Film posters used to be considered worthless ephemera once they’d (1) _______their purpose – to get bums on seats. They took up too much space in warehouses and were destroyed by the thousand. No one (2) _______ it worthwhile to lay them down on acid-free paper to (3) _______ them from discoloring, still less to (4) _______ against pinholes and creases, in (5) _______ of the day when they might be worth large sums of money.
With the passage of time, however, more and more people came to regard film posters as works of art, and as the traditional art market is normally beyond ordinary people’s (6) ________ , film posters represented images they could afford.
Exercise 12. Write an essay on theme “The film I`ve recently seen”.
Choose the right variant
1. I was ___ tired ___ I went to bed at 7 o’clock.
a) so…so
b) such… as
c) as…as
d) so….that
2. It was ___ a good book ___I couldn’t put it down.
a) as… such
b) such …that
c) such … ___
d) as…such
3. He speaks ___ quickly ___ I couldn`t catch him.
a) so …that
b) so… as
c) such .. as
d) such .. that
4. The end of this story is ___ long ___ you can't finish it.
a) as…as
b) So…so
c) so… that
d) such …such