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If you’re in charge of a project, the key to success is getting everyone to want to help you. As a director, I suggest, I gently push the actors in the direction I want them to go.
In the 1986 movie Nothing in Common, Jackie Gleason’s character, Max Basner, gets fired from his job as a clothing salesman. The scene, shot on a boat, shows Max’s hopelessness about being out of work. I was looking for some ways that would allow Max to show his feelings.
Jackie had far more experience at everything than I did, and at first I was frightened. What could I possibly tell “The Great One” about acting? Out of fear I decided to direct by suggestion, and I sat down with Gleason to talk about the scene.
“So Max is sad, right?” I said.
Gleason nodded.
“And he’s probably still carrying his pens with his name on them－the ones he used to hand out to his customers, right?”
Gleason nodded.
“So what would you want to do with the pens after you were fired?”
He was silent for a moment. “Why don’t I throw them overboard?”
I stood up and turned toward the crew. “Hey, everybody, Jackie has a wonderful idea. Let’s shoot it.”
After filming the scene, Gleason called me over and said with a smile, “Garry, what kind of wonderful idea am I going to have tomorrow?”
You and your team can discover the answers to problems tighter. When there are no prizes or gold stars for those who get the solution first, you’ll all benefit when everything turns out right.
63. The writer tells us that, to succeed in the project you are in charge of, you should _______.
A. make everyone work for you
B. get everyone willing to help you
C. let people know you have the final say
D. keep giving orders to everyone
64. From the passage we can know _________.
A. Jackie Gleason is the director of the film Nothing in Common
B. Jackie Gleason is very angry when he is fired from his job
C. Max, a character in the film, is in very low spirits when he loses his job
D. Jackie Gleason writes the play of the film Nothing in Common
65. The underlined part “The Great One” (in Paragraph 3) refers to __________.
A. Gleason B. the director himself C. Max D. Max’s boss
66. Why did Gleason call the director over and smile at him?
A. Gleason thought his wonderful idea was accepted by the director.
B. Gleason succeeded in hitting upon a wonderful idea.
C. Gleason was confident about his work the next day.
D. Gleason appreciated the director’s way of directing films. |
答案
小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:D |
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There was a blacksmith(铁匠) who wasn"t satisfied with his work. Once he complained, “I am not well and my work is too warm. I want to be a ____小题1:____ on the mountain. There it must be _____小题2:____, for the wind blows and the trees give a shade..” A wise man who had ___小题3:____ over all things replied, “Go you, be a stone.” And he was a stone, high up on the ____小题4:____ side. It happened that a stone-cutter ____小题5:____ that way for a stone and when he saw the one that had been the ____小题6:____, he knew that it was what he ____小题7:_____ and he began to cut it. The stone ____小题8:____ out, “This hurts! I no longer want to be a stone. A stone-cutter I want to be. That ____小题9:____ be pleasant.” The wise man, humoring him, said, “Be a cutter.” ____小题10:____ he became a stone-cutter and as he went seeking a suitable stone, he ____小题11:____ tired and his feet were sore（酸痛）. He ____小题12:____,” I no longer want to cut stone. I would be the sun; that would be pleasant.” The wise man ___小题13:___, “Be the sun.” And he was the sun. But the sun was warmer than the blacksmith, than a stone, than a stone-cutter, and he complained, “I do not ____小题14:___ this. I would be the moon. It ___小题15:____ cool.” The wise man spoke yet again, “Be the moon.” And he was the moon. This is warmer than being the sun,” ____小题16:___ he, “for the light from the sun ____小题17:____on me ever. I do not want to be the moon. I would be a ___小题18:____ again. That, indeed, is the ___小题19:____ life.” But the wise man replied, “I am ____小题20:___of your changing. You wanted to be the moon; the moon you are and you will remain.”
| 小题21: | | A．tree | B．iron | C．stone | D．stone-cutter |
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| 小题23: | | A．energy | B．force | C．power | D．strength |
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| 小题24: | | A．river | B．mountain | C．lake | D．sea |
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| 小题26: | | A．moon | B．sun | C．wise man | D．blacksmith |
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| 小题27: | | A．bought | B．caught | C．sought | D．protected |
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| 小题28: | | A．cried | B．read | C．spoke | D．looked |
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| 小题29: | | A．would | B．should | C．will | D．shall |
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| 小题30: | | A．Though | B．Nevertheless | C．Thus | D．But |
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| 小题31: | | A．became | B．turned | C．grew | D．went |
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| 小题32: | | A．complained | B．suggested | C．persuaded | D．nodded |
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| 小题33: | | A．refused | B．commanded | C．mentioned | D．married |
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| 小题35: | | A．feels | B．sounds | C．looks | D．smells |
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| 小题36: | | A．whispered | B．shouted | C．stated | D．declared |
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| 小题37: | | A．twinkles | B．shines | C．drops | D．falls |
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| 小题38: | | A．smith | B．carpenter | C．woodcutter | D．stone-cutter |
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| 小题39: | | A．worst | B．best | C．longest | D．shortest |
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| 小题40: | | A．bored | B．fond | C．proud | D．afraid |
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Academy Awards The Academy Awards are the most prominent film award in the United States. The Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Academy Awards are nicknamed “Oscars” , which is also the nickname of the statuette. The name is said to have been born in 1931 when Margaret Herrick saw the statuette on a table and said. “It looks just like my uncle Oscar!”
Berlin Film Festival One of the “A” festivals in Europe. The Berlin International Film Festival, also called the “Berlinale”, is held annually in February and started in 1951 after an initiative of the American, who occupied part of the city after World War II. The jury always placed special emphasis on representing films from all over the world, from the former Eastern Bloc Countries (东方阵营) as well as from Western countries.The awards are called Golden and Silver Bears ( as the bear is the symbol of Berlin).
Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival takes place every year in late August/early September on the Lido in the historic Palazzo del Cinema, in Venice, Italy since 1932; its main award is the “Leond"Oro” (Golden Lion). Recently, a new award has been added, the San Marco Award for the best film
Cannes Film Festival The Cannes Film Festival is. a famous international film festival. It has been held annually in Cannes, in the south of France, since 1946 with a few exceptions. Given massive media exposure, the Festival is attended by many movie stars and is a popular venue for movie producers to launch their new films and attempt to sell their works to the distributors who come from all over the globe.
The most famous award given out at Carmes is the “Palme d"Or” (Golden Palm) for the best film; this is sometimes shared by multiple films in one year.
小题1:Which award can be shared by multiple films in one year?| A．Golden Lion. | B．Golden Palm. | | C．Academy Awards. | D．San Marco Award. |
小题2: Which of the following statements about “Oscars” is NOT true?| A．It s the nickname of Academy Awards. | | B．It"s also the nickname of the statuette. | | C．It got its name because Margaret said the statuette looked like her uncle. | | D．It s an award in France. |
小题3: Which award has the shortest history?| A．Golden Lion. | B．Golden Palm. | | C．Academy Awards. | D．San Marco Award. |
小题4: Which of the following best states the main idea of the passage?| A．An introduction to famous film festivals and film awards. | | B．An advertisement for films and TV programs. | | C．An introduction to the nicknames of famous film awards. | | D．A guide of bow to attend famous film festivals. |
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Will there ever be another Einstein? This is the undercurrent（潜流） of conversation at Einstein memorial meetings throughout the year. A new Einstein will appear, scientists say. But it may take a long time. After all, more than 200 years separated Einstein from Isaac Newton.
Many physicists say the next Einstein hasn"t been born yet, or is a baby now. That"s because the search for a unified theory that would explain all the forces of nature has pushed current mathematics to its limits. New math must be created after the problem can be solved.
But researchers say there are many other factors working against another Einstein appearing anytime soon. For one thing, physics is a much different field today. In Einstein"s day, there were a few thousand physicists worldwide, and the theorists who could argue with Einstein probably would fit into a streetcar with seats to spare. Education is different, too. One key aspect of Einstein"s training that-is little noticed is the years of philosophy he read as a teenager --- Kant, Schopenhauer and Spinoza, among others. It taught him how to think independently about space and time and it wasn"t long before he became a philosopher himself.
And Einstein was a clever musician. The interplay between music and math is well-known. Einstein would play his violin hard as a way to think through a knotty physics problem.
Today, universities have produced millions of physicists. There aren"t many jobs in science for them, so they go to Wall Street and Silicon Valley to apply their analytical skills. Those who stay in science don’t work alone and they sometimes do experiment together which takes years.
It"s hard to imagine a renegade(背叛者) like Einstein standing it. “Maybe there is an Einstein out there today,” said Columbia University physicist Brian Greene, “but it would be a lot harder for him to be heard.”
小题1:According to the second paragraph, the next Einstein will ___________.| A．have to create new math | B．create a unified theory | | C．have to be born now | D．push math to its limits |
小题2: The underlined words “knotty” in the fourth paragraph means ____________.| A．easy | B．interesting | C．strange | D．difficult |
小题3: Which of the following will be useful for the next Einstein to be born?| A．There will be music around. | | B．There will be no problems to solve. | | C．There will be suitable philosophy to study. | | D．There are only a few physicists. |
小题4:The bold words “unified theory” in Paragraph 2 refers to ___________.| A．agreement | B．mathematical rule | | C．unique idea | D．physical saying |
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第二节完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A Man Named Lawrence
This is an act of kindness that happened to me one Sunday morning.
It was at two o’clock in the morning. We just came out of a club and were trying to find our 36 back to our city. As we were trying to 37 the bus stop, a man came to us and said he would show us 38 it was. Although we were a little worried, we had no choice but follow him. He told us he was a homeless man and that his name was Lawrence.
When we passed some city workers 40 the streets, they sprayed (喷溅) the homeless man. Lawrence told us that they always sprayed the 41 if they were "in the way". I didn’t know why they would do that. They were human beings, 42 , not cattle or objects.
This man had just gotten 43 in the middle of a cold night, but 44 shouting at the workers, he asked them, "How would you 45 if your father or grandfather were treated like this?" He then told us, "It’s 46 use shouting at them, because they just get angry. You’re better off saying something from the 47 ."
It is 48 ! The world could be so different if only we put our anger 49 , lowered our voices and tried to speak from our hearts.
He took us safely to the stop and on the way talked about everything. We 50 him and told him that we 51 have never found the place on our own. He said, "I have a son of your age, and I hope that if he were 52 , someone would help him."
Not only did Lawrence clear out all the fear and distrust in our hearts, he helped us find our way, in more than one ways. 53 , this man taught us kindness. There was 54 we could really do to repay him. The only thing I hope to do is to 55 other people out.
36．A．way B．car C．friend D．road
37．A．get to B．find C．search for D．arrive
38．A．how B．what C．which D．where
39．A．interested B．annoyed C．worried D．disappointed
40．A．wondering on B．washing C．painting for D．decorating
41．A．blacks B．whites C．strangers D．homeless
42．A．above all B．in all C．after all D．not at all
43．A．wetB．angry C．sad D．cold
44．A．except for B．shortly after C．instead of D．owing to
45．A．think B．feel C．tell D．say
46．A．no use B．no point C．no need D．no fun
47．A．corners B．eyes C．bottom D．heart
48．A．good B．beautiful C．true D．funny
49．A．aside B．off C．down D．up
50．A．left B．thanked C．paid D．brought
51．A．should B．could C．must D．need
52．A．waited for B．taken in C．lost D．missed
53．A．On the contrary B．On the other hand C．What’s up D．What’s more
54．A．something B．anything C．everything D．nothing
55．A．help B．work C．pay D．check |
第二卷（非选择题，共35分）
第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 对话填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
请认真阅读下面对话，并根据各题所给首字母的提示，在答题卡上标有题号的横线上，写出一个英语单词的完整、正确的形式，使对话通顺。
L =" Lucy " J = Jim
L : Oh, I’ve just had a (76) t day today. 76．
J : What (77) h ? 77．
L : Well, I overslept in the morning. I didn’t hear the
(78) a clock. 78．
J : Oh, everyone does that once in a (79) w 79．
L : I was late for class, so I drove a little (80) f . Guess who saw me?
80．
J : A policeman? You got a ticket?
L : Yeah. He didn’t care that I was late. Anyway, I got to class,
(81) b I had brought the wrong book. The teacher wasn’t 81．
(82) h . 82．
J : That’s really had.
L : What’s (83) w , I have a paper due tomorrow. It’s on a 83．
Hard drive (硬盘). I went to the computer lab and I couldn’t
(84) f my file. I forgot to save the information. 84．
J : Oh, not!
L : And now I need to go home. And you know (85) w ? 85．
My car keys are missing. |
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