Direction: In each of the following questions, a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent.
Each Egyptian ruler was obsessed with constructing a tomb for himself more impressive and longer lasting than that of his predecessors. Before the 4th Dynasty Egyptian royal burial took the form of the mastaba, an archetypal rectangular mass of masonry. This form evolved into the step pyramid and finally into the fully refined pyramid, of which the largest and best preserved are those of Khufu and Khafre, both dating from about 2500 BC, at Giza near Cairo. ____________________________________.
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The best-known Egyptian temples are in the mid-Nile area in the vicinity of the old capital, Thebes.
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It involves all the issues already discussed, as well as other, more abstract qualities.
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These immense monuments testify to the pharaohs' vast social control and also to the fascination of their architects with abstract, perfect geometrical forms.
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The urban culture of Egypt also developed very early. Its political history was more stable, however, with strong continuity in the development and conservation of tradition.
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Egyptians built temples to dignify the ritual observances of those in power and to exclude others.