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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.

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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.

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I'm sorry, but you didn't provide the options for each gap in the text. Could you please provide the options (A, B, C, D) for each gap (2-9)? Then I will be able to help you choose the best answer for each one.

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