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For questions 1- 8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line.

Spain and Portuga
 

Spain and Portugal are (1) ... linked to one another by their geographical position and their (2) ... experience. That these two countries have preserved their separate identities within the Iberian Peninsula is due to a complex array of physical, political, economic, and cultural factors and, at times, (3) ... accidents of fate. Modern Spain and Portugal emerged from more than 2,000 years of life on the periphery of Western civilisation. Like most of the Mediterranean peoples, The Iberian and Celtic (4) … of the peninsula experienced Greek, Phoenician, Carthaginian, and Roman influence in varying degrees. Roman rule, as elsewhere, yielded to the triumph of Christianity and the (5) ... of Germanic tribes. The arrival of Muslim invaders in the Iberian Peninsula in 711 created a distinct dimension of European history. For the next eight centuries Islam, Christianity, and Judaism (6) ... in a relationship that was often financially and intellectually enriching but (7) … disrupted by religious tensions and civil strife. During the Middle Ages a number of Christian kingdoms (8) ... pursuing a "Reconquest" of the territory lost to the "Moors".

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[answer="INESCAPABLE" label="ESCAPE"]

[answer="HISTORICAL" label="HISTORY"]

[answer="UNPREDICTABLE" label="PREDICT"]

[answer="INHABITANT" label="INHABIT"]

[answer="ASCENDANCY" label="ASCEND"]

[answer="COEXISTED" label="EXIST"]

[answer="PERIODICALLY" label="PERIOD"]

[answer="AROSE" label="RISE"]

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