Reading

2 Read the text and choose the best title, A, B, or C. A Good jobs and good pay B Ancient engineering C The rulers of China and Egypt

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THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA was built across northern China to protect the nimniBiiwil. Before the third century BC there were lots of smaller walls and these were joined together to make one long, [«kfc-^^|j| wall. The work was done by enormous gangs of forced Immnuafcfl and many of them died doing the work. The wall is over 2000km long, 3.5m high, and 4.5m wide at the top. It is made of earth covered with stone.

THE EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS are a famous symbol of ancient Egypt. The stone structures were usually QQQaS for pharaohs. The pyramids have square bases with sloping sides which meet at an EHRE9L The first pyramid was built in about 2600 BC and is over 140m high. One of the biggest pyramids is made of enormous stone blocks which weigh up to 200 tonnes each. It is estimated that 20-25,000 people worked for 20 years to build each pyramid.

Use the information in the text to answer the questions (1-6) below about 1) The Great Wall of China and 2) the first pyramid in Egypt.

1 Where is it? 2 What is it? 3 When was it built?

 

4 What is it made of?

5 Who built it?

6 How big is it?

Read the text again and decide if the sentences (1-5) below are true (T) or false (F).

1 The Great Wall of
China was to keep
people safe. T/F

2 Building the Great
Wall was easy for

the workers. T/F

3 The pyramids were
built before the

Great Wall of China. T/F

4 Pyramids are lots of
different shapes. T/F

5 The Egyptian
pyramids were built
protect people. T/F