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Unit 4 Films and film events
Ⅰ.单句语法填空
1．Please accept my ____________(congratulate) on your recovery.
答案：congratulations
2．The village stands along a single street roughly parallel ____________ the river.
答案：with
3．The answers to this question were various and ____________(contradict)．
答案：contradictory
4．The cinema has little ____________(attract) for some people.
答案：attraction
5．The tiger is a common ____________(represent) of the cat family.
答案：representative
6．Poor John was ____________(expose) to the wind and rain.
答案：exposed
7．I find no ____________(contradict) between his publicly expressed opinions and
his private actions.
答案：contradiction
8．The two boys resemble each other ____________ appearance.
答案：in
9．They decided to fight in ____________(defend) of their country.
答案：defence
10．I had nothing to say ____________(regard) this matter.
答案：regarding
Ⅱ.阅读理解
Animals have been used, and sometimes abused, in moviemaking since the early days
of the r, the American Humane Association has worked for many years
to protect animals in , the digital age might make animal actors
unnecessary.
The film
Dolphin
Tale
tells about a dolphin that loses her tail because of an
injury from a crabtrap.A doctor provides her with an artificial tail that saves her
film is based on a real the star of the film, Winter, is a real
dolphin that lost her American Humane Society worked with the movie’s
makers to make sure Winter stayed safe and healthy during animal
protection group does this for all animal actors in America.
A thick book of rules and guidelines tells Hollywood moviemakers how to treat
Rosa leads the American Humane Society’s film and television
said, “Everything from the smallest insect to the largest mammal shall be
believe that for the sake of entertainment, everybody should go home
alive.”
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This was not always the policy in the early days of 1939, a horse was forced
off a mountain, falling to his death, in the movie
Jesse
James
.The next year,
guidelines were established to guarantee safe and healthy conditions for animals
in movies.
The film
Rise
of
the
Planet
of
the
Apes
tells about the creation of super intelligent
apes through r, no real animals were among the er
generated imagery provided the chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans that movie goers
Richardson is the president of the Diane Fossey Gorilla says
computer generated imagery should decrease the use of animals in the film
praises moviemakers for the use of computer made animals.
【语篇解读】 在电影制作初期， 人们就开始使用动物作为演员， 但有时会伤害动物。The
American Humane Association在电影制作中保护动物的方面一直在努力。
1．What’s mainly talked about in the text?
A．How to protect animals in making films.
B．How to create animal actors by computer.
C．How to use animals to produce digital films.
D．How to improve the moviemaking industry.
A 解析：主旨大意题。 本文论述如何采取措施， 避免在电影制作中伤害动物演员。 一项
措施是严格保护参加演出的动物， 另一项措施是用电脑合成动物， 不再使用真正的动物做
演员。
2．The film
Dolphin
Tale
________．
A．is not based on a real event of animal protection
B．calls on moviemakers to protect disabled animals
C．is a good example of animal protection in filmmaking
D．shows that a real dolphin without its tail cannot survive
C 解析：推理判断题。 该电影用失去尾巴的海豚做演员， 医生为它装上尾巴， 拍摄期间
对其进行严格保护。 归纳第二、三段得出。
3．When was it forbidden to abuse animals while making films?
A．In 1939. B．In 1938.
C．In 1937. D．In 1940.
D 解析：细节理解题。 一部1939年拍摄的电影将一匹马逼下悬崖摔死。 第二年， 也就
是在1940年， 确保电影拍摄中动物安全的指导方针确立。 由第四段得出。
4．The film
Rise
of
the
Planet
of
the
Apes
mainly tells about________．
A．how actors protect animals in making movies
B．how directors make use of real animals in films
C．how the computer made animals replace actors
D．how intelligent animals are created by computer
D 解析：细节理解题。 这部电影是关于利用科学技术创造高智力猿的故事， 由最后一段
“The film
Rise
of
the
Planet
of
the
Apes
tells about the creation of super
intelligent apes through science.”得出。
Ⅲ.完形填空
Like any good mother, when Karen found out that another baby was on the way, she
did what she could to help her threeyearold son, Michael, prepare for a new
found out that it was going to be a girl, and day after day, night after
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