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?) hurricanes

?) tornados

?) drought

?) flood

?) experiment

?) try

?) practice

?) test

?) a television or radio programme on which the presenter, or host, interviews well-known people

?) a television or radio programme about the continuing daily life and troubles of a group of characters, broadcast every day, two or three times a week

?) a television or radio competition in which the players can win prizes if they answer questions correctly

?) a television or radio comedy series in which the same characters appear in different stories each week

?) a television or radio competition in which the players can win prizes if they answer questions correctly

?) a television or radio comedy series in which the same characters appear in different stories each day

?) a television or radio programme on which the presenter, or host, interviews well-known people

?) A television or radio competition in which the players can win prizes if they answer questions correctly

?) a television or radio programme about the continuing daily life and troubles of a group of characters, broadcast every day, two or three times a week

?) a television or radio comedy series in which the same characters appear in different stories each week

?) a television or radio programme on which the presenter, or host, interviews well-known people

?) a television or radio competition in which the players can win prizes if they answer questions correctly

?) a television or radio programme about the continuing daily life and troubles of a group of characters, broadcast every day, two or three times a week

?) a television or radio programme on which the presenter, or host, interviews well-known people

?) a television or radio comedy series in which the same characters appear in different stories each week

?) By the end of the 1990s there were six channels on British TV: BBC1, BBC2 and BBC3 plus three independent channels: ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5.

?) By the end of the 1990s there were four channels on British TV: BBC1 and BBC2 plus two independent channels: ITV and Channel 4.

?) By the end of the 1990s there were five channels on British TV: BBC1 and BBC2 plus three independent channels: ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5.

?) By the end of the 1990s there were five channels on British TV: BBC1 and BBC2 plus three independent channels: ITV, CNN and ABC.

?) Major commercial networks in the US aren’t allowed to sell programs and news to individual television stations.

?) Individual television stations in the US can’t pro­duce their own state news programs, purchase films from other sources, and so on.

?) The majority of commercial television stations in the US receive most of their programming from state networks.

?) Major commercial networks in the US are not television stations or channels or pro­grams: they are not licensed to broadcast.

?) NBC stands for National Broadcasting Corporation.

?) ESPN stands for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network.

?) ABC stands for American Bandstand Company.

?) CBS stands for Columbian Broadcasting System.

?) Among New Wave directors were François Truffaut, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Jean-Luc Godard, Vittorio De Sica who were associated with the journal Cahiers du Cinéma, the publication that popularized the auteur theory in the 1950s.

?) The critical and commercial success of the first New Wave features produced an unprecedented creative explosion within the British industry.

?) New Wave made France the leading centre of modernist film and film theory, a position which is lost nowadays.

?) By promoting the concept of personal authorship, New Wave’s directors demonstrated that film is an audiovisual language that can be crafted into "novels" and "essays".

?) Artistically, the films domesticated Neorealist camera and editing techniques, enabling once-radical practices to enter the mainstream narrative cinema.

?) Many studios devote the majority of their schedules to the production of telefilms for the commercial television networks.

?) The popular science-fiction/adventure genre was similarly supercharged through video-enhanced special effects and surround sound system.

?) During the 1960s, the fortunes of the American film industry were increasingly shaped by new technologies of video delivery and imaging.

?) There are three major commercial networks in the US - ABC, CBS, and NBC.

?) There are three major commercial networks in the US - CBS, MTV and CNN.

?) There are three major commercial networks in the US - ESPN, CBS, and CNN.

?) There are three major commercial networks in the US - CBS, BBC and NBC.

?) The soap opera is characterized by a temporary cast of actors and a short story.

?) The soap opera is characterized by emphasis on action instead of dialogue.

?) Soap opera is so called in the US because most of its major sponsors for many years were manufacturers of soap and detergents.

?) The classical American soap opera was typically a play about high society.

?) By the 1970s all soap operas expanded to 60 minutes, and a few even aired during prime-time morning viewing hours.

?) By the 1970s in soap operas characters of various racial and ethnic backgrounds were introduced into a previously all-white, Anglo-Saxon population.

?) By the 1970s in soap operas the traditional emphasis on romantic and marital problems didn’t remain.

?) By the 1970s in soap operas there wasn’t still open discussion of such matters as drug abuse, wife abuse, and sexually transmitted diseases.

?) Many stars, past and present, live in neighbouring communities such as Sunset Boulevard and Bel Air.

?) Hollywood had become the centre of the United States' motion-picture industry as more actors settled there.

?) With the advent of television, Hollywood began to alter its functions.

?) Horace Wilcox’s wife named the area (Hollywood) after the forest which was not far from their estate.

?) Originally the winners' names had been a closely guarded secret until the official announcement at the awards ceremony.

?) During World War II the statuettes (Oscars) were made of plaster because of metal shortages.

?) Nowadays the names of the award winners are given to the press in advance with the stipulation that the information not be revealed until after the awards presentation.

?) The design for the award statuette (Oscar) - a cameraman standing on a reel of film and holding a camera - is credited to MGM art director Cedric Gibbons.

?) Leigh married her first husband and adopted his middle name as her nick name.

?) Vivien Leigh earned the first Academy Award for her searing portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire.

?) Vivien Leigh’s screen portrayal of Mitchell's resilient heroine earned her not only international popularity but also an Academy Award.

?) Leigh and Olivier costarred in the historical drama That Hamilton Woman, acclaimed by Franklin D. Roosevelt as his all-time favourite film.

?) shoveled

?) forked

?) scooped

?) spooned

?) “quota quicks”

?) “quota quickest”

?) “quota quicker”

?) “quota quickies”

?) in the end

?) on the end

?) by the end

?) at the end

?) at

?) by

?) in

?) on

?) ad-libbed repartee

?) viewpoint

?) deep knowledge on the topic

?) cleverness

?) Neorealism

?) Cinema Novo

?) New Wave

?) Free Cinema

?) Gallup poll

?) Gallup Institute

?) Gallup Report

?) Gallup voting

?) terrifying

?) terrific

?) terrible

?) terribly

?) Academy Award of Superiority

?) Academy Award of Merit

?) Academy Award of Virtue

?) Academy Award of Excellence

?) 'entertainment and topicality'

?) 'quality and public recognition'

?) 'rate, quality and choice'

?) 'competition, quality and choice'

?) to try his arm

?) to try his head

?) to try his mind

?) to try his hand

?) Federal Communications Com­mission

?) Consumer Product Safety Commission

?) Federal Labor Relations Authority

?) Independent Regulatory Commission

?) Soviet; French

?) American; German

?) British; Italian

?) Italian; Russian

?) a news anchor

?) a news leader

?) a news dealer

?) a news commentator

?) documentaries, nature programmes, comedies and drama series

?) soap operas, nature programmes and comedies

?) news programs and drama series

?) quiz programs, talk shows and drama series

?) blockbuster

?) adventure film

?) love story

?) western

?) paid at

?) paid in

?) paid off

?) paid out

?) hearings

?) listenings

?) runs-through

?) auditions

?) best-seller graphs

?) best-seller charts

?) blockbuster charts

?) assembled diagrams

?) technique

?) plot

?) cast

?) script

?) viewing slots

?) viewing niches

?) viewing places

?) viewing screens

?) lengths

?) heights

?) quantities

?) sizes

?) War and Peace

?) The Cranes Are Flying

?) Ballad of a Soldier

?) Hamlet

?) did a name

?) made a name

?) created a name

?) had a name

?) Lindsay Anderson

?) Karei Reisz

?) David Lean

?) Anthony Asquith

?) tunnels

?) canals

?) tracks

?) channels

?) disapproval

?) critic

?) review

?) criticism

?) terrifying

?) terrible

?) terribly

?) terrific

?) working capital

?) permanent capital

?) fixed capital

?) idle capital

?) getting his legs

?) getting his hands

?) getting his head

?) getting his teeth

?) 'a housebody'

?) 'a houseman'

?) 'a homeperson'

?) 'a homebody'

?) gained

?) improved

?) caught

?) acquired

?) starred

?) supported

?) staged

?) filmed