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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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

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

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

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

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