The Caldecott Medal, ________ for the best children's picture book, is awarded each January.

The total cost of the project _______ out to about $250,000.

I ________ into Laura outside the theater last week and was delighted to see her.

It was ________ that the president had been told what to say by his advisers.

It was my first time on a plane. ________ I'd always gone by train.

When I arrived in the city, I ________ several days looking for somewhere to live.

Relations between the two countries have _________ considerably in the last year.

They _______ to meet to discuss the future of the library before the end of the month.

It can take months or even years for political scandals to _______ down.

___________ seasonal rainfall, especially in regions near the ropics, is winds that blow in an opposite direction in winter than in summer.

----------- length of the Great Wall of China, it is difficult to capture it in a single photograph.

Researchers have long debated _______ Saturn's moon Titan contains hydrocarbon oceans and lakes.

Even in a snowstorm that shut down half of the city, our delivery service got all of our packages ________ on time.

Rice, _______ still forms the staple diet of much of of the world's population, grows best in hot, wet lands.

Electric lamps came into widespread use during the early 1900s and _______ other lamps for almost every purpose.

From 1905 to 1920, American novelist Edith Wharton was at the height of _______ writing career.

Zoos in different cities have become biological parks where animals _______free and people watch from over a moat.

The restaurant located on Main Street will prepare any dish without salt if a guest _________ it.

Mrs. Golino has been worrying too much and has trouble _______ at night.