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#1. My travelling ( … ) and I thoroughly enjoyed the journey to the coast.

1) colleague; 2) partner; 3) companion; 4) friend; 5) flatmate.

#2. Would you like to see travel ( … ) I brought home with me?

1) leaflets; 2) pamphlets; 3) brochures; 4) pages; 5) summary.

#3. The play was such a ( … ) that it came off after only two nights.

1) cataclysm; 2) calamity; 3) disaster; 4) catastrophe; 5) accident.

#4. Benjamin Britten, the composer, is probably most ( … ) for his opera “Peter Grimes”.

1) famous; 2) conspicuous; 3) wonderful; 4) distinguished; 5) fashionable.

#5. Stars of the Hollywood silver screen tended to be larger than ( … ).

1) life; 2) drama; 3) reality; 4) universe; 5) action.

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#1. The experimental play was only a ( … ) success, which disappointed the playwright.

1) local; 2) qualified; 3) reserved; 4) cautious; 5) careful.

#2. The audience were in ( … ) as they watched the latest Aykebourne comedy.

1) stitches; 2) pleats; 3) tears; 4) shreds; 5) intrigues.

#3. The film star categorically ( … ) any connection with the scandal.

1) refuses; 2) denies; 3) rejects; 4) revokes; 5) delays.

#4. One does not need to be a(n) ( … ) to appreciate the beauty of classical music.

1) specialist; 2) expert; 3) professor; 4) musical; 5) quizmaster.

#5. Because Shakespeare mainly wrote plays, he is usually regarded as a(n) ( … ).

1) author; 2) dramatist; 3) novelist; 4) writer; 5) freelancer.

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#1. Shakespeare’s plays fall into three ( … ) categories: tragedies, comedies and histories.

1) ample; 2) broad; 3) expansive; 4) thick; 5) deep.

#2. The essayist, John Cardinal Newman, was one of the most distinguished men of (… ) of his time.

1) books; 2) letters; 3) publications; 4) writings; 5) adverts.

#3. All the seats in the theatre were ( … ) weeks before the first performance.

1) engaged; 2) occupied; 3) sold out; 4) taken; 5) busy.

#4. Mozart composed music when he was still a child. He had a great ( … ) for it.

1) ability; 2) force; 3) gift; 4) skill; 5) addiction.

#5. The ( … ) for the film has been taken from the works of Chopin.

1) soundtrack; 2) interview; 3) passage 4) show; 5) supplementary.

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#1. Thousands of ( …) make their way to the Eiffel Tower in Paris every year.

1) spectators; 2) onlookers; 3) observers; 4) sightseers; 5) audience.

#2.Visitors can see many fascinating relics in the museum on ( … ) of a small charge at the entrance.

1) cost; 2) showing; 3) delivery; 4) payment; 5) price.

#3. The theatre ( … ) stood up and cheered at the end of the play.

1) watchers; 2) observers; 3) crowd; 4) audience 5) onlookers.

#4. Some film stars will do anything to be in the public ( … ).

1) service; 2) light 3) eye; 4) interest; 5) attention.

#5. My first ( … ) of the new soap opera was that it was rather boring.

1) view; 2) impression; 3) look; 4) sight; 5) understanding.

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