TASK DEFINITION: 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.
PROBLEM: as avonlea housekeepers were wont ____ tell in awed voices and keeping a sharp eye on the main road that crossed the hollow and wound up the steep red hill beyond

SOLUTION: to

PROBLEM: the orchard on the slope below the house was in a bridal flush of pinky white bloom hummed over by a myriad of bees thomas lynde a meek ____ man whom avonlea people called rachel lynde's husband was sowing his late turnip seed on the hill field beyond the barn

SOLUTION: little

PROBLEM: missus rachel would have liked to stay until matthew came home with his imported orphan but reflecting that it would be a good two hours at least before his arrival she concluded to go up the road ____ robert bell's and tell the news it would certainly make a sensation second to none

SOLUTION:
to