文档介绍：2012高考英语二轮复习专题限时训练(江苏专用)
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In 1971, readers around the world were astonished by some photographs which appeared in newspapers. Hidden deep in the rainforests of an island in the Philippines, was an ethnic (种族的) ___1___ called the Tasaday. Not until that moment did anyone have any ___2___ of these people. They didn’t have an agricultural economy; they hunted animals and __3___ fruit from the plants in the rainforest. They carried tools made of stone, lived in ___4__ and wore clothes made of leaves. Unknown until 1971, they 5 became world famous. After that, there were TV 6 and books about them; people said their simple lives showed that human beings could be good and kind if they were not 7 by modern life. Then after 1974 the region was closed by the government and the world 8 about them.
In 1986, a Swiss journalist, Oswald Iten, decided to visit the Tasaday. The journey __9____ thick rainforests and across rivers was hard and dangerous. Mr. Iten was 10 killed by the soldiers, villagers and businessmen who wanted to take the wood from the rainforest. Finally, Mr. Iten 11 and found the caves of the Tasaday 12 . The people were living in nearby huts and they were all 13 jeans and T-shirts, not leaves. He thought that perhaps they were not an ethnic minority 14 .
When he 15 to Switzerland, Mr. Iten wrote about the Tasaday people in the newspapers. He said