Which Way Home, a documentary by Rebecca Cammisa, charts the journeys to Mexican and Central American children who leave their home countries to come to the United States riding on top of a train they call “La Bestia” (the beast). All of the children dream of a better life for themselves and their families. Some of them hope to reunite with family members in the U. S. Others have dreams of going to school or getting a job so they can send money back home.
Kevin
Fourteen-year-old Kevin is from Honduras. A seemingly happy-go-lucky guy, Kevin is the group’s ring leader, telling jokes, making leaps across car roofs, and providing some comic relief in the film. Kevin has a strong sense of duty to his family. His mother, Lupe, tells him to buy a house for them in the U. S., so she can escape Kevin’s violent stepfather. He plans to head to Manhattan once he crosses the border, but during the filming he is taken off of the train by American border agents who send him back to Honduras. Without hesitation, Kevin leaves Honduras again and jumps on the train. Throughout his journey, Kevin encounters violence and brutality that should never be a part of childhood.
Juan Carlos
Juan Carlos is a 13-year-old from Guatemala. When we meet him, we learn that his father abandoned the family years ago and moved to America for a better life, leaving Juan Carlos’s mother, Esmeralda, to care for several children on her own. His younger brother, Francisco, made it into the U. S. a month earlier and now lives with their grandmother in Los Angeles. Juan Carlos feels responsible for providing for his mother and his other family members and decides he must do something to help support them. With the weight of the world on his shoulders, he writes a letter telling Esmeralda that he, too, is leaving for the U. S.
Olga
Olga is the only female migrant featured in the film. She is nine years old and travelling with her friend, Freddy, who is also nine. They are being taken to the U. S. illegally. Both are headed for Minnesota, where Olga hopes to reunite with her mother, and Freddy hopes to find his father. During the making of the documentary, the film crew loses track of Olga and Freddy, and we never find out what becomes of them.
The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Feature-Length Documentary. Director Rebecca Camissa said her goal for the film was to create public awareness of child migration, and to “promote a dialogue that leads to creating humane immigration policy reform in the United States
1. Which of the following is true of Which Way Home?| A．It is adapted from a book which tells stories about three child migrants. |
| B．It won an Academy Award for its theme that corresponds to the reality. |
| C．It aims to make viewers conscious of the phenomenon of child migration. |
| D．Its director has managed to create humane immigration policy reform |
| A．Kevin and Juan Carlos | B．Juan Carlos and Olga |
| C．Juan Carlos and Freddy | D．Olga and Freedy |
| A．Both of them felt responsible for their families |
| B．Neither of them managed to get to the United States |
| C．Neither of them had any relative in the United States |
| D．Both of them were found on the way to their destinations |
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“May the force be with you!” If you are a Star Wars fan, then you have probably heard this phrase many times.
“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...” is how Star Wars begins. Its plot was not ground-breaking.
It was the special effects that made Star Wars stand out from other movies. People still talk about the light swords that could cut，burn and melt through most substances. Spaceships sped through space and landed on huge, realistic-looking space stations.
Theaters needed more movies to show on all the additional movie screens and in all the new multiplexes. So new movie companies sprang up, including small ones creating experimental movies.
| A．They tried out new techniques. |
| B．In fact, it was quite old-fashioned. |
| C．Moviegoers had never seen anything like it. |
| D．Thus, audience began to enjoy science fiction movies there. |
| E．Star Wars was the first really successful movie trilogy in history. |
| F．If you are not a fan, you are still likely familiar with these words. |
| G．If you are a movie maker, you may be inspired by this classic film. |
【推荐2】Do you still remember the scene in the famous movie Titanic, directed by Cameron, where Jack was frozen to death in the icy cold water so that Rose could survive on the floating door alone? It broke many people’s heart.
Two decades later, people are still asking the question, “wasn’t there enough room on the door for both of them?”
Cameron once responded by saying it wasn’t a question of room, but buoyancy—if both of them had tried to stay on the raft, he argued, the whole thing would sink.
But several guys from “Mythbusters”, an Australian-American science entertainment television program, decided to test the theory themselves. They discovered that if Rose had took off her life jacket to the bottom of the raft, there would have been enough buoyancy to keep both of them afloat.
When they presented their findings to Cameron, the director insisted that Jack couldn’t be saved.
“The answer is very simple,” Cameron said. “Because it says on page 147 of the script that Jack dies. To Cameron, it was an artistic choice to have the beloved character of millions, Jack drown into the cold sea. Jack had to die because Cameron thought it would be best if we did.
“It was an artistic choice, the thing was just big enough to hold her, and not big enough to hold him,” Cameron said. “I think it’s all kind of silly, really, that we’re having this discussion 20 years later. But it does show that the film was effective in making Jack so endearing to the audience that it hurts them to see him die. The film is about death and separation; he had to die.”
Since Jack was doomed to die, Cameron said, it could have happened in a variety of different ways. It’s not about the door not being big enough: that’s just a practical method for his death. “Whether it was that, or whether a chimney fell on him, he was going down,” Cameron said. “It’s called art: things happen for artistic reasons, not for physics reasons.”
1. What do we know about the character Jack according to the text?| A．He intended to kill himself. | B．He sacrificed himself to save Rose. |
| C．He didn’t have money to buy ticket. | D．He lacked basic knowledge of physics. |
| A．They are fragile people. | B．They don’t like the movie. |
| C．They love the character Jack. | D．They are crazy about physics. |
| A．To introduce the structure of the ship. | B．To show the original plan of the movie. |
| C．To present the missing part of the movie. | D．To explain the unchangeable fate of Jack. |
| A．Jack in Titanic Must Die. | B．Big Enough for Both. |
| C．Cameron is Wrong. | D．Jack could Survive. |
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Bright Star
Steve Martin and Edie Brickell wrote this bluegrass-and-Americana musical, in which a magazine editor meets a soldier returning from the Second World War. Walter Bobbie directs. (Cort, 138 W. 48th St. 212-239-6200. In previews.)
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Ivo van Hove directs Arthur Miller’s classic drama about the Salem witch trials, starring Saoirse Ronan, Ben Whishaw, Ciaran Hinds, and Sophie Okonedo. (Walter Kerr, 219 W. 48th St. 212-239-6200. In previews.)
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John Krasinski, Claire Danes, and Hank Azaria star in Sarah Burgess’s play, in which an executive at a private-equity firm (私人股本公司) tries to rebound from a P.R. disaster. Thomas Kail directs. (Public, 425 Lafayette St. 212-967-7555. In previews. Opens Oct. 28, 2017)
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Frank Langella stars in a play by the French writer Florian Zeller, translated by Christopher Hampton and directed by Doug Hughes for Manhattan Theatre Club, about an eighty-year-old man who is losing his grip on his own life story. (Samuel J. Friedman, 261 W. 47th St. 212-239-6200. Previews begin Oct. 28, 2017)
1. If you’re interested in American music, where can you get entertained?| A．Peter Jay Sharp, 416 W. 42nd St. | B．Walter Kerr, 219 W. 48th St. |
| C．Cort, 138 W. 48th St. | D．Public, 425 Lafayette St. |
| A．Dry Powder | B．The Crucible |
| C．Bright Star | D．The Father |
| A．entertain | B．inform |
| C．persuade | D．describe |
【推荐1】Held every year on 21 May, the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development celebrates culture and highlights its diversity as a symbol of inclusion and positive change. Today, we invite Nita Llonçari and Baktygul Rakymbaeva to talk about their favourite cultural heritages.
Nita Llonçari, Kosovo
Cinema ‘Lumbardhi’ in Prizren is one of my favourite sites. It’s a great representation of national culture because it goes beyond the usual definition of material heritage. The Cinema has not become a monument due to its astonishing architecture or its very old age, but because of its genuine value to the people of Kosovo.
Cultural monuments in their most basic form can teach us about why we live the way we live. Every decision taken about a monument - how it was built, why it was built, how it is protected - has an idea behind it, whether it is their protection, destruction, restoration or reinterpretation. When we look at a monument, we learn about the power heritage has to alter societies. That’s the reason we should not allow our past to be erased. Otherwise, we risk history falling into oblivion.
Baktygul Rakymbaeva, Kyrgyzstan
‘Manas’ is one of the finest narratives and an encyclopaedia of the Kyrgyz people’s life and fight for independence, statehood, culture, life-style, education and all other aspects of their life. Counting up to 937,000 lines of sentences, the oral epic has been included in UNESCO’s list of masterpieces of cultural heritages of humanity. ‘Manas’ has also been considered for World Guinness Records as the World’s Biggest Epic.
The epic has travelled through more than 1,000 years by word of mouth depicting the Kyrgyz hero Manas, his wife Kanykei, their relatives, family and their efforts to build the strong and independent Kyrgyz state. Manaschy have taken on the responsibility to pass the epic of ‘Manas’ to the next generation.
1. What do we know about Cinema ‘Lumbardhi’ from the passage?| A．It’s still not a monument. |
| B．It has a short history. |
| C．It’s greatly valuable to Kosovars. |
| D．It’s a representation of world-wide culture. |
| A．Ruins. | B．Forgetfulness. |
| C．Awareness. | D．Meaninglessness. |
| A．It’s the finest narrative. |
| B．It’s an encyclopaedia on the world. |
| C．It’s the world’s biggest Epic in Guinness. |
| D．It’s a longest novel in the world. |
【推荐2】TIFO Has Openings Now!
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Researchers/ Authors:
Do you love learning new things? Are you great at research and at digging out interesting details? Can you clarify a complex topic and reduce dozens of pages of notes down to something anyone can understand in writing? Are you open to constructive feedback on your research and writing? Then you just might be the one we’re looking for.
Job Description
Super in-depth research on a variety of topics followed by turning all that research into a well-written and entertaining article on the topic and interesting related details.
Pay
If you're local to Washington State, likely this will be an hourly or a salaried job. If outside of Washington, likely a per article job for various tax reasons.
Notes:
● Slight preference will be given to those local to the Bellingham area (TIFO headquarters).But at the end of the day, we're looking for the best people.
● Slight preference will also be given to someone who is a fluent native or equally fluent in Latin American Spanish. But, again, we're looking for the best people, so this is not a requirement either.
Submitting Application
Submit your resume to daven@todayfoundout.com with Application-Author in the subject line. If you've written things like we do here before, feel free to submit your best examples too. Or if you haven't, perhaps research and write on something interesting and then submit it. Don't just repeat what you've read on .xyz sites in your own words.
1. What is an applicant expected to do in the job?| A．Do research with a team. | B．Simplify research papers. |
| C．Give feedback to readers. | D．Correct writing by others. |
| A．They may get fixed salaries. | B．They could pay less in taxes. |
| C．They will be given an hourly job. | D．They might be paid by each article. |
| A．A fast typist. | B．A fluent Latin speaker. |
| C．A native of Bellingham. | D．A frequent user of .xyz sites. |
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1. If Harry only has 4 dance classes,he should pay dollars.
| A．15 | B．30 | C．45 | D．60 |
| A．take a dance class | B．plant trees | C．learn to make cakes | D．do exercise |
| A．At Sally’s Dance Club | B．In Foxdale Park |
| C．At Sunnyside Kitchen | D．On 32 Admiral Road |
| A．in a newspaper | B．in a book | C．on a magazine | D．on a bus |
