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Cave Paintings Quest

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A quick gap-fill and word-meaning challenge.

by Hamide Behboodzade
1

In December 1994, three _____ cave explorers found a cave.

2

On December 18, they _____ a half-covered entrance of a cave

3

---------- it didn’t look like a very interesting cave, Eliette Deschamp pushed herself through the small opening.

4

To her surprise, she saw a _____ cave below.

5

The explorers returned to their truck to get a _____, and even though it was already dark, they decided to go down into the cave.

6

Once there, they discovered a _____ of rooms.

7

On the walls were some of the most beautiful _____ they had ever seen.

8

The cave discovered on December 18, 1994, is known for its _____ paintings.

9

What does the word 'amateur' mean?

10

Archeologists who inspected the cave paintings soon after they were discovered estimated that the paintings were about 17,000 years __.

11

Tests showed that three of the animals in the paintings were at least 31,000 years __.

12

Seventy-three of the paintings are of a type of lion that is now __.

13

Other paintings show panthers, horses, mammoths, wooly rhinoceros, and other __.

14

Other paintings show panthers, horses, mammoths, wooly rhinoceros, and other __.

15

There are also tracing of human hands as well as __ such as dots forming a semicircle.

16

Many of the paintings are __ detail.

17

For instance, several of the pictures of lions show the varied patterns of whisker spots that biologists today use to __ individual animals.

18

The artists used the natural curves of the cave walls to make the animals look real; they used ------ and color to add depth to their painting

19

This happened to the paintings in another cave—within six months of the opening, the paintings had ______.

20

Scientists know that they must enter caves carefully and prevent light and air from ______ the pictures.

21

Chauvet Cave is closed to the public because even the breathing of a large number of people could ______ the paintings.

22

Perhaps the most interesting thing about Chauvet Cave is that it has forced archeologists to change their ideas about ______.

23

For many years, archeologists believed that it took thousands of years for humans to gradually learn how to draw and ______.

24

Chauvet Cave showed that there were great artists 30,000 years ago. Jean Clottes summed it up, saying, 'Our ancestors did not need millennia of ______ to achieve great art.'

25

Chauvet Cave is only one of many caves in the world that have been decorated by ancient paintings. In Australia, South Africa, China and many other places, ______ ancient works of art have been found.

26

The paintings were part of a ceremony, or perhaps they were thought to hold some sort of ______.

27

The answer to this question will probably always remain a mystery. The text suggests the mystery of why humans created these paintings is a ______.

 
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