Q: 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.
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
A:
sloped