• For questions 1 - 6, read the three texts below and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap.
║ Alfred Hitchcock
The film director Alfred Hitchcock always insisted that he didn’t care about the (13) .... matter of his films, or (14) .... about the acting, but that he did care about the photography and the soundtrack and all the technical ingredients. For Hitchcock, it wasn’t a message that (15) .... the audience, nor was it a great performance; he believed that people are aroused by the pure film, (16) .... of their cultural background. Therefore, if a picture is designed correctly, in terms of its emotional (17) ...., the Japanese audience should scream at the same moment as the Indian audience. Hitchcock’s self-appraisal was always precise, rational, deceptively unanswerable; he was a man of reason and a craftsman of genius who liked to hear an audience scream. He didn’t deal in speculation, abstraction, or intellectual allusion, and his assessment of his own screen characters was not exploratory. He set his (18) .... on film, pure film, and the most dispassionate, mathematically calculable beauty of what a strip of the film can be made to do to an audience.
1, A. topic B. content C. subject D. theme
2, A. whether B. indeed C. instead D. rather
3, A. stirred B. riled C. raised D. sparked
4, A. unremarked B. unrelated C. irrelevant D. irrespective
5, A. involvement B. feedback C. impact D. response
6, A. views B. targets C. aims D. sights