In general, Italians like to buy fresh food each day from small local shops.  As a result, Italy has more small grocery stores than any other European country.  In recent years, large supermarkets have opened on the outskirts of towns and cities. However, compared to other countries, these are few in number.  Local shops are ____________ in Italy

Tomorrow morning, he said to himself, he'd begin working on his design for the ship or he'd begin hunting around to see how much material he could find to build it.  And maybe Chuck Masterson could dig out a lot of old boards and stuff nobody wanted any more over in his grandfather's boat house. But then all at once he thought: Why not begin drawing the plans right away? So got some paper and a pencil and started to work. He was____

After reading Charlestown, the other side of the Charles River, Paul Revere borrowed a horse from friends.  He then thundered away on a ride that would carry him fame.  Many years later, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow immortalized Revere's dash to Lexington. His poem starts with these lines: Listen my children, and you shall hear the midnight ride of Paul Revere.  Revere is _________ for his ride. 

That morning of June 2nd, I showered, shaved, and laid out my olive green flight suit.  My spirits couldn't have been better. Not only did I love flying an F-156, I had lucked out by being stationed in Italy with the Triple Nickel.  In my six years in the U.S. Air Force, I had called nine different places home, but no location was quite as beautiful as northeastern Italy.  My apartment was in a quaint village called Montereale Val Celllina.  I was___________ 

Momma was right.  With big clumps of his hair sticking out to the sides over his ears like that he really did look like Bozo.  I broke out laughing, but Byron shot me a real dirty look and I stopped and looked back down at my math book. I hated it when things like that happened and my head automatically went down by itself!  Byron could________ me. 

He relaxes her; squatting against the wall; leaning back in a way that tilts his baseball cap with the D forward over his eyes. He likes the smell of flour, sweet dough, bread, and cakes and rolls baking.   The oven is crackling and makes him sleepy.  He is _________

On the other hand, money and math and clothes aren't the only things I cared about.  I love to go to museums, and dance performances and Broadway shows, and yes, even the opera.  I guess I'm a "culture vulture" another result of growing up in Manhattan.  My parents are always dragging me to one event or another and eventually I learned to appreciate and love the arts.  I have many________

The x-ray picture provides views of mummies never unwrapped---of pharaohs, queens, nobles and priests.  The shape of the face appears, as do magic charms of gold and semiprecious stones within the wrappings.  The pictures shows that some mummies have been wrongly identified; they cannot be the person they were thought to be.  They have helped to clarify family relationships.  They have produced some surprises and puzzles. Most of all, they have yielded important information about health in ancient Egypt.  In the bone medical scientists can read age at death, signs of disease, and fractures that healed,.  The pictures contribute __________

The Colorado Plateau covers most of northern Arizona.  The Colorado River and Little Colorado wind through the plateau. Rivers and creeks have carved deep canyons there.  Canyons de Chelly and the Grand Canyon are two of them The rivers have ______ the landscape

The city of Los Angeles, the area defined by its city limits, is huge as cities go.  Los Angeles proper spread covers 456 square miles.  This makes it in area twice the size of Chicago.  The city consists of downtown and seven recognized neighborhoods.  Unlike people in other cities, Angelenos do have to go "downtown" to work or shop. Still downtown is the hub of the city and it has undergone extensive rebuilding in recent years.  The city is _________

Mercury is so close to the Sun that its surface is very hot.  During the day, the temperatures can climb as high as 800 degrees Fahrenheit.  But because Mercury has no atmosphere to hold in heat, at night the temperatures can drop to nearly 300 degrees below zero.   The climate is _______

Passersby all turned and stared.  Embarrassed, I pulled her into a garage nearby  The sound of the rain beating on the pavement faded away once we were inside, and my ears filled with Sul's sobs instead.  I stood there and in the smell of wet cars, feeling mortified and outraged, for all the world like a mother whose child is having a temper tantrum in public.  I did not want to be ______

Oxygen and nitrogen make up 99 percent of the atmosphere.  Only the top two, to three centimeters of our room is left for other gases.  These are called trace gases.  They include methane, neon, helium, ozone, argon, and most important carbon dioxide, which plants absorb and use for growth. Oxygen and nitrogen are _______ in the atmosphere. 

Public meeting are usually held to discuss plans to build a new road.  People may object to the road, fearing that it will spoil the countryside or put their children's lives in danger.  Some may fear that the noise and fumes could harm wildlife in the area.  Other people may welcome the business and work opportunities and the freedom from traffic jams that better roads bring.  Roads have many ______