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Old December 21, 2008, 06:32 PM
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Question El misterio de las ruinas

Para solicionar el misterio de las ruinas, Tomi y Tere tomaron su helicóptero y, con su grabadora y su cámara, llegaron a las pirámides en la selva tropical.
Los detectives hablaron allí con varios científicos. Tere sacó fotos y Tomi grabó las conversaciones.
Después, las dos regresaron al helicóptero y fueron al laboratorio. Allí estudiaron los documentos. Tomi empezó a enviar un fax a la policía con sus teorías. ¡Pero ese fax nunca llegó! Una mano misteriosa...

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For ____ in the mystery of the ruins, Tomi and Tere take their helicopter and, with their tape recorder and their camera, arrive at the pyramids in the tropical forest.
The detectives talk with these _____________. Tere takes pictures and Tomi records the conversations.
After, the two return to the helicopter and went to the labortory. Here they study the documents. Tomi _______ sent a fax to the police with their ______. But ____ fax never arrived! A mysterious hand.........
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To check it, Solicit, Scientific, Start, theory, but that,
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There are several preterite tense verbs in the story, but you didn't translate them correctly. Others, you did. You're learning the preterite tense in school right now, so you should be able to determine the correct translation.

Para + infinitive = In order to + infinitive
Para solucionar = In order to resolve (solve)
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To check it, Solicit, Scientific, Start, theory, but that,
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Old December 22, 2008, 08:33 AM
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Those were the answers he thought would go in the blanks (starting with Solicit). Only the last one is correct (if you remove the word he copied from your translation).

This looks like homework, so I didn't think you just wanted the answers. For the vocabulary you didn't know, all you need is a dictionary to come up with the correct translation. The one verb you didn't recognize is pretty easy to guess (it has a preterite ending, just like the rest of the verbs). The verbs need translated into the past tense instead of the present.
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