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

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

Every year, we gather ____ 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 to ask ____ to join the competition this year.

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

Based on the popularity you gained from the video, we ____ no doubt the crowds here 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 to the top of ____ mountain.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

After all, despite the flourishing of neuroscience, ____ one had yet found any part of the brain unique to humans that might be responsible for this hallowed “consciousness.”

Wasn’t it time to ____ up the ghost?

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

“In today’s hyper-competitive car market, designers are ____ 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 ____ of drivers identify and judge vehicles by the headlights and grille,” the article reported.

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

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

____ our tumultuous 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 ____ of time correlates with size.

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

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

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

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

Large animals, in comparison, can ____ 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 trial and error.

Being ____ puts a greater premium on learning and 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 ____ changes in the environment.

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

Hotels were largely in the ____ of selling bed nights.

Airlines and ____ were in the business of selling seats.

Travel agents, of course, were ____ travel and holidays, but 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 ____ the nature of the industry from essentially individual business activities to more integrated activities.

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

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

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

Airlines offered ____ and accommodation booking for travellers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

His article “Meaning” was written in ____ but he did not have it published until 1957.

This article was foundational in the study of language and ____

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

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

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

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

With advances ____ cloth making, however, fashion began moving toward 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 ____ to limit the wearing of certain luxury items.

Allowed only for higher social classes, ____ styles 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 ____ 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 ____ unrealistic methods of communicating characters’ thoughts and feelings, and take a bit more skill and patience to understand.

The reader must be mindful not to let the poetic form or archaic word usage ____ in the way of getting meaningful information about the story, but 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 difficult to visualize when reading ____ 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 ____ on dance, movement, or action in musical theater that can 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, ____ meaning is to maintain an object 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 ____ preservation emphasize conservation’s restorative aspects ― restoring a historical musical instrument, for example, or a painting, or a dinosaur, or an ecosystem.

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

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

They sometimes ____ 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 would do.

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

Speakers ____ always put everything that’s important to them into words.

Very often you can understand a speaker’s ____ 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 their interpretations of someone’s nonverbal ____

A question as simple as “Do your nods indicate a yes vote?” can make sure that everyone ____ 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 eyes to see and ears to ____ may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret.

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

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

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

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

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

A lover’s expectations are affected by ____

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

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

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

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

The ____ the 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 of today’s art collector, ____ 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 is, an object of personal enjoyment in the same class as a ____ or a souvenir).

In ____ his check the collector asserts his belief in the future presence of the work as 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 ― at ____ ― only the validation of a present-day consensus.

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

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 derived, but the conviction that he can predict ____ art is going.

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

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

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

____ 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 will impact the ground with a much larger force.

The nonlinear relationship between mass and bone strength means that although ____ 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 ____ 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 ____ slowing down their eating.

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

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

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

Some of these cues even attract insect predators, a call for ____ 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 about more resilient and resistant plant ____

New variations, shading into entire ____ 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 ____ prevailing modes of perception that observers bring to bear.

In saying that, we stress that creation of spectacle is neither a universal nor ____ an inevitable expression of culture, but is a strategy commonly used by people from many 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 traditions of their genre yet ____ 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 ____ 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 to become part of the collective memory of those who witnessed and ____ in it.

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

These are not ____ 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 ____ 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 ____ 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 ____ become dangerously self-sustaining.

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

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

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

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

For thousands of years ____ the West, red was the only color worthy 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 ____ 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 first color experiments, ____ 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 ____ 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 context, such as coloratus in classical ____ or colorado in modern Castilian.

In other languages, ____ words meaning “red” and “beautiful” share a 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 treatments and drugs for ____ diseases that to date haven’t received much attention.

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

The definition of rare has too often been associated with poor ― that is, even if a ____ 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 ____ 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 power of AI to ____ 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 diseases, thereby broadening the focus of medical research to ____ underserved populations.

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

Clear and perfect as it might appear to our eyes, down at ____ molecular level, glass looks more like a 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 practice it’s really ____ latter.

In fact, at room temperature glass never ____ 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).

____ 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 the glass is slowly sinking over time.

Unless the church has endured temperatures of more than ____ 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 middle ____ the twentieth century for truly flat, thin sheets of glass.

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

Glass seems to defy ____ molecular laws.

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