1. All living organisms constantly absorb carbon 14 _____ their existence.

2. Futurism, _____ early twentieth-century movement in art, rejected all traditions and attempted to glorify contemporary life by emphasizing the machine and motion.

3. The elimination of inflation would ensure that the amount of money used in repaying a loan would have _____ as the amount of money borrowed.

4. Because the papaya grows readily from seed, _____ spread from its home in Central America and now grows throughout the tropics.

5. _____ has been a topic of continual geological research.

6. _____ lived on the North Saskatchewan River long before the Hudson’s Bay Company built a fur trading post there

7. Research into the dynamics of storms is directed toward improving the ability to predict these events _____ to minimize damage and avoid loss of life.

8. In reorganizing the curriculum of Mt. Holyoke College in the late 1800’s Elizabeth Mead laid the foundation _____ the modern college rests.

9. _____ John Aaron Lewis pioneered in the development of “third stream music,”a blend of jazz and classical music.

10. Amplifiers such as those in computers and sound – reproducing systems are responsible for _____ an erratic input signal.

11. Eastern meadowlarks abound in places _____, but eat harmful insects rather than grain.

12. _____ xenon could not form chemical compounds was once believed by scientists.

13. In the course of her life, Mary Anne Sadlier _____, some fifty of them original novels and collections of stories.

14. _____ depressions in the ocean floor are called trenches.

15. Orchestral instruments _____ under the following types: strings, woodwind, brass, and percussion.