The cinema’s main screen is used for film festivals, school visits and occasional live events. Tickets are cheaper during the day, partly (9) .......... encourage people who work irregular hours to attend. The building also has a small exhibition area (10) .......... visitors can read about the factory’s past.
The owners say that the restoration would not have been possible (11) .......... the support of residents who bought advance memberships. (12) .......... return, members receive early notice of special screenings. Some events sell out quickly, (13) .......... people are advised to book before travelling.
The cinema has kept (14) .......... a strict rule against showing advertisements before films. This makes each programme shorter, (15) .......... it also means that the venue earns less from commercial partners. The team is now looking (16) .......... ways of making the upstairs space more useful during the day.
During the day, staff use the upstairs room for school workshops and informal talks about film. The owners believe that this mixed programme will make better use of the building without changing the character of its evening screenings.
Staff also collect comments from visitors after special programmes. The feedback helps them balance familiar films with riskier choices and identify which events bring new audiences into the building.
The cinema’s main screen is used for film festivals, school visits and occasional live events. Tickets are cheaper during the day, partly (9) .......... encourage people who work irregular hours to attend. The building also has a small exhibition area (10) .......... visitors can read about the factory’s past.
The owners say that the restoration would not have been possible (11) .......... the support of residents who bought advance memberships. (12) .......... return, members receive early notice of special screenings. Some events sell out quickly, (13) .......... people are advised to book before travelling.
The cinema has kept (14) .......... a strict rule against showing advertisements before films. This makes each programme shorter, (15) .......... it also means that the venue earns less from commercial partners. The team is now looking (16) .......... ways of making the upstairs space more useful during the day.
During the day, staff use the upstairs room for school workshops and informal talks about film. The owners believe that this mixed programme will make better use of the building without changing the character of its evening screenings.
Staff also collect comments from visitors after special programmes. The feedback helps them balance familiar films with riskier choices and identify which events bring new audiences into the building.
Question 9
Exam guide & reading text▾
Independent cinema restoration — Part 2: Open Cloze
"Independent cinema restoration" targets the Open Cloze (Part 2) of the Cambridge C1 Proficiency exam. Unlike Part 1, no options are provided — you must supply single words (articles, prepositions, auxiliaries, pronouns, conjunctions or discourse markers) that complete the text grammatically and logically. Scan each gap for the grammatical slot it occupies: is it linking clauses, marking reference, or completing a fixed structure? Small words carry heavy weight at C2 level.
The cinema’s main screen is used for film festivals, school visits and occasional live events. Tickets are cheaper during the day, partly (9) .......... encourage people who work irregular hours to attend. The building also has a small exhibition area (10) .......... visitors can read about the factory’s past.
The owners say that the restoration would not have been possible (11) .......... the support of residents who bought advance memberships. (12) .......... return, members receive early notice of special screenings. Some events sell out quickly, (13) .......... people are advised to book before travelling.
The cinema has kept (14) .......... a strict rule against showing advertisements before films. This makes each programme shorter, (15) .......... it also means that the venue earns less from commercial partners. The team is now looking (16) .......... ways of making the upstairs space more useful during the day.
During the day, staff use the upstairs room for school workshops and informal talks about film. The owners believe that this mixed programme will make better use of the building without changing the character of its evening screenings.
Staff also collect comments from visitors after special programmes. The feedback helps them balance familiar films with riskier choices and identify which events bring new audiences into the building.