This is a (5) …………. festival and it attracts many visitors from all over the world each year.

Read the following text carefully and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each of the gap.

Ewan McGregor was (1)_____ in Scotland in 1971. He decided to be an (2)______ when he was only nine and he (3)_____his first film in 1992. So far in his career he has appeared (4)_____ a lot of different types of films, including comedies, musical, dramas and the Star Wars movies. In his career Ewan has worked with like actresses Cameron Diaz and Nicole Kidman, and his films have won lots of awards. He loves acting and when he finished (5)_______ the musical, Moulin Rouge, he said, “I have never been happier to do anything in my life”.

Read and choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to complete the following passage.

JUST FOR LAUGHS

If you are a comedy lover, you will probably want to join Just for Laugh Festival. It was (1) ……… in 1983 by Gilbert Rozon and now becomes the largest international comedy festival in the world. The festival takes (2) ……. each July in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. If you have the chance to join the festival, you will laugh until you cry. You can see some celebrity comedians and travel around one of the (3) ……… beautiful cities in the world. (4) …………. the day, street performers delight people. At night, the city comes alive with comedy actors throughout the city. The Just for Laughs festival also has the Comedian comedy film festival component. This is a (5) …………. festival and it attracts many visitors from all over the world each year.

Read the passage and answer the following questions.

“Favela” is the Portuguese word for “slum” in Brazil in one of the (1) __________ economically unequal countries in the world. A favela is a unique, low and middle-income, and unregulated neighborhood in Brazil that has experienced historical governmental neglect. The first favela, now known as Providência in the center of Rio de Janeiro, appeared in the late 19th century, built by soldiers who had nowhere to live following the Canudos War. Some of the first (2) ________ were called bairros africanos (African neighborhoods). Over the years, many former enslaved Africans moved in. Even before the first favela came into being, poor citizens were pushed away from the city and forced to live in the far suburbs. (3) _______, most modern favelas appeared in the 1970s due to rural exodus, when many people left rural areas of Brazil and moved to cities. Unable to find places to live, many people found themselves in favelas. Census data released (4) _______ December 2011 by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) showed that in 2010, about 6 percent of the Brazilian population lived in slums.