Fill ONE suitable word into each numbered blank. Write your answers in ‘Your answers’

Part 2: (15 points).  Fill ONE suitable word into each numbered blank. Write your answers in ‘Your answers’ part.

          Iceland has been called the “land of frost and fire”. This is a very satisfactory (1) ________, for the mountains on this island in the North Atlantic are capped with snow the year round, and (2) ________ are scores of fiery volcanoes. Contrary (3) ________ what most people think, however, Iceland’s (4) ________ is not extremely cold. Most days are quite agreeable because (5) ________ the warm current of the Gulf Stream. (6) ________ the Vikings began to settle in Iceland in 874 AD, they found books and crosses that showed the Irish had (7) ________ been there. It is likely that the Irish and Scotch had come to Iceland about seventy years (8) ________ the Vikings arrived. These explorers, however, had made (9) ________ lasting settlements. The first real colonists were Scandinavians who came directly (10) ________ Norway, Sweden, and Demark.    The people of Iceland have very high educational standards. It is said that (11) ________  books are sold in Iceland in relation to its population than in any other country in the world.

            Since Iceland is adjacent to one of the (12) ________ important shipping routes

(13) ________ the United States and England, (14) ________ became very important during

(15) ________ Second World War.