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.

matthew went to bright river we're getting a little boy from an orphan asylum in nova scotia and he's coming on the train tonight if marilla had said that matthew had gone to bright river to meet a kangaroo from australia missus rachel could not have been more ____
astonished

or a hollow where wild plums hung out their filmy bloom the air was sweet with the breath of many apple orchards and the meadows ____ away in the distance to horizon mists of pearl and purple while the little birds sang as if it were the one day of summer in all the year
sloped

and then nova scotia is right close to the island it isn't as if we were getting him from england or the states he can't be much different from ourselves well ____ hope it will turn out all right said missus rachel in a tone that plainly indicated her painful doubts

i