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

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

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

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

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

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

We are looking forward to your positive ____.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

____ it time to give up the ghost?

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

“In today’s hyper-competitive car market, designers are focusing on faces as part of a broader effort to design cars that ____ 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 drivers identify and judge vehicles by the headlights and grille,” the ____ reported.

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

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

Reflecting our ____ times, the ‘scary look’ shows no sign of 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 ____ reported in 2017.

A telescoping of time ____ with size.

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

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

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

As a result, being short-lived puts a premium on the ____ of preprogrammed behavior patterns that require little in the way 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 may have a considerable opportunity to learn by observation and ____ and error.

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

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

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

Hotels were largely in the business of ____ bed nights.

Airlines and railways were in the business of ____ seats.

Travel agents, of course, were selling travel and holidays, but in each case they tended to ____ 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 industry from essentially ____ business activities to more integrated activities.

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

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

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

Airlines offered insurance and accommodation ____ for travellers.

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

____ in 1913 in Birmingham, England, he was the son of Herbert Grice, a businessman and musician.

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

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

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

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

His article “Meaning” was written in 1948, but he did ____ have it published until 1957.

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

In 1967, he left Oxford to take a job at UC Berkeley and retired from ____ in 1979.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This was further reinforced as upperclass styles came to be explicitly incorporated into cultural ____ 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 take a bit more skill and ____ 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, but ____ see the form itself as a revealing stylistic technique.

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

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

For 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 ____ thin.

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

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

Taken as near synonyms, their meaning is to maintain an ____ or system 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 aspects ― restoring a historical musical instrument, for example, or a painting, or a ____, or an ecosystem.

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

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

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

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

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

Very 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 ____ and gestures.

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

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

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

____ Freud suggested that “he that has eyes 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; betrayal oozes ____ of him at every pore.”

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

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

Emotions dispose one to see the ____ in a distorted way.

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

A ____ expectations are affected by desire.

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

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

The more affected one is, the less similarity is ____ 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 the emotional investment, the more ____ one’s perception.

The dependent and shifting nature of art ____, not only on the market but inherently, is uppermost in the mind of 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 ____, or it is acquiring nothing (beyond, that is, 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 as a significant point attained by art as a ____.

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

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

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

Through it he courageously affirms ____ only his aesthetic judgment, from whatever source it be derived, but the conviction that he can predict where art is going.

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

Despite toddlers falling over and bumping themselves regularly, the ____ 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 ____ height and that their reactions may be slower), adults falling over will impact the ground with a much larger force.

The nonlinear relationship between mass and bone strength means that although their bones are ____ 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 ____ injuries ― like hip breaks ― than shorter people.

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

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

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

____ are individual plants entirely on 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 ____ plants to start building up defensive compounds in their tissues.

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

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

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

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

Although there may be elements that trigger instinctive response, spectacle ____ primarily within a cultural frame and is subject to prevailing modes of perception that observers bring to 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 ____ by people from many different cultures to address specific needs.

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

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

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

Spectacle must ____ be spectacular.

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

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

____ are not particularly aerodynamic shapes, and this results in a wind phenomenon called “vortex shedding.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Not that they did ____ 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, and systems of thought.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The definition of rare has too often been associated with ____ ― 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 data 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 “____,” whether because the disease is more common or because it is prevalent among demographics that can pay more.

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

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

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

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

The technical term for this mess depends on who you’re asking: for some ____ 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 practice it’s really the ____.

In fact, at room temperature glass never behaves as a liquid, even an imperceptibly viscous one, even over long periods of time (though it can “sweat” if you ____ 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 ____ because the glass is slowly sinking over time.

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

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

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

Glass seems to defy most molecular ____.

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