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STONEHENGE DECODED

Stonehenge has been shrouded in mystery for more than 4,500 years. Now a British archaeologist may have found out some of its secrets.

There are some things that people call “mysteries” that are not really all that

mysterious. Stonehenge, however, certainly deserves that description. Rumors of 1)____magicians, strange druids, and the sun god Apollo surround it.

2)_____ in the English countryside, Stonehenge is one of the oldest monuments in the world. It is instantly recognizable. It 3)______ a group of gigantic stones that stand upright on the ground in a circle. In some cases, pairs of the stones have another stone 4)____across them like a tabletop. At the sight of these strange stones, most people think two things first. One, how did people in prehistoric times manage to 5)_____ these enormous stones? And two, what was 6)___of this strange structure?

No one really knows. But Stonehenge Decoded, a new program on National Geographic Channel, takes a look at a groundbreaking theory on the origins of Stonehenge. British archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson leads a 7)____ that investigates Stonehenge, and comes up with some surprises.

Pearson and his people find evidence of a 8)______ settlement a few kilometers from Stonehenge. At the center of this settlement lie the remains of a second circle!

9)______, it is found that the second circle was a near replica of the Stonehenge monument, but made of wood. Both circles stood at the same time.

So how were these circles connected? What was the meaning of having one in stone and one in wood? Pearson believes that Stonehenge 10)_____ for the  ancestors of the people that created it. It may, he claims, have been a monument to house the spirits of the dead. The wooden monument may have 11)_____ the living, while the stone monument represented the dead. Another amazing discovery is that on 12)______ and shortest days of the year, the two monuments line up with the setting and rising sun.

The effect is very dramatic.

	a	b	c	d
1	ancient	old	contemporary	up-to-date
2	Appeared	Located	Closed	Occupied
3	complains of	combine with	consists of	consist of
4	lay	standing	laid	lying
5	lie up	set up	get up	make up
6	the purpose	aims	the cause	an ambition
7	crew	team	staff	groups
8	4.500-years-old	4,500-year-olds	4,500-year-old	4,500-year-olded
9	After repairing	Before making	Without studying	After testing
10	was built	will have built	were being built	were built
11	shown	represented	included	representing
12	longer	much long	long	the longest

ANSWERS

1.a  2.b   3.c   4. d   5.b  6.a  7.b  8.c  9.d 10.a  11.b 12.d