I Reading

THE WORLD IN YOUR HOME

For all the importance of movies in shaping modern culture, the impact of radio has been just as great. For the first time free entertainment reached into the average American parlour for nothing but the cost of the set. An early radio might have come to $100, and the minimum price of sets has since steadily fallen.

Morning and afternoon entertainment programs were devoted to the housewife. During the 1930s some 50 soap operas chronicled the daily woes of a host of characters. The longest running daytime serial was "The Romance of Helen Trent", broadcast five times a week from October 1933 through June 1960.

Late afternoons were for children, who put aside their homework to follow the exploits of different heroes.

Evenings offered more varied fare: news commentators, dance bands, programs of classical and semi-classical music, comedies.

The skilled radio dramatists' power to persuade was awesome. In 1938 Herbert G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" was broadcast. Thousands of listeners panicked and fled from their homes, fully convinced that Martians had actually landed and were laying New Jersey to waste.

Television has proved its ability not only to educate, uplift, and inform, but also to entertain. It has brought brilliant drama, superb music, sharp satire, and incisive documentaries to countless millions of viewers.

Thanks to television, American entertainers have appeared in every major country and are well known all over the world.

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II Grammar

1. Mr Smith's office is ..... the second floor.

in

at

on

2. Don't wait for him, he won’t come for supper; he ..... late.

will come

will have come

is coming

will be coming

3 The castle ......... built in the 15th century.

(a) was

(b) is

(c) has been

(d) will be

4 I don’t feel like _____ this article today.

reading and to translate

to read and translating

reading and translating

5 If _____ a hat, I _____ like an old woman.

I wear; will look

I wore; would look

I am wearing; will look

6 Why did you say that Paul ..... a careful driver?

isn't

wasn't

hadn't been

7. Alice explained to us that the flower shop ..... down the road.

was situated

is situated

had been situated

8. I love Croatia with ..... crystal-clear sea and wonderful white sand.

its

it's

there

their

9. She strongly objected to our _____ a fire.

making

being made

having been made

10 There’s somebody walking behind us. I think ... .

we are following

we are being following

we are followed

we are being followed

III Essay Writing

Does travel play important role in our life.

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