Question

Read the excerpt from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone.

Next to the statues and the head, the slab seems unimpressive at first glance. It is roughly the size of a tabletop—three feet nine inches long, two feet four and a half inches wide, and eleven inches thick. But many experts would say that this rather small piece of rock was more valuable than any of the larger objects in the room. For it is the famed Rosetta Stone, which gave nineteenth-century scholars their first key to the secrets of ancient Egypt.

Which words in the excerpt best show that Giblin views the Rosetta Stone as very important?
statues and unimpressive
more valuable and famed
rather small and piece of rock
larger objects and scholars

Answer 1

The correct answer is: more valuable and fame.

First of all, there are only two options refering to the Rosetta Stone: "more valuable and famed" and "rather small and piece of rock". The other options refer to things only related to it, they don't describe it directly.

Whitin those two options describing the Rosetta Stone, "rather small and piece of rock" don't give any positive value, they are describing the stone in a way it seems something very common, just another stone that has nothing in particular. Instead, with "more valuable and fame" you can picture something important, worth a lot of money and known by everyone.

Answer 2

The words in the excerpt stated above which best show that Giblin views the Rosetta Stone as very important are the following: more valuable and famed.

The adjective "more valuable" indicates value and worthy while "famed" indicates popularity or highly acclaimed.