59.The car was in good working（ ）when I bought it a few months ago.

26.He closed his eyes and held the two versions of La Mappa to his mind’s（ ）to analyze their differences.

25.The party’s reduced vote in the general election was（ ）of lack of support for its policies.

24.Despite concern about the disappearance of the album in popular music, 2014 delivered a great crop of album（ ）.

23.The daisy-like flowers of chamomile have been used for centuries to（ ）anxiety and insomnia.

22.If you intend to melt the snow for drinking water, you can（ ）extra purity by running it through a coffee filter.

21.Some narratives seem more like plays, heavy with dialogue by which writers allow their（ ）to reveal themselves.

20.You must fire（ ）incompetent assistant of yours.

19.At that moment, with the crowd watching me, I was not afraid in the ordinary sense, as（ ）if I（ ）alone.

18.Some martian rock structures look strikingly like structures on Earth that are known（ ）by microbes.

17.Timothy Ray Brown, the first man cured of HIV, initially opted against the stem cell transplantation that（ ）history.