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Section Ⅰ “Reading”的课文习读环节
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Ⅰ.阅读理解
A
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Imagine having two whole weeks of opportunity to engage in creative expression! At iD Visual Arts Academy, you will have the chance to explore historic cities and college campuses, scouring (搜寻) landscape for the perfect photo or film backdrop.Beginners to advanced students promote creativity and use industry standard products.And iD Visual Arts Academy ensures small class sizes (max 8∶1) taught by top instructors who have degrees in the field and impressive backgrounds in film-making and photography.
COURSES
Fun, artistic courses let you dive into a variety of photography or film-making interests.From the intro course iD Film Studios 101 to more advanced courses, choose from one of the following three options:
iD Film Studios 101
Explore documentary film-making from pre-production through post-production in a creative, stimulating setting in California or New York.
Visual FX with Final Cut Pro and Adobe After Effects
Designed for students with film editing experience, this course lets you develop your own visual effects reel as you look deep into the best practices of first-class post-production houses.
Professional Photography
Learn the advanced technical features of a DSLR camera by finding the balance between light, composition, exposure, shutter speed, aperture (光圈), and RAW vs.JPG.To create stunning (绝妙的) digital images.
语篇解读:本文是一篇应用文。文章主要介绍了电影夏令营的主要课程,旨在吸引学生加入夏令营。
1.Where is the text probably taken from?
A.A textbook. B.A course plan.
C.An exam paper. D.A brochure.
解析:选D 文章出处题。根据本文标题“Summer Camp Recruitment”和“iD VISUAL ARTS ACADEMY”部分中的内容可知,文章主要介绍了电影夏令营的主要课程,旨在吸引学生加入夏令营。由此可推知,本文可能出自一个宣传册。
2.How long can participants explore historic cities and college campuses?
A.Two weeks. B.Two nights.
C.Ten days. D.Two months.
解析:选A 细节理解题。根据“iD VISUAL ARTS ACADEMY”部分中的“Imagine having two whole weeks of opportunity to engage in creative expression ...or film backdrop.”可知,本夏令营持续两个星期。
3.Which course will you sign up for if you have film editing experience?
A.iD Film Studios 101.
B.Professional Photography.
C.Visual FX with Final Cut Pro and Adobe After Effects.
D.iD VISUAL ARTS ACADEMY.
解析:选C 细节理解题。根据“Visual FX with Final Cut Pro and Adobe After Effects”部分中的“Designed for students with film editing experience ... post-production houses.”可知,如果你是一个有电影编辑经验的申请人,你更适合申请Visual FX with Final Cut Pro and Adobe After Effects 这一课程。
B
Beijing Opera is considered to be a Chinese national treasure. Though it's called that name, it is not performed only in Beijing.
While we were in Yunnan, we watched a community performance of Beijing Opera. The leader and the teacher of this group had retired from the Yunnan Beijing Opera Troupe. The rest of the group consisted of local retired men and women.
Our guide gave us an example of how each of the characters would be played. The male characters include an old man, a middle-aged man, a young man, and a small boy. Each of these characters will wear different costumes. The old man will move around like he has no sense of balance. The middle-aged man will walk slowly with large steps around the stage as if he owns the world. And the young man will dance around.Everyone laughed when the young man put on artificial hair and danced around the stage as if he was ten years old.
Our guide even told us about the different roles of women. The main differences with the women's ages are how a woman walks and her water sleeves. For the older women, they are more dignified (高雅的) in the way they walk. For the younger women, it is more about being graceful (优雅的) with the water sleeves.
The costumes of both the men and women hang according to the rank of the characters being played and the age of the characters. It doesn't matter what age the actors are because the make-up will either make them look younger or older.
After seeing that performance, we began to fall in love with this great Chinese national treasure.
语篇解读:本文是一篇记叙文。作者主要讲述了他在云南旅游时观看一场京剧表演的经历。
4.What do we know about the guide?
A.He knew very well about Beijing Opera.
B.He taught the author to sing Beijing Opera.
C.He was good at performing Beijing Opera.
D.He dreamed of performing Beijing Opera.
解析:选A 推理判断题。根据第三、四段可知,导游讲了很多关于京剧的知识。由此可推知,他对京剧了解很多。
5.What mainly helps show the women characters' age?
A.The clothes they wear.
B.The color of their hair.
C.The color of their face.
D.The way they move.
解析:选D 细节理解题。根据第四段中的“The main differences with the women's ages are how a woman walks and her water sleeves.”可知,女性表演者的年龄可以根据她们如何行走来判断。
6.What does the author think of Beijing Opera?
A.It's simple and boring.
B.It's well worth seeing.
C.It's hard to understand.
D.It's helpful to his career.
解析:选B 推理判断题。根据最后一段可知,作者认为京剧是很值得观看的。
7.What's the text mainly about?
A.The author's opinion about Beijing Opera.
B.How the retired people continued their career.
C.The author's experience of watching Beijing Opera.
D.How to recognize different characters in Beijing Opera.
解析:选C 主旨大意题。文章主要讲述了作者在云南旅游时观看一场京剧表演的经历。
C
A cartoon cat, sick of the annoying mouse living in his home, plots to take him out with a trap loaded with cheese.The mouse, wise to his plan, safely removes the snack and walks away with a full belly.
You can probably guess what happens next.The story ends as it almost always does: with the cat yelling out in pain as yet another plan backfires.
The duo (搭档) was dreamt up from a place of desperation.MGM's animation department, where creators William and Joseph Barbera worked, had struggled to compete with other studios who had hit characters like Porky Pig and Mickey Mouse.
Out of boredom, the animators began thinking up their own ideas.Barbera said he loved the simple concept of a cat and mouse cartoon, with conflict and chase, even though it had been done countless times before.
Puss (猫咪) Gets the Boot was the first they released, in 1940.It was a hit and won the studio an Oscar nomination for best animated short.Jasper and Jinx, as they were first known, became Tom and Jerry.
According to Barbera, there was no real discussion about the characters not speaking, but having grown up with silent films starring Charlie Chaplin, the creators knew they could be funny without dialogue.
Tom and Jerry, with its slapstick (闹剧) violence and dark comedy, remains extremely popular around the world today.
In the 80 years since their creation, the cat and mouse have appeared in everything from a “kids” version to a 1992 musical movie where they sang and spoke.Warner Brothers, who now own the rights to Tom and Jerry, released a new live-action film.
语篇解读:本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了猫和老鼠这两个经典动画角色的诞生和发展。
8.What are the first two paragraphs used as?
A.A hook. B.The background.
C.An example. D.The proof.
解析:选A 推理判断题。根据前两段的内容,特别是第二段第一句“You can probably guess what happens next.”可知,前两段通过讲述猫和老鼠的小故事,旨在吸引读者继续读下去。hook意为“吸引人的事物”。
9.Why was the mouse and cat duo made up?
A.Because they were the creators' favourite.
B.Because of Porky Pig and Mickey Mouse.
C.Because of MGM's competition with other studios.
D.Because of the conflict of enemy animals.
解析:选C 细节理解题。根据第三段内容可知,猫和老鼠这对组合是在MGM的动画部与其他拥有热门卡通角色的工作室竞争时创造出来的。
10.What were the characters originally called?
A.William and Joseph. B.Jasper and Jinx.
C.Puss and Boot. D.Tom and Jerry.
解析:选B 细节理解题。根据第五段最后一句可知,猫和老鼠这两个角色最初的名字是Jasper和Jinx。
11.What does the writer feel about this silent cartoon?
A.Rejective. B.Sympathetic.
C.Cautious. D.Fond.
解析:选D 推理判断题。根据最后两段的内容可知,作者介绍了猫和老鼠这两个动画角色的受欢迎程度,由此可见,作者是非常喜欢这部卡通的。
Ⅱ.阅读七选五
Cartoon films attract audiences worldwide with their unique charm and diverse themes.__12__ Let's go through the process of creating a cartoon film.
Creating the storyboard
The first step is to write down the main ideas of the story.__13__ Based on the storyboard, the art department creates the first draft for the characters, their clothing and emotions, and the design sets.
Making characters using 3D modelling
A special computer program is used to create 3D shapes of the characters, sets and props — this is called modelling.__14__ Special equipment is used to record points on these shapes.This information is then sent to a software program which recreates the 3D shape.
Making them move
The layout crew (摄影构图组) decide how these characters should move and then the cartoonists take over.They use 3D software to create the movements of each character, the skeleton's (骨架) movements, facial expressions and more, between key frames (帧) in the story.__15__
Dressing up for the show
The sets and props are “dressed” according to the designs laid out by the art department.The skin and hair for the characters, their costumes as well as special lighting effects such as shadows, shining reflections are also created.
Letting the show begin
__16__ The computers draw each frame one by one, with each frame slightly different from the previous one.Each frame takes 5-6 hours to create — imagine how much computing power and time it will take to create 24 frames per second of a 2-hour film!
A.From that, storyboards are drawn.
B.All these films have cost a large amount of money.
C.Remember, too, that the movements have to be smooth!
D.Some of these shapes are simple, but some are very complex.
E.The decorations of the sets and props are created using a software.
F.Have you ever wondered how these amazing cartoon films were made?
G.All the 3D characters, their movements, and lighting are to be done by computers.
语篇解读:本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍了卡通电影的制作过程。
12.解析:选F 下文具体介绍了卡通电影是怎样制作出来的。故F项“你有没有想过这些神奇的卡通电影是如何制作出来的?”符合语境。该项中的“how these amazing cartoon films were made”与空后的“the process of creating a cartoon film”相呼应。
13.解析:选A 根据上下文可知,由初稿绘制出故事板。故A项“由此,故事板被绘制出来”符合语境。该项中的“that”指代上文中的“the main ideas”,“storyboards”与下文的“Based on the storyboard”呼应。
14.解析:选E 根据上文“A special computer program is used to create 3D shapes of the characters, sets and props — this is called modelling.”可知,布景和道具的装饰是由计算机程序制作出来的。故E项“布景和道具的装饰是用软件制作的”符合语境,其中“the sets and props”与上文的“sets and props”呼应。
15.解析:选D 根据上文可知,这些制作应该是有的简单,有的复杂。故D项“有些形状很简单,但有些非常复杂”符合语境,是对上文的进一步解释。
16.解析:选G 根据下文“The computers draw each frame one by one, with each frame slightly different from the previous one.”可知,这些事情都是由电脑制作的。故G项“所有的3D角色,它们的动作和灯光都是由电脑完成的”符合语境。
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