Bài tập cloze test - Đề 28

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How to tell a ghost story A classic ghost story must contain (0) _the___ figure of somebody who is known to have (1) alive, who is known to have died and (2) form is seen after their death. You could have a ghostly animal, a ghostly dog for example, (3) you can't have vampires, bats or monsters - they belong in horror. In a ghost story you're trying to chill people, to make them look (4) their shoulder and frighten them, whereas in horror you're aiming to terrify people and (5) them scream. Atmosphere is the key. (6) it you won't chill anyone. You need a sense of a haunted place, often a house, preferably isolated or (7) some way unnerving, although not always; there have been a (8) of good ghost stories set in London in broad daylight, and the unexpected appearance of a ghost there can work well. Stories of knights in armour walking down stairs or ladies in white floating through walls are fine, but your ghost needs to have some (9) of reason or moral purpose for them to return and for you to see them. The closer your ghost resembles a person, (10) more chilling it becomes. Come back to the ordinary now and again in your story, otherwise it ceases to (11) frightening. You need a balance between the everyday and the abnormal; something happens and then everything is normal for a while. In the back of (12) minds people will be wondering when it will happen again.