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The Wai Wai are a tribe of about 250 people who live in the Amazon jungle. T
The Wai Wai are a tribe of about 250 people who live in the Amazon jungle. T
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The Wai Wai are a tribe of about 250 people who live in the Amazon jungle. This tribe has had little contact with the modern world. In fact, their nearest neighbour, another tribe of native people , live so far away that it takes three weeks to walk from one village to the other.
One of the few Western people who have visited the Wai Wai is Colonel John Blashford-Snell of the Scientific Exploration Society. In March 2002, he spent two months visiting the tribe and giving them medical help.
On the last day of his visit, the village priest approached Colonel Blashford-Snell to ask him a favour. As the colonel explained, ’ He wanted a grand piano to put in the village church. I said, " Do you have any idea what a grand piano looks like?" He said he had seen pictures of one in a book. I told him that I didn’t think he’d ever be able to play a piano, and he replied, " No, no, we are musical people. " Then he said, " God moves in mysterious ways. " And so I took up the challenge.
Back in England, Colonel Blashford-Snell was offered a 360 kilogram grand piano as a gift from the Millennium Gloucester Hotel in London. Next, he needed to find a way to get the piano to the village deep in the Amazon jungle. First, Colonel Blashford-Snell and his team flew the piano as far into the jungle as they could by helicopter, but getting the piano from there to the village was no easy feat. With the help of a few people from the tribe, they put the piano on a sledge and pulled it several miles through the jungle to a river using ropes. Then they loaded the piano into two dugout canoes and started up the river. Finally, they arrived at the base of the mountain where the village is situated, and with the help of more tribe members, they were able to carry the piano to the top of the mountain, and thus the piano arrived at its new home in the Amazon rain forest!
Six months later, Colonel Blashford-Snell went to visit the tribe, and took two piano tuners with him because he knew the heat and dampness in the jungle would have a bad effect on the pian-o. After clearing out the insects nesting inside the piano and making extensive repairs, the Wai Wai, in cooperation with the piano tuners, recorded a CD to raise money for the tribe. The CD included a variety of hymns sung by the Wai Wai, a West Side Story medley, and the Beatles classic ’ With a Little Help from My Friends’.
Summary:
When Colonel Blashford-Snell was visiting the Wai Wai people in the Amazon, one of the tribes people approached him and asked him to do the tribe a【R1】______. They wanted a grand piano. The colonel agreed to help them, and was given a piano when he got back to London. Using a helicopter, a【R2】______and two dugout canoes, he transported the piano to the tribe’s village. Six months later, the colonel returned to the Amazon with【R3】______. After clearing out the insects that were【R4】______in the piano and making extensive repairs, the tuners helped the Wai Wai tribe record a CD. The Wai Wai hopes this CD, which includes a Beatles song and a medley from a musical, will help their tribe【R5】______. [br] 【R4】
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nesting
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(从最后一段第二句提到的“After clearing out the insects nesting inside the piano and making extensive repairs…”,可知此处为nesting,指“清除掉在钢琴上结网的昆虫”。)
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