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1、 全国免费咨询电话：400-0123-267 托福写作：普林斯顿练习写作5 小马过河为大家准备了“托福写作：普林斯顿练习写作5”，供各位备考托福的考生们参考使用，来提高自己的托福成绩！免费咨询电话：400-0123-267 Reading 5 Easter Island,a small,remote island in the Pacific Ocean,was once home to a flourishing culture.But about 500 years ago(A.D.1500),its society went into a steep decline.History te
2、aches us that events like this are often caused by outside influences.So it is not unreasonable to consider whether there are facts about the decline of Easter Islands society that would be explained by a hypothesis of an invasion.One such fact has to do with trees.Most Pacific island societies have
3、 managed to find an ecologically balanced way of living by using but not overexploiting natural resources such as trees.Most Pacific islands,therefore,remain lushbut not Easter Island.Although it was once densely forested,most of its trees had disappeared by about 500 years ago.Environmental destruc
4、tion of this sort has often been caused by invaders who deplete an areas natural resources without any concern for the future.Facts about the large stone statues on Easter Island could also support the idea of an invasion.There are about 900 of these statues on the island;the largest is over 20 mete
5、rs tall.The native society clearly placed a great deal of importance on their production.Yet about the same time that the island became deforested,islanders stopped making these huge statues.An invasion would help explain why this traditional practice came to a sudden end.Furthermore,we know that ar
6、ound the time these other changes were taking place,a new religion developed on Easter Island:the“Birdman”worship.There is no convincing evidence that the Birdman religion existed before 1500,which suggests that this new religious practice may have been introduced by outsiders.Listening 5 Professor:
7、The idea considered in the reading is not unreasonable in the abstract,but all the concrete evidence points to internal causes for the decline of Easter Islands culture 500 years ago.Its a sad story of a native culture that did not have the foresight to sustain itself.In the centuries before 1500,th
8、e inhabitants of Easter Island were prosperousso prosperous that they were able to invest extra time and energy in building giant statues,which became 全国免费咨询电话：400-0123-267 important signs of status.Different island communities began competing as to who could erect the most statues.Now heres where t
9、he problem for trees come in:archaeological evidence shows that the islanders used tree logs to move the statues into position.So,as the number of statues increased,more and more trees had to be cut,until finally,500 years ago,there were no more left.Of course,once the trees were gone,the islander c
10、ould no longer build rafts to fish at sea,and so they could no longer catch big fish.As the necessities of life became harder and harder to get,the islanders no longer had the time and energy to create big statues.Without logs,of course,they couldnt move the statures anyway,so naturally the interest
11、 in making the statues declined.Finally,it would not be surprising if the islanders lost confidence in their old gods when life on the island became a struggle for survival.I mean,the old gods wouldnt seem to be protecting them anymore.So it would be natural for the islanders to have developed a different religious idea,hoping that the new god would ensure them a better life.来源于：小马过河 小马过河资料下载频道，欢迎您来下载！