Directions (Set of 10 questions): In the following passage some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer to each question out of the four alternative and fill in the blanks.
Some several thousand years ago there once ______ a civilization in the Indus Valley. ______ in what's now Pakistan and western India, it was the earliest known ______ culture of the Indian subcontinent. The Indus Valley Civilization, as it is called, ______ an area the size of western Europe. It was the largest of the four ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China. However, of all these civilizations the least is known about the Indus Valley people. This is because the Indus script has not yet been ______. There are many ______ of the script on pottery vessels, seals, and amulets, but without a "Rosetta Stone" linguists and archaeologists have been unable to decipher it. They have then had to ______ upon the surviving cultural materials to give them ______ into the life of the Harappan's. Harappan's are the name given to any of the ______ people belonging to the Indus Valley civilization. The discovery of the Indus Valley civilization was first ______ in the 1800's by the British.
there once ______ a civilisation