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Humor bordering on slapstick combined with exciting choreography②by Yuen Wo Ping, who masterminded③the fight scenes in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Matrix, make Kung Fu Hustle a lively, visual treat.
There is plenty of violence, but it’s largely cartoonish. Stephen Chow wrote, directed, produced and stars in this non-stop action movie, which is in Cantonese with English subtitles④.
Chow plays Sing, an eager young man who longs to be a member of the powerful and cruel Axe Gang. When gang members appear on the scene, sometimes dancing with their frightening axes in hand, the sky breaks out with fireworks. The sets are shocking, with classic cars lining the neon-lighted streets and gambling casinos⑤serving as the backdrop to the underworld activities. All these give off the sensation of Old West shootouts.
One neighborhood is blessedly away from the disorder. Pig Sty Alley is so poverty-stricken it holds no interest for the Axe Gang. Then in wanders the unlucky Sing, who attempts to get money there. But folks are not what they seem: The town is full of kung fu masters.
Sing tries to single out someone he can fight, but it seems as if everyone, elderly and very young alike, has a body like Charles Atlas. During the time, Sing calls upon the Axe Gang, which faces off against the people of Pig Sty Alley, led by the town’ s landlords, the powerful lady in curlers and her husband. Fans of kung fu movies will have a rip-roaring time, but even moviegoers are sure to enjoy spirited action of Kung Fu Hustle.
Notes:
① top-grossing adj. 票房收入最高的
② choreography n. 舞蹈术
③ mastermind vt. 策划
④ subtitle n. 说明对白的字幕
⑤ gambling casino 赌博场
小题1:Which of the following characters does the passage mainly describe?
A.Stephen Chow | B.Yuen Wo Ping | C.Sing | D.Charles Atlas |
A. it is full of humor and exciting action B. it is full of cartoonish characters
B. it is mainly made up of dance D. it is a non-stop action movie
小题3: Which of the following about the Axe Gang is TRUE?
A.The Axe Gang is popular with fans of kung fu movies. |
B.The Axe Gang is always easy do good things. |
C.The Axe Gang doesn’t know how to use guns. |
D.The Axe Gang often fights against its enemy using the axes. |
A.Entertainment. | B.Travel. | C.News. | D.Books. |
答案
小题1:C
小题2:A
小题3:D
小题4:A
解析
小题1:细节理解题。整篇文章主要介绍了影片中的人物:Sing。
小题2:细节理解题。由文章的第二段和最后一段可知,这部电影之所以吸引人,关键是这部影片具有幽默、刺激的舞蹈及动作。
小题3:细节理解题。由文章的第四段第二句可知。
小题4:推理判断题。本篇文章是介绍电影Kung Fu Hustle的,因此它很可能出现在entertainment(娱乐)版面上。
核心考点
试题【It’s no surprise why Kung Fu Hustle is the top-grossing①homegrown movie in Hong 】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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There are those who say that the adoption of this or that ideology (意识形态)would prevent war. I believe this to be a complete error. All ideologies are based upon beliefs without proof which are, at best, doubtful, and at worst, totally false. Those people who believe them are willing to go to war in support of them.
The movement of world opinion during the past two years has changed very largely such as we can welcome. It has become a common belief that nuclear war must be avoided. Of course, very difficult problems remain in the international world, but the spirit in which they are being approached is a better one than it was some years ago. It has begun to be thought, even by the powerful men who decide whether we shall live or die, that agreements should be reached even if both sides do not find these agreements wholly satisfactory. It has begun to be understood that the important conflict (冲突) nowadays is not between East and West, but between Man and the Hbomb.
小题1:From the first paragraph we can know that ____.
A.we may face greater threat from weapons |
B.bacteriological or chemical weapons are less dangerous than nuclear weapons |
C.man’s idea of victory has changed |
D.dangerous weapons are forbidden in modern society |
A.it is impossible to live without war |
B.the difference between East and West will lead to war |
C.war must be stopped if man wants to survive |
D.war will be stopped by modern skill |
A.stop nuclear weapons |
B.settle international issues through agreements |
C.destroy bacteriological and chemical weapons |
D.let the stronger side take over the world |
A.nuclear war will definitely not take place |
B.real agreements have been now reached |
C.world opinion is still divided on nuclear war |
D.man is beginning to realize that nuclear war is his greatest enemy |
A.Disappointed. | B.Doubtful. | C.Worried. | D.Hopeful. |
When Michael Jordan and Larry Bird won gold in Barcelona in 1992, the Americans were praised for teaching the world how to play basketball. This season, however, 20 percent of NBA rosters① will be filled by non-Americans. NBA commissioner David Stem happily embraces the trend. On a visit to Paris in October, Stern outlined his vision for the future, which is likely to see Europe hosting NBA games by 2010.
The NBA is now planning to take China by storm.
“Our experience in China has been that it is going to be explosive in its growth,” said Stern. The strategy② in China is television. “We’ve made 14 deals in China with local and national networks on cable and satellite.” The success of Chinese centre Yao Ming has paved the way for the NBA marketing blitz in China. The NBA, which is broadcasted in more than 200 countries in 42 languages, will put that to the test in October 2004 when the Houston Rockets play two pre-season games against the Sacramento Kings in Beijing and Shanghai. The NBA knows that it needs a global market to compensate for tough times on home soil.
“It doesn’t matter where the players come from, all the NBA teams now know that they have to scout③ internationally,” said Terry Lyons, the NBA’s vice-president of international public relations. “It has increased the level of competition here.” As Frenchman Tony Parker and Argentine Emanuel Ginobili showed in winning championship rings with the San Antonio Spurs last season, many people can earn the respect of their American peers. Others, such as the Houston Rockets’ Chinese centre Yao Ming — number one draft pick in 2002 —and the Detroit Pistons’ 18-year-old Serb Darko Milicic —number two overall in this year’s draft —are icons④in-waiting. It is the ultimate⑤ revolution — the rest of the world teaching the US how to play basketball.
Notes:
① roster n. 花名册
② strategy n. 战略,策略
③ scout vt. 寻找,觅得
④ icon n. 偶像
⑤ ultimate adj. 最后的,根本的
Choose the best answers according to the above:
小题1: According to the report, ___.
A.Michael Jordan is still playing a very important role in NBA |
B.the part played by the foreign players in NBA will be great |
C.Yao Ming is to play two pre-season games in NBA |
D.European countries will host the 2004 NBA games |
A.NBA intends to make China its “marketing center” |
B.NBA is planning to set up some training centers in China |
C.there’ll be a big storm when NBA comes to China to play against the Sacramento Kings |
D.the NBA’s live basket games will be broadcasted on all the TVs in China |
A. NBA is expecting more foreign players to join the league.
B. China’s rapid development in sports affects NBA.
C. Yao Ming has taken the place of Michael Jordan.
D. The NBA will stop teaching the world how to play basketball.
小题4: When the writer talked of “home soil”, he was referring to __.
A.farms in the States | B.native Americans |
C.the NBA training center | D.the USA |
A.The Non-American Basketball Players | B.NBA Is Coming to China |
C.The Foreign Ties That Bind the NBA | D.NBA Is Making Big Progress |
“The Jews have taken land of the Muslims,” he said. “What if part of America was given to the Jews as Israel? Would the Americans let it happen? Of course not.”
His words angered many western governments, but Mahathir doesn’t care. “I like to speak my mind,” the 77-year-old explained. “Sometimes people don’t like it. But that is what leadership is all about.”
Loved by some and disliked by others, his 22 years in power have seen great changes in Malaysia. He has taken it from being one of Asia’s poorest countries to the world’s 18th largest trading nation. It is also a peaceful country with native Malaysians living alongside minority groups. Chinese make up a quarter of the population, while a further 7.4 percent are of Indian origin. Teenage girls wearing Muslim① headscarves happily walk around large stores as ethnic Chinese play mah-jong② in nearby cafes.
But Mahathir has made enemies at home and abroad and some people will be glad he has gone. The US was unhappy when he often blamed it for globalization. Meanwhile, critics say that he has limited the freedom of the Malaysian people in order to stay in control of the country. Despite this, he is a hero to leaders in Southeast Asia as well as those in the Islamic③ world. “He marked out the path to success for developing nations in the region to follow,” said Thai President Thaksin Shinawatra.
Now he just wants to enjoy his retirement and insists that he will not take on a special role in government. “I’m a nobody,” he said. But many Malaysians do not agree with this.
Notes:
① Muslim adj. 穆斯林的
② mah-jong n. 麻将
③ Islamic adj. 伊斯兰教的
Choose the best answers according to the above:
小题1:What does Mahathir probably mean by saying “But that is what leadership is all about.”?
A.The Jews have taken land of the Muslines by strong power of their leadership. |
B.America should give part of its land to Israel though its leadership is powerful. |
C.Leadership has the obligation to speak up what you think is right or wrong. |
D.As a leader of a country, you have the right to teach those in other countries what to do and how. |
A.Malaysia was no longer poor after Mahathir came into power. |
B.Malaysia is a country with natives and other minorities like Jews living alongside peacefully. |
C.Malaysia developed a lot within Mahathir’s power but freedom of Malaysians was limited. |
D.Mahathir’s role in the world is both a hero to leaders in Southeast Asia but also a possible enemy of some countries. |
A.A Religion Enthusiast | B.Mahathir’s Political Policy |
C.Mahathir Is Malaysia | D.Hero of the World |
Winfrey, 51, draw 30 million viewers weekly in the United States. Her talk show reaches 112 countries. She earned US $225 million over the past 12 months to rank second in celebrity riches. The annual Forbes list gives most weight to annual earnings. But it also looks at the celebrity’s presence on the Internet and in the media. “After 21 years, her exciting chat show still rules the airwaves,” the magazine said.
Winfrey is most popular with her popular talk show “The Oprah Winfrey Show”. She can always attract the superstars and let them open up to her intimate interviewing style. Winfrey’s approach appears to be simple. She is in a pursuit (追求)of self-improvement and self-empowerment. This has proved to be just what people, especially women, want.
Winfrey often talks about her personal secrets on her show. That pulls in viewers. For example, she made it known that she had been sexually abused as a child, and has spoken freely of her struggle with her weight.
Her success has not just been on the screen. Her media group includes a women’s TV network and websites for women. Her work has extended to social change. In 1991, she did a lot of work for the National Child Protection Act. She testified before the US Senate to establish a national database (数据库)of dangerous child abusers. The then President Bill Clinton later signed the “Oprah Bill” into law.
小题1:The annual Forbes list selects its celebrities according to ____.
A.their names | B.their annual earnings |
C.their presence on the Internet and in the media | |
D.their annual earnings and presence in the public |
A.Oprah Winfrey was the first of the 100 celebrities according to Forbes magazine. |
B.Oprah’s success has been only on the screen. |
C.Oprah can attract superstars and get them to open up to her interview. |
D.Oprah ranked second in celebrity riches that year. |
A.attracts many readers’ attention | B.causes many people to take planes |
C.has a large number of viewers | D.measures the airwaves |
A.Oprah Winfrey Conquering the Americans. | B.Oprah Winfrey—the No 1 Celebrity. |
C.Forbes Ranking First. | D.The Oprah Winfrey Show. |
Ironically, now that photography is securely established as a fine art, many photographers find it pretentious or irrelevant to label it as such. Serious photographers variously claim to be finding, recording, impartially observing, witnessing events, exploring themselves—anything but making works of art. They are no longer willing to debate whether photography is or is not a fine art, except to proclaim that their own work is not involved with art. It shows the extent to which they simply take for granted the concept of art imposed by the triumph of Modernism: the better the art, the more subversive it is of the traditional aims of art.
Photographers’ disclaimers of any interest in making art tell us more about the harried status of the contemporary notion of art than about whether photography is or is not art. For example, those photographers who suppose that, by taking pictures, they are getting away from the pretensions of art as exemplified by painting remind us of those Abstract Expressionist painters who imagined they were getting away from the intellectual austerity of classical Modernist painting by concentrating on the physical act of painting. Much of photography’s prestige today derives from the convergence of its aims with those of recent art, particularly with the dismissal of abstract art implicit in the phenomenon of Pop painting during the 1960’s. Appreciating photographs is a relief to sensibilities tired of the mental exertions demanded by abstract art. Classical Modernist painting—that is, abstract art as developed in different ways by Picasso, Kandinsky, and Matisse—presupposes highly developed skills of looking and a familiarity with other paintings and the history of art. Photography, like Pop painting, reassures viewers that art is not hard; photography seems to be more about its subjects than about art.
Photography, however, has developed all the anxieties and self-consciousness of a classic Modernist art. Many professionals privately have begun to worry that the promotion of photography as an activity subversive of the traditional pretensions of art has gone so far that the public will forget that photography is a distinctive and exalted activity—in short, an art.
小题1:What is the author mainly concerned with? The author is concerned with
[A]. defining the Modernist attitude toward art.
[B]. explaining how photography emerged as a fine art.
[C]. explaining the attitude of serious contemporary photographers toward photography as art and placing those attitudes in their historical context.
[D]. defining the various approaches that serious contemporary photographers take toward their art and assessing the value of each of those approaches.
小题2:Which of the following adjectives best describes “the concept of art imposed by the triumph of Modernism” as the author represents it in lines 12—13?
[A]. Objective [B]. Mechanical. [C]. Superficial. [D]. Paradoxical.
小题3: Why does the author introduce Abstract Expressionist painter?
[A]. He wants to provide an example of artists who, like serious contemporary photographers, disavowed traditionally accepted aims of modern art.
[B]. He wants to set forth an analogy between the Abstract Expressionist painters and classical Modernist painters.
[C]. He wants to provide a contrast to Pop artist and others.
[D]. He wants to provide an explanation of why serious photography, like other contemporary visual forms, is not and should not pretend to be an art.
小题4: How did the nineteenth-century defenders of photography stress the photography?
[A]. They stressed photography was a means of making people happy.
[B]. It was art for recording the world.
[C]. It was a device for observing the world impartially.
[D]. It was an art comparable to painting.
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