ACCORDING TO THE PASSAGE, HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE FOR BROAD-TAILED HUMMINGBIRD EGG TOHATCH
40: According to the passage, how long does it take for broad-tailed hummingbird egg tohatch?A. More than six weeks B. Two to three weeks C. One month D. Lessthan a week
Theo doạn văn, mất bao lâu dể trứng chim ruoi nó? Nhiều hơn 6 tuần
2 dến 3 tuần
Một
tháng
Ít hơn 1 tuần
Dẫn chứng: By early June it will hold two pea-sized eggs, which each weigh one-seventh of the mother‟
s
weight, and in sixteen to nineteen days, two chicks. -> 16-19 ngày
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needscorrection.THE TRUTH BEHIND THE DA VINCI CODEIn 2006, Sony Pictures released a remarkable and intriguing film entitled The Da VinciCode, based on the novel of the same name by Dan Brown. In the film, religious leaders andprofessors are in a race to discover the secrets of an organization called the Priory of Sion.The biggest secret kept by this organization is supposedly that Jesus Christ and a womanwhose name is recorded in the Bible as Mary Magdalene had a child, and that their family 55line continues to this day. In a TV interview, Dan Brown stated that, in his book, "all of the art,architecture, secret rituals, secret societies, all of that is historical fact." However, while thePriory of Sion did exist, it's nothing like the one which is so central to The Da Vinci Code.The Priory of Sion was started in France in 1956 by a skillful liar named Pierre Plantard.Priorymeans religious house, andSionwas a hill in the town of Annemasse, where the Priorywas started by Plantard and four of 60 his friends. At first, their group fought for housingrights for local people, and their offices were at Plantard's apartment. The organizationpromised to benefit the weak and the oppressed, and to do good in general. However, therewas a darker side to the Plantard's Priory.Plantard actually hoped to use the Priory of Sion to claim to be a descendant of Frenchkings. Between the years 1961 and 1984, Plantard created the enigma of a much morepowerful Priory than his insignificant organization. First, in order to give the impression thatthe Priory began in 1099, Plantard and his friend Philippe de Cherisey created documents,called the Secret Dossiers of Henri Lobineau, and illegally put them into the National Libraryof France. Next, Plantard got author Gerard de Sede to write a book in 1967 using the falsedocuments; the book became very popular in France. This phenomenon is similar to thepopularity of The Da Vinci Code, where a book based on false information or speculationbecomes popular. 70Matters were complicated when in 1969, an English actor and science-fiction writernamed Henry Lincoln read Gerard de Sede's book. Lincoln did not know of Plantard and hisschemes, and may have been a victim of the hoax. He seemed to believe what he read, andjumped to even more wild conclusions, which he published in his 1982 book, The Holy Bloodand the Holy Grail. He and his co-authors declared as fact that the Priory started in 1099; thatits leaders included Leonardo Da Vinci, Isaac Newton, and Victor Hugo; that the Prioryprotects the descendants of Jesus 75 Christ and Mary Magdalene; and that these descendantsruled France from A.D. 447 to 751. All this was based on reading a novel based on the falsefacts from documents which were a hoax. Most modern historians do not consider Lincoln'sbook to be a serious work of history.How can we be so sure that Plantard created this hoax? Well, the best witness to a crimeis the criminal himself. Over 100 hundred letters between Plantard, de Cherisey, and de Sede,discovered by researcher Jean-Luc 80 Chaumeil, show clearly that they were trying to pull anelaborate hoax. In fact, in the 1990s, Plantard got in trouble with the law, and his house wassearched. Within it were found many false documents, most harmless, some of which said hewas the true king of France. As a final embarrassment, Plantard had to swear in a court of lawthat the enigma of the Priory of Sion was the work of his imagination.