2 . The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure originally ______ in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851.

The exhibition took place from 1 May to 15 October 1851, and more than 14, 000 ______ from around the world gathered to ______ examples of technology developed in the Industrial Revolution. ______ by Joseph Paxton, the Great Exhibition building was 1,851 feet（564 m） long, with an inside height of 128 feet（39 m）. It was three times the ______ of St Paul’s Cathedral.

The introduction of the glass sheets method into Britain by Chance Brothers in 1832 made ______ the production of large sheets of cheap but strong glass. Its ______ in the Crystal Palace created a structure with the greatest area of ______ ever seen in a building. It ______ visitors with its clear walls and ceilings that did not ______ inside lights.

It has been said that the name of the building _____ from an article by the playwright （剧作家）Douglas Jerrold. He wrote in a magazine called Punch about the coming Great Exhibition, ______ to a “palace of very crystal”.

After the exhibition, the palace was moved to an area of South London known as Penge Common. It was rebuilt at the top of Penge Peak next to Sydenham Hill. It stood there from June 1854 until its ______ by fire in November 1936. The nearby residential（住宅的）area was ______ Crystal Palace after the landmark. Crystal Palace Football Club was founded at the site in 1905. The club still ______ Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins’s Crystal Palace Dinosaurs which date back to 1854.