tailieunhanh - IELTS Academic Reading 27

Thông qua việc giải trực tiếp trên IELTS Academic Reading 27 các bạn sẽ nắm vững cấu trúc đề thi, rèn luyện kỹ năng giải đề, hãy tham khảo và ôn thi thật tốt nhé! Chúc các bạn ôn tập để đạt kết quả cao! | IELTS Academic Reading 27 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 13-25 which are based on Reading Passage 27 on the following pages. SECRETS OF THE FORESTS A In 1942 Allan R Holmberg a doctoral student in anthropology from Yale University USA ventured deep into the jungle of Bolivian Amazonia and searched out an isolated band of Siriono Indians. The Siriono Holmberg later wrote led a quot strikingly backward quot existence. Their villages were little more than clusters of thatched huts. Life itself was a perpetual and punishing search for food some families grew manioc and other starchy crops in small garden plots cleared from the forest while other members of the tribe scoured the country for small game and promising fish holes. When local resources became depleted the tribe moved on. As for technology Holmberg noted the Siriono quot may be classified among the most handicapped peoples of the world quot . Other than bows arrows and crude digging sticks the only tools the Siriono seemed to possess were quot two machetes worn to the size of pocket-knives quot . B Although the lives of the Siriono have changed in the intervening decades the image of them as Stone Age relics has endured. Indeed in many respects the Siriono epitomize the popular conception of life in Amazonia. To casual observers as well as to influential natural scientists and regional planners the luxuriant forests of Amazonia seem ageless unconquerable a habitat totally hostile to human civilization. The apparent simplicity of Indian ways of life has been judged an evolutionary adaptation to forest ecology living proof that Amazonia could not - and cannot - sustain a more complex society. Archaeological traces of far more elaborate cultures have been dismissed as the ruins of invaders from outside the region abandoned to decay in the uncompromising tropical environment. C The popular conception of Amazonia and its native residents would be enormously consequential if it were true. But the .