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CAE Use of English Part 2: 14 questions
Game of Thrones: Season 1
For questions 1-15, read the text below and type the word which best fits in each space. Use only one word in each space.
When
the last time a TV show or movie, really pissed you off? Proper lying in bed enraged, turning
events in your mind. How could they do it? Why? That’s how good Game Of Thrones has been thus
, a scintillating fantasy series prepared to twist its narrative knife
deep, you too will be wounded. In the trade we call
emotional engagement.
While it may not revivify its genre quite
The Wire and Deadwood renewed theirs, there is a gutsy HBO maturity
work in David Benioff and D. B. Weiss’ naturalistic adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s heroin-addictive fantasy books. A tapestry of family grievances sprawl across a pungent Borgias-meets-the-Roses quasi-Euro battleground named Westeros. The series dances
a soap opera, a saga not a plot, good and bad points
a sliding scale.
heart, it’s the Starks (honourable, naive, brunette) versus the Lannisters (ambitious, depraved, blonde).
Martin’s skill is to keep the fantastical
a distance (undead revenants stir behind a 700-foot wall of ice, and dragon eggs accompany an exiled queen) and delight
the rich, violent, unpredictable events. As brought
life, with a tincture of the modern, by the impeccable performances. Special praise
Peter Dinklage’s sardonic dwarf Tyrion, Michelle Fairley’s Stark mother-bear Catelyn, and Sean Bean’s super-Beany silent glower
Ned Stark.
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