2 . Have you watched the TV show Home with Kids (《家有儿女》)? You might hear the laughter (笑声) when something funny happens. But every time, the laughter sounds the same.

This is called canned (预先录制的) laughter. The US sound engineer (工程师) Charley Douglass made it in the 1950s. He recorded (记录) different kinds of laughter. When editors (剪辑员) needed laughter in their shows, he just pressed the play button (按钮).

Canned laughter was popular during that time. When the audience (观众) heard it, they laughed along with the actors.

But about 10 years later, people started to think that canned laughter sounded silly. They wanted real laughter because it is more vivid. Some famous sitcoms (情景喜剧), such as Friends (《老友记》) and The Big Bang Theory (《生活大爆炸》), use this kind of laughter.

The Big Bang Theory has live audiences. They can attend the show when it is being recorded. All the laughter you hear is from real audiences!

Which kind of laughter do you like?

6 . Journey to the West, or Xi You Ji, is a very famous Chinese TV play. It’s about the great trip of Tang Seng, Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha Seng. The stories come from a book of the same name by Wu Cheng’en in the Ming Dynasty.

The TV play was the first of its kind in China. The production team (制作团队) spent about six years, from 1982 to 1988, making it. The production team met with many problems. At that time, they only had simple tools (工具). Still, they tried their best to make the TV play well. They spent two months visiting over 60 places across China to find the best places for different stories. They needed special technique (技术) to help characters “fly”, but no one knew how to do it. They flew to Hong Kong to learn the technique.

Through the production team’s hard work, the TV play was on first in China in 1986. It quickly became popular. About nine people in ten watched it. So far Chinese TVs have repeated (重播) the TV play over 3,000 times. Now, it’s still popular with Chinese people. When people talk about “summer vacation”, lots of them think of the TV play. People in other countries also love it.

7 . There is a hot discussion about bullet screen (弹幕), which has become a special way of social communication.

Recently, TV plays of the “Four Great Classics” made by CCTV have been shown on the bullet screen video website and have got wide attention. Young people enjoy classics in a more lively way.

How to treat the popularity of classics in bullet screen? It should be said that the wonderful stories and great performances have made the “Four Great Classics” popular among people all the time.

On the screen, there are fans of the “Four Great Classics” explaining the knowledge of the work, discussing the roles in the play, or sharing their ideas about the work. Some people said watching TV plays of the “Four Great Classics” with bullet screen offered a feeling of reviewing childhood with thousands of people. Others said while watching the plays with bullet screen, not only the story that was wonderful, but also the joy of many people watching the programs in groups is great.

Classics have always been relished and loved by people, and the ways of watching TV plays in different times are different. The communication form is another improvement of the classics with the help of science and technology.

In a wider view, communication forms also bring new energy into the cultural industry. With the support of technology, the contents and forms are much richer, and users can communicate in any time. The new way of communication makes the classics spread widely.

8 . The Readers (《朗读者》) is a popular TV show in China. It invites people to read aloud on the stage (舞台). The show also tells moving stories behind those people. They can read many things, like poems (诗歌), stories and letters.

Many people are fans of the show. They begin to enjoy reading aloud at home. Now, the show gives people a place to read. It is a reading pavilion (朗读亭). It appeared in cities like Shanghai, Hangzhou and Xi’an. Let’s have a look!

The pavilion is not very big. Only one person can come into it each time. There is a microphone (麦克风) in it and it records people’s voices. Everyone can read for three minutes in it. You can read anything you like. The show will pick some of the readers and invite them to read on TV.

Lots of people come to the pavilion to read. Yu Duohan is an 11-year-old girl from Shanghai. She read the story Take a Snail for a Walk. “I love reading aloud,” she said. “It makes the story become more beautiful.”

The pavilion will also come to other cities across the country. You can read your favorite stories in the pavilion soon.

9 . 阅读下面短文，并用英语回答问题(请注意每小题后面的词数要求)。

Readers is a TV show and it is getting popular in China. People can read everything, like poems, novels and letters in the show.

Many people like the show and enjoy reading at home. Now the show gives people a special place to read across China. Reading pavilions (亭子) are now in cities like Shanghai, Hangzhou and Xi’an.

The pavilion is quite small. Only one person can come into it each time. Everyone can read for three minutes in the pavilion. The show will later ask some of the readers to read on TV.

People of all ages come and read in the pavilion. “Reading should be like singing and talking.” said Dong Qing, the hostess (主持人) of the show. We can show our feelings by reading loud.

Quite a lot of people are more and more interested in reading. In fact, our country is also trying to do it now.

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10 . 请通读下面对话，根据对话内容，从选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并将答题卡上对应题目所选的选项涂黑，选项中有一项为多余选项。

A: You look happy this morning, Julie.

B: Yes, I watched my favorite TV show just now.

A:     1    

B: Frank’s Life.

A:     2    

B: It’s a comedy show.

A: Comedies often make people laugh and I love them. But I like travel shows better.

B:     3    

A: Because I can learn about different places from the shows.

B: I see.     4    

A: I don’t mind them.     5    

B: Me, too!