Spoilers in the Trailer

C1 Advanced · Word Formation · Cambridge Ready original exercise

For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).

DECEIVE

ANNOY

POINT

REASON

FAMILIAR

INVEST

ENJOY

SKILL

Few things are as (0) ___ as a well-made film trailer. A trailer has a (1) ___ simple job: to persuade people to buy a ticket. Yet many cinema-goers complain that trailers have become (2) ___ revealing, giving away so many key scenes that watching the film itself feels almost (3) ___ . Film studios defend the practice, and their (4) ___ is backed up by audience research. Viewers, it seems, are drawn to (5) ___ : knowing roughly what will happen makes a cinema ticket feel like a safer (6) ___ of time and money. More surprisingly, some experiments suggest that knowing how a story ends does not reduce our (7) ___ of it and may even increase it. Freed from the need to guess what happens next, we can pay closer attention to how (8) ___ the story is told. Not everyone is persuaded, of course. Plenty of film fans now avoid trailers altogether, preferring to walk into the cinema knowing as little as possible about what they are going to see.

Spoilers in the Trailer

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