The following text is from Mark Twain's 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Tom, a child, has been told by his aunt to paint their house's fence.

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high.

Though most studies of the effect of altitude on blood chemistry usually concentrated on people who live above sea level, researchers Suleiman A. Al-Sweedan and Moath Alhaj have instead chosen the______ path in their recent work of studying the blood of people who live below sea level, in locations such as the California towns of Salton City and Imperial.

The Gleaners, painted in the realist style by Jean-François Millet, depicts peasants picking stray wheat from a field after the harvest. The realists' emphasis on accurately portraying the experiences of average working people was largely a rejection of the romantic style evident in many paintings by Jérôme-Martin Langlois, which instead ______ their subjects' beauty or heroism while hiding all imperfection.

Although our knowledge of the Pliocene epoch and the lives of the hominids during this time was once______, recent analyses of fossils like that of the individual known as KNM-KP 271, discovered in Kenya in 1963, have sharpened our picture of what a day in the life of KNM-KP 271 may have looked like.

In what is now Washington state, the Tulalip Cultural Center relies on traditional knowledge to guide the design of exhibits, presenting Tulalip history and culture to the tribe's citizens. The Citizen Potawatomi Nation, a tribe in Oklahoma, employs a similar strategy in its own cultural center. Both centers contrast with museums that aren't Indigenous-led; when displaying Indigenous artifacts, such museums tend to anticipate mainly non-Indigenous audiences and rely on Euro-centric strategies for designing exhibits.