Visitors who relish the pungent wind-cured mutton served today throughout the Faroe Islands seldom stop long enough to consider that the archipelago's near-total (i) ______ of timber (ii)
_______ smoking, making the dish less a triumph of taste than an (iii) ______ to scarcity: lacking fuel, cooks simply hung their meat in slatted sheds and let the salt wind do the slow work.

Blank (i)	Blank (ii)	Blank (iii)
A. monopoly	D. precluded	G. ode
B. dearth	E. popularized	H. accommodation
C. profusion	F. necessitated	I. antecedent