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Module 6. Cloze adapted from the texts Pompeii: The city that became a time capsule Around the end of the first century AD, A Roman writer called Pliny wrote about a terrible volcanic ________that he had ________as a young man. The eruption had ________ on August 24th, 79 AD. The earth began to ________ and a volcano named Vesuvius, near Pompeii, Italy, erupted. Pliny described a cloud ________ down the mountain, blocking________the sun and ________ everything in its path,__________whole villages and towns. This particularly sad ________ left a deep impression________ Pliny who had lost an uncle in the eruption. __________, over the centuries, there was a greater_______. The people, towns and villages that had disappeared under the ashes were __________ forgotten by the world. However, more than 1,600 years later, some scientists found the _______towns that had been ________ under the ashes. By 1748, they had found an ________ historical site. They had started to dig________the ancient city of Pompeii. In a way, Pompeii is like a “time capsule” ________ a frozen moment in history. Before the eruption _________, it had been a ________ Roman city with temples, markets, ________and theaters. Now as you walk along the streets of the city, time _________. You can admire the ancient architecture, statues, ___________walls and ________ objects characteristic of the time. However, much more than buildings and objects, it is the forms of the people who were __________in the disaster that have made the city a ___________ to human history. The bodies of people who had died in Pompeii left ____________ in the ________ that showed their exact ________ As you walk, you will pass people ________together for ___________ in their last hours of life. One person, __________ alone, looks like he is praying. Another man, ____________ on his side, looks _________he is trying to get up. One can only feel ________ and deep ___________ for these once-l