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Practice Listening: Select Missing Word
ID: #44540
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Arctic
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But are there distortions that are more serious than that? Does it matter that a programme about the life of a polar bear, filmed for the most part in the Arctic, includes shots of a mother bear giving birth that were taken in a zoo — and that the commentary did not say so? That depends on the programme. If the programme claimed to be recording the actual adventures of an Arctic explorer, then that would clearly be wrong. But if its aim is to document the life history of the polar bear, then I believe that could be acceptable. Filming a polar bear birth in the wild is virtually impossible. Trying to do so might well endanger the lives of both the cameraman and the cub, were the mother to be disturbed. So the only way to include shots of that crucial event in a bear's life is to film it in
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