First contact - Unit 7

C2 Proficiency · Open Cloze · Close-up C2 Workbook, National Geographic Learning

For questions 1–8, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap.

There is virtually (1) ___ in the world that man hasn't visited and there are (2) ___ cultures that he hasn't already encountered. But there are some. There are about one hundred different tribes in the world, known as uncontacted people, who have (3) ___ met a person from the Western world. Most of these tribes reject contact with outsiders and one tribe in (4) ___ , the Sentinelese, are violent towards intruders. While it's a (5) ___ tricky to learn about them, anthropologists do know that they have lived on North Sentinel Island for 60,000 years. In the 1970s, a National Geographic expedition set out to film the Sentinelese; with armed policemen and a film crew in tow, they were greeted (6) ___ a curtain of sharp arrows and (7) ___ escaped alive. Further attempts to contact them were thwarted: gifts were left on the beach, but the Sentinelese launched another round of arrows, one of (8) ___ struck the director in the thigh. After similarly violent incidents in later years, it was concluded that the Sentinelese are to be left alone.

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