The National Heritage Fellowship was created to publicly _______ exceptional folk and traditional artists in the United States. In 1991, the fellowship was given to the blues guitarist and singer Riley “B. B.” King to celebrate his lifetime contributions to the arts.

The following text is adapted from Kenneth Grahame's 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows. The Mole is dazed after briefly meeting a stranger while traveling with a friend.

[The] Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, and can re-capture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty of it, the beauty! Till that, too, fades away in its turn.

Few religious buildings can be said to _______ the astonishing size of Al-Fattah Al-Aleem Mosque in Egypt, which, with the capacity to accommodate approximately 17,000 people at once, is one of the largest mosques in the world.

British painter Peter Edwards is known for his portraits of notable figures in different fields, from writer Maud Sulter to mathematician Christopher Zeeman. Widespread admiration of these works has helped Edwards gain substantial _______ as an artist.

The Volga River delta system is located in Russia, where the river drains into the Caspian Sea, and is shaped by _______ factors: for example, the geography of the coastline influences sedimentary deposition, which over time alters coastal geography.