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Read the text below. Match choices (A-H) to (6-10 There are three choices you do not need to use. Write your answers on the separate answer sheet. Some Historical Misconceptions Do you believe everything you read in history books? Look at some facts that were accepted as proven for a long time, yet they didn’t really happen. 6 The pyramids of Egypt were built by slaves. According to the legend, the pyramids in Egypt were built by slaves. However, excavated tombs near the pyramids support the theory that the pyramid builders were actually paid Egyptian labourers, who were proud of their work, and were happy to serve the pharaoh. 7 «Forbidden Fruit» in the Garden of Eden was an apple. According to the Bible, Adam and Eve were evicted from the Garden of Eden for eating «the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden*. There’s no mention of any apple! Some biblical scholars think it was a fig, as Adam and Eve were dressed in fig leaves, while others believe it may have been grapes. 8 Emperor Nero played the fiddle while he watched Rome burn. As the story goes, in A.D. 64, mad Emperor Nero started a fire near the imperial palace and then climbed to the top of the Tower of Maecenas where he played his fiddle, sang arias, and watched Rome flame out. According to Roman historian Tacitus, when the fire broke out in Rome, Nero was actually in his villa in Antium which is about 30 miles away from Rome. There is another reason why it would have been impossible for Nero to have played the fiddle — it did not exist at that time! 9 Christopher Columbus’ voyage proved that the Earth was round. The knowledge of a spherical earth goes back to Aristotle’s time, and that knowledge was never lost to western civilization. The reason Columbus had a hard time getting support for his voyage was because scholars at that time disagreed with his estimate of the distance to India. Columbus estimated the Earth was much smaller than Queen Isabella and her scientific advisors did. But Columbus’s size estimate was wrong, and his error did send him West to become the first European to discover what now is the USA. 10 Napoleon Bonaparte was unusually short. Napoleon’s official height was indeed 5 foot 2 inches but at that time French inches were longer than English inches, so doing the unit conversion, Napoleon’s height should have been reported as 5' 7” in England’s imperial units — which is short by today’s standard but was average or slightly above average in the early 1800s. Which of the historical misconceptions is associated with ... A ... differences in measurement systems? B ... popular food? C ... overseeing the design of a new city? D ... the first people in the world? E ... a famous saying of a great princess? F ... one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? G ... the Italian capital? H ... discovering America?
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