2 . The Film: The Great Gatsby (Based on Fitzgerald’s Novel The Great Gatsby)
Director: Baz Luhrmann   Cast: Leonardo Dicaprio as Jay Gatsby
Film Reviews:

If you never read the classic F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, now is your chance to catch up — by watching the latest film adaptation. Because if there’s one sentence to sum up the film, it would be: It’s just like the book.

The use of music is almost reason enough to see the film. Baz Luhrmann is at his best mixing visual and musical styles together to create something wholly original, for example, in one of the most outstanding scenes in the film, the first party scene, Nick walks quickly from one party guest to another party guest trying to explain all the gossip about Gatsby until he is finally introduced to the man himself, while the most stirring version of Rhapsody in Blue (蓝色狂想曲), which was composed by American musician George Gershwin in 1924, is played in the background.

—Fox News

Director Baz Luhrmann’s main challenge was either to find a visual equivalent for Fitzgerald’s elegant quality — the open secret of the book’s popularity for so long time — or to match his own unusual personal strengths with the material. He tries it both ways, with considerable degrees of success.

DiCaprio does a good and professional job as the socialite (上流社会人士) by recreating Fitzgerald’s description of Gatsby’s charm. He can look at someone for an instant and understand how, perfectly, he or she wants to be seen.

—Time Magazine

About the Book and the Main Character

Considered to be Fitzgerald’s representative work, The Great Gatsby explores themes of idealism, resistance to change, social change, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.

Nick, the narrator, moves to New York for the summer to visit his cousin Daisy. His next-door neighbour is Jay Gatsby(Leonardo DiCaprio), who rarely contacts with others and is said to be a hero of the Great War. Gatsby claims to have attended Oxford University, but the evidence is suspect. As Nick learns more about Gatsby, every detail about him seems questionable, except his love for the Daisy. Though Daisy is married, Gatsby still loves her as his “golden girl”. They first met when she was a young lady from a wealthy family and he was a working-class military officer. Daisy promised to wait for his return from the war. However, she married Tom, a classmate of Nick’s. Having obtained a great fortune, Gatsby sets out to win her back again.

1. The Fox News review mentioned the first party scene in the film to ______.

A．prove that the director is good at combining visual and music

B．reveal the fact that Nick wants to know more about Gatsby

C．show the version of Rhapsody in Blue matches the film well

D．convince us that the first scene is perfectly shot by the director

2. According to Time Magazine, what did Baz Luhrmann do to make the film a success?

A．He adapted the story in the novel as he wished.

B．He made the film more powerful than the book.

C．He changed the story to meet his own style.

D．He mixed his style with the elegance of the book.

3. Which of the following can be used to describe Gatsby?

A．Mysterious and devoted.	B．Charming and professional.
C．Faithful and warm-hearted.	D．Selfish and charming.

3 .

A．She prefers to stay home.	B．She accepts the man’s advice.
C．She wants to do something else.	D．She doesn’t like a long walk.

4 . Directions: Complete the following sentences by using the words in the box. Each word in the box can only be used once. There are two words more than you need.

A. determined   B. delivered   C. signaled   D. inspired   E. reflected   F. designed

1. Since we are busy recently, we have our milk ________ every two days.
2. On the way back to the classroom, he ________ on what he had learned in the lab.
3. For most Chinese, the Lantern Festival ________ the end of this year’s Spring Festival and the return to work in the New Year.
4. Although her colleagues didn’t agree, she was ________ to put her new ideas into practice.

6 . 小组讨论有助于更好地理解课文。(help)(汉译英)

7 . Sales director is a position ________ communication ability is as important as sales skills.

A．which

B．that

C．when

D．where

8 . As more and more people speak the global languages of English,Chinese, Spanish,and Arabic,other languages are rapidly disappearing. In fact, half of the 6,000-7,000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

In an effort to prevent language loss,scholars from a number of organizations — UNESCO and National Geographic among them — have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect.

Mark Turin, a scientist at the Macmillan Center,Yale University, who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the Himalayas, is following in that tradition. His recently published book, A Grammar of Thangmi with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and Their Culture, grows out of his experience living, looking and raising a family in a village in Nepal.

Documenting the Tangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the Himalayans reaches of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China. But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear without record.

At the University of Cambridge Turin discovered a wealth of important materials — including photographs, films, tape recordings, and field notes — which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of care and protection.

Now, through the two organizations that he has founded — the Digital Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature Project — Turin has started a campaign to make such documents, found in libraries and stores around the world,available not just to scholars but to the youngers.

Generations of communities from whom the materials were originally collected. Thanks to digital technology and the widely available Internet, Turin notes, the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities.

1. Many scholars are making efforts to________.

A．promote global language	B．rescue disappearing languages
C．search for language communities	D．set up language research organizations

2. What does “that tradition” in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A．Having full records of the languages.	B．Writing books on language teaching.
C．Telling stories about language users.	D．Living with the native speakers.

3. What is Turin’s book based on?

A．The cultural studies in India.	B．The documents available at Yale.
C．His language research in Bhutan.	D．His personal experience in Nepal.

4. Which of the following best describes Turin’s work?

A．Write, sell and donate.	B．Record, repair and reward.
C．Design, experiment and report.	D．Collect, protect and reconnect.

9 .

A．To his own office.	B．To a meeting room.
C．To the manager’s office.	D．To the front desk.