Question

write the correct word or phrase appropriate to the blank space. the pharos of Alexandria, the tallest lighthouse ever ................. (construction ), was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.Ptolemy I, who ruled Alexandria, employed a Greek architect sostratus............... (build) a lighthouse to guide ships into the busy harbour. twenty years later, Ptolemy died and his son Ptolemy I I ascended the throne.when the lighthouse.............. (complete),sostratus asked the king the ............... (permit)to carve his name into the foundation stone.Ptolemy II refused,............... (say) only his name .............. (appear) on the building. so sostratus chiseled an inscription.............. (bear) his name into the foundation and covered it with plaster into which he chiseled the name of Ptolemy II. over the years , the plaster chipped away............ (remove)Ptolemy's name and revealing the name of sostratus. strange are the ways of artists!

Answer 1

1. constructed
2. to build
3. was completed
4. permission
5. saying
6. should appear
7. bearing
8. removing

Answer 2

...Ever constructed was...
...sostratus built a …
…lightehouse completed sostratus …
…the permission to …
…refused said only…