Seven Wonders of the World

A. For each Wonder, choose a verb from the box and complete the information. Use Active and Passive verbs in Simple Past Tense.

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1. The Temple of Artemis _ a Greek temple for Goddess Artemis. It _ around 323 BC and it _ in Ephesus (near the modern town of Selçuk in present-day Turkey). It _ of marble mostly. It _ by Goths in 262.

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2. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon _ in Babil province, Iraq by Nebuchadnezzar II for his wife because she _ the green hills and valleys of her homeland. They _ around 600 BC. However, they _ by an earthquake in the second century.

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3. The Lighthouse of Alexandria _by the Ptolemaic Kingdom between 280 and 247 BC in Alexandria, Egypt and it _ between 120 m and 137 m tall. It _ one of the tallest man-made structures on Earth for many centuries. It _ badly _ by three earthquakes between 956 and 1323. It then _ an abandoned ruin.

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4. The Colossus of Rhodes _ a statue of the Greek - god of the sun Helios. It _ in the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, by Chares of Lindos in 280 BC. It _ to celebrate Rhodes' victory over the ruler of Cyprus. It _in the earthquake of 226 BC and it _ one of the tallest statues of the ancient world.

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5. The Statue of Zeus at Olympia _ a giant seated figure, about 42 ft (13 m) tall. It _ by the Greek sculptor Phidias around 435 BC in Olympia, Greece, and _ in the Temple of Zeus there. It _ the god Zeus sitting on a throne ornamented with precious stones. It _ during the 5th century.] No copy of the statue _, and details of its form are known only from ancient Greek descriptions and representations on coins.

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6. The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in Egypt and the only wonder that _. It _ as a tomb in 20 years and _ around 2560 BC. It is 146.5 metres (481 feet), which is equal to a modern 48-story building. It _ the tallest man-made structure in the world for over 3,800 years. It is composed of over 2 ½ million blocks of limestone, which weigh from 2 to 70 tons each.