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No single element has _(0)__(tempt) the human imagination more than gold, the __(1)__ (shimmer)
metal. For thousands of years the desire_(2)__(possess) gold__(3)__(drive) people to extremes,_(4_)
(fuel) wars and conquests, underpinning empires and currencies, levelling mountains and forests. Gold
is not vital to human existence; it has, in fact, relatively few practical uses. Yet its chief virtues-- its
unusual destiny and its imperishable s--have made it one of the world's most__(5)___ (covet)
commodities, a transcendent symbol of beauty, wealth and immortality. From Pharaohs { Who__(6)
(insist) on being buried wrapped in gold, what they called the 'flesh of the gods’} to the financiers
(who_(7)__(make) it the bedrock of the global economy}: nearly every society through the ages
_(8)_ (invest) in gold with an almost mythological power.
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(b) Fill in the blanks with appropriate words:
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Answer 1

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0)Temped,1) shimmere,2) possessio,3)driven 4) fuel 5)covetic 6) insisted 7)made ,8) invested