CLOZE : BRUCE PARRY
One of the most popular programmes on prime time TV at the moment is Tribe, 1--------- stars
Bruce Parry, a 2------------ soldier who, like any good TV anthropologist, takes his camera into the
heart of the tribal communities he visits, and films the traditions and customs of people who
follow an ancient way of life. Bruce takes a slightly different 3---------, however. 4------------than just
telling us about remote tribes, Bruce joins 5----------. He eats their food, takes part in their rituals,
and completely involves himself in their daily lives.
When I met Bruce Parry in an upmarket restaurant in London, he was 6---------- dressed with shiny
shoes and neatly-combed hair, not exactly the look of a tribal warrior, but not surprising when you
consider his time as a soldier. He had his familiar smile and easy-going manner, but he looked
tired. Bruce admitted that after spending an exciting year filming the programme, he wasn’t
feeling as energetic as usual.
Our lunch 7------------ have been more different from Bruce’s recent experiences. On his travels, to
prove his status as an adult male, he’s been hit with a stick, and he’s 8------------- himself to be
given frog poison. The poison made him particularly ill, but if he hadn’t done it, he wouldn’t have
been allowed to take part in the life of the tribe, hunt for wild pigs or, 9-------------------, been able to
call himself a man in the eyes of the tribespeople. He’s eaten food cooked on hot stones with
cannibals and he’s lunched on insects. I was keen to find out how he could have such horrible
things done to 10------------- in the name of TV entertainment so I asked him about those terrible
lunches. Bruce was quick to explain that the Kombai tribe he met in Papua New Guinea had
recently given up human flesh and that their cooking was surprisingly 11--------------- but admitted
that, crunchy, black and nutritious though they might be, after three days he got fed up with the
insects he ate with the Adi people of Ethiopia.
Bruce describes himself as a man who desperately wants to be part of an ancient way of life. He
also 12--------------- that the tribes he visits are not 13------------ used by his programmes for
entertainment. Some people in the media think otherwise and have compared the tribespeople 14--
---------------- contestants in a sort of reality TV show, who are there for us to laugh at, but Parry 15-
--------------- out that these people are not unaware of the outside world. Rather, they have met
people from the 16-------------- civilized world and have decided they are happier living their
ancient ways of life. When they agree to the films they know what they are doing and, as 17---------
-----, are happy to show the world their culture, and are pleased that outsiders are curious 18--------
---------- to visit them. Spending time with people and doing what they do is, after all, a form of
respect.
Choose from the options below.
ALLOWED APPETIZING APPROACH ARGUES BEEN
BEING CASUAL COULDN´T CURRENTLY ENOUGH
FORMER HIM HIMSELF INDEED INSTEAD
MUSTN´T ONES POINTS RATHER SMARTLY
SO SO-CALLED SUCH TO THEM
THEMSELVES THRILLER WHAT WHICH
