Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
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.
Example: The kid on the street is ____ soccer
Output: playing
This is the original sentence 'The kid on the street is playing soccer' So, we have correctly predicted the missing word to be 'soccer'

New input case for you: there were three plates laid so that marilla must be expecting some one home with matthew to tea but the dishes were everyday dishes and there was only crab apple preserves and one kind of cake ____ that the expected company could not be any particular company
Output:
so