You need to answer a given question containing a blank (_). Your answer must be one of the two objects mentioned in the question, for example "trophy" and "suitcase". Your answer must not contain a word that is not present in the question. Please don't use articles (e.g., the, a) before the answer.

I avoided the live wire but not the fence it ran along because the _ was safe to touch.
fence

A boy in a house tries to put a big book on a shelf built for paperbacks. The book falls to the ground because the _ is too narrow.
shelf

I buy a lot better coffee than tea at the store, because the _ is from a local place.

tea