Question: 1. The death of cinema has been predicted annually.
A. It hasn’t happened.
B. It was said that the television would kill it off and indeed audiences plummeted reaching a low in 1984.
C. Film has enjoyed a renaissance, and audiences are now roughly double of what they were a decade ago.
D. Then the home computer became the projected nemesis, followed by satellite television.
6. Why? Probably because, even in the most atomized of societies, we human beings feel the need to share our fantasies and our excitement.
A. states that what has been predicted annually, according to 1. has not happened. B., and then D., talk about events that led to such a prediction. The use of ‘then’ in D. shows that it should follow B. C. makes a statement that is analysed in 6.