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1961 in Pukerua Bay, New Zealand. He liked to take photographs, so a family friend bought the young
Jackson a super 8mm camera (照相机). He has been a filmmaker even since. At age nine he even
attempted to remake his favorite film, King Kong, using his own stop-motion effect.
Unlike many of the filmmakers working today, Jackson never went to film school. Instead he created
his own short films with the help of family and friends. He was turned down for a job at the National Film Unit, New Zealand"s government agency that produces tourist films about the country. With that door
closed, Jackson began working other jobs to support himself, while shooting shorts on the weekend.
One of these weekend films, changed from its original (原来的) ten minutes length into a feature film.
The project took four years to complete (1983-1987) and was called Bad Taste.
After the success of Bad Taste, Jackson became recognized as a director and the door to fame and
fortune was opened. He gave up his job at a local photographer"s shop and became a well-known
director of horror-movies. The Lord of the Rings (指环王) trilogy (三步曲) is obviously a huge
landmark in Jackson"s career, not only did the films become some of the most commercially successful
of all time, but they have also lifted Jackson to the top of the Hollywood pecking order. His digital effects
company, WETA Digital, became one of, if not the most respected effects company in the world;
similarly, Jackson has also expressed an interest in returning to his roots and directing some lower cost
platter films again.
B. show us Peter Jackson is a most well-known directors
C. tell us there is a famous person in New Zealand
D. tell some film stories made by Peter Jackson
B. 1961
C. 1969
D. 1970
B. has been working as a director since 1968
C. never went to school
D. is a well-known director of horror-movies
B. Peter Jackson had to be lifted high to make films
C. Peter Jackson gained a high position in Hollywood
D. The Lord of the Rings trilogy made films in Hollywood famous
B. the author doesn"t express his opinion about Peter Jackson.
C. Peter Jackson was born on June 25, 987, in British
D. the author thinks little of Peter Jackson and his films very much.
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试题【阅读理解。 Peter Jackson, currently one of the world"s most well-known directors 】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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his amazing abilities.
He has only been having piano lessons for four months, and practices four hours a week, but he has
already played difficult classical pieces. He was just seven when he sat down at the piano, and could play
at once. He also says he never gets nervous.
When Shane was three years old, he said that he could play the piano, but nobody took him seriously. At school, he could listen to the teacher and do his work while composing (作曲) in his head. Shame
remembers all the melodies (旋律), and when he gets home he plays them on the piano, while his father
records them. Shane loves playing the piano, and when he grows up he wants to be a composer.
His tutor, Richard Goffin-Lecar, says he is like Amadeus Mozart, who lived during the 18th century
in Salzburg, Austria, and was one of the most famous composers ever. Mr. Goffin-lecar says, "I don"t
teach Shane very much. I just give him directions, then sit back and watch."
His father, a single parent with two other children, says that although he has little money, he wants to
send Shane to a good music school. "I"m a single father, but I have this gifted child. I don"t have much
money, but I want to give him the best teachers, and also take him into a studio to record."
B. At age ten.
C. At age seven.
D. At age four.
B. He can compose in his head while doing his work.
C. He wants to be a piano tutor when he grows up.
D. He doesn"t like to listen to the teacher at school.
B. He"s a single father with two children.
C. He believes in Shane"s talent for music and will support him.
D. Not having enough money, he will ask the teachers for help
anniversary of the poet"s birth, the meme, "Du Fu is busy," is spreading through the Internet and turning
the iconic poet into a figure of fun.
A meme is a cultural phenomenon. It"s an idea or image that somehow strikes a chord with Internet
users and prompts them to comment on it, change it, or use it in different situations. In Du"s case, the
meme is a picture of the poet taken from a textbook. The picture shows a very serious Du sitting on a
rock, clothed in loose robes. His chin is pointed resolutely upward and his eyes gaze calmly into the
distance. It is a picture of a man with a great mind and a heroic spirit.
That image is changed in the meme. Du Fu is now seen holding a gun or listening to an iPod or
dressed as a Japanese cartoon character. In today"s world, it seems fewer people respect great minds
or heroic spirits.
This is sad because it means we are losing our sense of idealism. Du Fu led a life of poverty and
humiliation. I visited his thatched cottage in Chengdu and imagined the hardship he endured: the loneliness, the cold, and the hunger. Yet, hardship didn"t kill his spirit, and his great poetry reflects his inner strength.
Internet users may find that giving Du Fu the business is entertaining, but it cannot diminish his
greatness. And that enduring image of greatness is the one that truly matters.
B. getting busier and busier
C. becoming a successful businessman
D. being made to look foolish
B. Critical.
C. Doubtful.
D. Neutral.
B. Du Fu is no longer a famous poet.
C. Du Fu is getting the business.
D. Du Fu has become a new hero.
all of the history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful
electric light. But Edison could never be happy only because someone said he was a genius." There is no
such thing as genius," Edison said. He said that what people called genius was mostly hard work.
But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child he wondered about
the secrets of nature. Nature, he often said, is full of secrets. He tried to understand them; then, he tried
to learn what could usefully be done with them.
Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people will do almost anything instead of the difficult
work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking can give men
enjoyment and pleasure.
Edison could not understand how anyone could be uninterested in life. As he loved to think, he also
loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what ideas he had about life.
"Work," he answered. "Discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier." He said
he had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.
B. Many other people have changed Edison"s life.
C. Edison has changed the life of many other people.
D. Few men in history can change other people"s life.
B. genius plays the most important part in one"s success
C. hard work could do better than genius
D. genius could do better than hard work
B. interested in discovering the secrets of nature
C. interested in changing people"s ideas
D. uninterested in making people happier by discovering the secrets of nature
B. Edison made 100 inventions in his life
C. Edison was able to live and work for 100 years
D. People of his time were ready to give Edison another 100 years" work
He had fought for years against cancer.Mourners gathered outside his house in Palo Alto, California, and Apple stores around the world.
Tim Bajarin, president of a high-tech research and consulting company, said "If you actually look at a
tech leader, they"re really happy if they have one hit in their life.Steve Jobs has the Apple II, the Mac, the
iPod, the iPhone, the iPad and Pixar."
Steve Jobs was a college dropout.He was adopted by a machinist and his wife, an accountant.They
supported his early interest in electronics.
He and his friend Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer-now just called Apple-in nineteen
seventy-six.They stayed at the company until nineteen eighty-five.That year, Steve Wozniak returned to
college and Steve Jobs left in a dispute (分歧) with the chief executive.
Mr.Jobs then formed his own company, called NeXT Computer.He rejoined Apple in nineteen
ninety-seven after it bought NeXT.He helped remake Apple from a business that was in bad shape then
to one of the most valuable companies in the world today.
Steve Wozniak, speaking on CNN, remembered his longtime friend as a "great visionary and leader""
and a "marketing genius (天才)".
President Obama said in a statement: "By building one of the planet"s most successful companies from
his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity.By making computers personal and putting the
Internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun."
David Carroll is a professor at Parsons School of Design in New York City.He says Steve Jobs not
only revolutionized technology, he also revolutionized American business.
"The fact that he was able to redesign American commerce lop to bottom and across is really stunning (令人惊奇的).He probably will be considered an industrial giant on the scale of Thomas Edison and
Henry Ford, so one of the great[s] of all time." David Carroll said.
Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple"s chief executive in August because of his health.He died a day
after the company released a new iPhone version that met with limited excitement.Apple"s new chief,
Tim Cook, will also have to deal with the new Kindle Fire tablet computer from Amazon.com.It costs
less than half as much as an iPad but also does less.
B. He became very rich though dropping out college.
C .He released a new iPhone version before death.
D. He revolutionized technology and made it enjoyable.
B. He made Apple very valuable once again in the world.
C. He developed a series of Apple products.
D. He was considered the greatest industrial figure of all time.
B. Jobs enriched the American spirit of science and freedom.
C. Jobs eventually realized his American dream.
D. American people are good at inventing things.
B. Jobs stayed in Apple as chief executive for about 24 years.
C. Jobs started his career in his family garage.
D. Run unsuccessfully, Apple was sold to NeXT Computer.
only a few other great scientists have achieved. An American university president once said that Einstein
had made a new outlook,a new view of the universe. It may be some time before the average mind
understands fully the identity of time and space and so on-but even ordinary man now understand that the
universe is something larger than ever thought before.
By 1914 young Einstein had been world-famous. He accepted the offer to become a professor at the
Prussian Academy of Science in Berlin. He had few duties,little teaching and unlimited chances for study,
but soon his peace and quiet were broken by World War I .
Einstein hated fighting and killing. The great suffering of war affected him deeply,and he sat unhappily
in his office doing little. He lost interest in his research. Only when peace came in 1918 was he able to get back to work.
In the year folloWjng World War I honors were increasingly put on him. He became head of the
Kaiser Whihem Institute of Theoretical Physics. But he himself refused the effort to put him in a position
far above other people. He was well known for his humble (恭顺的,谦逊的) manner.He often said that
his success would certainly have been achieved by others if he had never lived.
In 1921 he won the Nobel Prize,and he was honored in Germany until the rise of Nazism when he was driven from Germany because he was.a Jew.
B. the feeling of an Amencan university president towards Einstein
C. the difference between science and history
D. the change ,n human thought produced by Einstein
B. everybody understands Einstein"s scientific ideas
C. the new view of the universe can be quickly leamed by everyone
D. our ideas about the universe are different today from those in the past because of Einstein
B. had no chances for study
C. almost did nothing in his office
D. still continued his scientific research
B. when he was young
C. during World War I
D. after he left Europe
B. Einstein had other interests besides science
C. Einstein was forced to work again in 1918
D. Einstein led a quiet life during World War I
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