Unit 12 Art and literature
45. would be good ___________________________
46. do too much of this ___________________________
47. people are enjoying listening to you ___________________________
48. look at them in the eyes ___________________________
49. moving your foot in time to the music ___________________________
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at the beginning of the century there was a big farm called hollywood ranch. it was near los angeles in california. a few years later hollywood was one of the famous places in the world. from 1910’s to the 1950’s hollywood was the film centre of the world. every family knew the names of its film stars ---- charlie chaplin, greta garbo, bergman and hundreds more.
the reason why people went to hollywood to make films was the sun. at first people made films in new york on the east coast of the united states.
but then they heard about los angeles where there are 350 days of sun every year. as they made all the films by sunlight, west coast was a much better place to work. also near hollywood you can find mountains and sea and desert. they did not have to travel far to make any kind of film.
when tv became popular, hollywood started making films for television. then in 1970s they discovered people still went to cinema to see big expensive films. after twenty years they are still making films in hollywood and people watch them all over the world.
50. hollywood used to be a _______.
a. cinema b. big farm c. park d. market
51. in the 1910s hollywood became a _______.
a. famous theatre b. good place to have holidays
c. film centre d. home for stars
52. who was not mentioned as a film star in the passage? _______.
a. charlie chaplin b. marily monroe
c. ingrid bergman d. greta garbo
53. people went to hollywood to make films because ________.
a. it was a beautiful place b. you can find many film stars
c. there was a lot of sunlight there d. it was a famous place
54. which statement is true? ________
a. the east coast was a better place to make films.
b. there are no mountains near hollywood.
c. people no longer went to cinema after television became popular.