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: for the last month this wretched house had presented the gloomy appearance of a lazaretto infected with the plague some of the apartments were closed within and without ____ shutters were only opened to admit a minute's air showing the scared face of a footman

SOLUTION: the

PROBLEM: ____ how he's likely to turn out why it was only last week i read in the paper how a man and his wife up west of the island took a boy out of an orphan asylum and he set fire to the house at night set it on purpose marilla and nearly burnt them to a crisp in their beds

SOLUTION: nor

PROBLEM: missus rachel knew ____ he ought because she had heard him tell peter morrison the evening before in william j blair's store over at carmody that he meant to sow his turnip seed the next afternoon

SOLUTION:
that