Film music - Test 2

C2 Proficiency · Open Cloze · Cambridge English Proficiency 1, Cambridge University Press

For questions 1–8, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space.

Any mention (0) ___ the movie Star Wars instantly triggers the resounding opening bars of the film score, which signals the presence of the enemy. But can you call to (1) ___ who wrote the music? (2) ___ to the legendary film director Orson Wells, music accounts (3) ___ half the work in a movie, mostly (4) ___ the audience even knowing the composer's name. The cruellest (5) ___ of it for the composer is that, in a good film, that is how it should be. If the art of dressing well is to all intents and purposes to dress in such a way that others do (6) ___ notice your elegance, the art of a great music score is to fuse so perfectly with what is on the screen that audiences are unconsciously sucked (7) ___ the mood of the movie. For this reason, even great movie music brings very (8) ___ recognition to composers.

Film music

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