(8) Building the trail was incredibly hard work and
conditions were primitive. Their only tools were 12-pound
sledgehammers and gunny sacks. They worked in
record-breaking rain, cold weather, very thin air and on
difficult terrain.... They camped in canvas tents which
did not offer much protection during the cold, rainy nights
and they did not have mules or horses to help with
carrying the heavy loads. The pähoehoe flows were often.
thin and brittle and could break under the weight of men
or animals making it necessary to break through this lava.
to a more solid surface. On the a'à flows they broke up
the clinkers into gravel-sized pieces, mixed this with soil
and then packed this in gunnysacks carried on their
backs to pave the trail.
(9) They were not only trail builders: while at base camp
they also helped the geologists with their experiments,
including measuring the depth of molten lava with a long
iron pipe. The Hawaiian Gazette quotes Schuyler who
had been part of this measuring crew, "When that pipe
came up, the lava on the end of it was thick like glue."
(10) The bad weather and adverse conditions also didn't
stop the soldiers from traveling down to Hilo for a game
of baseball in October 1915, where they defeated the
local team!
(11) While on Hawai'i Island these soldiers built a 30-mile
trail under gruelling conditions, won a baseball game, and
suffered through record-breaking weather--surely a one-
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Select the correct answer.
Read the sentence from paragraph 8, then read the dictionary entry.
Building the trail was incredibly hard work and conditions were primitive.
1: original, primary
2: self-taught, untutored.
3: crude, rudimentary
4: elemental, natural
Which definition most clearly reflects the meaning of primitive as it is used in the passage
O A.
B.
O C.
OD.
definition 1
definition 2
definition 3
definition 4