Some candidates failed the oral examination because they didn’t have enough _____.
Many plants and animals can be used as medicine _____ cancer, AIDS and other sicknesses.
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There is a threat of global warming, that comes from the results of Greenhouse effect.
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There were considerate amounts of money wasted on large building projects.
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Remember going through the pockets before you put those jeans in the washing machine.
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The letters written by the man was translating into Vietnamese by my sister.
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When rumors of a secret wedding began to spread, neither of the movie stars were available for comment.
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Peter said, "I wish I hadn’t lent him some money."
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Many students regret not having taken the opportunity to learn English when they were at high school.
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Janet speaks English better than Daisy.
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Harry sat there waiting for Lucy, which was not necessary.
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John speaks Chinese fluently because he used to live in China for ten years.
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Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as "silent", the film has never been, in the full sense of the word, silent. From the very beginning, music was regarded as an indispensable accompaniment; when the Lumiere films were shown at the first public film exhibition in the United States in February 1896, they were accompanied by piano improvisations on popular tunes. At first, the music played bore no special relationship to the films; an accompaniment of any kind was sufficient. Within a very short time, however, the incongruity of playing live music to a solemn film became apparent, and film pianists began to take some care in matching their pieces to the mood of the film.
As movie theaters grew in number and importance, a violinist, and perhaps a cellist, would be added to the pianist in certain cases, and in the larger movie theaters, small orchestras were formed. For a number of years, the selection of music for each film program rested entirely in the hands of the conductor or leader of the orchestra, and very often the principal qualification for holding such a position was not skill or taste but rather the ownership of a large personal library of musical pieces. Since the conductor seldom saw the films until the night before they were to be shown (if, indeed, the conductor was lucky enough to see them then), the musical arrangement was normally improvised in the greatest hurry.
To help meet this difficulty, film distributing companies started the practice of publishing suggestions for musical accompaniments. In 1909, for example, the Edison Company began issuing with their films such indications of mood as "pleasant', "sad", "lively". The suggestions became more explicit, and so emerged the musical cue sheet containing indications of mood, the titles of suitable pieces of music, and precise directions to show where one piece led into the next.
Certain films had music specially composed for them. The most famous of these early special scores was composed and arranged for D. W. Griffith's film Birth of a Nation, which was released in 1915.
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It can be inferred that orchestra conductors who worked in movie theaters needed to ____.
The word "them" in paragraph 2 refers to _____.
It may be inferred from the passage that the first musical cue sheets appeared around ____ .
The word "scores" in paragraph 4 most likely mean ____ .