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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.