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read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. type the words into the gaps. mind capital letters at the beginning of a sentence. no spaces before and after the word! use only full verbal forms.
movie monsters
two films came out (0) __in__ 1931 which changed cinema history. (1) were dracula and
frankenstein. there have (2) hundreds of remakes of these stories (3) then. in fact, 32 movies with dracula in the title are now available (4) video, and 29 which include the name frankenstein.
frankenstein’s monster and count dracula (5) both originally characters in novels, and it is a strange coincidence that (6) first written versions of these stories were probably created in the same place and (7) the same time. nearly 200 years (8) in the summer of 1816, the english writer, mary shelley, spent a holiday near lake geneva, in switzerland, with her husband and (9) group of friends, including a man called doctor pollidori. they all played
a party game in which everyone (10) to think of a horror story; mary narrated frankenstein and pollidori told a story called vampire.
(11) the last 200 years, these stories have been told and re-told, and the characters themselves (12) changed over time. two recent film versions (13) the stories were interview with a vampire, starring tom cruise, and mary shelley’s frankenstein, starring kenneth
branagh – but i (14) sure that they won’t (15) the last ever dracula or frankenstein movies!
2.Which book are you reading these days?
3.I was preparing for the exam the whole evening yesterday.
4.Those students are working hard now. They are studying for an exam.
5. We are not discussing philosophy. We are talking about art.
6.I am going to do this task tomorrow.
7.My friend will bring these discs next week.
8.Jim was sick, he didn’t have much money, so he got pretty desperate.
9.Meanwhile in the village most people are preparing to go skiing.
10.Perhaps in the future men will live on the sea, away from the crowded and noisy cities on land.
11.We won't have a vacation next month.
This grassy land is very good for farming. Cows and sheep can feed here all the year round. Peter, eat some more roast beef. You should eat more: you have grown so bony/skinny (2 variants)! On such foggy mornings it’s very difficult to drive, as you can’t see the road clearly. These are juicy apples. I like them most of all. My little brother never eats fish if it is bony . Holidaymakers love the sandy beaches in the south of Australia. Why does this coffee taste so watery? The picture shows the rocky mountains of Scotland. The sky is unusually starry tonight.Watery places have a lot of water in all seasons.