Exercise 32. Match sentence halves and then translate them into Russian
| 1. The Mona Lisa is famous | A. has the ambience of a country town. |
| 2. She suddenly burst out crying | B. swimming and lying in the sun. |
| 3. Very often, the writer has to carry | C. for her ambiguous half-smile. |
| 4. There is no denyingthat summer films | D. to the idea of a purely electronic library. |
| 5. I’m not sure whether the author is trying to be clever or controversial, but | E. put the most cash in Hollywood’s coffers. |
| 6. Despite being a busy city, Dublin | F. to negative results. |
| 7. I can’t entirely adapt | G. for no apparent reason. |
| 8. Bob Hoskins’ distinctivemanner of speaking did stop him being cast as such famous figures | H. as Benito Mussolini, Nikita Khrushchev and FBI boss Edgar Hoover. |
| 9. The plotline where an evil villain is planning to take over the world | I. at times more scary than “Boy Meets World”. |
| 10. We passed the day | J. either way, I don’t like such writing. |
| 11. “Girl Meets World” is much faster-paced and | K. is greatly overused in action movies. |
| 12. Aspiring young artists are advised | L. out an in-depth study before starting to write a script. |
| 13. A negative attitudecan only lead | M. to learn by copying the masters. |
Exercise 33. Fill in the gaps with the following words in the correct form.
simplicityattitudefreeze frame edge ambiencevillain
distinctive apparent visible in-depth contrived
seamless formidable entirely
Deny guide bring out maintain
1. There has been a … improvement in your work lately.
2. Your hesitation is … understandable.
3. Working with youth helps me … a very positive … toward the future.
4. At the time of its break-up in 2012, EMI held the rights to a … collection of classical recordings.
5. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill who … the United Kingdom through the Second World War, was also a Nobel prize-winner in literature.
6. Soon it became … that the film was going to be a box office bomb.
7. In the immortal classic “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” Esmeralda charms everyone but feels that because of her race she has … security, happiness, a good home, and prosperity.
8. David Fincher created a persuasive … of despair.
9. Elongated portraits are a … feature of Amedeo Modigliani’s art.
10. “X-Men: Apocalypse” opens in Ancient Egypt. We’re immediately confronted with the four horsemen – Pestilence, War, Death and Famine – who are the servants of Apocalypse, the film’s main ... .
11. The 3D epic science fiction thriller “Gravity” is a work of great narrative … and
visual complexity.
12. Some plot twists toward the end feel too convenient and … , however.
13. You can sense the director’s empathy in “The Fault in Our Stars”; it softens harsh … , it … a purity of emotions in his actors.
14. The following sections give a brief description of each device; references are provided for more … information.
15. A memorable … is the end of François Truffaut’s 1959 New Wave film “The 400 Blows.”
16. This non-fiction short features a … integration of footage from different sources.
Exercise 34. Substitute the underlined words with their opposites.
1. It takes time to forget people.
2. She is a talentless actress, but a brilliant script with good dialogue and a realistic family crises helps her a lot.
3. The director confirmed that the characters were based on imaginary people.
4. If you don’t know anything about films, this event willsatisfy you.
5. I hated the ugliness and complexity of photography.
6. The plotline is absolutely the same.
7. The sequel includes an epic battle scene, the birth of a minor character and a kindhero.
8. There’s nothing like losingto hide the worst in men.
9. I doubt he’ll handle the interview with an effort.
10. He alwayskeeps track of what he wants.
11. The agency commission is added to the company’s loss.
Exercise 35. Translate the collocations below into Russian. Then make up your own