Complete the sentences using the following active vocabulary making the necessary changes.bomb be panned memorable understated harrowing impenetrable ham 1.This documentary was shot on the ____ events of World War II. 2.The final scene of the play was _____, and I could not suppress my sadness after it. 3.I think that this actor’s performance is _____, he deserves better critiques. 4.I have read this book, but a lot of episodes were _____ for me. 5.His acting ________, he had to think about his future career. 6.The play was ________. 7.He was a _______ and didn’t receive any appraisals. 84. Translate the following into Ukrainian . "I cannot say that I greatly cared for "The Importance of Being Earnest". It amused me, of course; but unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be trickled or bustled into it. I am in a somewhat foolish position concerning a play at the Opera Comique, whither I was bidden this day week. For some reason I was not supplied with a program; so that I never learnt the name of the play. I believe I recognized some of the members of the company – generally a very difficult thing to do in a country where, with a few talented exceptions, every actor is just like every other actor – but they have now faded from my memory. At the end of the second act the play had advanced about as far as an ordinary dramatist would have brought it five minutes after the first rising of the curtain; or, say, as far as Ibsen would have brought it ten years before that event. Taking advantage of the second interval to stroll out into the Strand for a little exercise, I unfortunately forgot all about my business, and actually reached home before it occured to me that I had not seen the end of the play. Under these circumstances it would ill become me to dogmatize on the merits of the work or its performance. I can only offer the management my apologies". /Bernard Shaw/
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