Choose the word or set of words that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

1. Toward the end of the 13th century, some __________ event forced the Anasazi to __________ their houses and homeland and to move south and east toward the Rio Grande and the Little Colorado River .

2. Tony Benito and his sister, Margarita Benito, face 15-month jail terms in Britain on __________ of court charges after they __________ to appear in court to testify about the family's assets.

3. In addition to huge gas __________, the Caspian sea may hold as much as 200 billion barrels of oil, reserves second only to those of the Persian Gulf .

4. __________ we bought equipment at the end of last year but weren't billed until 2003, we had to include it on this year's books.

5. For the first time in 38 years, Essex Packaging has __________ an unprofitable quarter.

6. Had the attempt to increase sales succeeded, Fox would have had __________ to believe the Forester Plan could set similar __________ .

7. A judge ___________ an Arizona woman to 60 days home detention for intercepting her husband's ex-wife's e-mail, saying the penalty is a warning to others who might be tempted to do ___________.

8. More and more people are considering mortgages that require the ___________ to pay only the monthly ___________ on the loan.

9. The Andes ___________ as the floor of the Pacific Ocean slipped uneasily beneath South America , ruffling the land along the west coast of the ___________.

10. Professional searchers will travel the ___________ over, using any ___________ possible ? from satellites to simple theft ? to acquire meteorites.