Vocabulary in context.

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Find the answers to the following questions as quickly as possible by scanning the article for the details you need.

Now read the text again and using the numbers of the paragraphs in the article, identify the one(s) that

· describes what archeologists are and what they do __________

· tells how the men were able to raise the statues __________

· asks the questions that the rest of the article will answer __________

· gives some old theories about how the statues were built __________

· tells how the statues were moved __________

· describes what the statues look like __________

· discusses the disaster that happened on Easter Island in the mid-1800s __________

How many statues are there on the island? ___________________________________________

How tall is the largest statue? _____________________________________________________

How many natives lived on the island in 1877? _______________________________________

Who is Thor Heyerdahl? _________________________________________________________

How many men would it take to carve a stone statue? __________________________________

It is not always necessary to know the exact meaning of every unfamiliar word you come across. Often an approximate definition or a general idea of the word is enough to understand the meaning of a sentence or paragraph. However, it is important to be able to determine when an exact definition is necessary and when a general meaning is enough. Use clues such as structure, punctuation, grammar, and the general sense of the sentence to make logical guesses about the meaning of unfamiliar words.

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Read the article and say whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F). If the sentence is false, correct it.	\|	B. In the following sentences, the highlighted words are all verbs. Try to understand the general sense of each sentence and then guess the meaning of the verb.

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