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.

[Q]: ____ marilla as if getting boys from orphan asylums in nova scotia were part of the usual spring work on any well regulated avonlea farm instead of being an unheard of innovation missus rachel felt that she had received a severe mental jolt she thought in exclamation points
[A]: said


[Q]: he saw ____ lady a fashionable elegantly dressed lady
[A]: a


[Q]: missus alexander ____ was up here one day before christmas and she said she was going to get a little girl from the asylum over in hopeton in the spring
[A]:
spencer