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Oscars each year. About 6 000 people who work in the movie industry belong to the organization. It was
established in 1927 to support the film industry. The Academy began presenting awards(颁发奖项)in 1929.
At that time, films were just starting to have sound.
The awards were not called Oscar until much later. In 1951, a woman who worked in the Academy library
said the statue (塑像) looked like a family member - her uncle Oscar. A reporter heard of this story and wrote
about it. Some people said the reporter and the librarian named the statue Oscar.
Each year, the American film industry will honor some of its best. The steps of choosing award winners
begin with members of AMPAS. These people work in 13 different professions. The members choose among
people doing the same kind of work they do as candidates (候选人) for Academy Awards. All Academy
members choose the final winners among those candidates.
The awards are presented every spring. Important people in the movie industry,such as famous actors and
actresses, attend the ceremonies (仪式). Crowds of people wait outside the theater to watch the famous
movie stars as they arrive for the ceremony. Camera lights flash. Actors and actresses smile for the
photographers and television cameras.
During the ceremony, famous actors and actresses announce the names of the winners. Then the winners
walk up onto the stage to receive their Oscars. Their big moment has arrived. They cry. They laugh. They
thank all the people who helped them win the award. These winners will go home with a golden Oscar.
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答案
2. In spring.
3. Important people in the movie industry.
4. They cry, laugh and thank all the people who helped them win the award.
5. The history of Oscar and presenting (its) awards.
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试题【阅读短文,根据其内容回答问题。 AMPAS, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences(美国电 影】;主要考察你对社会历史类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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must drive for miles through the jungle to find it in the middle of the tea and coffee plantation (种植园).
There are two tree houses to choose from, one 30 metres and the other 35 metres above the ground.
Both houses have two floors. The bedrooms are above the living area and there are bathrooms and showers.
You can get up to rooms and move between floors by using ladders (梯子). You can go from one tree house
to the other on a rope bridge. The houses sometimes move about in the wind but the views are fantastic.
Cuests can enjoy moving through the jungle, climbing in the mountains, and watching wildlife. There are
many unusual plants, birds, and insects in the area.
The Ice Hotel is in Jukkasjarvi, a village in Sweden 200 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle. Every winter, a team of architects, designers and snow builders build the hotel. This year there are 80 rooms.
Everything is made of ice. The walls, the floors, the ceilings, and even the fumi- ture are made of ice. The
beds are made of ice, too, but guests sleep on warm deer skins. Outside it can be - 37"C , so inside it feels
quite comfortable. The hotel has a bar, where guests can drink vodka from glasses made of ice. It"s very
popular because there isn"t much else to do.
To spend a night at Jules Underwater Lodge in Florida, guests need to scuba dive(潜水) seven metres
under the sea. They enter a small house through a door at the bottom of the building. Inside, the kitchen is
stored with food and there is a fridge and a microwave oven. There is a hot shower and comfortable beds and
lots of books, DVDs and video games. Most guests, however, spend their time at one of the large windows
watching different fishes swimming by.
B.unusual
C.green
D.movable made of ice
B.is totally
C.organizes lots of activities
D.is enlarged every year
B.Animals are watched through the hotels" windows.
C.Guests can live underwater for several days.
D.The tree houses are of the same height.
the folk songs of immigrants (移民) from the Great Britain.
Country music uses simple music and words to express everyday feelings such as loneliness, love, and
sadness. That is to say, country music describes life. It talks about friends and enemies, trucks and roads,
farms and crops. People in many parts of the world like country music because everyone can understand
what the music is about.
It is believed that country westem music became popular first among cowboys in the American west
countryside. Cowboys had to take care of cows day and night. When they were alone with the cows, they
often sang beautiful and peaceful songs to calm the animals and to get over their own fear. They were not
well-educated and thus they sang about their daily life in very, simple words. They played guitars, violins,
and other instruments.
In the American South, many people added instruments from their homes, like bottles and spoons. When
cowboys visited their friends and families on holidays like Thanksgiving, they usually sang and played country
western music.
In recent years, many musicians have made country westem music a little different from the one in the
past. These changes make the songs sound even better. Today singers such as Carth Brooks, Reba McEntire,
Emmylou Harris, Lyle Lovett, Eddie Rabbitt, LeAnn Rimes, Randy Travis, and a group called Alabama are
singing and playing in different styles. They have brought country western music more and more fans from
all over the world.
B. it comes from Europe
C. it is sung by cowboys
D. it is easy to understand
B. Many country music singers are not well-educated.
C. For cowboys, life in those days was busy and difficult.
D. Cowboys sang to their animals when they were at work.
B. Americans Love American Country music
C. American Country music, Yesterday and Today
D. The History of Country Music and Western Music
ago, not many people were taught to read, so there was a lot more reading out loud by the few people who
could.
To help those reading out loud in the old days, sign (符号) known as "points" were added to pages of
writing. Punctuation comes from the Latin word punctus, meaning "point". These points told readers when
to pause (暂停) or take a breath, and what to emphasize (加重).
In Europe from the early centuries AD, these points were widely used although not everybody used the
same points for the same thing. When printing was invented, printers had to be made more clearly about
what to put where, so that everyone was doing the same thing. Since that point, all sorts of punctuation
rules have been discov ered and invented.
Speech marks ".."
Speech marks or quotation marks are used to show that someone is speaking. The sort we have in English
today began to be widely used during the 18 century. Before that readers simply understood from the way a
sentence was written that someone was speaking although sometimes spoken words were underlined.
Comma, colon: period (full stop).
All three of these sorts of punctuation marks were given their Greek names by Aristophanes, a librarian
who lived in Byzantium in the 2"d century BC. They were marks on the page, each with a message to the
reader. Comma meant a short pause. Colon meant a medium (中等的) sized pause. Period meant a long pause.
Exclamation mark!
In the early days of punctuation, if you saw this sign, you were supposed to pause. Some people think
the exclamation mark began as what the Creek word JO looked like if it was turned 90 degrees. This word
means"Oh, gosh!" With the I on the top and the O under it, the sign as we know it today was developed.
Question mark?
In the middle age, a squiggle (圆弧) above a full stop was sometimes used to show the sentence was a
question and that a person"s voice should go up at the end. By the 17" century it had turned into what we
call a question mark. The shape may have come from the letter Q short for that Latin quaestio, meaning
"question".
Writers make choices about punctuation because they think differently about sentences and words. It"s
part of the personality of their writing. Some writers hate punc- tuation, but others love punctuation. So
whether you love or hate punctuation, the best advice may be to just enjoy it, play with it, think about it and
use it. It belongs (属于) to the language and it belongs to you.
B. In the 2nd century BC.
C. In the 18th century.
D. In the early centuries AD.
B. meet the need of printing
C. guide the way of writing
D. mention the spoken words
B. Speech marks were named by a librarian.
C. Question mark comes from a Latin word.
D. The shape of a word makes exclamation mark.
B. Not many people are taught to use it correctly.
C. It has different meanings to different people.
D. Sometimes spoken words must be underlined.
country drinks the most tea? It"s neither China nor Japan. It"s Great Britain.
In the wild, tea plants may be 30 feet tall. But a plant grown for market is pruned (修剪). Pruning keeps
the plant only three or four feet tall. This is an easy height for tea picking. Only the two top leaves and bud
of each new shoot are picked. So to make money, tea plantations must be huge.
In general, there are two kinds of tea. Black tea and green tea. Black tea is fermented (发酵). In the
process, the tea loses nearly all of its healthy qualities. Green tea is steamed (蒸炒) right after the leaves are
picked. Green tea retains its healthy qualities. For example, it may prevent heart disease.
How did we get tea bag? The answer: by accident. Tea merchants (商人) used to send samples in tin
boxes. This was costly. One merchant thought of a cheaper way. He sent samples in small silk bags.
Customers would cut open the bag. They would brew the leaves as usual. One customer put the bag into
a pot. Then he just poured (倒) hot water over it. And the tea bag was born.
Shen Nong was the first to drink tea. (Shen was a Chinese emperor. ) This was about 2737 B. C. Shen
had bad digestion. So he drank several cups of hot water dai- ly. One day something happened. Leaves from
a wild tea tree fell into the hot water pot. The next cup was poured. The water was now colored. Shen
sipped it. He liked it. He drank it all. Shen was proud of his new drink. He served it to his guests. Word spread.
People thought this way. Tea is good enough for the Emperor. So it must be good enough for the people. Tea
became the drink of China.
B. Tea Plant
C. About Tea
D. Tea Bag
B. has a better taste
C. is fermented
D. is much healthier
B. Makes.
C. Produces.
D. Loses.
B. tea is better than any other drink
C. tea is popular in many countries
D. tea only grows in warm climates
a cook at Moon Lake Restaurant, in Saratoga Springs, New York. A guest complained (抱怨) that the fried (炸)
potatoes that Crum had cooked were too thick. Crum thought the guest was making trouble. In retum he cut
potatoes paper thin and fried them.
The guest loved what soon became known as "Saratoga Chips", and the new dish became the most popular
in the restaurant. Other restaurants in the eastern United States borrowed the idea, but potato chips were not
produced for home use until William Tappenden of Cleveland, Ohio, started the first potato-chip factory in
Cleveland.
Potatoes are made up of about 25% solids, mostly starches (淀粉) and sugar, and 75% water. But they
are not always so. Marsha McNcil Sherman, Director of Fast Food Association in Los Angeles, explains:
"Cenerally, more of the water can be found in the middle of the potato. Frying is a way to dry the potato. So,
the edges of potatoes are fried faster than the middle."
B. In Ohio.
C. In New York.
D. In Los Angeles.
B. Starches.
C. Sugar.
D. Water.
B. Because they are thinner.
C. Because they have fewer solids.
D. Because they are softer.
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