Retrieving Pages documents from iCloud

I had to get a new Ipad2 since my screen broke. The notes documents were retrieved after I restored my Ipad from a backup but the Pages documents are gone. Any way to retrieve them from the iCloud or are they gone forever?

I appologize for being imprecise.
I opened Pages and selected iCloud in the open dialog box.
All of my documents are visible.
I selected a document to be opened.
A message appears "<Document>" couldn't be opened.
This is true for almost all of my documents.
I attempted to open the document on my iPad and got the same error.
I logged into www.icloud.com. I went to iWork and saw my documents.
I selected one for download and got three choices. PDF, Pages and Word.
None of them work. It says preparing to download for a bit and then it fails.

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Try this:
1. Make a duplicate of the file (cmd D), just to be safe
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4. Double click the new .zip file
5. It will now appear as a folder with no extension
6. Append .pages to the end of the folder name
7. Again click on Use .pages
8. Double click on this file to open it in Pages.
What you have done is extracted all the Pages resources from the .pages "package" and reconstructed it.
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