8 Crime and suspense 27 1. a person in charge of filmmaking: director 2. the people watching a movie or a play: 3. a short part of a movie: 4. the person who organises the finances of the film-making process: 5. a full-length film for entertainment: 6. a person watching a movie in a cinema: 7. a movie about a crime story: 8. the final part of a movie: 9. the opposite of foreground: 10. all the filmmakers and film companies together: 11. an excellent film: 12. sth. you cannot explain: 13. what an actor or an actress plays in a movie: 14. a state of feeling excited about the unknown ending of a movie: 15. the main events of a story, a movie or a play as they develop: 16. your successful professional life: Proofreading: A crime story by Patricia Highsmith Read the text about a crime story by Patricia Highsmith. In most lines (1–17) there is a word that should not be there. Write these words in the spaces provided. 6–8 lines are correct. Make a ✔ in the space if the line is correct. There are three examples (0, 00, 000) at the beginning. In this text Particia Highsmith tells the story of a woman who has ✔ 0 lost interest in to her husband. So she decides to kill him. to 00 But she does not want to do this openly. As she knows that her ✔ 000 husband has heart attack problems, she starts cooking very rich 1 meals for him – everything her husband should not eat. 2 Gradually her husband gets more and more health problems. 3 He is short of breath, his lonely heart starts aching. One day his 4 wife pretends that she is not well and asks her husband to carry 5 her out upstairs. This turns out to be too much for him. 6 He puts her in her bed and then lately he falls on his bed and starts 7 breathing heavily strong. As there is nothing wrong with his wife, 8 she could call for help. Instead she stays with him, but does 9 not help him and so he dies away. All the people in her road 10 come and tell to her how sorry they are for her that her husband 11 has died. And she pretends to be an honourable widow. 12 On the one hand this story shows that Patricia Highsmith could 13 write very interesting but also not very exciting stories. On the 14 other hand this story is also a good working example of her 15 rather dark sense of her humour. Altogether this text is 16 entertaining and well worth reading. 17 4 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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