1) The role of the ear is _____ acoustic disturbances into neural signals suitable for transmission to the brain.

2) The imagist movement in poetry arose during the second decade of the twentieth century ____against romanticism.

3) Virtually _____ species have biological clocks that regulate their metabolism over a 24-hour period.

4) According to United States criminal law, insanity may relieve a person from the usual legal consequences____.

5) In addition to ____a place where business deals are made, a stock exchange collects statistics, publishes prices quotations, and sets rules and standards for trading

6) The swallows of Capistrano are famous _____ to the same nests in California each spring.

7) In the fourteenth century, _____ that glass coated with silver nitrate would turn yellow when fired in an oven.

8) _____ the hamster’s basic diet is vegetarian, some hamsters also eat insects.

9) Many modern photographers attempt to manipulate elements of photography other _____ in their photographs.

10) For any adhesive to make a really strong bond, _____ to be glued must be absolutely clean and free from moisture or grease.

11) A regional writer with a gift for dialect, _____ her fiction with the eccentric, comic, but vital inhabitants of rural Mississippi.

12) Relative humidity is the amount of water vapor the air contains at a certain temperature _____ with the amount it could hold at that temperature.

13) Scientists believe the first inhabitants of the Americans arrived by crossing the land bridge that connected Siberia and _____ more than 10,000 years ago.

14) Fibers of hair and wool are not continuous and must normally be spun into thread _____ woven into textile fabrics.

15) Margaret Brent, because of her skill in managing estates, became _____ largest landholders in colonial Maryland.