tailieunhanh - Ebook New proficiency test builder: Part 2

Part 1 serial content book "New proficiency test builder", section 2 introduces the reader to the English 2 test. This is a useful material for those interested in learning materials for use as self review in practice and improve their English. | TEST FOUR PAPER 1 PARTONE 131 TEST FOUR PAPER 1 READING 1 hour 30 minutes PART ONE For questions 1-18 read the three texts below and decide which answer A B c or D best fits each gap. In the exam you will mark your answers on a separate answer sheet. Television Documentaries Here s a new game for you. Watch a documentary with the sound turned down and make up your own commentary. It s great for parties. You 1 .all your guests to stand outside and then they come in one at a time and have a 2 .at guessing what it s about. It s only when you turn down the sound that you realize just how 3 .the pictures are to most documentaries. I expect you ve noticed by now that television is primarily a visual medium. TV directors get into a terrible 4 .if there s nothing to show you. They don t mind so much if there s nothing to tell you - 80 of television has nothing to say - but no director has ever turned to a cameraman and asked What are you doing here The most insuperable problem with a large 5 .of documentaries is that they are working in the wrong medium. They ought to be newsprint articles. You can say more in print. You can say it better. And it s interactive. The readers can go at their own 6 .Television is hampered by having to fill the screen and move at the approximate speed of the slowest member of the audience. 1 A have B sort c get D settle 2 A bid B stab c venture D speculation 3 A irrelevant B incompatible c inconsistent D incongruous 4 A lather B fuss c ado D stir 5 A fraction B proportion c ratio D bulk 6 A time B flow c course D pace The Rejected Novel You ve not had much luck with the book I hear. That had to be the understatement of the year. My novel had been rejected four times 7 .far. I ve no doubt that behind my 8 .the family were having a good snigger. Rhona of course had been the loyal exception though I admit that her piteous expressions when the thing limped home battered by franking stamps were harder to 9 .than her sister s outright sarcasm Has .