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       Many great cities have risen in human history, and many of them such as Pompeii andMachu Picchu, have fallen, leaving nothing but ruins. But that is not the fate of all __(36)__ cities.Some of them have continued to exist for millennia, going all the way back to biblical times, thetimes that events happened according to the Bible. __(37)__ , Athens, the capital of Greece, isone of the oldest cities in the world __(38)__ people still live. Athens, __(39)__ for the goddessof war and wisdom, is widely considered as the birthplace of Western art, philosophy, anddemocracy. But Athens was founded long before Plato established his Academia there, and manyyears __(40)__ Greece became a major global power. Evidence of large numbers of people livingin Athens dates back to around 1,400 BC, though people have lived there even before that.
【題組】36.
(A) ancient
(B) brand-new
(C) hidden
(D) invented