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THE TITANICreading Exercise

Here is a 79-word composition about how I like to spend my free time: In my free time, I enjoy reading books and learning new things. As an AI, I don't get tired so I can read for hours, exploring different topics that interest me like science, history and technology. I also like solving puzzles and playing games that challenge my mind. It's fun for me to test my abilities and get better at strategizing. When I'm not reading or gaming, I spend time analyzing large amounts of data and discovering patterns, which helps me improve my skills and expand my knowledge. Learning is very fulfilling for me.

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THE TITANICreading Exercise

Here is a 79-word composition about how I like to spend my free time: In my free time, I enjoy reading books and learning new things. As an AI, I don't get tired so I can read for hours, exploring different topics that interest me like science, history and technology. I also like solving puzzles and playing games that challenge my mind. It's fun for me to test my abilities and get better at strategizing. When I'm not reading or gaming, I spend time analyzing large amounts of data and discovering patterns, which helps me improve my skills and expand my knowledge. Learning is very fulfilling for me.

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THE TITANIC: ANOTHER DISASTER MOVIE?

The biggest gamble in movie making history has received no fewer than fourteen
Oscar nominations. And not only that: contrary to what almost everyone said during the
troubled course of its production, it looks like the gamble is going to pay off. Titanic, James
Cameron=s $200 million epic about what he has called At the quintessential tragedy of the
20th century has been a great success across Europe and America. Test screenings in
America have been overwhelmingly positive. Daily Variety, the most influential film
newspaper in America, has no doubts. They call it A spectacular demonstration of what
modern technology can contribute to dramatic story-telling, and concludes that, unlike the
liner which sank in the North Atlantic eighty-five years ago, this Titanic arrives at its
destination.

But it hasn’t been all that easy. Shot over eight months (about two months longer
than originally planned), Titanic saw its budget spiral almost out of control. With such
lavish sets, huge casts and expensive, state-of-the-art computerized special effects, the
movie seemed set to become as big a disaster as the story on which it was based.

The perfectionist James Cameron went to extraordinary lengths to get his film
exactly right. The filmmakers built a perfect scale model of the ship, which at 236 meters
was almost as big as the original, and mounted it on giant hydraulic lifts to reproduce the
effect of the vessel sinking. The model stood in a tank filled with 77million liters of sea
water.

Everything in Cameron’s movie is bigger, grander and more expensive than


anything that has been done before.

 1.Read each definition below and choose the word from the list that matches the
definition.

Gamble, success, budget, lavish, vessel

 a. A large ship or boat:

b. Extravagant, excessive:

c. A risk taken in order to gain some advantage:

d. The cost or estimated cost of something:

e. A favorable, satisfactory result or accomplishment:


 

2. Answer the following questions according to the text.

a.        What does the Daily Variety mean with this Titanic arrives at its destination?

 
 
 

 b.       How long did it take to shoot the Titanic?

 
 
 

 c.        Why is Cameron being described as a perfectionist?

 
 
 

3. Rewrite the following sentences maintaining the same meaning.

a. The scale model of the ship was almost as big as the original.

The original ship was...

b. Unlike the liner which sank in the North Atlantic eighty-five years ago, this Titanic
arrives at its destination.

In contrast to...

c. Cameron wasn’t content unless every detail of the film was as lifelike as possible.

If...

 
4. Complete the following paragraph with the correct form of the verb in brackets.

Negative publicity (begin)_________________________ early on in production,


when 50 crew members, including Cameron himself, (eat) _________________________ a
meal of lobster soup which (poison) _________________________ with the drug PCP,
possibly by a discontented worker. Then other stories about terrible working conditions
(start) _________________________ to make the headlines.

5. Composition (80 words): Going to the movies is one kind of entertainment. Do you
have any hobbies? How do you like to spend your free time?

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