S6A Unit 3 and 4 Review

Britain is star struck. Fascination with celebrities has no equal anywhere else in the world. Walk into any newsagent's in Britain and you will be confronted by a huge range of magazines that _______ a public hunger for celebrity gossip.

• cater to

• live up to

• nose about

• go around

Britons buy more celebrity magazines than Americans, _______ having a population that is only one-fifth the size.

• but

• in spite

• however

• despite

Celebrity news often makes the _____ page of British tabloid newspapers.

• first

• front

• main

• big

However, celebrity gossip was once a cheap and nasty business, and its journalists were _______ down as second- and third-rate. But it has how turned into its own entertainment industry.

• looked

• caught

• watched

• seen

Many celebrities are famous due to the celebrity 'industry' created by the press and not for any particular talent. The celebrity depends on the press to _______ money. The press needs the celebrities to sell more copies.

• take

• make

• get

• find

Celebrities and their _______, photographers and editors have found that the best way to create an endless supply of celebrity news is to work together.

• agents

• stars

• fans

• characters

Many people would be surprised to learn that a large proportion of the celebrity pictures that look like an invasion of ________ are, in fact, staged.

• private

• personal

• publicity

• privacy

It's an arrangement that keeps all involved very happy indeed. And the public, ignorant of what goes on behind the _______, remains ever hungry for more gossip.

• secrets

• scenes

• stages

• curtains