TEXT 2

________ 1474, when Saxon pilgrim Hans von Waltheym came ________ the Grossmunster Church at Zürich, following the footsteps of Charles the Great, he was so overwhelmed with what he saw that he wrote into his diary: “Zürich must have been built before the Great flood”.(01) This remark may have been a reference to Zürich’s first settlement ________ lake dwellers which dates back before the year 1000. It remains that, neither fire, natural disasters nor war have scarred (02) the face of Zürich’s antique buildings, witnesses of days gone by.

The decisive elements of what was to be our later culture were brought by the Roman legions. They crossed the Alps in 15 b.C. and built a military fort at Windisch to prevent (03) the Teutons _______ invading the country by way of the Rhyne.

(BAUMANN, W. Zürich. Zürich: Verlag Neuer Zürcher Zeitung, 1993, p.5.)

Glossary:

dweller (n): someone who lives in a particular kind of place: city dweller.

overwhelm (v): to affect someone’s emotions in a powerful way.

According to the second paragraph,