Question

archaeologists_____the gold in a cave near the top of the mountain
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Answer 1

Answer:

search

Explanation:

cuz they always want to search something.

Answer 2

Answer:

Archaeologists  discovered   the gold in a cave near the top of the mountain.

Explanation:

As we can say after reading the question that the sentence can be in simple past tense so we can use 'discovered' here.

The past simple  is a verb form used to talk about things that happened or existed before. The simple past tense shows that we are talking about something that has already happened. Unlike the continuous past tense, which is used to talk about past events that happened over a period of time, the  past tense emphasizes that the action has ended.

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