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    The Easter Island statues, called moai, were carved by the Rapa Nui people between 1100-1680 AD. The moai are giant human figures that were moved and set on stone platforms around the island. While their exact purpose is still debated, archaeologists believe they were likely representations of important ancestors. Today, the moai are very important for Easter Island's tourism industry and help tell us about the Rapa Nui people who once lived on the isolated island.

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    The Easter Island statues, called moai, were carved by the Rapa Nui people between 1100-1680 AD. The moai are giant human figures that were moved and set on stone platforms around the island. While their exact purpose is still debated, archaeologists believe they were likely representations of important ancestors. Today, the moai are very important for Easter Island's tourism industry and help tell us about the Rapa Nui people who once lived on the isolated island.

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    Pre-intermediate/Intermediate Reading Comprehension

    Life If statues could talk

    Read the article and choose the correct


    option.

    1 The Easter Island statues … 6 The moai …


    a) are new constructions to attract a) are statues of animals.
    tourists. b) are all the same size.
    b) aren’t completely understood by c) were made by José Tuki’s
    archaeologists. ancestors.
    c) were destroyed by the islanders.
    7 Easter Island …
    2 On Easter Island today, the statues a) is part of the South American
    … continent.
    a) are very important for tourism. b) is a long way from other inhabited
    b) are not important. places.
    c) are a problem. c) is an uninhabited island.

    3 The people of Easter Island today 8 People travel to Easter Island …


    … a) by boat.
    a) don’t have a lot of contact with b) to work.
    the rest of the world. c) to see the statues.
    b) can’t find jobs on the island.
    c) work in the tourism industry. 9 Jared Diamond thinks that …
    a) farmers on Easter Island planted a
    4 Studying the moai … lot of trees.
    a) can tell us about the people who b) there were environmental
    lived on the island. problems on Easter Island.
    b) is important to the farmers on c) the population of Easter Island was
    Easter Island. always small.
    c) helps us to understand the art of
    José Tuki. 10 Hunt and Lipo think people moved
    the statues using …
    a) wood.
    Read the article again and choose the b) ropes.
    correct option. c) both wood and ropes.

    5 José Antonio Tuki …


    a) is from Easter Island.
    b) came to Easter Island to work.
    c) carves statues on Easter Island.

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