| A．In the library. | B．In the bookstore. |
| C．In the museum. | D．In the gallery. |
| A．It is full of nonsense. |
| B．It can hardly arouse the woman’s interest. |
| C．It should be lent to more people. |
| D．It is appealing to him. |
| A．He cannot finish his assignment before the deadline. |
| B．He has proved to be a better reader than the woman. |
| C．He has difficulty in understanding the book. |
| D．He cannot get access to the assigned book. |
| A．She has learned a lot from the novel. |
| B．She also found the plot difficult to follow. |
| C．She has difficulty remembering names. |
| D．She recalled the names of characters in the novel. |
Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions below in Chinese.
假设你在某英文报上看到一则征稿通知，要求写一篇短文，具体涵盖以下要点：
1.简要介绍你最近读过的一篇文章内容；
2.这篇文章优点与不足是什么？
3.你会推荐给谁？理由是什么？__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
6 . Film has properties that set it apart from painting, sculpture, novels, and plays. It is also, in its most popular and powerful form, a story telling medium that shares many elements with the short story and the novel. And since film presents its stories in dramatic form, it has even more in common with the stage play: Both plays and movies act out or dramatize, show rather than tell, what happens.
Unlike the novel, short story, or play, however, film is not handy to study; it cannot be effectively frozen on the printed page. The novel and short story are relatively easy to study because they are written to be read. The stage play is slightly more difficult to study because it is written to be performed. But plays are printed, and because they rely heavily on the spoken word, imaginative readers can conjure up at least a pale imitation of the experience they might have been watching a performance on stage. This cannot be said of the screenplay, for a film depends greatly on visual and other nonvisual elements that are not easily expressed in writing. The screenplay requires so much “filling in” by our imagination that we cannot really approximate the experience of a film by reading a screenplay, and reading a screenplay is worthwhile only if we have already seen the film. Thus, most screenplays are published not to read but rather to be remembered.
Still, film should not be ignored because studying it requires extra effort. And the fact that we do not generally “read” films does not mean we should ignore the principles of literary or dramatic analysis when we see a film. Literature and films do share many elements and communicate many things in similar ways. Perceptive film analysis rests on the principles used in literary analysis, and if we apply what we have learned in the study of literature to our analysis of films, we will be far ahead of those who do not. Therefore, before we turn to the unique elements of film, we need to look into the elements that film shares with any good story.
Dividing film into its various elements for analysis is a somewhat artificial process, for the elements of any art form, never exist in isolation. It is impossible, for example, to isolate plot from character: Events influence people, and people influence events; the two are always closely interwoven in any fictional, dramatic, or cinematic work. Nevertheless, the analytical method uses such a fragmenting technique for ease and convenience. But it does so with the assumption that we can study these elements in isolation without losing sight of their interdependence or their relationship to the whole.
1. What is mainly discussed in the text？| A．The uniqueness of film. |
| B．The importance of film analysis. |
| C．How to identify the techniques a film uses. |
| D．The relationship between film analysis and literary analysis. |
| A．Because screenplay is not as well written as literary works. |
| B．Because a film cannot be effectively represented by a printed screenplay. |
| C．Because a film is too complicated. |
| D．Because publishers prefer to publish literary works. |
| A．the means by which we analyze a literary work cannot be applied to the analysis of the film |
| B．a good film and a good story have many elements in common |
| C．we should not pay extra effort to study films |
| D．using the principles of literary analysis makes no difference in film analysis |
| A．Because these elements are interwoven with each other and cannot be separated. |
| B．Because films cannot be written down and it is inconvenient to analyze them. |
| C．Because films elements are too complicated. |
| D．Because films need not to be analyzed in detail. |
7 . It doesn’t matter if books are delivered in print or by smart phone; the main thing is to get lost in reading them. Reading books is vital for human development.
Why should we bother reading a book? All children say this occasionally. Many of the 12 million adults in Britain with reading difficulties repeat it to themselves daily. In a world of advanced technology, increasing time poverty and decreasing attention should they invest precious time sinking into a good book?
The discovery that our brains are physically changed by the experience of reading is something many of us will understand instinctively, as we think back to the way an extraordinary book had a transformative effect on the way we viewed the world. This transformation only takes place when we lose ourselves in a book, abandoning the emotional and mental chatter of the real world. That’s why studies have found this kind of deep reading makes us more sensitive to the inner lives of others.
Reasoningly, we know that reading is the foundation stone of all education, and therefore an essential basis of the knowledge economy. So reading is - or should be - an aspect of public policy. But perhaps even more significant is its emotional role as the starting point for individual voyages of personal development and pleasure. Books can open up emotional, imaginative and historical landscapes that equal and extend the corridors of the web. They can help create and strengthen our sense of self. If reading were to decline significantly, it would change the very nature of our species. However, technology throws up as many solutions as it does challenges: for every door it closes, another opens. So the ability, offered by devices like e-readers, smart phones and tables, to carry an entire library in your hand is an amazing opportunity. Publishers need to use every new piece of technology to embed (嵌入) long-form reading within our culture
1. According to the author, what attitude do the British hold towards reading?| A．No child in Britain likes reading nowadays. |
| B．Many people in Britain are at a loss as to the function of reading. |
| C．British people are more interested in others’ lives. |
| D．British people consider reading a waste of time. |
| A．Reading can promote the development of human species. |
| B．Without reading, education does not happen. |
| C．Reading can physically change our brain. |
| D．Reading can lead to personal pleasure. |
| A．When we forget ourselves. |
| B．When the real world doesn’t matter to us. |
| C．When books open up a new landscape to us. |
| D．When we are buried in deep reading. |
| A．Because otherwise no one bothers to read. |
| B．Because reading can bring economic benefit indirectly. |
| C．Because reading is the starting point of individual voyage. |
| D．Because books are the extension of the web. |
