Direction: Fill in the blanks in the passage below, with the word from among the options given for each blank labelled (A) to (E). Choose the word that fits in each blank most appropriately in the context of the passage.

The Israel philharmonic orchestra is one of the country's most ________(A) cultural jewels. Created ten years before the State, it has been to the battlefields in wartime to boost the troops' ________(B). It earned a ________(C) as one of the world's leading orchestras. But in a country stuffed to the rafters, many of them immigrants, competition for funds is ________(D) and is increasingly ________(E). The management at the philharmonic has mounted a public ________(F) to demand more money after it was allotted less than what it got the previous year.