What is common to all the films produced in Hollywood？

A．Love.

B．Conflict.

C．Violence.

D．Mystery.

Today in Hollywood ______.

A. more television films are produced

B. man-made fighting has completely taken the place of natural light

C. few films are taken for the cinema

D. oil production has become more important than the film industry

Today in Hollywood ______.

A．more television films are produced

B．man-made lighting has completely taken the place of natural light

C．few films are taken for the cinema

D．oil production has become more important than the film industry

Hollywood produced more films than any film center in the world. 【M1】______

The warm weather mid long hours of sunlight meant that filmmaking was 【M2】______

easy and quite cheap. This was also a rich part of America, and there

were many businessmen who wanted to make money for the motion 【M3】______

picture industry. At first short cowboy films were popular because they add

excitement and adventure for people's lives. Later, comedy films were 【M4】______

made so that people could laugh and forget their troubles. Charlie Chap

Chaplin was probably file mostly liked of all comedy actors. 【M5】______

To begin with, all films were silent, and actors showed the story

by acting smaller than life. Charlie Chaplin was the most famous of 【M6】______

these silent film actors. In 1926 some short films were made which the 【M7】______

actors spoke for the first time. Within three years nobody wanted to

watch silent films although some famous actors, including Charlie

Chaplin, refusing to make talking films for many years. 【M8】______

At first all films were in black and white, but in 1932 the first

color film was made. It was until 1938 that a full length color film was 【M9】______

made, and the success of this film made producers everywhere to change 【M10】______

from black and white to color. This first full-length color film was

translated into ten languages and made Hollywood the major center of the

motion picture industry.

【M1】

. She’s lived it up, she’s done it all, and she has enough movies under her belt to put most young stars to shame. Barrymore was born on February 22, 1975, in California. Being from a family that produced great actors, it’s no wonder that she quickly found her way into the spotlight. When she was 11 months old, she made her first commercial on TV. She made her first movies at the age of 2. Four years later, she showed up as in the Steven Spielberg’s famous film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. However it wasn’t all roses and sunshine when Barrymore was growing up. She was drinking alcohol by the time she was 9, smoking marijuana at 10, and taking cocaine at 12. Most kid stars in Hollywood fail to become stars as adults. And most of the time, once they’re out of the spotlight, they stay out. Not so with Drew Barrymore. As she was getting older, Barrymore started to realize that there is more to life than publicity stunts. She set out to build a career and made a series of successful films since 1997, including Charlie’s Angels and 50 First Dates. “In my life, there is darkness and chaos and drama, and I have yet to explore some of that in my work life. I sort of just want to quietly challenge myself and prove that I’m capable of more.” Actually, anyone who’s not familiar with her disordered childhood might find it hard to believe she’s such a sweet person now. Like many of the characters she plays in her comedy, Drew is easygoing and laughs a lot. In 1997, she was on the cover of People magazine’s 100 Most Beautiful People issue. “Life is very interesting in the end; some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” Drew said.

11.Which of the following statements is NOT true about Drew Barrymore？ .

A. She was already famous at a young age.

B. She was a Hollywood legend.

C. She finished only one movie.

D. She has acted a lot of movies.

12.The word “spotlight” (line 3 Paragraph. 2) means __________.

A. an illuminated area

B. a lamp with strong light

C. a space where lighting occurs

D. a focus of public attention

13.Which one of the following movies was made when Drew Barrymore was

six？

A. E T. the Extra-Terrestrial..

B. Charlie’s Angels.

C. 50 First Dates.

D. People.

14.According to the passage, most kid stars in Hollywood __________.

A. are unable to be stars as adults

B. become famous when growing up

C. are always under the spotlight

D. are different from Drew Barrymore

15.According to the passage, Drew Barrymore __________.

A. has experienced a disordered childhood

B. quietly challenged herself

C. is now a sweet person

D. All above

cEwan's novel, Enduring Love, stars Daniel Craig as Joe, a peevish and splendidly irritating social anthropologist, and Rhys Ifans as the scruffy, puppy-like God bothered who, after an accident with a hot-air balloon, becomes obsessed with him.

"As soon as Rhys' character says, 'Let's sit down and pray'," chuckles the director, "you know there's bad news ahead. In the book he is a more happy-clappy evangelist, but we toned it down."

Although clearly drawn to such eccentric characters, Michell himself is thoroughly down-to-earth. "I'm one of those boring people who knew what I wanted to do from an early age," he explains. "I started acting as a child but was completely hopeless so started directing little plays in school."

He went on to direct around 15 plays while reading English at Cambridge, directed his first professional play in a pub in Brighton, and then assisted both John Osborne and Samuel Beekett at the Royal Court Theatre. By 1985 he was the resident director of the Royal Shakespeare Company but moved to TV in the early 1990s, when he took charge of Hanif Kureishi's landmark series The Buddha of Suburbia.

Michell's television career continued to flourish with a gloriously restrained dramatisation of Jane Austen's Persuasion and an adaptation of his Royal Court success, My Night With Reg. That led to his big break. "The script. for Notting Hill just plopped through my letterbox one morning; My Night With Reg had apparently prompted them to offer me the job."

Notting Hill alerted Hollywood to Michell's ability to get the best out of a cast. "I love actors and spend a lot of time with them working and hanging out, and I do proper rehearsals because I have a theatre background." Michell's next project, Changing Lanes, produced Ben Affleck's best performance and played big at the American box of flee.

With Hollywood at his feet, Michell surprised many people by returning to London to make The Mother, an explicit twist on May-December sexual relations written by his old friend Kureishi, and starring Craig. Why did he do it？ "I just couldn't see a cigar-chomping studio executive saying, 'Yes, I want to do a film about an old woman being tupped by a very young man!' So I came here to do it. But, apart from that, I'm English. I want to live in London with my kids and tell European stories. I feel odd about America at the moment because of what they're doing around the world and would much prefer to make the films I want to make here."

Wherever he goes, though, his most famous film will continue to haunt him. "By the director of Notting Hill", screams the poster for Enduring Love. How does that feel？ "I can't be responsible for the posters, but I'm sure a lot of the audience will be a bit taken aback," reflects Michell. "They'll be asking: 'Where are the jokes？ Where's Hugh Grant？' I do hope they're not too disappointed."

The word "obsessed"(Paragraph 1) may mean

A．bored.

B．puzzled.

C．angry.

D．fascinated.

The passage m mainly about ______.

A．the term—Hollywood

B．American movie production

C．the history and function of the film

D．the early films

The passage m mainly about ______.

A．the term—Hollywood

B．American movie production

C．the history and function of the film

D．the early films

Part A

Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D . Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.

When we think of Hollywood—a term I use loosely to describe American movie production in general, not simply films made in Los Angeles — we think of films aimed at musing audiences and making money for producers.

During the early years of the new century, as workers won their demands for higher wages and a shorter working week, leisure assumed an increasingly important role in everyday life. Amusement parks, professional baseball games, nickelodeons, and dance halls attracted a wide army of men and woman anxious to spend their hard-earned dollars in the pursuit of fun and relaxation. Yet of all these new cultural endeavours, films were the most important and widely attended source of amusement. For a mere five or ten cents, even the poorest worker could afford to take himself and his family to the local nickelodeon or storefront theatre "Every little town that has never been able to afford and maintain an opera house," observed one journalist in 1908,"now boasts one or two 'Bijou Dreams' "By 1910 the appeal of films was so great that nearly one-third of the nation flocked to the cinema each week; ten years later, weekly attendance equaled 50 percent of the nation's population.

Early films were primarily aimed at entertaining audiences, but entertainment did not always come in the form. of escapist fantasies. Many of the issues that dominated Progressive-era politics were also portrayed on the screen. "Between 1900 and 1917," observes Kevin Brownlow, "literally thousands of films dealt with the most pressing problems of the day — white slavery, political corruption, gangsterism, loansharking, slum landlords, capital vs labour, racial prejudice, etc." While most of these films were produced by studios and independent cornpanies, a significant number were made by what we might call today "special interest groups". As films quickly emerged as the nation's most popular form. of mass entertainment, they attracted the attention of a wide range of organizations that recognized the medium's enormous potential for disseminating propaganda to millions of viewers.

In this passage, "Hollywood" is used to describe ______.

A．American movies production in general

B．films made in Los Angeles

C．an area in Los Angeles, famous because many popular films have been produced there

D．film aimed at amusing audiences and making money for them