You are given an English sentence with a blank, and you need to predict the missing word. After completing, the whole sentence should be gramatically correct and non-ambiguous.

[Q]: the five thirty train has been in and gone half an hour ago answered that brisk official but there was a passenger dropped off for you a little girl she's sitting out there on the shingles i asked her to go into ____ ladies waiting room but she informed me gravely that she preferred to stay outside
[A]: the


[Q]: or a hollow where wild plums hung out their filmy bloom the air was sweet with the breath of many apple orchards and the meadows ____ away in the distance to horizon mists of pearl and purple while the little birds sang as if it were the one day of summer in all the year
[A]: sloped


[Q]: barely visible from the main road along which all the other avonlea houses were so sociably ____ missus rachel lynde did not call living in such a place living at all it's just staying that's what she said as she stepped along the deep rutted grassy lane
[A]:
situated


