Directions: Read the passage given below carefully and then answer the questions that follow.

Pompeii was an ____(1)____ city located in what is now the comune of Pompei near Naples in the Campania region of Italy. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area (e.g. at Boscoreale, Stabiae), was buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) of volcanic ash and pumice in the ____(2)____of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. 

Largely preserved under the ash, the excavated city offered a unique snapshot of Roman life, _____(3)_____ at the moment it was buried, and extraordinarily detailed insight into the everyday life of its inhabitants, although much of the evidence was lost in the early excavations. It was a wealthy town, enjoying many fine public buildings and ____(4)____ private houses with lavish decorations, furnishings and works of art which were the main attractions for the early excavators. Organic remains, including wooden objects and human bodies, were entombed in the ash. Over time, they decayed, leaving voids that archaeologists found could be used as moulds to make plaster casts of unique — and often ____(5)____— figures in their final moments of life.