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A good short story






Reading has always been an enormous source of (1) ____ for me. I particularly like short stories, especially those with surprising (2) ____.

One of the most (3) ____ stories I've ever read is called Exit. It was in a (4) ____ of short stories we read when I was at school. It is not exactly a ghost story, but it is very (5) ____.

In the story, a group of people at a country hotel are playing party games. A man called Desmond says he can make one of the other guests vanish without a trace. At the beginning of the story, there is a brief (6) ____ of each of the people so the reader knows that two of the guests are on their honeymoon.

The lights are turned out so that the room is in total (7) ____. The game starts, but none of the guests is taking it very (8) _____. Desmond describes the physical sensations that the person who is going to vanish will feel. When the game ends, the lights are switched back on and everyone laughs and says how (9) ____ it was. They all get ready to go to bed. It is only then that the reader realises that the girl who was on her honeymoon is now single. Neither she nor any of the other guests is aware of the (10) ____ of her husband. In fact, they don't have any recollection of his (11) ____. He has, as Desmond promised, vanished without trace.


ENJOY

END

USUAL

COLLECT

MYSTERY

DESCRIBE

DARK

SERIOUS

AMUSE

APPEAR

EXIST


Part 5. The following extract contains ten underlined mistakes. Correct the mistakes and say what kind of mistake each one is by matching them to the following definitions.

• unnecessary word • passive voice • omitted word • wrong tense • spelling • gerund/infinitive • wrong preposition • wrong choice of word • wrong linker • punctuation

 

‘Shadowlands’ is the true story of the love affair between C.S Lewis, the writer, and Joy Gresham, an American poet. 1) Joy visited Lewis, in Oxford and falls in love with the crusty old man. He, however, 2) denies to accept that he has also fallen in love, although he does enter into a marriage of convenience in order to enable her to 3) stay to England. Events take a dramatic turn when it is discovered that Joy has cancer. Lewis 4) forces to confront his feelings and marries her for the second time in a moving bedside ceremony. There follows a period of two years, during which Joy's cancer is in remission and the two are blissfully happy. This happiness is 5) tragicaly cut short 6) while Joy finally succumbs to her illness and dies, leaving Lewis to pick up the pieces of his life.

What director Richard Attenborough 7) manages achieving in this film, helped by another spectacular performance by Anthony Hopkins, 8) it is a tremendous insight into the mind of one of England's greatest writers. 9) Debra Winger who plays Joy, also puts in a very accomplished performance. And the beautiful photography gives us an authentic glimpse of what life was like 10) in Oxford in 1950s.


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