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22.- 24. soruları aşağıdaki parçaya göre 23. Why do the temples face due east?
cevaplayınız. A) Because Burckhardt said they had to.

The Ancient Temples of Abu Simbel were B) In order to get as much sunlight as possible.
inaugurated at their new location on the shores C) So that the sun can shine directly into them at
of the newly-formed Lake Nasser in 1968. dawn on certain days of the year.
An international coordination has rescued the
D) In order to dry the soft sandstone after flood
massive temples of Pharaoh Rameses II from
waters.
the flood waters of twentieth-century irrigation.
Fifty-one countries co-operated under the aegis E) Because the pillar was across the old
of UNESCO to raise most of the project’s cost. riverbank.
Two hundred specialists and over one thousand
laborers formed a multi-lingual community in the
depths of the Nubian wilderness. The temples of
Abu Simbel were dismantled and re-constructed
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as they were originally discovered by the Swiss
explorer, Johann Burckhardt, 190 years ago. The
new site, some 200 feet above the old riverbank,
like the former, faces due east in order to catch
the dawning sun in the innermost sanctuary of the 24. The team that undertook the project ---- .
temple for a few days during the year. Workmen
A) brought together men from many countries
dismantled the roof, removal of the statues and
inner walls followed, and finally the great blocks B) consisted of over 3,000 men
of stone, over 1,000 of them weighing between
C) included hundreds of Swiss specialists
twenty and thirty tons each, were lifted to safety.
D) raised funds for UNESCO to spend on the
Each soft sandstone block had been meticulously
project
cut with handsaws. Sections of the temples were
then set into two artificial cliffs which hold the rock E) had worked with Johann Burckhardt
face together. The cliffs were erected by piling
sandstone rocks on two hollow concrete domes,
the larger of which, nearly 250 feet in diameter, is
considered to be a unique engineering feat.

22. In order to move the massive statues, each ----.

A) had to be cut into 1,000 pieces
B) was lifted completely by massive cranes
C) was cut into large blocks by hand
D) roof had to be dismantled
E) laborers moved the inner walls 200 feet above

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