Grammar: Word Choice - 2022 őszi

THE HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON Ancient writers describe a fantastic series (0) _____ gardens constructed at the ancient city of Babylon in modern-day Iraq. It's not clear when these gardens (9) _____ built, but some writers were (10) _____ impressed that they called them a "wonder of the world". Around 250 B.C., Philo of Byzantium wrote that the Hanging Gardens had "plants grown at a height above ground level, and the roots are planted in an upper terrace rather (11) _____ in the earth." So (12) _____, archaeologists who have excavated Babylon have been unable to find the remains of the garden. This (13) _____ left archaeologists with a question: (14) _____ the hanging gardens really exist? In 2013, a researcher at the University of Oxford proposed that the gardens were actually located at the Assyrian city of Nineveh. Over the (15) _____ two decades, both Babylon and Nineveh have suffered damage from wars, and it seems (16) _____ that this mystery will ever be solved.