Unit 22

In 332 BC Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia, (1) Egypt. In 305 BC Alexander's general Ptolemy became king of Egypt, and for almost 300 years his (2), the Ptolemies, ruled Egypt. Although Ptolemy was Macedonian by birth and the Ptolemies remained (3) to Greek culture, they were (4) for one of the greatest periods of building and decorating temples in Egypt. The Ptolemies did so to win (5) for their rule from their Egyptian (6). The Ptolemaic dynasty ended when Cleopatn, queen of Egypt, (7) suicide after the Romans (8) her forces at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC. The Roman victory marked the end of ancient Egypt as an (9) power.

1. A conquered C conquering
B conquer D conquest

2. A descend C descendible
B descending D descendants

3. A ties C tier
B tied D tiring

4. A responsible C responsibility
B responsibly D responsive

5. A accept C acceptance
B accepted D acceptability

6. A subjects C subjacent
B subjective D subjectively

7. A commitment C committing
B committed D committal

8. A defeatism C defeating
B defeat D defeated

9. A depend C independent
B independence D depending

TEXT 2

A number of individual diamonds have become (1), (2) because of their size. The largest of all (3) diamonds is the Cullinan, which was discovered in South Africa in 1905 and was (4) to Edward VII, king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, by the government of the Transvaal. The Cullinan weighed 3, 106 carats before cutting and was pronounced by crystallographers to be a fragment of a (5) larger stone. When the stone was cut, a total of 105 gems were produced, (6) 1, 063 carats in all. The largest of these was a stone called the Star of Africa, the biggest cut diamond in (7), and now set in the British (8) scepter.

1. A famed C famously
B famous D fame

2. A primacy C prime

B primary D primarily

3. A knew C knowing
B known D knowledge

4. A present C presented
B presence D presenting

5. A considerably C considering
B considerable D considered

6. A weight C weighed
B weigh D weighing

7. A exist C existed

B existing D existence

8. A royally C royalty

B royal D royals

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