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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A. Without using your dictionary, write an approximate definition or a synonym for a highlighted words in the following sentences.

1. Easter Island is a little island in Polynesia surrounded by one million empty square miles of Pacific Ocean.

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2. Archeologists study extinct cultures by examining abandoned house foundations, stone tools, and food remains and making guesses from these clues about what life in the past may have been like.

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3. If they're lucky, they might find living descendants who know something about their people's roots and their ancestors, and how they did things in the past.

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1. But these long-ago people also made huge and magnificent stone statues that have mystifiedscientists and everyone else for two centuries. Why did they do it? And how did they move the statues from the rock craters where they were carved to areas several miles away?

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2. The largest [statue] stands as high as a seven-story building and weighs close to fifty tons. Imagine moving it, and you can understand why so many people were baffled.

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3. The tools used to carve them from the rock were found in the crater.

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4. In 1862, slavers transported a thousand natives bound hand and foot to Peru, South America.

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5. The mayor organized men to gather stones and use poles. The poles were pushed under the statue's buried face. Men leaned on them to raise the face enough so that the mayor could shove stones under it.

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6. On the eighteenth day, the statue slidonto its altar.

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7. To have carved, transported, and erected the statues, these people must have worked hard and coop­erated with each other.

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8. Heyerdahl and the members of the expedition discovered things about the ancient people of Easter Island that no one had known before. But the experts still couldn't figure out how the statues had been raised.

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9. From his experiments, he estimated that it would take ‘30 men one year to carve a stone statue, 90 men two months to move it, and 90 men three months to erect it.'

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[1] Brown versus Board of Education of Topeka – a famous legal case that helped stop the segregation of African-American and white schools

[2] to boycott – to refuse to buy a product or to take part in an activity as a form of protest

[3] sit-in – sitting and refusing to leave as a form of protest

[4] adze – a cutting tool with a thin arched blade used for shaping wood

[5] obsidian – very hard volcanic glass

[6] topknot – ornament forming a headdress