PET reading Part 5 Test 01

Easter Island is a small triangle of rock situated in the Pacific Ocean. It’s about 2,000 miles (1) ___ the nearest city and it is (2) ___ for its statues. Hundreds of these huge, stone faces can be (3) ___ all over the island. Who made them? How (4) ___ they move these giant pieces of rock? What happened (5) ___ the people who lived there? Studies show that people (6) ___ arrived on the island about 1600 years ago. They had a very advanced culture. They made many objects and they had their (7) ___ written language. (8) ___, the number of people on the island grew and grew (9) ___ it reached about 10,000 people. Soon there were too many people and there wasn’t (10) ___ to eat. A terrible war started and (11) ___ of the statues were broken. When western explorers (12) ___ the island on Easter Day in 1722, the huge rock statues were the only sign that a great society had once lived there.

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