Номер 2, страница 84 - гдз по английскому языку 11 класс рабочая тетрадь Вербицкая, Фрикер

Self-assessment test 4. Units 9-10 - номер 2, страница 84.

Условие.

2 Complete the text with the correct words. (6 points)

A We've got a problem with sales. The ¹trouble is that, for some reason, the paper is losing readers. We are here to work out what to do. Any ideas?

B More celebrity gossip. That's what we need.

A Mm, I can see quite a few ²_ _ f _ _ s with that idea. Our readers are older and uninterested in such things.

B We'll get ³_ _ u _ _ the problem somehow. Advertising, free copies, exclusive interviews.

C Sorry to interrupt. Just to get back to the ⁴_ _ n _ you made about exciting stories. I've just ⁵_ _ a _ _ s _ that there is a ⁶h _ _ _ _ h here. I don't think the owners would approve.

A Yes, I agree. Well, we don't seem to be getting very ⁷_ _ a _ _, do we? Let's move on to today's stories and talk about this again later.

FILM DIRECTORS

The worst director ever?

He is said to be one of the worst film directors in the history of cinema. His films are unsophisticated and full of mistakes. He is, though, now celebrated for his love of cinema and his obvious enjoyment of his work. A film about his life won an Oscar, something he could never have dreamed of for one of his own films. His life was shown in a film by Tim Burton, his role played by Johnny Depp. He is Ed Wood.

As a child, he loved movies and he would often miss school to go to the local cinema. He also liked dressing up in women's clothes. It has been claimed that his parents wanted a daughter when he was born and used to dress him as a girl, but others say that this story is untrue and that he first wore women's clothes on a skiing holiday when he was cold and his aunt gave him her jacket. Whatever the truth, it's just one of the fascinating things about his life.

He was given his first film camera on his seventeenth birthday, and one of the first things he filmed was a plane crash that happened near where he lived. His movies were made on very tight budgets which meant that, unlike other directors who generally film one scene a day, he sometimes filmed up to thirty scenes a day. His special effects were also famously cheap. The octopus in Bride of the Monster was stolen from Republic Film Studios, but the motor which should have made it move couldn't be found, and so the actor who was fighting it had to move its legs to make it look alive.

The famous horror actor Bela Lugosi appeared in some of his films although, by this time, Lugosi's career was going very badly. It was for playing the role of Lugosi that Martin Landau won an Oscar in the 1994 film about Wood's life.

Towards the end of his life, Wood could no longer afford to make films, and he had to act in other people's; none of them good films at all. He died, aged fifty-four in 1978. Two years later he started to build a following amongst movie fans. Nowadays, the University of Southern California even holds an annual Ed Wood film festival in which students have to make a film similar in style to Wood's own. Fans of Ed Wood come from all over the country to watch the films.

Решение.

Решение 2.

2 Дополните текст правильными словами.

Ответ:

2: flaws - недостатки

3: around - обойти

4: point - пункт/мысль

5: heard - слышал

6: hitch - заминка/препятствие

7: anywhere - никуда