Recent analyses of mummified human remains demonstrate that tattooing is an ancient human practice. In 2015, ------- researchers used multispectral photographs to reveal 61 tattoos on Otzi, the oldest known natural mummy. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?however,eliminatemoreover,eliminatefor instance,eliminatesimilarly,

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, thousands of Egyptian mummies were sold as (0 - artefacts) to museums or as (2) ………. souvenirs to private collectors who wished to have a curious conversation piece in their ……. .(1 Point)A loneB mereC entireD utter

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, thousands of Egyptian mummies were sold as (0) ………. to museums or as (2) ………. souvenirs to private collectors who wished to have a curious conversation piece in their (3) ………. . One such mummy wound (4) ……… on display in the Niagara Falls Museum for more than 140 years. Probably no one among the hundreds of thousands of tourists who viewed the wizened mummy would ever have expected that it would (5) ………… out to be Pharaoh Ramses I, (6) ………. of the nineteenth dynasty of Egypt, whose members ruled that country for about 110 years.The tomb of the pharaoh was located by an Italian archaeologist in 1817, but upon finding that the tomb had already been (7) ………. of any precious artefacts, he left the unwrapped mummy of Ramses in situ. The (8) ………… remains eventually landed in Niagara Falls, Canada, where they stayed for more than a century under the gawking stares of countless tourists. Only after the mummy was purchased by Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia did scholars (9) ………… that the mummy was Ramses I.

Decide on the proper order for the sentences and write this sequence as your answer.1. Embalming (from the Latin in balsamum means to put into balsam, a mixture of aromatic resins) and the process of mummification are very similar in that the corpses were anointed with ointments, oils and resins.2. Poorly embalmed bodies are often black and very brittle.3. The word ‘mummy’ comes from a misinterpretation of the process.4. It was believed that these had been preserved by dipping them in bitumen, the Arabic word for bitumen being ‘mumiya’.5. To embalm and to mummify essentially mean the same thing.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, thousands of Egyptian mummies were sold as (0-artefacts) to museums or as ……. souvenirs to private collectors who wished to have a curious conversation piece in their (3) ………. .(1 Point)A connectionB occupationC possessionD permission

For questions 2 – 9, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). Example (0)A heirloomsB artefactsC monumentsD ruinsAnswer: B                                                                    A King Lost and FoundIn the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, thousands of Egyptian mummies were sold as (0) ………. to museums or as (2) ………. souvenirs to private collectors who wished to have a curious conversation piece in their (3) ………. . One such mummy wound (4) ……… on display in the Niagara Falls Museum for more than 140 years. Probably no one among the hundreds of thousands of tourists who viewed the wizened mummy would ever have expected that it would (5) ………… out to be Pharaoh Ramses I, (6) ………. of the nineteenth dynasty of Egypt, whose members ruled that country for about 110 years.The tomb of the pharaoh was located by an Italian archaeologist in 1817, but upon finding that the tomb had already been (7) ………. of any precious artefacts, he left the unwrapped mummy of Ramses in situ. The (8) ………… remains eventually landed in Niagara Falls, Canada, where they stayed for more than a century under the gawking stares of countless tourists. Only after the mummy was purchased by Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia did scholars (9) ………… that the mummy was Ramses I.