Professional Documents
Culture Documents
1. Madame Tussaud left instructions that her unique show must be both
entertaining _____ instructive.
A) too B) and C) as well D) also
2. Past and present __________________, and so should the great and the
humble.
A) should combined be B) should been combined
3. The action hero Vin Diesel is best known for his role in The Fast & The
Furious franchise, which _______ over half a dozen movies.
A) spans B) spanning C) spanner D) to span
5. From her acting role as Lara Croft that put her in the global spotlight to her
real-life job as goodwill ambassador, Angelina Jolie has proved to be
____________________.
6. Apart from being the queen of the tennis courts, Serena Williams is a highly
____________ fashion designer.
A) success B) full success C) full of the success D) successful
7. Her clothing label ANERES is the reverse spelling of _____ own first name.
A) hers B) she’s C) her D) belong to her
8. Some critics have drawn attention to the fact that when she loses a
prestigious match, ____________________________________.
A) outbursts her temperamental far from serene are
B) her temperamental outbursts are far from serene
C) far from serene her outbursts temperamental are
D) serene from far are her temperamental outbursts
10. He received his gifts of remarkable height and athletic ________ from his
Chinese parents who were both very tall pros.
A) talented B) talent scouts C) talent D) talenting
11. Ranked among the world’s 100 Most Influential People by TIME magazine on
nine occasions, Oprah Winfrey is the first African-American woman to earn
more ______ one billion USD.
A) as B) likes C) then D) than
12. The Indonesian pop diva Anggun has sold as many as three million CDs in the
West (especially France), ____ counting her home country of Indonesia.
A) no-no B) nor C) not D) neverly
13. She has also been a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations since 2005,
as if she _______ a part-time diplomat.
A) were B) be C) are D) been
14. In her own charming and disarming way, Anggun has helped the
underprivileged ______ access to financial assistance.
A) the gains B) gainer C) gainly D) gain
15. To sculpt the figure of a celebrity ____ Madame Tussaud’s Bangkok
Museum, a skeleton is created from metal tubing and wire.
A) upon B) at C) over and out D) down
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Instructions: In each of the twenty-five (25) sentences below, four parts marked
A, B, C, and D have been underlined. Decide which particular contains an error,
and fill in (blacken) the corresponding oval on your answer sheet. Please make sure
you leave NO multiple answers or blanks. Good luck!
16. The American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald once observed that work is the
A
only dignity to be found in this life, and this Calvinistic observation up sums
B C
the religion of the Victorian age.
D
17. In England, where this kind of puritanism found it’s most fertile soil, work
A B
was only dignified if the work itself had dignity.
C D
18. This was a period when leisure for many was spended eating, sleeping, and
A B C
travelling to and from work.
D
19. In those days, the thought of make money from entertainment – from ill-
A B C
spent leisure – was considered immoral.
D
20.The entertainment world was regarded with a lofty indifference, and visits
A B
to the theatre or music hall were accompaniment by feelings of guilty
C D
indulgence.
22. The American social structure has being less clearly defined, the attitude to
A B C
work was more enlightened across the Atlantic.
D
23. The basic Victorian principles applied two, but the general emphasis was
A B C
more on activity.
D
24. You may not have achieved membership of the New York Four Hundred
A B
elite families if your wealthy came from toilet partitions.
C D
25. But elsewhere your work carried no social stigma, so long as you were
A B C
active and showed a lots of dynamic initiative as a so-called go-getter.
D
26.The entertainment industries were seen as like essential, and the people
A B
who were employed in this sector were accepted, if not respected members
C
of their society.
D
27. Nevertheless, many people in the motion-picture business had come from
A B
the emotional claustrophobia of nineteenth-century Europe who’s bitter
C
aftertaste lasted well into the twentieth century.
D
28. Practically everyone in films had previously worked in the theater or
A B
holding down mundane jobs requiring strict hours and a monotonous routine.
C D
29. The sudden break into the glamour and excitement of film production,
A B
combined with the equally sudden rise up salary, made many film pioneers
C D
feel guilty.
30.This guilt was sublimated into a almost fanatical amount of hard work of
A B C
film technicians and comedic actors.
D
31. One of the latter, a young bespectacled man named Harold Lloyd found out
A B
the hard way that making slapstick movies also involved greater risks then
C D
he had ever faced before.
32. Asked to posing for a publicity shot, Lloyd had to hold a bomb and look up
A B C
to heaven, where he nearly ended up.
D
33.The property boy on charge had accidentally put a live bomb in the box
A B
filled with fake ones.
C D
34.The bomb would have blowing the comedian’s face to smithereens if he had
A B C
not lowered it to make a comment to the cameraman.
D
35. The explosion shattered the window, cracked the ceiling, and laid him up
A B
For nine months, but he ultimately survival.
C D
36. His hand was injured and it seemed certainly that he would be blind for
A B C
his face was torn and covered with powder burns.
D
37. Up to that time, Lloyd had led a carefree, happy life though he had
A B
known discouragement, professional jealousy, poorly, worry, killing
C
deadlines, and never-ending work schedules.
D
38. Miraculously, his recovery was a complete: a special glove was fitted to his
A B
right hand, and he began work on Haunted Spooks soon after leaving
C D
hospital.
39. Lloyd was one of the firstest comedy movie directors to hold previews
A B
which he would join incognito as an audience member.
C D
40. He believed that a movie audience was one’s best and worst critic – “ask
A B
them outright to tell you what’s wrong and they’ll be hopeless, howeverly if
C
you sneak in and listen to them they’ll tell you everything!”