Ⅴ. 用方框中所给单词的适当形式完成短文
plant, happen, decide, low, sound, miss, wonder, unlucky, kind, however
Have you ever heard of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon(巴比伦空中花园)? They are considered as one of the seven 21. ____ of the ancient world. They were a large collection of 22. ____ that were hung from the walls of a palace. 23. ____, nobody knew exactly where they were built. When it comes to its height, some stories described that the Hanging Gardens were as tall as hundreds of feet, but some historians said they were 24. ____ than that.
One of the reasons behind the Hanging Gardens 25. ____ like a fairy tale. An emperor built the gardens around 600 BC for a special purpose—preventing(防止) his wife from 26. ____ her homeland so much. The emperor's wife missed her home that had great mountains, so the emperor 27. ____ to bring the mountains to his palace. At the same time, he ordered the slaves to create a huge hill and plant all 28. ____ of trees and flowers on it. 29. ____, in the 1st century BC, an earthquake 30. ____ in Babylon, destroying(毁坏) a large part of the city, including the Hanging Gardens.

21. wonders 22. plants 23. However 24. lower
25. sounds 26. missing 27. decided 28. kinds
29. Unluckily 30. happened

词汇积累
energy /'enədʒi/ n. ____

能源;能量