A realistic drama A Lifelong Journey has become a huge hit on TV and online recently.
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The show’s director Li Lu,
A.He just guessed it. |
B.He has watched the film. |
C.He read the book in advance. |
3 . Last weekend was terrible for awards ceremonies. The BAFTAS,defined by a painful monologue(独角戏)from Joanna Lumley, was watched by 500,000 fewer people than last year. Meanwhile,the number of 18﹣to 49-year-olds watching the Grammys has reached an all-time low.
Don't expect the Oscars to fare any better;they have lost millions of viewers since 2014. Add to the fact that comparatively few people have watched most of the nominated films and you have got a ratings time bomb.
Viewers are deserting awards shows in groups and something needs to be done. But what?Reorganize them to celebrate really popular work?That's what the Oscars put forward last year when it suggested a best popular film category﹣and it was swiftly booed(喝倒彩)out of town.
Another option would be to shorten the length of the ceremonies, but this won't work either. The Oscars recently announced plans to hide several categories in ad breaks,and the anger in some quarters(the cinematographers, makeup artists and editors who this year won't get their moment on the small screen)has been obvious.
What else can they do? Fewer songs? Shorter speeches? An In Memoriam section that consists of the words: "People die: get over it"?
Fortunately, I have the perfect solution: don't televise awards shows. Just don't do it. Awards shows are the opposite of good television. They're too long and too boring because of regular and repeated patterns and too self﹣important. And by God, we should have learned by now not to give celebrities any more attention than they already have. It just makes them think that we want to hear them giving out half﹣baked opinions about Donald Trump and Brexit.
I'm not suggesting that the awards shows shouldn't happen. I'm just saying that the awards should be announced in the form of a press release at the end of the ceremony, followed by a handful of You Tube clips showing some nice outfits and a couple of speeches. That's how most of us consume them now anyway.
1. Why does the writer mention the BAFTAS and the Grammys?A.To introduce the topic of the article. |
B.To support the topic of the paragraph. |
C.To attract the readers' attention. |
D.To make comparison with the Oscars. |
A.The best popular film category. |
B.The best actress. |
C.The reorganized Oscars. |
D.The deserted awards show. |
A.Awards shows are better if shortened. |
B.Awards shows are excellent television. |
C.Awards shows are important to us. |
D.Awards shows should be shown in another form. |
A.The bright future of awards shows. |
B.What terrible awards shows. |
C.Stopping the television of awards shows. |
D.Boycott attention to celebrities. |
4 . Comments on the July Issue of Reader’s Digest
Jennie Gardner, Bath
I couldn’t agree more with Lee Child, that books are really important. Yes, you can get lost in them but you can also find yourself and new worlds and possibilities in them. Books help us to forget and remember. They remind us both of what’s really important and what’s not.
And, as Lee says, they let us hold the whole world in our hands, We can feel the weight of this word, we can mark our favourite spots, add in our own thoughts and see our progress through the pages as the story leads us back home, allowing us to re-find ourselves along the way.
Jayne Wile, North Wales
Brian Blessed’s I Remember was most enjoyable. I love Brian, a popular actor of stage and screen. It was interesting to learn more about his life. I noted how he enjoyed being involved in the Space Program, doing 600 hours training in Moscow and I have to agree with his thought:”We need to get out to Mars because the Earth has got to rest.” Mars has always been a source of inspiration for explorers and scientists.
Melanie Lodge, West Yorkshire
I was thrilled to read author Lee Childs If I Ruled The World. I was most impressed that he wanted to make teachers the most respected and highest paid professionals.
I work as a teaching assistant in a primary school and have done so since my youngest daughter began school 12 years ago. Until then I had no idea just how much planning was involved in each lesson and how much patience was required in a class of 30 children! I also agree with Lee that there’s nothing more rewarding than finishing a good book.
1. What is Jennie Gardner’s comment mainly about?A.Books make us get lost. | B.Books mean a lot in life. |
C.Books help us progress. | D.Books bring us possibilities. |
A.He once got trained in Moscow. |
B.He joined in the Space Program. |
C.He thinks it necessary to explore Mars. |
D.He’s a popular actor of stage and screen. |
A.She better knows how to teach. |
B.She thinks teachers are overpaid. |
C.She finds teaching more rewarding. |
D.She used to work in a primary school. |
A.Brian Blessed and Lee Child. |
B.Jayne Wile and Jennie Gardner. |
C.Melanie Lodge and Jayne Wile. |
D.Jennie Gardner and Melanie Lodge. |
1. What does the speaker ask the audience (听众) to do?
A.Sit down quickly. | B.Show their tickets. | C.Hand in their phones. |
A.Taking photos. |
B.Bringing outside food. |
C.Buying things from its cafe. |
A.Five minutes. | B.Ten minutes. | C.Fifteen minutes. |
A.A bell will ring. |
B.It will end at three o'clock. |
C.People in red jackets will tell them. |
1. 节目的宗旨:欣赏古诗之类,……;
2. 节目的内容:将古诗词与音乐相结合、近百位歌手受邀演唱;
3. 节目的反响:……。
注意:1. 词数100 东右(开头和结尾已给出,不计入总词数);
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
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阅读下列四篇短文,从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
Why are newspapers and TV broadcasts filled with disaster, corruption and incompetence? It may be because we’re drawn to depressing stories without realizing, according to psychologists.
When you read the news, sometimes it can feel like the only things reported are terrible, depressing events. Why do the media concentrate on the bad things in life, rather than the good? In fact, many people often say that they would prefer good news.
The researchers present their experiment as solid evidence of a so called “negativity bias(偏见)”, psychologists’ term for our collective hunger to hear, and remember bad news.
It isn’t just delight in other people’s misfortune, the theory goes, but that we’ve evolved to react quickly to potential threats. Bad news could be a signal that we need to change what we’re doing to avoid danger.
As you’d expect from this theory, there’s some evidence that people respond quicker to negative words. In lab experiments, flash the word “cancer”, “bomb” or “war” up at someone and they can hit a button in response quicker than if that word is “baby”, “smile” or “fun”. We are also able to recognize negative words faster than positive words, and even tell that a word is going to be unpleasant before we can tell exactly what the word is going to be.
There’s another interpretation (解释)that researchers put on their evidence: we pay attention to bad news, because on the whole, we think the world is more hopeful than it actually is. When it comes to our own lives, most of us believe we’re better than average, and that, like the cliches, we expect things to be all right in the end. This pleasant view of the world makes bad news all the more surprising and arresting. It is only against a light background that the dark spots are highlighted.
So our attraction to bad news may be more complex than just journalistic prejudice or a hunger springing from the darkness within.
1. What is “negativity bias” according to psychologists?
A.It is one’s delight in others’ misfortune. |
B.It is one’s habit of reacting quickly to potential threats. |
C.It is a signal with which we can avoid danger. |
D.People are born to hear and remember bad news. |
A.Journalists only feel like reporting depressing bad news. |
B.It is true that there are no good stories to be reported. |
C.People unconsciously pay more attention to bad news. |
D.People like to hear pleasant words rather than bad words. |
A.Movie star arrested for taking drugs. |
B.Movie star went on a campaign for ASL disease. |
C.Movie star accepts Ice Bucket Challenge |
D.Movie star awarded the third Oscar in three years. |
A.The world is believed to be more hopeful than it actually is. |
B.It is expected things will be all right in the end. |
C.The world is believed to be full of darkness. |
D.It is believed that we are better than others. |