TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you will use your knowledge about language (and common sense) to determine what element the marked number refers to. The numbers are marked with two underlines around them, like: _ number _. Your answer should be chosen from the given text, and should not contain other words.
PROBLEM: Marge:  You will not be getting a tattoo for Christmas .
Homer: Yeah , if you want _ one _ , you 'll have to pay for it our of your own allowance .
Bart: All right !
Marge: Homer !

SOLUTION: tattoo

PROBLEM: Pamela Moran:  Regenerate , life renewed . What is it that the poets keep trying to hammer into our heads ? Winter becomes spring , night becomes day . As one wave crashes onto the shore and disappears , another _ one _ appears behind it and another and another . I guess we humans just plain wanna stick around . The ride must be worth the price of admission , and it 's not in us to give up hope . Even when any reason for hope as dwindled to almost nothing . This communal spirit , this crazy insistence , that we all really are connected and each other 's care taker , it keeps us from sinking into despair , or sliding into the abyss .

SOLUTION: wave

PROBLEM: Narrator:  The affliction which eventually destroyed Karen Carpenter is _ one _ that plagues many , many young women like her . The name of this private obsession , anorexia nervosa .
Woman #1: What IS anorexia nervosa ?
Narrator: Anorexia nervosa is a condition of self starvation , which affects mostly women in their adolescence or young adulthood . Sufferers desperately want to be thin , and often transform their bodies to such an extent that menstruation ceases , and they revert to a pre - pubescent stage .
Woman #2: Do anorexics ever get hungry ?
Narrator: The term anorexia means lack of appetite , yet those who suffer from it are obsessed with food and its preparation , while they deny their own hunger and their body 's need for nutrients .
Woman #3: Do they really think they look attractive like that ?
Narrator: Anorectics often have a distorted perception of their actual body size . Although experts still can not account for this basic misrecognition , they do point out that the rigorous self discipline imposed by the anorectic is often the cause of an extreme exhilaration or high which accompanies and rewards her denial of food .

SOLUTION:
affliction