Exercise 9 (Fill In The Blanks With Appropriate Words) – Choose an appropriate word from the options to suitably fill the blank in the sentence below so that the sentence makes sense, both grammatically and contextually.
Fill In The Blanks With Appropriate Words
Fill In The Blanks With Appropriate Words With Answers
Question 1 – Fill In The Blanks With Appropriate Words
access, scientifically, excavated, legendary, interment, decorated, represent
As the favourite wife of the pharaoh Ramses II, Nefertari was provided with a beautifully (1)__________ tomb in the valley of the Queens to which Professor Anderson was recently given (2)__________.
Although plundered in ancient times, the tomb, first (3)__________ by Italian archaeologists in 1904, still contained objects which were sent to the Egyptian Museum in Turin.
This included a pair of mummified legs which could have been part of a later (4)__________ as was often the case in other tombs in the region. But as the legs had never been (5)__________ investigated, it was decided to undertake the recent study to find out if the legs could actually (6)__________ all that remained of one of Egypt’s most (7)__________ queens.
Answers – 1. decorated 2. access 3. excavated 4. interment 5. scientifically 6. represent 7. legendary
Question 2 – Fill In The Blanks With Appropriate Words
privilege, revealed, complements, embalm, jigsaw, evidence, conjunction, history, project
The study, published in the journal, (1)__________ that the legs are those of an adult woman of about 40 years of age. Dr Buckley’s chemical analysis also established that the materials used to (2)__________ the legs are consistent with 13th Century BC mummification traditions, which when taken in (3)__________ with the findings of the other specialists involved, led to the identification.
Professor Fletcher said: “This has been the most exciting (4)__________ to be part of, and a great (5)__________ to be working alongside with some of the world’s leading experts in this area.
Both Stephen and myself have a long (6)__________ studying Egypt’s royal mummies, and the (7)__________ we’ve been able to gather about Nefertari’s remains not only (8)__________ the research we’ve been doing on the queen and her tomb but really does allow us to add another piece to the (9)__________ of what is actually known about Egyptian mummification.”
Answers – 1. revealed 2. embalm 3. conjunction 4. project 5. privilege 6. history 7. evidence 8. complements 9. jigsaw
