Bollywood: the Hollywood of India
You might be surprised to learn that India produces about 800 movies a year, and that number continues to grow. Just as the movie Capital of the United States is Hollywood, the movie capital of India is Bombay (孟买), but it is usually called "Bollywood", a combination(结合) of the words Bombay and Hollywood.
No Bollywood movie is thought complete without a few songs and dances. In fact, music is an important part of Bollywood movies. Even a bad movie can still do well if the music is good. Music directors are sometimes more popular than the film stars. A Bollywood movie has five to six songs with at least three songs to show what the dances mean.
Bollywood may be different from Hollywood in music, but it is very like Hollywood in several ways. If Tom Cruise can hold a gun, so can the Bollywood hero Sharukh Khan. Hollywood stars are followed by news reporters just as often as Hollywood stars. The persona! lives of actors and actresses catch the headlines(头版头条), just as they do in the United States.
The Oscars are a very exciting time of the year for actors and actresses in America, Bollywood has its own form of the Oscars, and they are also very exciting.
根据短文内容在空格处填上恰当的单词,使句子完整,没空不多于三个单词。
1.The name Bollywood comes from the words _______________________.
2.Bollywood is a place where many ___________ are made each year,
3.In India, the film stars are sometimes______popular than music directors.
4.Every complete Bollywood movie has a few _______________________in them.
5.The Oscars in India are as_____as those in America though they are different.
In the Charles E.Johnson Elementary School in New York, there is a special radio. It gives people warnings(警报)about bad weather.
One day, there came a sound from the radio. This sound brought the piece of news:a heavy storm was coming. William Tomic, principal(校长)of the school, asked teachers to bring children indoors and put them in a safe place at once.
Minutes later, the storm came. However, because of the warning of the radio and the quick work of the principal, no one was hurt.
“The radio really did work very well. (我们对它的工作感到很高兴),”William Tomic said. “The parents were as well.”
The U.S. government hopes there will be more such success stories. It plans to give this kind of radios to all 97,000 public schools in the country.
Every year, more than 10,000 big thunderstorms, 2,500 floods, 1,000 tornadoes(龙卷风)and some hurricanes(飓风)take place in the U.S., so the warning radios are very useful. They not only give people warnings about bad weather, but also give warnings about other dangerous things.
(一)请根据短文内容,简要回答下列问题.
1.What does the special radio give people?
___________________________________________________________
2.Why was no one hurt in the school in the storm?
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(二)请根据短文中所给汉语完成句子。
3.____________________________________________________________
(三)请把短文中划线的句子译成汉语。
4.____________________________________________________________
(四)请给短文拟一个恰当的英文标题。
5.____________________________________________________________
综合填空,仔细阅读下面文章,结合文章和已给出的首字母完成所缺单词。
Today it is found that most middle school students are often inside the room. They usually pay little1. a__________ to sports. It’s because they have no interest in sports. It may not be the fact.
They often say they have more 2.i__________ things to do. What are these important things?
Exams! They 3.s_______ over ten hours a day revising for exams. So many of them almost 4.b________ bookworms. In the summer holidays they could hardly do 5.a_______ they like. Books stop them 6. f____ going in for sports. Because of the stress from their parents, they have to work harder.
As for the students themselves, they want to get good7.r______ so that they can go further for their studies. They don’t have to put all their time into studying and give up all the sports and hobbies. In 8.f _______ education can not go without physical exercise, because a quick mind hardly goes along a weak body.
All the students should 9.r_______ : If you don’t have a strong body, you can 10. n______ achieve anything.
动词填空,阅读下面短文,用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空(必要时可加情态动词或助动词)
Last summer Kate 1.________(break)her leg. The pain was very great and she could not even walk. She2.______(take)to the hospital by car and the doctor said that she 3._______(stay)there for about two weeks.
One day a nurse came to kate’s bed and said with a smile. “You 4.______ (be)better soon. You can walk again, so 5.________ (not think) only about the bad things. Try6._______(be)happy!” The nurse was very kind and they became friends.
After kate 7. _____(leave)the hospital ,she thought a lot about the kind nurse. She now understands the work of nurses8._______(be)very important, because they often give hope to the sick.
Now Kate 9.______(think) about her own future. She often talks with her parents about it. She knows what she should do 10.______(become) a good nurse ,and she studies very hard at school.
The voice of China was not hot during the summer of 2012.
The voice of China is a large music show in China. This show is also the only one which regards the voice as the only ruler. It premiered at 21:15 on July 13,2012,on the Zhejiang Television. It has attracted great attention. The show became an overnight sensation.
The first season used “Real voice, real music ” as its slogan . As a mentor(导师),singers like Liu Huan, Na Ying, Yu Chengqing and Yang Kun were responsible(负责) for seeking world-shaking voices of China in the following three and a half months, through four steps ,namely “blind choosing” “blind selecting” “team PK” “yearly grand ceremony”.
It is really a miracle (奇迹) that The voice of China can stand out in the flood of today’s talent shows in China , and attracts the audience(观众). A great number of audience said this was the best television show last summer. They were all proud of these good voices of China.
The students’ beautiful voices moved everyone. Xu Haixing , a girl from Chengdu ,sang Self to realize her father’s dream and Liu Huan was moved to tears by her song . Huang Yong sang In Spring showing his sticking to his dream and Yang Kun cried for this. The blind girl Zhang Yuxia, a busker from Taiwan, played while singing. She was called “Deng Lijun No.2” for her unique voice, and her sincere feeling touched everybody. Na Ying went to the stage to sing with the students together twice.
The voice of China doesn’t care about magnificent(华丽) clothes and wonderful dancing. It regards “inspiration” and “professionalism” as the ruler of music. The singer uses their songs to tell real stories and the happiness of life.
1.If you want to be the winner of The voice of China, you must______.
A. have a good looking face
B. have special talent
C. have a wonderful voice
D. dance and sing well
2.The right order of The voice of China’s program is ______.
①team PK ②blind choosing
③selecting ④yearly grand ceremony
A.②③①④ B.④③①② C.③②①④ D.③①②④
3.From the passage we know Liu Huan was deeply moved by ____ song.
A. Na Ying’s B.Xu Haixing’s
C. Huang Yong’s D. Zhang Yuxia’s
4. What is the Chinese meaning of the underlined phrase “an overnight sensation”?
A.通宵达旦 B.夜夜笙歌 C.一夜成名 D.彻夜难眠
5. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. The best title of the passage is The voice of China.
B. The voice of China lasts three and a half months.
C. The fourth paragraph tells us The voice of China is hot in China.
D. Magnificent clothes and wonderful dancing are rulers of the show.
William Shakespeare was a writer of plays and poems.Some of his most famous plays are Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth.He wrote thirty-seven plays in all.They are still popular today.
He was born in 1564 in England.At school he liked watching plays.He decided to be an actor(演员)when he finished school at the age of fourteen.In 1582, he married a famer’s daughter.She was eight years older than he was.Their first child was a daughter.Later they had twins.In 1585, Shakespeare left his hometown, Stratford-upon-Avon.His wife and children stayed behind.No one knows why he left or what he did between 1585 and 1592.
At twenty-eight he moved to London and joined a theatre company which opened the Globe Theatre in 1599.He became an actor, and he also wrote plays.He usually acted in his own plays.He earned almost no money from his writing.But he made a lot of money from acting.With the money he bought a large house in his hometown.
At the age of forty-nine, Shakespeare retired(退休)and went to live in Stratford-upon-Avon.He died at the age of fifty-two.He left his money to his family.He left his genius to the world.You still see his plays in English and in many other languages.He is one of the most famous writers in the world.
1.Shakespeare wrote many famous plays except __________.
A.Hamlet B.Macbeth
C.Romeo and Juliet D.Man and Superma
2.Shakespeare decided to be an actor in _________.
A.1578 B.1582 C.1599 D.1616
3.In 1585, Shakespeare left his hometown Stratford-upon-Avon _______.
A.with his wife
B.with his daughter
C.with his wife and children
D.alone
4.Shakespeare got much money from _________.
A.writing B.plays C.acting D.retirement
5.According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A.Shakespeare had two children.
B.Shakespeare wrote both plays and poems.
C.Shakespeare left his money to the Globe Theatre.
D.Shakespeare wrote plays in English and some other languages.