: I couldn't see anything. I kept my hands out in front of me and smashed my knuckles against a knobby object. I tried to grab it to hold on to it, but another lurch of the speeding train sent me to my knees.

I was _____ .

"Well, they have a deli section there that's doing very badly. In fact the owner says that he's thinking of taking it out altogether. If we sold coffee and sandwiches from that deli, it would do two things. It would give us a place to work in, it would bring more traffic into the store, and it might even revive some of his deli business. If it caught on, it could be a healthy business."

The idea would _____ everyone.

Under the oceans, plants called kelp grow big and tall. When many of these plants grow in the same area, they make a kelp forest. Hundreds of different kinds of animals live in the beautiful kelp forests. Sea otters can find clams in the kelp forest. Sea otters will bang the hard clamshells against rocks. When the shells crack open, the sea otters will eat the clams.

The plants can be _____ .

Most of the Indian Ocean is warm. It lies in the tropics and gets plenty of sunshine. Warm winds blow across the ocean and make the water move in currents. The warm waters, bright sunshine, and shallow depths around the islands and coasts make the Indian Ocean a very good place for coral reefs.

Coral reefs need a(n) _____ climate.

It began as a weekly series in 1851 in an antislavery newspaper published in Washington, D.C., called The National Era. At first, Stowe planned to write no more than three or four episodes. But readers demanded more of the dramatic tale. What would become of Uncle Tom, the gentle, saintly slave who was sold to the evil plantation owner Simon Legree? And what was the future of the beautiful slave woman Eliza, who fled to freedom by leaping from ice floe to ice floe across the half-frozen Ohio River with her child in her arms? Fan letters poured into the newspaper's offices, and by the time the last of forty-five episodes appeared ten months later, Stowe had moved thousands of readers to tears over the cruelty of the slave system.

Stowe kept people in _____ .

It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time. Often in a snow-storm, even by day, one will come out upon a well-known road and yet find it impossible to tell which way leads to the village. Though he knows that he has travelled it a thousand times, he cannot recognize a feature in it, but it is as strange to him as if it were a road in Siberia.

Travel becomes _____ .

Lying at the head of the Bay of Bengal, West Bengal includes the deltaic regions of the great river systems of the Ganges, Padma, Brahmaputra, Meghna, and Jamuna. Tributaries of these systems wander through the plains, making the whole area a river complex. The extreme flatness of the land in the plain and the loose alluvial soil make possible widespread floods in the monsoon season, and changes in river courses have had a profound effect on the social and economic history of the region. The extremely low-lying delta proper merges in the north into the foothills of the Himalaya. In the west the land rises more slowly into the plateau region of the neighbouring state of Bihar. The region's geography is _____ to the flooding.

The body normally regulates its blood sugar by using up some of it through muscular activity; by sending some to various body storage sites; by keeping a ready supply of muscle and liver glycogen in case we suddenly need a reinforcement of blood sugar to run from an attacking lion or a fast-turning car; and by hormonally causing more glucose to enter the bloodstream if we go too long without eating and the blood sugar drops too low. Blood sugar supplies _____ .

Trudging home to dinner, tired and disappointed, poor Polly received another blow, which hurt her more than the loss of all her pupils. As she went hurrying along with a big music book in one hand and a paper bag of rolls for tea in the other, she saw Tom and Trix coming. As she watched them while they slowly approached, looking so gay and handsome and happy, it seemed to Polly as if all the sunshine and good walking was on their side of the street, all the wintry wind and mud on hers. Longing to see a friendly face and receive a kind word, she crossed over, meaning to nod and smile at least. Trix saw her first and suddenly became absorbed in the distant horizon. Tom apparently did not see her, for his eyes were fixed on a fine horse just prancing by. They _____ her

Another evil which attends hereditary succession is, that the throne is subject to be possessed by a minor at any age; all which time the regency, acting under the cover a king, have every opportunity and inducement to betray their trust. The same national misfortune happens, when a king, worn out with age and infirmity, enters the last stage of human weakness. In both these cases the public becomes a prey to every miscreant, who can tamper successfully with the follies either of age or infancy.

In these situations, the king is _____ .

This is the design and intention of the veto power; and the fear expressed by General Hamilton was, that Presidents, so far from exercising it too often, would not exercise it as often as the safety of the people required; that they might lack the moral courage to stake themselves in opposition to a favorite measure of the majority of the two Houses of Congress; and thus deprive the people, in many instances, of their right to pass upon a bill before it becomes a final law. The cases in which President Jackson has exercised the veto power have shown the soundness of these observations. No ordinary President would have staked himself against the Bank of the United States and the two Houses of Congress in 1832. It required President Jackson to confront that power—to stem that torrent—to stay the progress of that charter, and to refer it to the people for their decision.

Jackson was _____ in his use of the veto.

Unlike the other birds of prey, which spend a great deal of hunting time in flight, owls spot their prey from a roost and then swoop down on it. They use little energy soaring above the ground searching for prey. Instead, they use a burst of energy for a swift, accurate dive onto prey that they have used their keen eyes and ears to spot from their perch.

Owls are _____ with their energy.

Since the gray whale was protected in 1946, it has almost recovered its estimated pre-whaling number of 24,000, thereby becoming one of the few success stories in whale conservation. At one time, however, there was an Atlantic gray whale that migrated all along the Atlantic seaboard from Florida to eastern Canada; today, it is extinct, and the gray whale is found only in the North Pacific.

The North Pacific gray whale _____ .

In the winter of 1898 his grandfather offered to him, rent free, his carriage-house, which was situated on the main street, if he would come back to Bethel. The young man's capital was one hundred and twenty dollars; fifty of this was spent in fixing up his store, and the remainder he invested in a stock of fruit and confectionery. Having arranged with fruit dealers of his acquaintance in New York to receive his orders, he opened his store on the first of May—in those times known as "training day." The first day was so successful that long before noon the proprietor was obliged to call in one of his old schoolmates to assist in waiting on customers. The total receipts were sixty-three dollars, which sum was promptly invested in a stock of fancy goods—pocket-books, combs, knives, rings, beads, etc.

The store was _____ .

The cornmeal was completely gone. King David had turned the bag inside out to get the very last crumbs, dribbling them carefully into Queen of Sheba's little hand so she could lick them up. She ate them hungrily without complaining. Sitting close to her, he could see the deep hollows in her neck and cheeks, the thinness of her arms and legs, the blue shadows under her eyes. Days of hunger, of walking endless mile after endless mile, nights sleeping on the cold, hard ground, had taken a heavy toll of her. She seemed fragile, brittle, like a child made out of dry twigs. Queen of Sheba was _____ .

It was always a pleasure to me to see Willie Winter at a banquet. During a matter of twenty years I was seldom at a banquet where Willie Winter was not also present, and where he did not read a charming poem written for the occasion. He did it this time, and it was up to standard: dainty, happy, choicely phrased, and as good to listen to as music, and sounding exactly as if it was pouring unprepared out of heart and brain.

Willie Winter was a(n) _____ poet.

In the long jump and the triple jump, an athlete's approach ends on a take-off board. The jumper must take off from exactly the right position on or behind the board or the jump is called a "fouled jump" and does not count. In the high jump and the pole vault, the position for take-off is not marked, but doing it at the best point is still important. If the take-off is good, the athlete will be at the highest position just as the bar is crossed. If the take-off is early or late, then the top of the curve of the jump will come before or after the bar is reached and it may be knocked off. Watch the athletes competing in the jumps. You will see them constantly practicing their run-ups to make sure they have them right.

A jumper's take-off must be _____ .

Napoleon was great because there was nothing of the chess player about him. He did not admit of regular, foreordained moves on the chess-board or on the board of life. He refused to consider anything impossible until he had tried it. He tells us himself that he deserved credit for crossing the Alps, not that he accomplished a difficult feat, but because he refused to believe those who declared the feat impossible. Napoleon was _____ .

No one will work for them. Mr. Paddock and the other carpenters won't help them build their barracks on the Common, even though they need the work and no lumber is being allowed in. Others refuse to sell them tools, blankets or goods of any kind.

Everyone is _____ them.