2. Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage with one suitable word.

The chance to ‘get away from it all’ is often ………………… (1) as a reason for
choosing to live on an island. Many feel ………………… (2) there is something
appealing about running up a metaphorical drawbridge against the world.
Experienced islanders ………………… (3) uproariously at such idealism,
………………… (4) off a long list of reasons why it is nonsense. People,
………………… (5) is claimed, can feel more isolated in deep countryside than
they would on an island. One hill farmer in the north of Scotland, whose only
company in winter was the odd passing helicopter, ………………… (6) to feeling
suicidally lonely at times, ………………… (7) his lifestyle to living on the moon.
By contrast, isolation tends to bind island communities together. One old woman
who had spent her whole life on Easdale in the Inner Hebrides, …………………
(8) out that there was no place to hide on an island which meant that you
………………… (9) to face your mistakes. ………………… (10) she said, you
can’t avoid people when you have to sit next to them on a ferry the following day.
‘You can’t get away with anything’, she laughed. On the other hand, many claims
are ………………… (11) that the social life is better than on the mainland, with
people forever popping into each others’ houses for a ………………… (12). Off
Scotland, though, the weather can be a problem in winter, ………………… (13)
to a resident novelist who advises ………………… (14) to even think about
moving to an island if you are addicted to comfort. ‘Mind you’, she said,
‘hundreds of people tried to ………………… (15) me from moving here and I’m
very glad they failed.’