Type the missing word in each blank

Text 1

Almost everyone has heard of the London Stock Exchange, but _______ few
know anything about the London Metal and Commodity Exchanges – yet these
markets have a greater _______ on global economies because they set ______
prices for some of the essential raw _______ for industry and food ________.
The LME provides three basic _______ to the world’s non-ferrous metal
______. First it is a market where large or small _______ of metal of a
guaranteed minimum standard can be bought and ______ on specific trading
days. Second, it acts as a barometer of world metal _______. And third, it is a
“hedging” medium: that is, it can help ________ get some ________ from
price fluctuations that occur for economic, political or ________ reasons.

Text 2

It isn’t necessary to have a __________ knowledge of, say, the intricacies of

counterpoint, or even to be able to read music to __________ it. Usually,
getting the point of a _______ of music, its emotional and dramatic
__________, is immediate or simply requires you to become more ________
with it. Of course, prolonged study of music and its _________, as in any other
_______. Will increase your understanding, but not ____________ your
enjoyment. Now, I realize that it can __________ a good deal of ___________
on our part to risk new sensations, and there is a lot of music that will seem
__________ and alien to you on a first __________.
Text 3

Before farming was introduced into Scotland, people lived by ______, fishing,
and ________ wild foodstuffs. The way of life meant that they usually didn’t
settle _________ in one place, but were to an extent nomadic, moving about in
_________ of a livelihood, perhaps ________ to same places at certain times
of the year. It is believed that the _________ of Orkney were known to these
people, but, so far, only a few flint _________ have been found to verify this.
This is because coastal __________ has destroyed many __________ sites and
these may have contained relics of some of these earliest pioneering
__________.

Text 4

Paper was first ___________ in Europe by the Spanish in the 12 th century,

although it had been ___________ since the 10 th century. Around the year
______, a __________ was established at Fabriano in Italy. The town become a
_______ center for _______ making and throughout the 14 th century ________
most of Europe with fine _________ paper, which it has continued to
________ ever since. By the 15th century, paper was also being ____________
in Germany and France, and it was not long before both countries became
almost completely _________ of material bought __________. With the
increasing _____________ of paper in Europe, the ___________ of identical
printed pictures became almost inevitable.