1 00:00:00,930 --> 00:00:01,830 Hello again. 2 00:00:01,830 --> 00:00:07,920 In this video, we're looking at a general reading, a computer based test question. 3 00:00:08,010 --> 00:00:14,280 And this question type is where you have to you have to pick two things from a list. 4 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:18,570 Sometimes they have you pick three things or pick four things from a list. 5 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:20,720 I haven't seen. 6 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:22,160 We have to choose five. 7 00:00:22,190 --> 00:00:23,840 I think that's possible also. 8 00:00:24,020 --> 00:00:27,890 But here they're asking you to choose two correct answers. 9 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:29,870 See, it says right here. 10 00:00:31,100 --> 00:00:34,310 It says, choose two correct answers. 11 00:00:35,090 --> 00:00:36,980 Choose two correct answers. 12 00:00:37,700 --> 00:00:38,300 Right. 13 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:45,380 Which two possible reasons for American dominance of the film industry are given? 14 00:00:47,070 --> 00:00:47,700 Right. 15 00:00:49,070 --> 00:00:52,610 Two possible reasons for American film dominance. 16 00:00:54,530 --> 00:00:57,260 Those American movies are everywhere. 17 00:00:57,860 --> 00:00:59,840 Two reasons for it, right? 18 00:01:00,740 --> 00:01:04,370 Plenty of capital to purchase what you don't have. 19 00:01:05,930 --> 00:01:08,480 Films dealing with serious issues. 20 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:12,140 First, reduce the feature film. 21 00:01:14,270 --> 00:01:20,600 Well, read narratives and the effect of the First World War. 22 00:01:21,320 --> 00:01:27,550 Now, what you know with this question is you already know you're going to see everything, right? 23 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:32,630 You're going to see something about serious issues, something about producing a feature film. 24 00:01:32,990 --> 00:01:41,450 What you what you want to know is, are these two possible reasons for American dominance? 25 00:01:41,540 --> 00:01:46,310 Are these two possible reasons for American dominance of the film industry? 26 00:01:46,940 --> 00:01:52,160 So the wrong answer choices are going to be mentioned, but the wrong answer choices are not going to 27 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:57,890 be mentioned in connection to reasons of American film dominance. 28 00:01:58,760 --> 00:01:59,660 You understand? 29 00:02:00,620 --> 00:02:01,040 All right. 30 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:13,370 So that what makes this question really difficult to deal with is it requires a lot more reading because 31 00:02:13,370 --> 00:02:15,920 you have to go through the different ones. 32 00:02:15,920 --> 00:02:19,240 You have to go through them and see if they apply. 33 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:20,210 Right. 34 00:02:20,210 --> 00:02:23,840 So here we have something about the First World War. 35 00:02:26,420 --> 00:02:28,070 And First World War. 36 00:02:28,910 --> 00:02:33,050 And let's see if it says anything about the effect of the First World War. 37 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:37,580 Is a reason for American film dominance, right? 38 00:02:37,580 --> 00:02:42,560 The Americans achieved the dominant position on the world market by the start of the First World War. 39 00:02:42,830 --> 00:02:43,190 Right. 40 00:02:43,670 --> 00:02:48,500 Again, this does that does not say their dominance was an effect of the war. 41 00:02:50,430 --> 00:02:54,000 But a lot of students would would choose that as the answer choice because. 42 00:02:54,210 --> 00:02:57,060 Oh, wow, I see the word dominant right there. 43 00:02:57,330 --> 00:02:58,800 There's the word dominant. 44 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:03,180 So I'm going to choose it because I see the word dominant and I see the word dominant. 45 00:03:03,420 --> 00:03:03,750 Right. 46 00:03:03,750 --> 00:03:11,340 That's what they do to try to trick a student whose English they feel is not up to par because students 47 00:03:11,340 --> 00:03:17,730 that pick things because they see the same words, they feel that your English is not high enough to 48 00:03:17,730 --> 00:03:19,290 be able to qualify. 49 00:03:19,590 --> 00:03:21,600 So don't fall for that trick. 50 00:03:23,970 --> 00:03:26,730 The centre of filmmaking have moved westwards to Hollywood. 51 00:03:26,730 --> 00:03:32,010 And it was it was films from these new Hollywood studios that flooded into the world's film markets 52 00:03:32,010 --> 00:03:34,470 in the years after the First World War. 53 00:03:34,620 --> 00:03:38,190 So one of my answer choices is not this one. 54 00:03:38,430 --> 00:03:43,260 It doesn't say the reason for the dominance was the effect of the war. 55 00:03:43,290 --> 00:03:44,580 It does not say that. 56 00:03:45,330 --> 00:03:49,680 It says that it started around the time of the war, not an effect of the war. 57 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:54,270 The Italian industry pioneered the feature film. 58 00:03:55,260 --> 00:03:59,250 So the American dominance is not because they were the first produced. 59 00:03:59,430 --> 00:04:03,720 The feature film first produces the same as Pioneer that belonged to the Italians. 60 00:04:07,550 --> 00:04:08,780 Let's see. 61 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:16,940 Scandinavia and Swedish had a brief period of glory, notably with powerful, epic films. 62 00:04:18,110 --> 00:04:19,160 And comedies. 63 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:23,180 Power Powerful, epic films are actually the serious issues. 64 00:04:24,710 --> 00:04:25,300 Right. 65 00:04:25,340 --> 00:04:26,900 The serious issues. 66 00:04:27,990 --> 00:04:31,770 So that's not for the United States. 67 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:35,970 Actually, we kind of have backed our way into the answer choice, haven't we? 68 00:04:37,290 --> 00:04:37,940 We are. 69 00:04:37,950 --> 00:04:40,770 We kind of going backwards and do the answer choice. 70 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:43,170 Let's keep going. 71 00:04:46,430 --> 00:04:50,600 Hollywood took the lead artistically as well as industrially. 72 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:55,850 Hollywood films appealed because they had better constructed narratives. 73 00:04:56,450 --> 00:04:57,980 So there's our answer right there. 74 00:04:57,980 --> 00:04:59,300 There's one of the answers. 75 00:05:03,030 --> 00:05:08,610 They have better constructed narratives, better constructed a synonym for well written. 76 00:05:09,930 --> 00:05:10,620 All right. 77 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:16,530 If Hollywood did not have enough of its own resources, it had a great deal of money to buy artists 78 00:05:16,530 --> 00:05:21,120 and technical innovations from Europe to ensure its continued dominance. 79 00:05:22,170 --> 00:05:22,560 Right. 80 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:30,090 So by having resources to buy artists and buy innovations continued its dominance. 81 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:33,600 Plenty of capital to purchase what it didn't have. 82 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:34,890 That's the synonym answer. 83 00:05:35,130 --> 00:05:39,990 So those are two answer choices, number one and number four. 84 00:05:40,020 --> 00:05:44,400 So I hope this was helpful in how to really do this question type. 85 00:05:45,150 --> 00:05:49,860 I hope you're able to see that you're going to see all the answer choices, but you have to pick the 86 00:05:49,860 --> 00:05:53,160 answer choices that that actually answer the question. 87 00:05:53,670 --> 00:05:54,180 All right. 88 00:05:54,180 --> 00:05:55,110 Thank you a lot. 89 00:05:55,140 --> 00:05:56,100 Talk to you soon.