Atividade 2ª Médio

                               The ruins of Troy
Heinrich Schkiemann (1822 -1890), a German merchant who had become a millionaire by the age of 36, discovered the ruins of Troy in 1873. Since his childhood  the story of the city and its war had fascinated him, as told by the greek poet, Homer, in the Iliad (" Ilium" was another name for Troy).
In teh mid 1800s many scholars thought the Iliad was fiction, but Schiliemann believed exactly the contrary. As he was studying the text, he came to the conclusion that the site was in northwestern Turkey, in Hissarlik. After he had dug there for months he found the ruins nor of one city, but of nine, each built on the ruins of the previous one, forming nine layers. When excavations had finished, he could gather treasures of gold, silver and jewelry.
Schliemann had imagined that Homer's Troy was layer IX (2200 BC), but archeologists discovered later that it was layer VII, a small fortified city, destroyed by fire and violence in 1200 BC, just as the Iliad recounts.
                                                         ( Adapted from The Giant Book of Facts, Octopus Books Ltd., 1989, p.291)

Vocabulary
mid - middle
scholar - expert
as - when
to dig - to excavate
to gather - to collect
just - exactly
layer - camada

1. According to teh text, Heinrich Schkiemann:
a.(  ) firstly discovered the ruins and then became rich.
b.(  ) first became rich and then discovered the ruins.
c.(  ) became rich after he had discovered the ruins.
d.(  ) became a millionaire in 1873.
e.(  ) had a fascination for wars and Troy.

2. The Iliad is the name of a :
a. (  ) poet.
b.(  ) Greek.
c.(  ) war.
d.(  ) book.
d.(  ) place.

3. Read the statements below:
I. Troy was considered fiction until 1873.
II. Schliemann discovered the site of Troy reading the Iliad.
III. The nine cities discovered were side by side.
 - Now circle the correct alternative.
a.(  ) all statements are correct.
b.(  ) no statement is correct.
c.(  ) only statement I is correct.
d.(  ) only statement III is correct.
e.(  ) only statements I and II are correct.

4. In the clause " As he was studying the text", an approximate meaning for as is:
a.(  ) then.
b.(  ) how.
c.(  ) when.
d.(  ) them.
e.(  ) where.

5. Circle the alternative that has a wrong definition for the words given.
a.(  ) merchant - a person who buys and sells things.
b.(  ) childhood - the time of life before adolescence.
c.(  ) scholar - a school student.
d.(  ) layer - stratum; a quantity of some material spread on a surface.
e.(  ) archeologist - a person that studies the history and culture of ancient societies.