Question

Read this plot summary of the French movie Amélie.



Amélie (2001)



(Flashback) As a child, Amélie lived a very sheltered life, didn't go to school, and had no friends. When she was six, her mother suddenly died, leaving her with her indifferent father.



(The present) Now she is 23, and having left home, she is working in a cafe in Paris. On the day Princess Diana is killed in a car crash, she discovers a box hidden in her flat, containing some treasured objects that a young boy hid away in the 1950s. She decides ____ find him, and give it back ____ him.



She succeeds, making this man happy, and now sets out ____ make everybody she can happy, in subtle and amusing ways. (One example: her neighbour tells her a story ____ her late husband. Amelie reads some letters from this man, "invents" a new letter by piecing together some of the old ones, and sends it ____ the neighbour, with a note saying it was lost for 30 years.)



But she doesn't do so well ____ making herself happy. Nino, a young man who Amelie fancies, collects discarded photos from photo booths, and sticks them in an album, which he loses. Amelie finds it, and devises complicated ways of returning it ____ him. Although she loves him, can Amelie bring herself to meet him?



In the photo album, there is also a mysterious man who keeps reappearing: taking his picture in photo booths all over Paris, only to throw them away. Is he someone afraid ____ growing old, or a dead man who is afraid of being forgotten?



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By using the ESP strategies of contextualization and inference, match the bold words 1-8 with the letters a-e in order to complete the gaps with the missing prepositions that form the correct collocations or verb patterns present in the text:



1) decide A) in sth

2) give (sth) back B) to + infinitive (2x)

3) set out C) about sth

4) tell (sb) D) of + gerund

5) send (sth) E) to sb (3x)

6) do well

7) return (sth)

8) afraid



NB: sth = something

sb = somebody



The correct alternative is:


1B – 2C – 3B – 4A – 5E – 6E – 7D – 8E


1B – 2E – 3B – 4C – 5E – 6A – 7E – 8D


1E – 2B – 3A – 4C – 5D – 6E – 7B – 8E


1C – 2B – 3B – 4E – 5D – 6A – 7E – 8E


1D – 2E – 3A – 4E – 5B – 6C – 7E – 8B

Answer 1

Resposta:

1B – 2E – 3B – 4C – 5E – 6A – 7E – 8D

Explicação:

(Flashback) As a child, Amelie lived a very sheltered life, didn't go to school, and had no friends. When she was six, her mother suddenly died, leaving her with her indifferent father.

(The present) Now she is 23, and having left home, she is working in a cafe in Paris. On the day Princess Diana is killed in a car crash, she discovers a box hidden in her flat, containing some treasured objects that a young boy hid away in the 1950's. She decides to find him, and give it back to him.

She succeeds, making this man happy, and now sets out to make everybody she can happy, in subtle and amusing ways. (One example: her neighbour tells her a story about her late husband. Amelie reads some letters from this man, "invents" a new letter by piecing together some of the old ones, and sends it to the neighbour, with a note saying it was lost for 30 years.)

But she doesn't do so well in making herself happy. Nino, a young man who Amelie fancies, collects discarded photos from photo booths, and sticks them in an album, which he loses. Amelie finds it, and devises complicated ways of returning it to him. Although she loves him, can Amelie bring herself to meet him?

In the photo album, there is also a mysterious man who keeps reappearing: taking his picture in photo booths all over Paris, only to throw them away. Is he someone afraid of growing old, or a dead man who is afraid of being forgotten?