Câu 40: According to the passage, how long does it take for broad -tailed hummingbird egg to
hatch?
A. More than six weeks B. Two to three weeks
C. One month D. Less than a week
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THE TRUTH BEHIND THE DA VINCI CODE
In 2006, Sony Pictures released a remarkable and intriguing film entitled The Da
Vinci Code, based on the novel of the same name by Dan Brown. In the film, religious leaders and
professors are in a race to discover the secrets of an organization called the P riory of Sion. The
biggest secret kept by this organization is supposedly that Jesus Christ and a woman whose name is
recorded in the Bible as Mary Magdalene had a child, and that their family 55 line 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 the Priory 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. Priory means religious house, and Sion was a hill in the town of Annemasse, where the
Priory was started by Plantard and four of 60 his friends. At first, their group fo ught for housing
rights for local people, and their offices were at Plantard's apartment. The organization promised to
benefit the weak and the oppressed, and to do good in general. However, there was a darker side to
the Plantard's Priory.
Plantard actually hoped to use the Priory of Sion to claim to be a descendant of French
kings. Between the years 1961 and 1984, Plantard created the enigma of a much more powerful
Priory than his insignificant organization. First, in order to give the impression that the 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 Library of France. Next,
Plantard got author Gerard de Sede to write a book in 1967 using the false documents; the book
became very popular in France. This phenomenon is similar to the popularity of The Da Vinci
Code, where a book based on false information or speculation becomes popular. 70
Matters were complicated when in 1969, an English actor and science -fiction writer
named Henry Lincoln read Gerard de Sede's book. Lincoln did not know of Plantard and his
schemes, and may have been a victim of the hoax. He seemed to believe what he read, and jumped
to even more wild conclusions, which he published in his 1982 book, The Holy Blood and the Holy
Grail. He and his co-authors declared as fact that the Priory started in 1099; that its leaders included
Leonardo Da Vinci, Isaac Newton, and Victor Hugo; that the Priory protects the descendants of
Jesus 75 Christ and Mary Magdalene; and that these descendants ruled France from A.D. 447 to
751. All this was based on reading a novel based on the false facts from documents which were a
hoax. Most modern historians do not consider Lincoln's book to be a serious work of history.
How can we be so sure that Plantard created this hoax? Well, the best witness to a crime
is 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 an
elaborate hoax. In fact, in the 1990s, Plantard got in trouble with the law, and his house was
searched. Within it were found many false documents, most harmless, some of which said he was
the true king of France. As a final embarrassment, Plantard had to swear in a court of law that the
enigma of the Priory of Sion was the work of his imagination.
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