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2022 ‫מועד אביב‬ - 47 - ‫ פרק שני‬- ‫אנגלית‬

Reading Comprehension

This part consists of two passages, each followed by several related questions. For each
question, choose the most appropriate answer based on the text.

Text I (Questions 13-17)

(1) In 1938, explorer Richard Archbold led an expedition to New Guinea in order to
study the plants and birds of its mountainous jungles. While flying over the supposedly
uninhabited interior of west New Guinea, Archbold made one of the most remarkable
discoveries in the history of anthropology.

(5) From his bird's-eye view, Archbold spotted a large clearing in the jungle, with
clearly marked fields and scattered villages. It transpired that the area – now called the
Grand Valley – was densely populated by over 50,000 people. The impenetrable jungle
and steep mountains had kept these tribes, known as the Dani, from foreign eyes. The
Archbold expedition into the Grand Valley may well be remembered as one of the last

(10) "first contacts" with a secluded human population. Since 1938, there have been other
encounters with isolated peoples, but nothing on a comparable scale.

At first, the Dani were terrified of the unexpected visitors, whose appearance was so
different from their own. Their fear, however, soon yielded to curiosity; the newcomers
had brought revolutionary items such as matches and steel axes. Accustomed as they

(15) were to lighting fires with flintstones and chopping branches with stone tools, the Dani
were quick to see the advantages of the explorers' tools and begin using them. This was
the first of many changes in their traditional way of life that resulted from contact with
the outside world. As a result of the subsequent influx of missionaries, traders, political
officials, and tourists, certain cultural practices were eventually abandoned and others

(20) suppressed. To this day, anthropologists question whether contact with the outside
world has ultimately been beneficial or harmful to ancient peoples such as the Dani.

Questions to find the

13. It can be inferred from the first paragraph that Richard Archbold was

Dani.

(1) terrified
(2) surprised
(3) determined
(4) prepared

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