How To Deal With 'Cave People' Who Stand In The Way Of Change
I first heard the phrase “CAVE people” in the 1990s while working with a group of frontline supervisors on a safety program in a manufacturing plant. Someone asked, “What do we do about the CAVE people so they don’t spoil it for everyone else?” CAVE, I learned, stands for Citizens Against Virtually Everything—a term coined to describe people who oppose any kind of new development or change in their communities. A new reality TV show called Cave People will be on our screens next year. Twelve celebrities (their names won’t be revealed before the programme actually starts) will be taken to a place somewhere in the mountains of Wales. They will live in a cave, with no modern equipment or food at all, although each star will be allowed to take one personal item. The star will be filmed 24 hours a day-hunting for animals in the nearby forest, looking for wood and learning to make fire. Six times a day, there will be clips on TV showing the most interesting scenes. Viewers at home will vote each week for the person who has to leave. The star who survives all this will pick up 1,000,000 pounds for charity and a recording contract for a CD.
Answer the questions.
1. Who will be the contestants in the programme?
2. Where are they going to live?
3. What will each contestant be able to take with them?
4. How often will TV show scenes from the show?
5. How will the person who has to leave be chosen?
6. What are the prizes for the winner?
2. She hoped that her friend would come to see her.
3. He thought that his father had repaired his bicycle.
4. I supposed that she knew English very well.
5. We were sure that our sportsmen would win the game.
6. She was glad that she had made no mistakes in her dictation.
7. I knew that he worked at his English hard.
8. I was told that she danced better than anybody else.
9. I learnt that my cousin had received a very interesting offer from his firm.
10. My aunt wrote in her letter that she would come to stay with us.
11. We heard that he was painting a new picture.
12. We were sure that his new picture would be a masterpiece.
13. I was afraid that you would fall and break your leg.
14. I knew that my friend had never been to Washington.
15. I was told that she never drank milk.
16. We were told that he was a very talented singer.
17. We knew that they lived a happy life.
18. I found out that he did not know German at all.