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On Easter Day, 1722, Dutch explorers (探索者) landed on Easter Island (复活岛). It was the first
time that Easter Islanders had met people from the outside world. The strangers were about to discover
something very strange themselves -that they were on an island with hundreds of huge stone statues (雕像). The Dutch explorers wondered where the Islanders had come from and why and how they had built
the statues. Now science is putting together the story.
The first people to arrive on the island came there around A.D. 700. The society that developed there
was based on fishing and farming to feed the population, which grew to 12,000. Its success showed itself
in a way that has become the island's trademark (标记): hundreds of huge stone figures -the moai.
None of the moai was standing when scientists first arrived. People put them back up later; but how
had a Stone Age society ever made, moved and set them up there in the first place? And why?
There are nearly 900 moai on Easter Island, and while the questions about them remain unanswered, no one doubts the years of effort that must have gone into making them.
The real killer of the Easter Islanders came from across the ocean. After 1722, it became popular for
explorers to visit Easter Island, bringing diseases. The final blow (打击) came in 1862, when slave traders came from Peru and took away 1,500 people, one-third of the population.
1. Before the Dutch explorers arrived on Easter Island, _____.
A. Easter Island was separate from the outside world
B. they knew where Islanders had come from
C. they discovered something dangerous
D. the huge stone statues were upright
2. When the first explorers arrived on the island, they _____.
A. were frightened by the huge stone statues
B. were surprised by what they saw
C. set many of the moai on the island upright
D. fished and farmed
3. All researchers agree that _____.
A. the natives could hardly support themselves
B. the moai must have taken a great effort to make
C. the Islanders mainly died of diseases brought by explorers
D. the explorers helped the Islanders live better lives
4. The passage implies that _____.
A. the Islanders built the moai to show off their success
B. the Dutch explorers discovered how the moai had been built
C. in 1862, before slave traders came, about 4,500 people were living on Easter Island
D. the natives of Easter Island have been there for about 1,200 years
5. "The real killer" in the last paragraph refers to _____.
A. the slave traders
B. the scientists
C. the explorers
D. the moai
