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Use Of English: Test P

Bad news

The mass media nowadays are our main source of information about what’s happening in the world and the impression one __(1)__ from them about human __(2)__ is pretty depressing. My blood __(3)__ rises every time I switch the television on. Apart from gossip about __(4)__ personalities, the picture they paint of human __(5)__ is that they are violent and bloodthirsty. They just report crimes, violations of human rights and the way we are destroying our natural __(6)__. They rarely report __(7)__ in science or medicine; it’s a bleak picture. Last night, there was a report about a mass __(8)__ from a prison in Chicago during which five prison guards __(9)__ dead as the prisoners were __(10)__ their getaway. Then there was the story of someone who __(11)__ gunned down by police when he went berserk and massacred ten innocent __(12)__ in a shopping centre somewhere again - in the United States. I see now where Hollywood __(13)__ get their ideas from. They just turn on the news and they’ve got themselves a __(14)__ scenario. It seems to me that news __(15)__ have become a form of entertainment.

- A) takes
- B) collects
- C) gets
- D) draws
- A) nature
- B) character
- C) species
- D) persons
- A) level
- B) impression
- C) pressure
- D) temperature
- A) film affairs
- B) film business
- C) show star
- D) show business
- A) beings
- B) characters
- C) personalities
- D) people
- A) wealth
- B) springs
- C) materials
- D) resources
- A) breakaways
- B) break-ins
- C) break-ups
- D) breakthroughs
- A) break-in
- B) break-out
- C) breakthrough
- D) break-up
- A) have been shot
- B) have shot
- C) were shooting
- D) were shot
- A) taking
- B) making
- C) trying
- D) escaping
- A) had
- B) has been
- C) got
- D) was got
- A) by-passers
- B) passers-by
- C) pedestrians
- D) onlookers
- A) screenplayers
- B) scriptplayers
- C) scenewriters
- D) screenwriters
- A) ready-made
- B) take-away
- C) give away
- D) high class
- A) bulletins
- B) broadcasters
- C) forecasts
- D) reporters

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