Solutions. Upper Intermediate. Test 1

Complete the sentences. Use the past perfect or past perfect continuous form of the verbs in brackets.

1. The bus got stuck in traffic, so, by the time we got to the cinema, we            (miss) the start of the film.

2. Clara                     (perform) in small-town theatres for years before she got her first role in a Hollywood film.

3. Audiences were amazed when they first saw the film Citizen Kane. They              (not see) anything like it before.

4. The flight was so long I             (watch) five films from beginning to end by the time we landed.

5. My little brother started crying in the cinema because he thought I           (eat) all of his ice cream.

6. It wasn’t until we left the cinema that I noticed my sister’s eyes were red. She                 (cry) all the way through the film.

Complete the extracts from biographies of famous Hollywood directors. Use the correct past perfect or past perfect continuous form of the verbs below.

become, decide, direct, dream, not work, sell, try, win

Kathryn Bigelow
Although she             of being a painter when she was very young, Kathryn Bigelow discovered that her talents lay in film-making. After studying film at Columbia University in New York, she got a job at the Art & Language collective. She                      there for long when she made her first short film. By 2010, Kathryn Bigelow              eight full-length films, many of them critically-acclaimed. Most importantly, she            the first woman to win an Oscar for best picture, for her moving war film, Hurt Locker.

George Lucas
George Lucas directed his first film in 1971. He                 to get enough funding to direct a full-length film for a number of years before then, so he saw it as a great opportunity. Before long, he was established as a major figure in Hollywood. In 2012, it was reported that George Lucas          his film company to Disney for over $4 billion, and that, generously, he             to give most of the money to charity. His film company was worth such an incredible amount of money because it included the rights to Lucas’ most well-known film franchise – the Star Wars films. In the 1970s, the first Star Wars film         six Oscars.

Choose the correct sentences.

Match the descriptions with the adjectives.

Complete the text with the correct words. The first letter of each word has been given.

The price of fame

Although most people don’t want to stop ¹i              journalism, which aims to discover the secrets of criminals or corrupt politicians, they are critical of the actions of journalists from ²t        newspapers who are only interested in discovering the personal secrets of celebrities. These journalists and photographers, sometimes known as the ³‘p          ’ , wait outside the homes of celebrities, often ⁴i         their privacy by walking on their property, and ⁵h          their children and other relatives by asking them questions, or taking their photo without permission. Surely, it can’t be in the ⁶p       interest for the press to disrupt the lives of the rich and famous as much as they do. And yet, there seems to be very little celebrities can do about it.

The film star wore an old ___ hat.

We were ___ starving when we got home from the cinema after watching three Star Wars films.

Kelly had a blue ___ car.

There are a lot of ___ people living on the streets.

The actor’s co-star seems ___ .

Improved ___ means that most people can find their favourite programmes online.

The students thought the new film was absolutely ___ .

Complete the text. Write one word in each gap.

The        theme in the two photos is celebrity marriage. In both photos, you can     a smiling, celebrity couple who have just got married and who look absolutely thrilled.        the first photo where the couple are outside a church, the        photo shows the happy couple on a boat in Venice. They’re most        heading for an expensive hotel in the city where they’ll spend their honeymoon. The bride is waving something. It looks like some kind    bouquet of flowers. Both photos      lots of people trying to take photographs of the couple. In the first photo, it’s the fans who are trying to take selfies with their phones,         in the second photo there are dozens of professional photographers following the couple through Venice on boats.    fact, I’d say that most of the other boats on the canal are full of photographers.

Overall, the first photo is less glamorous      the first photo because the location is more ordinary. I think one of the disadvantages of getting married in the public eye is that you lose your privacy during such a personal event.

Listen to an interview with Janice Barber and choose the correct answer.

Which of the following information about Janice Barber or her column does the presenter provide at the start of the interview?

Listen to an interview with Janice Barber and choose the correct answer.

What does Janice say about arranging interviews with celebrities fifty years ago?

Listen to an interview with Janice Barber and choose the correct answer.

Which of the following advantages of working for a major magazine does Janice not mention?

Listen to an interview with Janice Barber and choose the correct answer.

What does Janice say about when and why actors want to do interviews?

Listen to an interview with Janice Barber and choose the correct answer.

What does Janice say about publicists and their role?