PET reading - part 5

PET reading part 5 - text with gaps

In this part of the exam you need to fill 10 gaps in a short text.

Read the text 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.

1. for
2. from
3. on
4. by

Easter Island

Easter Island is ................................ for its statues..

1. important
2. interesting
3. famous
4. fascinating

Easter Island

Hundreds of these huge, stone faces can be .................................. all over the island.

1. looked
2. located
3. found
4. situated

Easter Island

Who made them? How ........................... they move these giant pieces of rock?

1. have
2. were
3. had
4. did

Easter Island

What happened .................................... the people who lived there?

1. to
2. with
3. about
4. for

Easter Island

Studies show that people .................... arrived on the island about 1600 years ago.

1. once
2. first
3. just
4. already

Easter Island

They had a very advanced culture. They made many objects and they had their ............................ written language..

1. only
2. own
3. clever
4. self

Easter Island

However, the number of people on the island grew and grew ............................... it reached about 10,000 people.

1. so
2. until
3. although
4. because

Easter Island

Soon there were too many people and there wasn’t ......................... food to eat.

1. many
2. some
3. too
4. enough

Easter Island

A terrible war started and .................................. of the statues were broken.

1. many
2. few
3. lot
4. enough

Easter Island

A terrible war started and .................................. of the statues were broken.

1. many
2. few
3. lot
4. enough

Easter Island

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.

1. invented
2. discovered
3. sailed
4. came