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46. It is usually__________ to buy washing powder in large quantities.
47. Most developing countries are in need of__________ and technical assistance.
48. One of the most__________ features of humans ts surely the ability to makeand use
sophisticated tools.
49.When I was _________ my cupboard I came across this photograph of Uncle Kim.
50. These Sundays were the __________ of human contact in the desert of my loneliness.
Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each
question.
Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as "silent", the
film has never been, in the full sense of the word, silent. From the very beginning, music
was regarded as an indispensable accompaniment; when the Lumiere films were shown at
the first public film exhibition in the United States in February 1896, they were
accompanied by piano improvisations on popular tunes. At first, the music played bore no
special relationship to the films; an accompaniment of any kind was sufficient.
Within a very short time, however, the incongruity of playing lively music to a solemn
film became apparent, and film pianists began to take some care in matching their pieces
to the mood of the film.
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As movie theaters grew in number and importance, a violinist, and perhaps a cellist,
would be added to the pianist in certain cases, and in the larger movie theaters small
orchestras were formed. For a number of years the selection of music for each film
program rested entirely in the hands of the conductor or leader of the orchestra, and very
often the principal qualification for holding such a position was not skill or taste so much
as the ownership of a large personal library of musical pieces. Since the conductor
seldom saw the films until the night before they were to be shown (if, indeed, the
conductor was lucky enough to see them then), the musical arrangement was normally
improvised in the greatest hurry.
To help meet this difficulty, film distributing companies started the practice of publishing
suggestions for musical accompaniments. In 1909, for example, the Edison Company
began issuing with their films such indications of mood as "pleasant, "sad", "lively". The
suggestions became more explicit, and so emerged the musical cue sheet containing
indications of mood, the titles of suitable pieces of music, and precise directions to show
where one piece led into the next. Certain films had music especially composed for
them. The most famous of these early special scores was that composed and arranged for
D.W. Griffith's film Birth of a Nation, which was released in 1915.