1) According to the third law of thermodynamics, _____ possible is –273.16 degrees centigrade.

2) After the First World War, the author Anais Nin became interested in the art movement known as Surrealism and in psychoanalysis, both _____ her novels and shorts stories.

3) Muskrats generally _____ close to the edge of a bog, where their favorite plant foods grow plentifully.

4) Oliver Ellsworth, _____ of the United States Supreme Court, was the author of the bill that established the federal court system.

5) _____ Colonial period the great majority of Connecticut’s settlers came from England.

6) The worldwide race to develop an affordable synthetic fuel has so far consumed billions of dollars and _____ few results.

7) Experiments in the photography of moving objects _____ in both the United States and Europe well before 1900.

8) The University of Georgia, _____ in 1785, was the first state supported university in the United States.

9) Thanks to modern irrigation, crops now grow abundantly in areas where once _____ cacti and sagebrush could live.

10) _____, in the late 1800’s, some libraries had to keep as many as twenty to thirty copies of each of Mary Jane Holmes’s books on hand.

11) The quantum theory states _____, such as light, is given off and absorbed in tiny definite units called quanta or photons.

12) Quails typically have short rounded wings that enable _____ spring into full flight instatly when disturbed in their hiding places.

13) Geysers are found near rivers and lakes, where water drains through the soil _____.

14) Algebra generalizes certain basic laws _____the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of all numbers

15) Even at low levels, _____.