CAE - Use of english

Exercise 2 - Part 1

For questions 1-8, think of the best word to complete each sentence.

The Mystery of the Indus Valley Script

The Indus Valley Civilization flourished around 2500 BC, leaving behind vast, planned cities. Yet, despite decades of study, their unique writing system remains a complete riddle that has (1) linguists. Unlike the Egyptian hieroglyphs, no bilingual monument has ever been found to help crack the code. This lack of a translation key (2) experts from fully understanding their political structure. (3) of the obstacles, computational analysis has recently (4) new light on the symbols, revealing structural patterns common to spoken languages. This digital approach provides researchers with valuable (5) into how the signs are grouped. However, historians are under no (6) about the difficulty of a total decipherment without more data. Unless archeologists manage to (7) new inscriptions, the true meaning of these symbols will continue to (8) us.

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