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TEST P
Bad news
The mass media nowadays are our main source of information
about what’s happening in the world and the impression one __(1)__
from them about human __(2)__ is pretty depressing. My blood __(3)__
rises every time I switch the television on. Apart from gossip about
__(4)__ personalities, the picture they paint of human __(5)__ is that
they are violent and bloodthirsty. They just report crimes, violations
of human rights and the way we are destroying our natural __(6)__.
They rarely report __(7)__ in science or medicine; it’s a bleak picture.
Last night, there was a report about a mass __(8)__ from a prison in
Chicago during which five prison guards __(9)__ dead as the prisoners
were __(10)__ their getaway. Then there was the story of someone
who __(11)__ gunned down by police when he went berserk and
massacred ten innocent __(12)__ in a shopping centre somewhere -
again - in the United States. I see now where Hollywood __(13)__ get
their ideas from. They just turn on the news and they’ve got themselves
a __(14)__ scenario. It seems to me that news __(15)__ have become
a form of entertainment.
1.
A) takes
B) collects
C) gets
D) draws
2.
A) nature
B) character
C) species
D) persons
3.
A) level
B) impression
C) pressure
D) temperature
4.
A) film affairs
B) film business
C) show star
D) show business
5.
A) beings
B) characters
C) personalities D) people
6.
A) wealth
B) springs
C) materials
D) resources
7.
A) breakaways
B) break-ins
C) break-ups
D) breakthroughs
8.
A) break-in
B) break-out
C) breakthrough D) break-up
9.
A) have been shot
B) have shot
C) were shooting
D) were shot
10. A) taking
B) making
C) trying
D) escaping
11. A) had
B) has been
C) got
D) was got
12. A) by-passers B) passers-by
C) pedestrians
D) onlookers
13. A) screenplayers
B) scriptplayers
C) scenewriters
D) screenwriters
14. A) ready-made B) take-away
C) give away
D) high class
15. A) bulletins
B) broadcasters C) forecasts
D) reporters