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Read the text below. For questions (28 – 32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D). The Oscars The Academy Awards (The Oscars) (28) ________ each year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), a professional organisation of film industry heavyweights. The Oscar is its casual nickname; the official name of the golden statuette is the Academy Award of Merit. They were first granted in (29) ________, first broadcast on radio the following year, and first televised in the 1950s. The first award show ran a total of 15 minutes, which is a far cry from the hours-long marathons they’ve become. The statue that everyone hopes (30) ________ home was modelled after the Mexican actor, film director, and screenwriter, Emilio “El Indio” Fernández, best known for (31) ________ María Candelaria. The statue’s nickname, Oscar, has conflicting (32) ________ stories, but the most popular narrative credits Margaret Herrick, Academy Award librarian and eventual Director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Herrick claimed that the statuette looked “like her Uncle Oscar.”

Read the text below. For questions (28–32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D). A Letter from the Mountains Dear Sofia, We (28) _______ here for three days now, and I still cannot believe how quiet it is. The village has (29) _______ shops, so every morning we walk to the next valley for bread. Yesterday we climbed the highest hill behind the house; it was (30) _______ than it looked from the window, and we reached the top only at sunset. Our host, an old shepherd, told us that he (31) _______ lived anywhere else and does not want to. Yesterday evening he looked at the clouds and warned us that it (32) _______ before morning – and it did. So today we are sitting by the fire and writing letters. Love, Marta