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EXERCISE 2: Choose the correct answer according to the passage.
1. The recovery of the temple
A) has been delayed due to the eruption of the nearby volcano
B) would not be possible without the work of 700 Indonesians
C) is being carried out by an international team of experts
D) involved the digging out of some of the world's most beautiful art treasures
E) has taken since 1814 to be completed
2. In 1814
A) it took the army two months to make the temple visible by clearing the jungle
B) a new governor was appointed to the British colony of Java
C) the British started to take an interest in Indonesian history
D) Java became a colony of the British Empire
E) the British governor instructed the Javanese people to clear the jungle
3. In the construction of the temple
A) the walls were carved out of the mountain
B) 700 years passed before it was finally completed
C) many workers died because of the dangerous mountainous terrain
D) work was constantly interrupted so that the Buddhist labourers could meditate
E) more than ten thousand workers were involved
EXERCISE 3: Complete the sentences by selecting words from Column B in EXERCISE 1.
1. Lifting up the mat in his cell the entrance to the tunnel he had dug to
escape by.
2. My brother brought some beautiful wooden ornaments back from
Jamaica with him.
3. The statue was made by pouring metal into a mould.
4. During the war in Iraq many irreplacable cultural were looted from the
Baghdad museum.
5. I'm just going outside to some wood for the fire.
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