When the Japanese attacked America’s ships at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, they did it secretly. The makers of the movie Pearl Harbor have behaved differently.
The noise about Pearl Harbor, made by Disney，has reached its highest point with its premiere （首次公演） before the movie opens in cinemas across the US at the start of the Memorial Day holiday weekend, a time to recall national heroes who sacrificed their lives on the battlefield.
As Ben Affleck is the main star, the movie seems sure to become a success in the United States at least.
At almost three hours in length, it promises to be a good old Hollywood movie. There is a love story. Affleck and his co－star, Josh Hartnett, both fall in love with the navy nurse, Kate Beckinsale and, of course, there is much human courage and love of country.
It’s certain that Disney will be accused of “changing” history. The showing of actual events in a movie always causes arguments.
Bits of the story are deliberately not mentioned in the movie. It does not address the theory held by some historians that President Franklin Roosevelt knew about Japan’s intention to attack the ships in Pearl Harbor．It is said he did nothing, as he was aware that such a blow would allow him to take America into the Second World War.
Japan remains sensitive about being accused of wartime atrocities （暴行）. And Disney is sensitive about its business in Japan, where it has a theme park.
Not all the reviews of the movie have been full of praise. A reviewer for Newsweek, who was given an early preview, acknowledged that the 40－minute sequence （连续镜头） showing the attack itself was powerful. The attack comes quite late in the movie, however, and the reviewer was less impressed with the characters and the love story.
“Almost every line of the dialogue sounds like it comes from an old movie, ” the reviewer wrote.
1.From the passage we can infer that the Memorial Day refers to
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A．the day the United States was founded |
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B．the day people remember their ancestors |
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C．a day people celebrate the victories of World War Ⅱ |
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D．a day people remember those who died in wars |
2.From the passage we know that Ben Affleck .
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A．regarded Josh Hartnett as an enemy |
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B．may be a very popular movie star |
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C．experienced the Pearl Harbor Incident |
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D．was in love with the actress Kate Beckinsale |
3.Which of the following statements is TRUE about Pearl Harbor?
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A．The movie will cause a lot of arguments. |
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B．The movie has made the Japanese angry. |
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C．The movie truly describes the Pearl Harbor Incident. |
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D．The movie shows that President Roosevelt knew about Japan’s intention. |
4.According to the passage, what does the reviewer for Newsweek think of the movie?
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A．The scenes of the attack leave no impression. |
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B．The dialogue in the movie is original and creative. |
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C．The attack scenes occupy too much time of the movie. |
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D．The characters and the love story are less attractive. |
5.Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
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A．Ben Affleck in Pearl Harbor. |
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B．The True Fact of Pearl Harbor. |
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C．Reviewer：Pearl Harbor is a success. |
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D．Attention！Pearl Harbor is arriving. |
There was a time in my life when beauty meant something special to me. I guess that would have been when I was about six or seven years old, just several weeks or maybe a month before the orphanage（孤儿院）turned me into an old man．
I would get up every morning at the orphanage, make my bed just like the little soldier that I had become and then I would get into one of the two straight lines and march to breakfast with the other twenty or thirty boys who also lived in my dormitory.
After breakfast one Saturday morning I returned to the dormitory and saw the house parent chasing the beautiful monarch butterflies who lived by the hundreds in the bushes scattered around the orphanage.
I carefully watched as he caught these beautiful creatures, one after another, and then took them from the net and then stuck straight pins through their head and wings，pinning them onto a heavy cardboard sheet．
How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty. I had walked many times out into the bushes，all by myself, just so the butterflies could land on my head，face and hands so I could look at them up close.
When the telephone rang the house parent laid the large cardboard paper down on the back cement（水泥）step and went inside to answer the phone. I walked up to the cardboard and looked at the one butterfly who he had just pinned to the large paper. It was still moving about so I reached down and touched it on the wing causing one of the pins to fall out．It started flying around and around trying to get away but it was still pinned by the one wing with the other straight pin．Finally its wing broke off and the butterfly fell to the ground and just trembled.
I picked up the torn wing and the butterfly and I spat on its wing and tried to get it to stick back on so it could fly away and be free before the house parent came back．But it would not stay on him.
1.The author set the living butterfly free because_______.
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A．he liked it very much |
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B．he had sympathy for the beautiful butterfly |
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C．he couldn’t bear a butterfly dying in his favorite bushes |
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D．its wing broke off |
2.According to the passage，the author’s life in the orphanage was_____.
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A．dull and full of strict rules |
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B．simple and easy |
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C．happy and full of hope |
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D．hard and busy |
3.What is the author’s attitude towards the house parent’s pinning some butterflies on the cardboard?
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A．tolerant |
B．unconcerned |
C．disgusted |
D．discouraged |
4.We know from the passage that_________.
A. the author lived alone in the dormitory
B. there were one hundred butterflies living in the bushes
C the cardboard paper was left on the step so as to be watched
D. the author failed to stick the worn wing onto the butterfly with his spit
5.Which of the following is right according to the passage?
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A．I found beauty meant nothing special to me. |
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B．The house parent helped the children handle the quilt. |
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C．The house parent chased the butterfly in order to show it to the children. |
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D．I thought it cruel to catch the butterfly. |
My son was badly hurt in a fire．After he__36__from a series of treatments，the doctors told him they would not do any operation for six months__37__it took long for the skin to stop shrinking （收缩）. So, he had to return to college with a visible 10inch__38__on his face.
I said to my son, “Keaston，__39__will pay any more attention to your scar__40__you do. If it does not bother you, it will not bother__41__.” He took my advice to heart and returned to school with his head__42__high—glad he was alive.
__43__, everyone has scars and shortcomings．Some of you may spend much time thinking that people would like you better, __44__you looked different, or dressed differently, or could have a different and newer__45__.
But you see, like Keaston’s scar，people will only judge you by your looks，or your__46__, or your car, if you are judging yourself by these same false__47__.
One of my friends in college was very__48__. At first, when people met him, they noticed his__49__for about 10 seconds. This man felt__50__about himself and spent most of his time__51__about other people’s comfort and welfare.__52__, people ignored his looks. What people__53__was his kindness and his concern for them. He didn’t act in an ugly way so people didn’t treat him as an ugly man.
Therefore, concentrate on what you value__54__yourself, because if you can see that beautiful person, everyone you are in contact with will see the same__55__.
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–Have you talked to him?
--Yes. _________ I met him in Beijing on business.
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In the good care of the nurses, the boy is_____ recovering from his heart operation.
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D．gradually |
