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Angels and Demons

 

Plot Summary for
Angels & Demons

When a murder of a physicist, Leonardo Vetra, finds a symbolist, Robert Langdon, and Mr. Vetra′s daughter, Vittoria, on an adventure for a secret brotherhood, The Illuminati. Clues 1)  them all around the Vatican, including the four alter of science, Earth, Air, Fire and Water. An Assassin, working for the Illuminati, 2)  four cardinals, and murders each, painfully. Robert and Vittoria also are searching for a new very destructive weapon that 3)  millions.

Despite his notorious relationship with the Church, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is once again called upon to decipher the clues to a catastrophic conspiracy. The Pope has died, and before conclave can begin to determine his successor, the four preferitti (primary hopefuls for the papacy) 4)  An ominous threat of their hourly demise, along with the complete annihilation of Vatican City, is issued as an elaborate revenge scheme for a persecuted group known as the Illuminati. With their meagre time limit steadily counting down, Langdon, accompanied by beautiful physicist Vittoria Vetra, must travel throughout Rome to unravel the carefully 5)  signs that will lead them to a terrifying adversary, a harrowing discovery, and the shocking truth.

After the death of the Pope, the conclave has gathered in a locked room to choose his successor among four cardinals named "preferitti". However the quartet is abducted by the Illuminati, a secret brotherhood that was supposed extinct. The symbologist, Robert Langdon, and the scientist, Vittoria Vetra, who had her powerful, and dangerous prototype of antimatter research stolen, 6)  by the Vatican police to help them in their investigation. They are received by the receptive Camerlengo, Patrick McKenna, and by the reluctant Commander Richter. They are informed that the Illuminati have promised 7) each cardinal every hour from 8:00 PM and then explode the Vatican City with the antimatter. Robert and Vittoria 8)  a few hours to unravel the clues and discover where the lethal weapon might be hidden.

(Převzato z: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808151/plotsummary  dne 16.3.2010)

 

1.

A) is leading

B) leads

C) lead

2.

A) has captured

B) had captured

C) captures

3.

A) could kill

B) is killing

C) to kill

4.

A) is kidnapped

B) are kidnapped

C) had been kidnapping

5.

A) found

B) lost

C) hidden

6.

A) are invited

B) will be invited

C) invites

7.

A) killing

B) to kill

C) to have been killed

8.

A) had

B) has

C) have

 

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  1. kept from knowledge or view , hidden             
  2. designed or tending to hurt or destroy             
  3. a person  that aspires to or is nominated an office or award        
  4. no longer existing (v.)                
  5. something that guides through an intricate procedure or maze of difficulties