and tour operators all tended ____ work independently of each other.

Hotels were ____ in the business of selling bed nights.

Airlines and railways were in the business of selling ____

Travel agents, of course, were selling travel and holidays, ____ in each case they tended to operate very much as individual businesses.

From the mid-1950s onwards, particularly in the UK, the growth of tour operators began to change the nature of the ____ from essentially individual business activities to more integrated activities.

Hotels, for example, were beginning to see customers as wanting ____ range of services rather than simply buying accommodation.

So hotels began to develop shopping arcades and later to offer secretarial centres to try to increase the spend ____ guests within the hotel complex.

Transport operators, particularly in the airline business, saw the sale of transport services as being integral ____ a much wider need.

Airlines ____ insurance and accommodation booking for travellers.

Paul Grice was a famous philosopher ____ language whose work was very influential in many areas of linguistics.

Born in ____ in Birmingham, England, he was the son of Herbert Grice, a businessman and musician.

As an undergraduate, ____ earned high honors from Corpus Christi College.

After finishing graduate school, he ____ appointed as a lecturer at Oxford in the field of philosophy.

During World War II, however, he served in the British military for ____ five years.

One ____ his greatest contributions was to the study of language and communication.

His article ____ was written in 1948, but he did not have it published until 1957.

This article was foundational ____ the study of language and communication.

In ____ he left Oxford to take a job at UC Berkeley and retired from there in 1979.

In addition to being a great ____ he was excellent at cricket and chess.

Fashion is always deeply cultural, and an excellent example of this can be seen in the evolution ____ European clothing.

At the beginning ____ the Middle Ages, clothing tended to be simple and was frequently made of rough wool or animal furs.

With advances in cloth making, however, fashion began moving ____ styles which were more elaborate and form-fitting.

In the ____ and Elizabethan eras, styles became even more refined.

The clothes that wealthy people were wearing became ____ fancier, with a particular emphasis being placed on smaller waists.

The connection between clothing and social status was so pronounced that laws were enacted to limit the wearing of certain ____ items.

Allowed only for ____ social classes, luxurious styles and decorations such as feathers, silk, or velvet were used as a means of demonstrating one’s standing in society.

This was ____ reinforced as upperclass styles came to be explicitly incorporated into cultural ceremonies so that their wearers’ roles could be identified clearly.

Classical works by playwrights such as Shakespeare or Euripides or even American musical song lyrics contain unconventional and unrealistic methods of communicating characters’ thoughts and feelings, and ____ a bit more skill and patience to understand.

The reader must be mindful not to let the poetic form or archaic word usage get in the way of getting meaningful information about the story, ____ instead see the form itself as a revealing stylistic technique.

Scripts with complex ____ or unfamiliar styles may require several additional readings in order for the nuance to become clear.

Musical theater pieces are particularly ____ to visualize when reading because of the diminished emphasis on dialogue and a significant emphasis on song and dance.

____ example, when the music and lyrics are removed from a musical theater script, what is left is the dialogue, known as the book or libretto, and it can be very thin.

There is an emphasis on dance, movement, or action in musical theater that ____ be time-consuming when actually performed on stage, but can take very little space when typed into a play script.

Ever since the early Enlightenment, preservation and conservation have been ____ related.

Taken as near synonyms, their meaning is to maintain an object or ____ insofar as possible in its present state, to protect it from change, usually for contemplation, research, display, and perhaps for use.

Conservationists who distinguish their activities from preservation emphasize conservation’s restorative ____ ― restoring a historical musical instrument, for example, or a painting, or a dinosaur, or an ecosystem.

Conservationists acknowledge change but ____ to manage it in order to prolong a desired state.

Preservationists (who may nonetheless call themselves conservationists) think of themselves more as ____

They sometimes criticize conservationists for setting an additional ____ on yield or harvest or use, rather than interfering as minimally as possible in order to preserve the original object or system, as they would do.

Preservationists would, for example, prefer to keep a ____ musical instrument “as found” in a deteriorated state, for study, rather than to restore or repair it for display or use.

Speakers don’t always put ____ that’s important to them into words.

____ often you can understand a speaker’s meaning by observing their nonverbal behaviors such as a change in a vocal tone or volume, eye contact, facial expressions and gestures.

As it is easy to misinterpret nonverbal behavior, effective listeners verbally confirm ____ interpretations of someone’s nonverbal communication.

A question as simple as “Do your nods indicate a yes vote?” can make sure that ____ is on the same wavelength.

If, as nonverbal research indicates, more than half of a speaker’s meaning is conveyed nonverbally, we are missing ____ lot of important information if we fail to “listen” to nonverbal behavior.

Even Freud suggested that “he that has ____ to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret.

If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; ____ oozes out of him at every pore.”

No wonder it is difficult for most people to conceal what they ____ and feel in a face-to-face group discussion.

Imagination continues to function when perception is not ____ discerning objects, in cases of emotion, disease, and sleep.

Emotions dispose one to see the world in a distorted ____

A coward’s perceptual disposition is affected by his disposition ____ experience fear.

A lover’s expectations are affected by ____

In such cases, a small similarity between a perceived object and the thing one expects to see can lead to the misidentification ____ the perceived object as that thing.

The coward sees the enemy, while the lover sees the object ____ desire everywhere.

The more affected one is, the less similarity ____ required for the thing to appear.

While the central organ of ____ normally functions by comparing similarities and differences, emotions dispose one to discern objects inaccurately.

The greater ____ emotional investment, the more biased one’s perception.

The dependent and shifting nature of art values, not only on the market but inherently, is uppermost in the mind ____ today’s art collector, whether he buys for himself or as the representative of an institution.

Acquiring a work is acquiring a piece of art history, or it is acquiring nothing (beyond, that ____ an object of personal enjoyment in the same class as a cat or a souvenir).

In signing his check the collector asserts his belief in the future presence of the work ____ a significant point attained by art as a whole.

History, however, is open to anything and the merit of the chosen painting or sculpture has ― ____ best ― only the validation of a present-day consensus.

This consensus ____ all but certain to be displaced, as others have been in the past.

In the last analysis, committing himself ____ a painting is the collector’s own act.

Through it he courageously affirms not only his aesthetic judgment, from whatever source it be ____ but the conviction that he can predict where art is going.

The ____ someone is, the more damage they can do to themselves through even a relatively innocuous accident.

Despite toddlers falling over ____ bumping themselves regularly, the injuries they sustain are rarely serious.

Their relatively thick bones in comparison to their mass mean they rarely build up enough ____ even at top speed, to do themselves much damage.

Because of their increased mass (compounded by the fact that they are falling from a greater height and that their reactions may be slower), adults falling over ____ impact the ground with a much larger force.

The nonlinear relationship between mass and ____ strength means that although their bones are thicker than a toddler’s in absolute terms, they may not be relatively thick enough to compensate for the larger impact caused by their increased mass.

For the same reasons, taller people have been found to suffer more fall-related injuries ____ like hip breaks ― than shorter people.

Plants have evolved defenses almost as ____ as the number of genera.

Some load their tissues with harsh compounds that either are unpleasant to insects or intoxicate them, encouraging the insects to go bother another plant or at least slowing down their ____

Structural defenses like thick coats of wax on leaves may prevent some insect species from damaging the plant tissues ____

Nor are individual plants entirely ____ their own while under attack.

Plants can release chemical compounds that let their same-species neighbors know that an attack is likely coming, pushing those nearby plants to start building up defensive compounds ____ their tissues.

____ of these cues even attract insect predators, a call for an assist that benefits both the plant and its bug-eating collaborators.

The back-and-forth is not a matter of natural balance, but more ____ a drawn-out evolutionary conversation.

New plant defenses unintentionally select for insects with ways to get around them, which in turn help bring ____ more resilient and resistant plant species.

New variations, shading ____ entire new forms and adaptations, maintain the stalemate.

Although there may be elements that trigger instinctive response, spectacle works primarily within a cultural frame and is subject to prevailing modes of perception that observers bring ____ bear.

In saying that, we stress that creation of spectacle is neither a universal nor even an inevitable expression of culture, but is a strategy commonly used by people from ____ different cultures to address specific needs.

The task of creating spectacle has been likened to creating new works of literature, where writers normally feel bound by the rules and ____ of their genre yet need to show sufficient originality to impress their audiences.

By extension, spectacle is produced by working with the grain ____ a particular culture, blending the innovative with the established.

Thus anyone deploying spectacle may draw on a repertoire of techniques and conventions ____ from previous festivals or related activities, but imitation is not enough.

Spectacle must also be ____

A spectacle has to amaze spectators, outdoing previous efforts if it is ____ become part of the collective memory of those who witnessed and participated in it.

To minimize building ____ and maximize revenues, skyscrapers generally take the shape of squares or rectangles.

These are ____ particularly aerodynamic shapes, and this results in a wind phenomenon called “vortex shedding.”

As wind meets a rectangular skyscraper it pushes on the flat face of the building before flowing around ____ sides, where eventually it separates from the face of the structure.

The difference in pressures on the front and back faces of ____ building gives rise to vortices, or spinning currents of wind, that flow downstream from the building.

The vortices pull and push the building in a direction perpendicular to the wind at frequencies that can become ____ self-sustaining.

To minimize vortex shedding, skyscraper ____ do everything in their powers to confuse the wind.

Orienting the building so that the longer face of the structure is parallel with prevailing winds can ____

Chopping or rounding off corners of ____ building can likewise make it more aerodynamic.

Roughing ____ the corners of the building through the careful placement of balconies or stepped corners can help by disturbing or delaying the formation of strong vortices.

For thousands of years in the West, red was the only color ____ of that name, the only true color.

As much on ____ historical as hierarchical level, it exceeded all others.

Not that they did not exist, but they had to wait a long time before they were considered colors and then played a comparable role in material culture, social codes, ____ systems of thought.

It was with red that humans did their first color experiments, ____ their first successes, and then constructed a chromatic universe.

It was also within the range of ____ that they learned early on to diversify the palette and to produce varied tones and shades, as the oldest known color terms demonstrate.

Here the lexicon ____ in keeping with pictorial practices and coloring techniques.

In certain languages, the same word can mean “red” or simply “colored,” depending on the ____ such as coloratus in classical Latin or colorado in modern Castilian.

In other languages, the words meaning “red” and “beautiful” share ____ common root; for example, that is the case in Russian, in which the terms krasnyy (red) and krasivy (beautiful) belong to the same lexical family.

In the pharmaceutical industry, algorithms are being employed to find ____ and drugs for rare diseases that to date haven’t received much attention.

The hard truth has always been ____ pharma devotes more research and development resources to diseases that affect the rich.

The definition of rare ____ too often been associated with poor ― that is, even if a disease is quite prevalent in a population that cannot afford to pay for it (for example, people living in the developing world), the disease has been neglected compared to First World illnesses.

By lowering the cost of ____ collection, mining, and analysis in drug development and clinical trials, AI can help offset imbalances in the pharmaceutical industry that direct attention to diseases that “pay,” whether because the disease is more common or because it is prevalent among demographics that can pay more.

We see the democratizing ____ of AI to broaden the attention of the medical and research communities to find cures to traditionally neglected health issues and among traditionally neglected populations.

By lowering the cost of pharmaceutical research and development, AI can help reduce the imbalance in investment that has led to the disregard of less profitable ____ thereby broadening the focus of medical research to include underserved populations.

The structure of ____ is, frankly, a bit of a mess.

Clear and perfect as it might appear to our eyes, down at the molecular level, glass looks more like ____ random ball-pit of atoms.

The technical term ____ this mess depends on who you’re asking: for some scientists it is an “amorphous solid,” for others a “supercooled liquid.”

In theory it’s both liquid and solid, though, given the way it behaves, in ____ it’s really the latter.

In fact, at ____ temperature glass never behaves as a liquid, even an imperceptibly viscous one, even over long periods of time (though it can “sweat” if you don’t add enough lime to the mix).

Those misshapen sheets of glass you sometimes see in old stained-glass windows, thicker at the bottom than the top, are generally not that way because ____ glass is slowly sinking over time.

Unless ____ church has endured temperatures of more than 400˚C, the chances are they are uneven because that’s the way they were blown and solidified in the first place.

Flat glass was only developed in the nineteenth century and we had to wait until the ____ of the twentieth century for truly flat, thin sheets of glass.

The paradox is that, despite ____ being one of the very oldest human-made substances, scientists still struggle to comprehend why glass behaves the way it does.

Glass seems ____ defy most molecular laws.

____ one glassmaker put it, glass is not a material; it’s a state.