Answer Key
Are the following statements about the text correct?
1. Mr Jefferys teaches history at school.That is correct.
2. "Captain Cook fans" are people who like Captain Cook.That is correct.
3. "History's always rewritten, isn't it" means history is always the same.That is incorrect. Correct is: It means that it often changes.
4. Mr Jefferys found a 200-year old Portuguese ship.That is incorrect. Correct is: He found a Portuguese ship which landed in Australia 200 years before Captain Cook.
5. Greg Jefferys believes that Captain Cook really discovered Australia.That is incorrect. Correct is: He thinks Portuguese sailors did the job.
6. The ship wreck was found in Queensland.That is correct.
7. There are a lot of Portuguese maps of Australian continent from 1755.That is incorrect. Correct is: All the maps were destroyed in 1755.
8. Captain Cook is the person who officially discovered Australia.That is correct.
9. History books talk a lot about Spanish and Portuguese sailors in the Pacific.That is incorrect. Correct is: They don't.
10. "Australian history is very Anglo-Saxon" means Australian history is very English.That is correct.