For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the
correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line. For a
missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a "∧" sign and
write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the
line. For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word
with a slash "—" and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the
line.
Have you ever thought of the similarities between the
cinema and the theatre The cinema has learnt a great deal from the
theatre about presentation. Gone are the days when crowds were packed
on wooden benches in tumbledown buildings to gape at the antics of
silent, jerking figures on a screen, where some poor pianist made
(1)______ frantic efforts to translate the drama into music. These days
it is quite easier to find a cinema that surpasses a theatre in luxury. Even
in (2)______
small easy villages, cinemas are spacious, well lit and
well-ventilated places where one can sit for comfort. The projectionist has
been
(3)______ trained to give the audience time to prepare themselves for the
film they are to see. Talk drops to a whisper and then fades out together.
(4)______ As soon as
the cinema is in darkness, spotlights are focused on the curtains which are
drawn slowly apart, often to the accompany of
(5)______ music, to reveal the title of
the film. Everything has been carefully contrived so that the spectator will
never actually see the naked screen which will remind to him all too sharply
that what he is about
(6)______ to see is nothing merely shadows flickering on a white board.
(7)______ However much the cinema tries to simulate from the
conditions in a theatre (8)______ , it
never fully succeeds. Nothing can be equal to the awe and sense of hushing
expectation which is felt by a theatre audience as
(9)______ the curtain is slowly risen.
(10)______