DianaAudley

21.06.2022 13:56 •  Английский язык

Fill in the gaps with the following words. Заполните пропуски следующими словами.

award

made

three-minute

world

educated

respected

well

worldwide

GREATEST HOAXES

In 1912 an archaeologist called Charles Dawson presented some human-like bones at a meeting of the (1) ………………………-famous Royal Geological Society, in London. He claimed they were a fossil from Piltdown. England highly- (2) ……………………… scientists examined the bones, and decided that they belonged to a new species - an ancient ancestor of humans. But in fact, the fossil was a hoax. Dawson had made it out of modern human and orangutan bones.

In April 1957 many people watched a (3) ……………………… report on British TV about how spaghetti was grown on a farm in Switzerland. It was broadcast on the (4) ……………………… -winning BBC Panorama programme, and was very believable. Spaghetti wasn't a (5) ………………-known food in Britain at the time, so many people believed the report. But it was broadcast on 1 April - April Foci's Day!

The tree octopus, which lives in the north-west United States, has a (6) ……………………… internet following, and there are campaigns to save this 'endangered creature'. You can watch well- (7) ……………………… videos about the bee octopus, and read all about it. The information is good enough to fool well- (8) ……………………… people, but it's just a joke. All octopus species live in the sea.