In this part of the exam you need to fill 10 gaps in a short text. Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space.
Easter Island Easter Island is a small triangle of rock situated in the Pacific Ocean. It´s about 2,000 miles _______ (
) the nearest city. Easter Island is ________ (
) for its statues. Hundreds of these huge, stone faces can be _____________ (
) all over the island. Who made them? How _________ (
) they move these giant pieces of rock? What happened ________________ (
) the people who lived there? Studies show that people______________ (
) arrived on the island about 1600 years ago. They had a very advanced culture. They made many objects and they had their _________________ (
) written language. However, the number of people on the island grew and grew ____________ (
) it reached about 10,000 people. Soon there were too many people and there wasn’t _____________ (
) food to eat. A terrible war started and _____________ (
) of the statues were broken. When western explorers _______________ (
) the island on Easter Day in 1722, the huge rock statues were the only sign that a great society had once lived there.