The most popular citizens of Easter Island are 800 years old and made of stone.They’re the moai,huge statues that line the shores.They were carved by the island’s natives,The Rapa Nui.

　　Built using only stone tools,the moai range from 4 to 33 feet tall.37That’s heavier than 50 cars!After the statues were carved,they were moved 11 miles across the island.Yet the Rapa Nui had no horses or cars—or even wheels.38

　　No one knows for sure.Scientist Jared Diamond thinks the Rapa Nui put the statues on big sleds and rolled them on logs(原木).Archaeologists Carl Lipo and Terry Hunt have a different theory.39Then they rocked them back and forth to move them along.

　　Rapa Nui legend tells a different story.“We know the truth,”says Suri Tuki,a native of the island.“The statues walked.”

　　40In 1722,the first Europeans who arrived found that the island was a mess.Forests were destroyed,animals had disappeared,and the moai were toppled over(推倒).Only a few Rapa Nui remained—and they had become cannibals(食人者).What happened?

　　Only the statues have the answers to the mysteries of Easter Island.And they’re not talking.

　　A.They weigh as much as 80 tons.

　　B.So how did they move the statues?

　　C.Why did the natives move the statues?

　　D.They think the natives tied ropes to the moai.

　　E.That’s not the only mystery on Easter Island.

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