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C2 Proficiency · 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).

WILL

COMMERCE

HIGH

VARY

MEMORY

REVERE

IMAGINE

FAITH

Glance at any cinema listing and you might conclude that (0) ___ has gone out of fashion. Sequels, remakes and reboots of half-forgotten franchises fill the screens, while studios seem (1) ___ to gamble on stories that audiences have never encountered before. From a (2) ___ point of view, the logic is hard to fault. A title people already know arrives with a ready-made audience, and investors value nothing more (3) ___ than a safe bet. Yet the strategy carries risks of its own. Viewers may tire of stories they know by heart, and a remake that adds nothing new is (4) ___ compared unfavourably with the film it imitates. It is worth remembering, however, that some of the most (5) ___ films ever made were themselves remakes. What sets the best apart is a readiness to treat their source with a healthy (6) ___ rather than slavish devotion. The weakest, by contrast, are (7) ___ copies that reproduce every scene (8) ___ while missing whatever made the first version worth watching.

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