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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.

Scotland

 

Scotland has, in an eminent degree, a haunting character. Every country, of course, has its special flavour, sometimes describable, never strictly (1) ... . Not even the most casual visitor to Egypt or Japan could fail to note something distinctive about each. If, however, you have deep (2) ... roots in a country, she will grab you, not to say trap you forever, now enfolding you in her arms like a tender mother, now sulking at you like a (3) ... daughter, now berating you like a jealous wife. The ghosts leap out at you, claiming you as their kin. You are the victim of what the Jungian (4) … call the collective or race (5) ... . What's more, you revel in it. Rightly so, for it is good for you. Of Scotland all this is (6) ... true. Moreover, she has a strangely (7) ... quality that makes even Rome seem by comparison almost fleeting. The Scots rarely make such comparisons, and never without (8) ... . They assume all around them to be fleeting, so that to make such a point would dub you right away as a foreigner.

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[answer="DEFINABLE" label="DEFINE"]

[answer="ANCESTRAL" label="ANCESTOR"]

[answer="MALCONTENT" label="CONTENT"]

[answer="PSYCHOLOGIST" label="PSYCHOLOGY"]

[answer="UNCONSCIOUS" label="CONSCIOUS"]

[answer="STRIKINGLY" label="STRIKE"]

[answer="ETERNAL" label="ETERNITY"]

[answer="PROVOCATION" label="PROVOKE"]

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