In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

There was once a young man who wished to (1)_________ his heart’s desire. And while that is, as beginnings go, there was much about this young man and what happened to him that was unusual, (2)_________ even he never knew the whole of it. The tale started. The town of Wall stands today as it has (3)_________ for six hundred years, on a high (4)_________ of granite slab amidst small forest woodland. There is a road from Wall, a winding track rising sharply up from the forest, where it is (5)_________with rocks and small stones.