FINAL EXAM – Advanced VIII

TEACHER: Ademar Díaz Date: Sunday, 26 April 2020

STUDENT: NOELIA MARGOT ANGLAS SANCHEZ Score: _____________

I. GRAMMAR (10 pts)

A. Complete with both/neither/either/none/all….of/us/nor/or/them

1. John and I often play soccer but _ NEITHER OF US _ can play perfectly.
2. I have two siblings. My sister is still studying however _ BOTH OF _ my brothers are already
working.
3. We tried two websites for the Cd she wanted but _ NEITHER OF THEM _ had it.
4. I’ve got _ NEITHER _ time _ NOR _ the money to go on holiday (-)
5. “Where is Ralph? Is he at the bank or the mall? - _ NEITHER._ he’s on holiday
6. I asked a couple my way back home but _ NEITHER OF THEM _ belonged to the town.
7. There are a few letters this morning but _ NONE OF THEM _ were for me.
8. Lilian and I couldn’t get into the house because _ NEITHER _ of us had the key
9. _ BOTH _ Jared _ AND _ Cecil are very far away, maybe in New York or Yakarta.
10. There were more than three windows in that stuffy room so I opened _ ALL OF THEM _

II. READING (10 pts)

A SHORT BIOGRAPHY (IMDb)

Roman Polanski is a Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having
made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of
the few truly international filmmakers. Roman Polanski was born in Paris in
1933.

His parents returned to Poland from France in 1936, three years before
World War II began. On Germany's invasion in 1939, as a family of mostly
Jewish heritage, they were all sent to the Krakow ghetto. His parents were
then captured and sent to two different concentration camps: His father to
Mauthausen-Gusen in Austria, where he survived the war, and his mother
to Auschwitz where she was murdered. Roman witnessed his father's
capture and then, at only 7, managed to escape the ghetto and survive the
war, at first wandering through the Polish countryside and pretending to
be a Roman-Catholic kid visiting his relatives. Although this saved his life, he was severely mistreated
suffering nearly fatal beating which left him with a fractured skull.

Local people usually ignored the cinemas where German films were shown, but Polanski seemed little
concerned by the propaganda and often went to the movies. As the war progressed, Poland became
increasingly war-torn and he lived his life as a tramp, hiding in barns and forests, eating whatever he
could steal or find. Still under 12 years old, he encountered some Nazi soldiers who forced him to hold
targets while they shot at them. At the war's end in 1945, he reunited with his father who sent him to a
technical school, but young Polanski seemed to have already chosen another career. In the 1950s, he
took up acting, appearing in Andrzej Wajda's Pokolenie (1955) before studying at the Lodz Film School.
His early shorts such as Dwaj ludzie z szafa (1958), Le gros et le maigre (1961) and Ssaki (1962), showed
his taste for black humor and interest in bizarre human relationships. His feature debut, Knife in the
Water (1962), was one of the first Polish post-war films not associated with the war theme. It was also
the first movie from Poland to get an Oscar nomination for best foreign film. Though already a major
Polish filmmaker, Polanski chose to leave the country and headed to France. While down-and-out in
Paris, he befriended young scriptwriter, Gérard Brach, who eventually became his long-time
collaborator. The next two films, Repulsion (1965) and Cul-de-sac (1966), made in England and co-
written by Brach, won respectively Silver and then Golden Bear awards at the Berlin International Film
Festival. In 1968, Polanski went to Hollywood, where he made the psychological thriller, Rosemary’s
baby (1968). However, after the brutal murder of his wife, Sharon Tate, by the Manson Family in 1969,
the director decided to return to Europe. In 1974, he again made a US release - it was Chinatown (1974).

It seemed the beginning of a promising Hollywood career, but after his conviction for the sodomy of a
13-year old girl, Polanski fled from he USA to avoid prison. After Tess (1979), which was awarded several
Oscars and Cesars, his works in 1980s and 1990s became intermittent and rarely approached the caliber
of his earlier films. It wasn't until Bitter Moon (1992) and The Pianist (2002) that Polanski came back to
full form. For that movie, he won nearly all the most important film awards, including the Oscar for Best
Director, Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or, the BAFTA and Cesar Award.

a. WRITE TRUE OR FALSE or Doesn’t Say (T/F/DS)

1. he isn’t considered as a truly filmmaker due to his child molesting issue ___F
2. His parents were captured and dead in different concentration camps ___F
3. At 7 he wandered the countryside pretending to be a Catholic kid ___T
4. Despite bad propaganda, Polanski managed to watch German movies ___T
5. Some Nazi soldiers forced him to hold targets while they shot at them ___T
6. It is inferred that most Polish post-war films were associated with the war theme T___DS
7. He wasn’t granted as a great filmmaker before getting to Hollywood to film Rosemary’s baby ___F
8. The murder of his wife by the Manson Family in 1969 inspired him to film Chinatown ___DS
9. His conviction might have affected the caliber of his ex post films T___DS
10. According to the text The Pianist might be considered as his masterpiece ___T

III. VOCABULARY (10 pts) Write the number of the word next to its meaning.

1. Spur 4___ a. self-dosed drugs

2. Ghetto 5___ b. new born OK
3. Deck 7___ c. prepare for medical studies OK
4. Gametes 3___ d. new learner
5. Offspring 8___ e. great hunger OK
6. Fulfill 10___ f. complete set 3
7. Premed 2___ g. separated living area OK
8. Starvation 6___ h. to accomplish OK
9. Pickled 9___ I. chopped, e.g. cucumber OK
10. Epilogue 1___ j. fly OK
IV. LISTENING (5 pts) listen to a conversation between a professor and a student
(persuasive speech topic) and mark the right answer.

1. Why does the student go to see the professor?

a. To choose between two topics OK b. to find an original idea

2. Which one is true about the student’s experience with the professor?

a. He needs to return during office hours b. He is still undecided on a speech

OK

3. What does the professor suggest the student do?

a. Conduct in-class survey OK b. Ask how many classmate vote

4. The student thinks the professor may not be familiar with the shuttle system.

a. True OK b. false

5. What will the student will probably do next?

a. Have the class sign a petition b. Decide which topic to choose OK

V. WRITING (5 pts) : Write about a film you’ve seen, doing subject associations using
quantifiers: grammar part I (15 lines)

OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN

This movie is based on a terrorist attack on the White House and they have kidnapped the pre-
president. A former secret service agent Mike Banning enters and is trapped inside but has
help from national security. Both Mike and national security work to rescue the president from
the kidnappers. The security team relies on Banning's expertise to retake the White House,
save the President, and avert a major disaster. The president, the prime minister, and others
are taken as hostage in a White House bunker. The terrorist uses the president as a hostage to
force officials to do certain things, such as destroying nuclear weapons by detonating missiles
in respective silos across the country, which would cause the United States to completely
disappear, the terrorist was aided by a former secret service agent Dave Forbes, neither of
them knew that Banning was still alive and well in the White House, while they try to obtain
the access code to the bunker system, Banning disables internal surveillance, and makes
contact with the president of the chamber who authorizes him to do what he sees fit in this
rescue. Banning goes through a lot of things fighting Kang and avoiding his plans like
deactivating the Cerberus Code, which only had a second left for them to enter the
cancellation code, and rescues the president. Both Banning and the president leave and
immediately outside, the soldiers and paramedics were waiting to help them.