CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH / ADVANCED / CAE / USE OF ENGLISH / open Cloze

For questions 1-8, read the text below and think of the word which fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap.
 

The Spanish Language
 

The history of Spanish language is a part of the history of Spain and Spanish America. The events that make up the history of (1) ... Iberian Peninsula – settlements, invasions, wars, and political upheaval – (2) ... shaped the history of the Spanish language. The Roman invasion is (3) ... fundamental in this respect, (4) ... other events have also been decisive, such as the Muslim invasion and the subsequent Reconquest of the Peninsula, the discovery of America, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment.
All of these events are reflected (5) ... the Spanish language: (6) ... the Roman invasion, the language of Iberia might still be Iberian, or (7) ... Visigothic or Arabic. Without the Muslim invasion and the Reconquest , it is doubtful that Modern Spanish would be based (8) ... the Castilian variety or dialect. Had there been no Renaissance or Enlightenment, the vocabulary of Spanish might lack its rich strata of Latinisms and Hellenisms, i.e., learned borrowings from Latin and Greek.

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