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Now turn to Part 2. Listen to a scientist talking about a famous hoax. For questions 9-18 complete the sentences. You now have 45 seconds in which to look at Part 2. F In today’s lecture I would like to tell you about some famous scientific hoaxes. There have been a great many of these over the years and some of them have been extraordinarily successful. Let me start by telling you about the Tasaday Tribe. These were discovered on the remote island of Mindanao in the Philippines. They aroused great international interest when they were found there some thirty-odd years ago, in 1971. They were discovered and made known to the public by a government minister. They were a fascinating tribe which seemed to have made little progress since the Stone Age. Their homes were in caves rather than houses. They didn’t wear clothes apart from a few leaves. Most striking of all perhaps was the way they related very peacefully to each other. They discussed rather than fought and disagreements were very few and quickly settled. Many foreign journalists wanted to visit the island and see the tribe for themselves but only the National Geographic reporter was allowed in. He took many fascinating pictures and his magazine sold a record number of copies. Many people wanted to go and see the tribe for themselves but entry was carefully controlled. The famous film star, Gina Lollobrigida, visited the island but few others were allowed in. Soon after her visit, Marcos, the President of the Philippines, decided to make the area where they lived a reserve and no other visitors were permitted. A fund was established by the Philippine government. Its aim was to help the tribe preserve their historic way of life and it received generous contributions from all over the world. After President Marcos was deposed in 1986, anthropologists decided to have another go at seeing the tribe for themselves. When they got to Mindanao, they discovered that the Tasaday actually lived a totally ordinary life – they wore jeans, had houses and got into fights like everyone else. They had been persuaded by the minister who ‘discovered’ them to pretend to have a Stone Age lifestyle. The minister then fled the country with the money that had been collected to protect the Tasaday tribe and its way of life – an amount reaching millions of dollars. Download 276.88 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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