Test 1 Part 2 For questions 13-24, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only ‘one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet. Example: [0] [7|7| Hollywood How was (0) hat Hollywood came to be the place everyone associates with the ‘American film industry? In 1887, Harvey Wilcox, a property developer, bought a house and all the surrounding land on a hillside in southern California. His wife overheard a woman talking on a train about her summer house, (13) .......... She called ‘Hollywood’. Mrs Wilcox liked the name (14) .. much that she decided to give her new home (15) .. same name. Mr Wilcox then built other houses on his land and used the name for the whole community. In normal circumstances most people (16) between 1908 and 1913 (17) .... never have heard of Hollywood. But . else happened. Many small independent film companies began moving to southern California (18) two main reasons. Firstly, they were having problems (19)......... the larger, more powerful studios in New York. Secondly, they were attracted by the sunny climate, which let them film throughout the year (20)... . the need for expensive lighting. Only one studio actually set (21).......... in Hollywood itself, because the local people took legal measures (22)........ prevent any more from arriving, The other studios that came to the area were all built outside Hollywood. Nevertheless, by 1915 ‘Hollywood’ (23) .. become familiar as a term for the movie business (24)......... a whole. 18Test 2 Part 2 For questions 13-24, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet. Example: |0| |W|/|7|# Problems for actors Many actors do not like working (0) .'%h.. children or animals. This is probably (13) .... are afraid that the audience may become (14) in them. they terested in the children and animals than Actors can have problems (15) . a different kind when they are required to eat or drink on stage. If they have (16).......... much food in their mouths, the words they say may not (17) clear, and they may even end up coughing or choking. Other problems can occur with food (18) films are being made. In a recent film, during (19) ........ a family was waiting to have a meal, one of the actors entered with a large roast chicken on a tray and started cutting some meat from it while he was speaking. Having cut off a whole chicken leg he completely forgot (20)......... his next words were. The scene had to be filmed (24) .......... This would not really have mattered (22) . there had been another roast chicken in the studio, but there was not. At (23)........., nobody knew what to do, but eventually the problem was solved (24) putting a nail in the leg and attaching it back onto the chicken. 40Test 3 Part 2 For questions 13-24, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet. Example: [0] [#]1|s Charles Dickens’ childhood experiences Charles Dickens was one of the greatest nineteenth-century English novelists. At the time of (0)... parents (13) Eventually, his father owed (18)... death in 1870 he was a wealthy man, in contrast to the poverty of his early days. His ..» their best to look after him but were always in difficulties (14)......... money. .. a large amount of money that he was sent to prison for three months. Two days after his twelfth birthday, Dickens was taken away from school by his parents and made (16) places in (17) . work in a factory to increase the family income. Factories could be dangerous . days and some employers were cruel. Charles was not (18)... extremely unhappy, but also ashamed of working there, and he (19) . never forget that period of his life. In his novels Dickens showed just how shocking working and living conditions were. Working in the factory affected him so deeply that he found (20) speak about in later life. His own wife and children knew (21)... .. much too painful to . at all about the unhappiness of his childhood while Dickens was still alive, (22) ......... shortly after his death a biography was published in (23) were revealed (24) ... . Dickens’ terrible childhood experiences in the factory . the first time. 62