the volunteers here seem to appreciate the silent effort to _______them 认可

Have you ever thought of the similarities between the cinema and the

theatre? The cinema has learnt a great deal from the theatre about presentation.

Gone are the days when crowds were packed on wooden benches in

tumbledown buildings to gape at die antics of silent, jerking figures on a

screen, where some poor pianist made frantic efforts to translate the drama 【M1】______.

into music. These days it is quite easier to find a cinema that surpasses a 【M2】______.

theatre in luxury. Even in small easy villages, cinemas are spacious, well-lit

and well .ventilated places where one can sit for comfort. The projectionist 【M3】______.

has been trained Io give the audience time to prepare themselves for the

film they are to see. Talk drops to a whisper and then fades out together.【M4】______.

As soon as the cinema is in darkness, spotlights are focused on the curtains

which are drawn slowly apart, often to the accompany of music, to reveal【M5】______.

the title of the film. Everything has been carefully contrived so that the

spectator will never actually see the naked screen which will remind to him 【M6】______.

all too sharply that what he is about to sec is nothing merely shadows flickering 【M7】______.

on a white board. However much the cinema tries to simulate from 【M8】______.

the conditions in a theatre, it never fully succeeds. Nothing can be equal to

the awe and sense of hushing expectation which is felt by a theatre audience 【M9】______.

as the curtain is slowly risen. 【M10】______.

【M1】

Select the appropriate sentences from the answer choices and match them to the category of special effects that they describe. TWO of the answer choices will NOT be used. This question is worth 3 points.

Answer Choices

A．Objects and devices are used during filming to create an illusion.

B．The eye retains the image of an object after the object has actually disappeared.

C．Tricks of the camera produce images of things that are not real.

D．Puppets, robots, explosives, and small models are examples of these effects.

E．Stop-motion photography makes an actor disappear on screen. F．A computer program makes one object appear to change into another. G．They created the illusion of ships attacking a town in a 1916 silent film.

Optical Effects

______

______

Mechanical Effects

______

______

______

No sooner ______ than she realized that she should have kept silent.

  A) had the words been spoken     B) had the words spoken

  C) the words had spoken       D) the words had been spoken

Write a composition of no less than 120 words with a general statement supported by details on one of the following topics. One topic has been given a detailed outline that you can follow.

  General statement:

  Charlie Chaplin is a great comic for his native land, Britain, but even more so for the world.

  Details:

  characteristic appearance on stage

  mainly acting in silent films widely accepted and appreciated traveling worldwide to appear on stage

  MORE TOPICS:

  Famous people shoulder more responsibilities.

  Superstars enjoy their popularity at the Cost of privacy.

There are people in Italy who can't stand soccer. Not all Canadians love hockey. A similar situation exists in America, where there are those individuals-you may be one of them-who yawn(打呵欠) or even frown when somebody mentions baseball. (78) Baseball to them means boring hours watching grown men in funny fight outfits standing around in a field staring away while very little of anything happens. They tell you it's a game better suited to the 19th century-slow, quiet, gentlemanly. These are the same people who love football because it's a sport that glorifies "the hit".

By contrast, baseball seems abstract, cool, silent, still.

On TV, baseball game is fractured into a dozen perspectives, replays, close ups. The geometry of the game, however, is essential to understanding it. You should contemplate the game from one point as a painter does his subject; you may, of course, project yourself into the game. It is in this projection that the game affords so much space and time for involvement. The TV won't do it for you.

Take, for example, the third baseman. You sit behind the third base dugout and you watch him watching home plate. His legs are apart, knees flexed. His arms hang loose. He does a lot of this. The skeptic still cannot think of any other sports so still, so passive. But watch what happens every time the pitcher throws: the third baseman goes up on his toes, flexes his arms or brings the glove to a point in front of him, takes a step fight or left, backward or forward, perhaps he glances across the field to check his first baseman's position. Suppose the pitch is a ball. "Nothing happened," you say. "I could have had my eyes closed."

The innocent must play the game. And this involvement in the stands is no more intellectual than listening to music is. Watch the third baseman. (79) Smooth the dirt in front of you with one foot; smooth the pocket in your glove; watch the eyes of the batter, the speed of the bat the sound of horsehide on wood. If football is a symphony of movement and theatre, baseball is chamber music, a spacious interlocking of notes, chores and responses.

The passage is mainly concerned with ______ .

A．the different tastes of people for sports

B．the different characteristics of sports

C．the attraction of football

D．the attraction of baseball

听力原文： Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as "silent", the film has never been, in the full sense of the word, silent. From the very beginning, music was regarded as an indispensable accompaniment; when the Lumiere films were shown at the first public film exhibition in the United States in February 1896, they were accompanied by piano improvisations on popular tunes. At first, the music played bore no special relationship to the films; an accompaniment of any kind was sufficient. Within a very short time, however, the incongruity of playing lively music to a solemn film became apparent, and film pianists began to take some care in matching their pieces to the mood of the film.

As movie theaters grew in number and importance, a violinist, and perhaps a cellist, would be added to the pianist in certain cases, and in the larger movie theaters small orchestras were formed. For a number of years the selection of music for each film program rested entirely in the hands of the conductor or leader of the orchestra, and very often the principal qualification for holding such a position was not skill or taste so much as the ownership of a large personal library of musical pieces. Since the conductor seldom saw the films until the night before they were to be shown, the musical arrangement was normally improvised in the greatest hurry.

To help meet this difficulty, film distributing companies started the practice of publishing suggestions for musical accompaniments. In 1909, for example, the Edison Company began issuing with their films such indications of mood as "pleasant", "sad", "lively". The suggestions became more explicit, and so emerged the musical cue sheet containing indications of mood, the titles of suitable pieces of music, and precise directions to show where one piece led into the next.

Certain films had music especially composed for them. The most famous of these early special scores was that composed and arranged for D. W Griffith's film Birth of a Nation, which was released in 1915.

When were the Lumiere films shown at the first public film exhibition in America?

A．In 1869.

B．In 1896.

C．In 1907.

D．In 1927.

听力原文：W: Simon，could you return the tools I lent you for building the bookself last month?

M: Uh，well，I hate to tell you this…but I can't seem to find them.

Q: What do we learn from the conversation?

(15)

A．The man hates to lend his tools to other people.

B．The man hasn't finished working on the bookshelf.

C．The tools have already been returned to the woman.

D．The tools the man borrowed from the woman are missing.