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17 For questions 1-15, read the text below and look carefully at each line.
Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be
there. If a line is correct, put a tick (√). If a line has a word which should not
be there, write the word.
Overnight success
been
0 A girl of ten has been become famous overnight after she was chosen
__√_00 to play a leading role in a major film. Alice Coulthard, who lives in Muswell
____ 1 Hill, was spotted by a talent scouts at a drama school in Hornsey. Now
____ 2 she has been being asked to play one of the four children in the film
____ 3 The Cement Garden, which is based on the book by Ian McEwan. In the
____ 4 film she will to play the part of a twelve-year-old, locked away in her own
____ 5 world of books and thoughts. Alice’s parents are delighted. ‘We had a
____ 6 few doubts about at first, but now we are very pleased,’ said her
____ 7 40-year-old father, Michael, a computer manager. The Cement Garden
____ 8 which has been turned into a screenplay by director and screenwriter
____ 9 Andrew Birkin, who wrote The Lost Boys, an award-winning BBC series.
____ 10 Producer Ene Vanaveski who said: ‘We went to all the theatre schools,
____ 11 but when we saw Alice she was just the right for the part.’ Mr Birkin said
____ 12 he was impressed by both of Alice’s acting skills and her natural, unspoilt
____ 13 personality. Alice has been taking on drama lessons for three years,
____ 14 though she has been interested in acting since she was five. She has
____ 15 now got her own agent and has started to go to other auditions.
18 Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word
that fits in the space in the same line.
The worldwide obsession with celebrities spawns
one of the most fascinating and (1)_____ by-products FEAR
of pop culture - paparazzi. Paparazzi are (2) _____ PHOTOGRAPH
who (3)_____ hunt celebrities, public figures and their TIRE
families for the opportunity to photograph them in candid,
(4)_____ and at times compromising moments. What FLATTER
began as simple "street (5) _____" is now a high-stakes PHOTO
game of cat and mouse that plays out in the everyday lives
of the paparazzi's celebrity prey. As our cultures' (6) _____ VORACITY
hunger for celebrity snapshots grows, so do the prices of
these photos and the risks paparazzi take to get them.
Many ethical, legal and (7) _____ issues arise out of this PRIVATE
(8) _____business. QUESTION
19 Fill in the missing part of the sentence using the word in bold type. Use
two to five words.
1 The news was shocking.
were We ________________ the news.
2 The crime rate in this area has fallen dramatically recently.
dramatic There has _____________ the crime rate in this area recently.
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