WORD FORMATIONS Directions:Read the text below. Use the word in capitals to form a word that fits in the space. There is an example at the beginning.（0）REHEARSE （1）PERFORM （2）VARY （3）SHOCK （4）ABLE （5）EXIST （6）CLOSE （7）INDICATE （8）PREDICT The Death Clock There was a section related to death during the first full cast （0） ）（rehearsal ） on April 18. Director asked the actors to write an obituary （讣告） and invent the date of death, the way of death and who writes the obituary. After they finished writing it, they were asked to use the obituary and create a short performance. I was sitting aside, watching and observing all the 14 different （1））（ ）of death. And yet, I was impressed by the actor’s （2） ）（ ）ways of dealing with death: sadness, humors, silence, narrative, surprising and （3））（ ）. A few days later after the rehearsal, in a sharing. thought section of another weekday rehearsal, one of the casts said that she was so scary writing her own obituary and she kept asking herself: "Why am I writing this? What am I writing?" I understood this kind of death phobia （恐惧）. What we are unable to understand worries us, and this fears us. We fear because we are not familiar with it like the sun rising and setting. We are afraid because we are （4） ）（ ） to determine and control it like we drive the car. This is why death scares us--we know nothing about what happens before the （5））（ ） of our life and what happens after we die. What we know is: we are born, we grow, we die, and we must die. Death is one of the （6） ）（ ） companions of all of us. Death has accompanied me since I was born. I first learned the word death, in Mandarin when I was in standard two, si-wang, （7） ）（ ）the end of a life. When I started my newspaper reading habit, I was educated by the newspaper reports that we were born in the same way but we will die in various ways: murder, accident, illness, disaster, war, terrorism attack and many （8））（ ）ways. The only similarity is: we are all certificated when we are born and when we die, and we are recognized by a certification of birth and death. We have to admit the reality of "Everything that has a beginning has an end', as the Oracle （先知） of The Matrix 3 （电影名） says.
1.performances 2.various 3.shocking 4.unable 5.existence 6.close 7.indicating 8.unpredictable
