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Walt Disney was born on December 5,1901 in Chicago Illinois, to his father Elias Disney, and mother
Flora Call Disney. Walt was one of five children, four boys and a girl.
After Walt"s birth, the Disney family moved to Marceline Missouri, Walt lived most of his childhood here.
Walt had very early interests in art, he would often sell drawings to neighbors to make extra money. He
pursued his art career, by studying art and photography by going to McKinley High School in Chicago.
Walt began to love, and appreciate nature and wildlife, and family and community (社区), which were a
large part of agrarian (农业的) living. Though his father could be quite stern (严格的), and often there was
little money, Walt was encouraged by his mother, and older brother, Roy to pursue his talents.
During the fall of 1918, Disney attempted to enlist (入伍) for military service. Rejected because he was
under age, only sixteen years old at the time. Instead, Walt joined the Red Cross and was sent overseas to
France, where he spent a year driving an ambulance (救护车) and chauffeuring (驾驶) Red Cross officials.
Once Walt returned from France, he began to pursue a career in commercial (商业的) art. He started a
small company called Laugh-O-Grams, which eventually fell bankrupt (***). With his suitcase and twenty
dollars, Walt headed to Hollywood to start anew.
After making a success of his "Alice Comedies", Walt became a recognized Hollywood figure. OnJuly13,
1925, Walt married one of his first employees, Lillian Bounds, in Lewiston, Idaho. Later on they would be
blessed with two daughters, Diane and Sharon.
In 1932, the production entitled Flowers and Trees (the first color cartoon) won Walt the first of his
studio"s Academy Awards. On December 21, 1937, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length
animated (有生命的) musical feature, premiered (最初的) at the Cathay Theater in Los Angeles. The film
produced at the unheard cost of $1 499 000 during the depths of the Depression (不景气).
Walt Disney"s dream of a clean, and organized amusement park, came true, as Disneyland Park opened
in 1955.Walt also became a television pioneer, Disney began television production in 1954,and was among
the first to present full-color programming with his Wonderful World of Color in 1961.
Walt Disney is a legend (传奇); a folk (民间的) hero of the 20th century. His worldwide popularity was
based upon the ideals (理想) which his name represents: imagination, optimism, creation, and self-made
success in the American tradition. He brought us closer to the future, while telling us of the past, it is certain,
that there will never be such as great a man, as Walt Disney.
make your career in the future, what experience can you learn from him?
In my view ___________________________________________________________________________
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Charlie Chaplin is irresistible (无法抵御) because he is one of the first and most enduring (持久的) movie
stars, because he quickly gained creative and financial control (创作权和财政权) of his movies, because he
invented such a fascinating (引人入胜的) series of comic (喜剧的) films, because he experienced such a
stormy personal life, and because his 40-year filmmaking career in the United States was such a rollercoaster
ride of boom and bust.
Every few weeks outside the movie theater in virtually any American town in the late 1910s,stood the life-
size card board figure of small tramp-outfitted in tattered (破旧的), baggy (肥大的) pants, a cutaway coat
and vest(背心), impossibly large, worn-out shoes, and a battered derby (扁顶) hat-bearing the inscription (印
象) "I am here today." An advertisement for a Charlie Chaplin film was a promise of happiness, of that precious,
almost shocking moment when art delivers what life cannot.
In a 1995 worldwide survey (调查) of film critics, Chaplin was voted the greatest actor in movie history.
He was the first, and to date the last, person to control every aspect of the filmmaking process-founding his
own studio, United Artists, with Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and D.W. Griffith, and producing, casting
(演员挑选人), directing, writing, and editing the movies he starred in.
In the first decade of the twentieth century, when weekly movie going was a national habit, Chaplin more
or less invented global recognizability (世人的赞扬) and helped turn an industry into an art. In 1916, his third
year in films, his salary of $10 000 a week made him the highest paid actor-possibly the highest paid person-in
the world.
By 1920, "Chaplinitis" accompanied (伴随) by a flood of Chaplin dances, songs, dolls, comic books and
cocktails, was rampant. Filmmakers Mack Sennett thought him "just the greatest artist who ever lived". Other
early admirers included George Bernard Shaw, Marcel Proust, and Sigmund Freud. In 1923 Hart Crane, who
wrote a poem about Chaplin, said his pantomime"represents the futile gesture (无用的) of the poet today".
Later in the 1950s, Chaplin was one of the icons of the Beat Generation. From 1981 to 1987, IBM used the
Tramp as the logo to advertise its venture (冒险精神) into personal computers.
He has been called the single most influential artist in the history of motion pictures; certainly no other
movie star enjoyed the international, iconographic (象征性的) status (地位) he attained early in the silent era
and maintained (保持) well past the coming of sound. And certainly no other creative talent did as much as he
to elevate (提高) screen comedy to a high art.
of motion pictures?
In my view ____________________________________________________________________________
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climber and a big star in France and Italy. She is the most famous woman climber in the world because she
climbs without ropes. She climbs in many countries but most often in the French Alps near Chamonix, where
she lives. She started climbing near her home in Paris when she was five. Then, at fourteen, she joined the
French Alpine Club to learn more, but immediately she climbed better and more quickly than the older members
of the club. She won her first competition in Italy in 1995.
Three years ago she found a new route up the Dru Mountain near Chamonix The climb took eleven days
and for four days the snow was so heavy that she could not move. Last year other climbers tried to follow the
new Destivelle Route, but they failed. They are going to try again this year.
People always ask her about her climbing. She says, "I climb because I"m in love with mountains. I like
touching the rock and reading the face of the rock. I like it a lot. I felt at home on the side of a mountain. I
prepare well before I go, so I"m never worried."
Catherine chooses new mountains from books-like buying from a shopping catalogue (目录)! "I see a nice
mountain and I go to climb it!" Her next mountain is in Pakistan. She is going there next month:"It"s much
bigger than the Dru, so it"s going to take longer to climb. An American climber, Jeff Lowe, is coming with me
to help."
B. she has a talent for rock music
C. she is a famous woman climber
D. she found a new route up to the Dru Mountain
B. the climb took 11 days
C. she needed help from an American climber
D. there was a heavy snow
B. easy and happy
C. like going home
D. well
B. Are you in love with an American climber?
C. Do you enjoy reading books on mountains?
D. What do you do before you go climbing?
| anti-black, legal, found, law, equally, selfless, president, blow, sentence, release |
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| In Mount Berry, Georgia, people find a group of schools built specially for mountain children. The schools, as well as the mountain itself, are named after Martha Berry herself, a daughter of a Georgian mountaineer. Martha Berry was born in 1866. Luckier than most Georgian mountain children, she received an education But she never forgot other children of the mountains whose parents couldn"t afford to send them to school. In 1902 Martha Berry started a school for these children It was housed in a single small log cabin and was attended by only five pupils. Now, eighty years later, there are a score of Berry schools in the area, with a total of over one thousand students and waiting list of about five thousand. Martha Berry in her later years received many medals and honors for what she had done for the poor mountain children of Georgia, and in 1931 she was named one of the twelve most important women in the United States. She never stopped working for the mountain children till her death in 1942. |
| 1. The first Berry School was founded ____. |
| A. to honor Martha Berry B. in memory of Martha Berry C. by the efforts of Martha Berry D. in Martha Berry"s own house |
| 2. In Mount Berry there are now ____. |
| A. enough schools for all the local children B. still not enough schools for all the local children C. more than enough schools for all the local children D. schools for local children as well as those from other parts |
| 3. Martha Berry was named one of the twelve most important women in the US because ____. |
| A. she had helped develop one of the most backward areas B. she had never stopped working till her death C. she had received many medals and honors D. she had helped set up some of the most advanced schools |
| 4. The passage mainly tells us ____. |
| A. the history of the Berry School B. about a poor area in the United States C. Mount Berry"s development in education D. Martha Berry"s work and achievement |
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| Of all the folk artists in the United States the best known of the twentieth century is certainly Grandma Moses--Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860-1961). She was also the most successful within her lifetime and her work was reproduced on greeting cards and in prints. As with many folk artists, her career as a painter started late in life, at the age of 67, but she continued painting until her death at the age of 10l, so her active painting life still lasted over 34 years. Her subjects are based on the New England countryside. Many of her early paintings are copies of, or use sections from, prints by Currier and Ives that she then recreated in her own way. In her paintings the figures became more stylized and the landscapes less naturalistic. Her painting was preceded (优先) by the production of landscapes in needlework. The images, however, continued the same, and she remade some of her needlework landscapes in paint at a later date. From these early sources she began to compose original paintings such as Housick Falls, New York in Winter (1944) that relied on her surroundings and her memories of country life and activities; these paintings show her increasing technical ability. By the 1940"s her work had become a marketable commodity and collectors created a demand for her paintings. Like many painters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Grandma Moses made use of photographs for information, for figures, for landscapes, and for buildings, but her work, especially that of her later years, was not a simple copying of these but compositions using them as source material. Her output was amazing, and consequently her work is of varying quality. Her paintings place her among the top folk painters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. |
| 1. What is the main topic of the passage? |
| A. The painting materials used by Grandma Moses. B. The major artistic influences on Grandma Moses. C. The folk art of Grandma Moses. D. The life of Grandma Moses. |
| 2. According to the passage, Grandma Moses started her painting career ____. |
| A. without much success B. in her sixties C. after much study D. by producing greeting cards |
| 3. Why does the author mention Currier and Ives in the second paragraph? |
| A. They are folk artists. B. They collected many of Grandma Moses" paintings. C. They made calendars from Grandma Moses" landscapes. D. Grandma Moses based some paintings on their work. |
| 4. According to the passage, Grandma Moses switched (转变) from needlework to painting because of ____. |
| A. her desire to create landscapes B. the public"s interest in painting C. her need to make money D. a physical condition that affected her |