Read the text. For questions 7.1.–7.5., choose the word or phrase which fits best in
each gap. Circle the appropriate letter (A, B, C or D).

 

EASTER ISLAND

About 2,000 miles off the coast of South America sits the Chile-governed Easter Island.
It was named by Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who discovered it on Easter Sunday in
1722. Polynesians are believed 7.1. _____ on the island around AD 800. They remained on
the island until they 7.2. _____ its resources and it became practically barren.
What they left behind, 7.3. _____, remains one of the most captivating feats of engineering in
the world: nearly 1,000 monolithic statues. The massive effigies, each one on average
13 feet tall and weighing 14 tons, are thought to represent ancestral chiefs raised to the level
of gods. According to archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg, about 95 percent of the statues
were carved in the volcanic cone known as Raro Raraku. Master carvers, who refined their
7.4. _____ over generations, chiselled out the statues using stone tools called toki and
employed sharp obsidian tools to make finer lines.
The real mystery – how a small and isolated population managed to transport the megalithic
structures to various ceremonial sites – has spawned decades of research and experiments.
Van Tilburg says, “It is amazing that an island society made of 10 to 12 chiefdoms had
7.5. _____ unity and ability to communicate carving standards, organize carving methods
and achieve political rights of way to transport statues to every part of the island.”

Adapted from: www.smithsonianmag.com

7.1. A. to be landing B. to have landed C. to being landed D. to having landed	7.2. A. had deprived B. had obscured C. had withdrawn D. had exhausted	7.3. A. consequently B. however C. hereby D. hence
7.4. A. craft B. extent C. possibility D. inclination	7.5. A. lavish B. average C. sufficient D. generous