Seven Wonders of the World A. For each Wonder, choose a verb from destroy build the box and complete the information. construct be (2) Use Active and Passive verbs in Simple Past Tense. 4. The Colossus of Rhodes __________ a statue of the Greek - god of the sun Helios. make be locate It _____________ in the city of Rhodes, on build destroy the Greek island of the same name, by Chares of Lindos in 280 BC. It __________ 1. The Temple of Artemis to celebrate Rhodes' victory over the ruler of ________________ a Greek temple for Cyprus. It ________________in the Goddess Artemis. It ____________ around earthquake of 226 BC and it ____________ 323 BC and it ________________ in one of the tallest statues of the ancient Ephesus (near the modern town of Selçuk world. in present-day Turkey). It _____________ of marble mostly. It ________________ by make destruct find Goths in 262. be represent put 5. The Statue of Zeus at Olympia build (2) destroy miss ______________ a giant seated figure, about 42 ft (13 m) tall. It ______________ 2. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon by the Greek sculptor Phidias around 435 ________________ in Babil province, Iraq BC in Olympia, Greece, and ____________ by Nebuchadnezzar II for his wife because in the Temple of Zeus there. It __________ she ________________ the green hills the god Zeus sitting on a throne ornamented with precious stones. It and valleys of her homeland. They ______ ] around 600 BC. However, they ________ ______________ during the 5th century. by an earthquake in the second century. No copy of the statue _______________, and details of its form are known only from ancient Greek descriptions and representations on coins. damage build become be (3) survive be complete build 3. The Lighthouse of Alexandria ________________by the Ptolemaic 6. The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest Kingdom between 280 and 247 BC in and largest of the three pyramids in Egypt Alexandria, Egypt and it ______________ and the only wonder that _______________. between 120 m and 137 m tall. It It _____________ as a tomb in 20 years ________________ one of the tallest man- and ____________ around 2560 BC. It is made structures on Earth for many 146.5 metres (481 feet), which is equal to a centuries. It _______ badly _____________ modern 48-story building. It ____________ by three earthquakes between 956 and the tallest man-made structure in the world 1323. It then ________________ an for over 3,800 years. It is composed of over abandoned ruin. 2 ½ million blocks of limestone, which weigh from 2 to 70 tons each. build destroy be (2) design 7. The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus ______________ a tomb and it _______ between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus, (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, a leader in the Persian Empire, and Artemisia II of Caria. The structure ______________ by the Greek architects. The Mausoleum ______________ approximately 45 m (148 ft) tall. It ___________ by earthquakes from the 12th to the 15th century. The site of the Mausoleum lies in ruins today. .