Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the walls of Babylon (near present-day Al Hillah in Iraq) are (1) ____ one of the original Seven Wonders of the World. They were built by Nebuchadnezzar II around 600 BC. He (2) ____ to construct gardens to please his wife, Amytis of Media, who longed (3) ____ the trees and beautiful plants of her homeland. The Garden was (4) ____ in a plain; and the circuit of its wall was three hundred and eighty-five miles. The (5) ____ of its wall was thirty-two feet; built up in tiers (6) _____ it resembled a theater.

There was some controversy as to (7)___ the Hanging Gardens were an actual creation or a poetic creation (8) ____ the lack of documentation of them in the chronicles of Babylonian history. In ancient writings the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were first (9) ____ by Berossus, a Chaldean priest who (10) ___ in the late 4^th century B.C. These accounts were later elaborated on by Greek historians.

(1) _______

• A. 
  appreciated
• B. 
  considered
• C. 
  seen
• D. 
  thought