THE PROBLEM IS EASY ENOUGH, BUT …… STUDENTS COULD ANSWER IT. A. A...

40. The problem is easy enough, but …… students could answer it.

A. a lot of

B. few

C. a few

D. a great

number of

III. CLOZE PASSAGE

Read the following passage and then choose the word (A, B, C or D) that best completes

each blank.

The person I am going to write about is Charlie Chaplin. He has always been one of my

favorite actors and I really (41) _______ his films.

Charlie was born in London in 1889. Both his parents were music hall performers. His father

was a drunkard and his mother later (42)______ mad. Life was hard and Charlie and his half

brother, Sidney, were sent to a(n) (43)______ for a time.

He first appeared on the stage when he was seven and by the time he was ten he was a regular

performer. When he was 17, he went on a tour of the USA where he was (44) _______ and given

a part in a Hollywood film. His early films were not particularly successful but in 1915 he made

his (45) _______, “The Tramp”, in which he first appeared in the baggy trousers and with the hat

and cane. Soon he had had his own (46)_______ built and was making his own films which

included “The Gold Rush”, “Modern Times” and “The Great Dictator”.

In the 1940s his reputation in the USA started to (47) _______. Silent films were no longer so

popular. Chaplin went to Europe but was not allowed to return to the USA because he was (48)

_______ of being a communist. The authorities finally let him back in 1972 and he was

(49)_______ an Oscar, but by this time he had made Switzerland his home.

Chaplin did not have a very happy personal life and was married four times. He only found

happiness with his fourth marriage in 1943. When he died on Christmas Day 1977, the world had

lost one of the greatest (50) _______ comedians.