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The slavery drama “12 Years a Slave” won the Academy Award for best picture on Sunday, making history as the first movie from a black director to win the film industry’s highest honor in 86 years of the Oscars. British director Steve McQueen’s brave portrayal of pre-Civil War American slavery won two other Oscars, including best supporting actress for newcomer Lupita Nyong’o and best adapted screenplay based on the memoir of Solomon Northup, a free man tricked and sold into slavery in Louisiana. “Everyone deserves not just to survive but to live. This is the most important legacy of Solomon Northup,” said McQueen in his acceptance speech.
“12 Years a Slave” was better over space thriller “Gravity” from Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron, which nevertheless got the most Oscars of the night with seven, including the best director honor for Cuaron, a first for a Latin American director.The film starring Sandra Bullock as an astronaut lost in space swept the technical awards like visual effects and cinematography, a reward for its groundbreaking work on conveying space and weightlessness. Referring to the “transformative” experience he and others undertook in the four-plus years spent making “Gravity”, Cuaron, whose hair is graying, said, “For a lot of these people, that transformation was wisdom. For me, it was just the color of my hair.”
In one of the strongest years for film in recent memory, the 6,000-plus voters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences scattered golden Oscar statuettes among the many acclaimed movies in contention.
It was a good night for the scrappy, low-budget film “Dallas Buyers Club”, directed by Jean-Marc Vallee, a biopic of an early AIDS activist two decades in the making that won three Oscars, including the two male acting awards.
Matthew McConaughey, in a validation of a remarkable career turnaround, won best actor for his portrayal of the homophobe who turned AIDS victim and then turned treatment crusader Ron Woodroof, a role for which he lost 50 pounds (23 kg). His co-star, Jared Leto, won best supporting actor for his role as Woodroof’s unlikely business partner, the transgender woman Rayon, for which he also slimmed down drastically.
Australia’s Cate Blanchett won the best actress Oscar for her acclaimed role as the socialite unhinged by her husband’s financial crimes in Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine.” “As random and subjective as this award is, it means a great deal in a year of, yet again, extraordinary performances by women,” said Blanchett, who beat out previous Oscar winners Bullock, Amy Adams, Judi Dench and Meryl Streep.
小题1:The film which won the largest number of Oscar awards this year is ______.
A.12 Years a SlaveB.Gravity
C.Dallas Buyers ClubD.Blue Jasmine
小题2:Which director spent the least money in making the film?
A.Steve McQueen.B.Alfonso Cuaron.
C.Jean-Marc Vallee.D.Woody Allen.
小题3:How many Oscar best actresses are mentioned in this passage?
A.One.B.Three.C.Five.D.Six.
小题4:Which of the following statements is WRONG?
A.“12 Years a Slave” won two Oscar awards altogether.
B.The director of “Gravity” is from Latin America.
C.The character Rayon is played by Jared Leto.
D.The woman film star Cate Blanchett comes from Oceania.

答案

小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:C
小题4:A
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试题分析: 本文是介绍了一些获得了第86届奥斯卡奖的电影和对它们的介绍。
小题1:细节题:根据第二段的句子:“12 Years a Slave” was better over space thriller “Gravity” from Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron, which nevertheless got the most Oscars of the night with seven, including the best director honor for Cuaron, a first for a Latin American director.可知电影Gravity获得的奥斯卡奖项最多,选B。
小题2:细节题:根据第四段的句子:It was a good night for the scrappy, low-budget film “Dallas Buyers Club”, directed by Jean-Marc Vallee 可知导演Jean-Marc Vallee.拍电影花的钱最少,选C
小题3:细节题:根据最后一段的句子:Australia’s Cate Blanchett won the best actress Oscar for her acclaimed role as the socialite unhinged by her husband’s financial crimes in Woody Australia’s Cate 和who beat out previous Oscar winners Bullock, Amy Adams, Judi Dench and Meryl Streep.可知文章提到5个最佳的女演员,选C。
小题4:细节题:根据文章第一段的句子:The slavery drama “12 Years a Slave” won the Academy Award for best picture on Sunday, making history as the first movie from a black director to win the film industry’s highest honor in 86 years of the Oscars. British director Steve McQueen’s brave portrayal of pre-Civil War American slavery won two other Oscars, 可知“12 Years a Slave” 一共是赢得了三项奥斯卡奖,所以A的表达错误。
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Bus crash kills four Taiwanese, injures 15
(People’s Daily Online)
14:38, August 16, 2011
A tourist bus crashed on the highway in Jilin province leaving four Taiwanese tourists dead at the scene and 15 injured.
According to the Jilin Publicity Department, the bus overturned after colliding with a car on the Hunchun-Ulanhot expressway in Jilin province around 440 kilometers away from Changchun. Four Taiwanese tourists were killed instantly, including one man and three women, and of the 15 injured, 14 were Taiwanese tourists.
The tour leader provided a list of the dead: The three women killed were Lv Huiyu, 42; Zhao Zhuo, 62; Liao Xiuyun, 42, and the man was Wang Mingwei, 24. Moreover, the injured tourists were mostly elderly. The oldest injured tourist is around 80 years old and the youngest victim was about 50 years old. Five of them were hurt seriously, but their injuries are not life threatening.
According to the local public security bureau, the bus had a capacity(载客量) of 39 people and carried a real load of 21 people. It belongs to the Heilongjiang Juntai Transport Co., Ltd.
The departments of public security, fire control, the Taiwan Affairs Office have actively operated scene rescue, accident investigation and follow-up care for victims after the tragedy(悲剧). The Jilin provincial party committee secretary Sun Zhengcai issued instructions immediately requiring proper handling of the aftermath and genuine care in helping the victims. The vice-governor Chen Weigen visited the injured in the First Hospital of Jilin University.
The responsible person of the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office is heading for Changchun.
小题1: Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A.All the people injured on the bus were Taiwanese tourists.
B.The accident happened on the expressway near Changchun.
C.Most of the injured were elderly.
D.Most of the injured were seriously hurt and several of them were dying.
小题2: Which of the following has the similar meaning to the underlined word “colliding” in the passage?
A.碰撞;相撞B.拐弯
C.翻转D.坠毁
小题3:What is the writer’s attitude in writing this passage?
A.Sad.B.Objective.
C.DisappointedD.Doubtful.

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Three Central Texas men were honored with the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Director’s Award in a Tuesday morning ceremony for their heroism in saving the victims of a serious two­car accident.
The accident occurred on March 25 when a vehicle lost control while traveling on rain­soaked State Highway 6 near Baylor Camp Road. It ran into an oncoming vehicle, leaving the occupants trapped inside as both vehicles burst into flames.
Bonge was the first on the scene and heard children screaming. He broke through a back window and pulled Mallory Smith, 10, and her sister, Megan Smith,9, from the wreckage.
The girls’ mother, Beckie Smith, was not with them at the time of the wreck, as they were traveling with their baby sitter, Lisa Bowbin.
Beckie Smith still remembers the sickening feeling she had upon receiving the call informing her of the wreck and the despair as she drove to the scene.
Bozeman and Clemmons arrived shortly after Bonge and helped rescue the other victims and attempted to put out the fires.
“I was nervous,” Bozeman said. “I don’t feel like I’m a hero. I was just doing what anyone should do in that situation. I hope someone would do the same for me.”
Everyone at the accident made it out alive, with the victims suffering from nonlife­threatening injuries. Mallory Smith broke both femurs(股骨), and Megan had neck and back injuries. Bowbin is still recovering from a broken pelvis(骨盆), ankle and foot.
The rescuers also were taken to the hospital and treated for cuts and smoke breathing, Bonge said.
In addition, Bozeman got to meet accident victim Anthony Russo in the hospital after the accident, where Russo presented him with a glass frame inscribed with “Thank you”, Bozeman said. Those involved in that fateful encounter on Highway 6 credited God blessing for bringing them together.
“Whatever the circumstances, Tuesday’s ceremony provided a time to be grateful for those who put their lives on the line for the lives of complete strangers,” Beckie Smith said, “We’re calling it The Miracle on Highway 6.”
小题1: What’s the main idea of the passage?
A.Three persons were awarded for rescuing victims in a car accident.
B.Three ordinary people were regarded as great heroes.
C.Several victims were carried to safety from the burning cars.
D.A car accident occurred on rain­soaked State Highway 6.
小题2: Who saved Megan Smith from the damaged car?
A.Clemmons.B.Anthony Russo.
C.Bozeman.D.Bonge.
小题3:Which of the following can be used to describe Bozeman?
A.Kind.B.Modest.
C.Excited.D.Smart.
小题4: Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A.Luckily, no one received too serious injuries in the accident.
B.All the victims received slight injuries in the accident.
C.The rescuers were taken to the hospital to visit the victims.
D.The injured will soon recover from their injuries.

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PERTH—Search crews will send a submarine(潜航器)deep into the Indian Ocean on Monday for the first time to try to determine whether signals detected by sound-locating equipment are from the  missing Malaysian plane"s black boxes, the Australian head of the search said.
Angus Houst on said the crew on board the Ocean Shield  will send the underwater vehicle sometime Monday evening. The Bluefin 21 submarine can create a sonar(声呐)map of the area to chartany wreckage(残骸)on the seafloor.
The move comes after crews picked up a series of underwater sounds over the past two weeks that were consistent with an aircraft"s black boxes.
“We haven’t had a single detection in six days, and l guess it’s time to go under water,” said Houston.
“Analysis of the four signals has reduced the search area on the ocean floor. The experts have therefore determined that the Australian Defense Vessel Ocean Shield will stop searching with the Towed Pinger Locator(拖曳声波定位仪)later today and use the underwater vehicle Bluefin 21 as soon as possible," he said at a news conference in Perth.
But Houston warned the switch to the submarine will not automatically "result in the detection of the aircraft wreckage. It may not.”
He said the submarine will take 24 hours to do each task, including two hours to dive, 16 hours to search the bottom, then two more hours hack up and four hours to download data.
Recovering the plane"s flight data and cockpit(飞行员座舱)voice recorders is necessary For investigators to try to figure out what happened to Flight 370, which disappeared on March 8. 
Houston said the search using the submarine will be a slaw and painstaking process.
The submarine takes six times longer to cover the same area as the pinger locator,and will need about six weeks to two months to examine the present underwater zone. The signals are also coming from 4,500 meters (15,000 feet) below the surface, which is the deepest the submarine can dive.
小题1:The submarine will be sent deep into the Indian Ocean on Monday to _____ .
A.create a sonar trap of the area
B.pick up underwater sounds
C.see if the signals detected are from the target black boxes
D.reduce the search area on the ocean floor
小题2:According to the passage, the submarine_______ .
A.will download data of the black boxes
B.can find the aircraft wreckage within 24 hours
C.will recover the plane"s flight data and voice recorder
D.can dive to a depth of no more than 4,500 meters
小题3:The underlined sentences in the passage indicate that______.
A.the switch of the submarine may not function properly
B.the Ocean Shield will switch to submarine when it is necessary
C.the submarine will detect the wreckage of the plane automatically
D.the detection of the wreckage can"t be guaranteed by using the submarine
小题4:The search will be a slow and painstaking process, mainly because _____ .
A.the underwater sounds were consistent with an aircraft"s black boxes
B.the submarine travels slowly and the ocean is deep
C.they haven"t had a single detection in six days
D.Ocean Shield stops searching wine the towed pinger locator

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University of Maryland student Ben Simon and his friends couldn’t stand to see good food thrown out on their campus.“We basically noticed that some of the extra food from the dining hall was going to waste at the end of the day.And we met with the dining services and asked them whether it would be okay if instead of throwing out the food we would donate it.And they were on board,” he said.
So 18 months ago,the students began what they call the Food Recovery Network.Each night,volunteers would show up at a campus dining hall to pick up leftovers and deliver them to area shelters and food banks.So far,they have donated more than 23 000 kilos of food that would otherwise have been thrown out.
Nationwide,$165 billion worth of food is wasted each year,according to the National Resources Defense Council.Spokesman Bob Keefe says that is about 40% of the country’s entire food production.“If we can reduce our waste in this country by 15%,we can feed 25 million hungry Americans.That is a huge benefit.That is what programs like this Food Recovery Network are doing,” he said.
Christian Life Center is one of the beneficiaries (受益者) of the students’ efforts.Ben Slye,the senior pastor (牧师),said,“It has been just amazing to see these students take their own time,their own vehicles and own gas money and be able to make an effort like this.Each week we are able with this food probably to feed over hundred people.”
The University of Maryland’s Food Recovery Network now has 200 volunteers and the program has expanded to 18 schools across the country.“I want to grow 18 chapters to a thousand chapters within five years.And once we get to the Food Recovery Nation being at every college campus in America,we want to expand to restaurants and farms.” said Simon.
The volunteers are committed to making that happen.
小题1:The dining services in University of Maryland________.
A.threw out good food on the campus
B.supported the volunteers’ job
C.enjoyed the talk with the students
D.donated their leftovers to the poor
小题2:Volunteers from the Food Recovery Network________.
A.started the Food Recovery Network two years ago
B.delivered leftovers as well as money to shelters
C.helped to solve the hunger issues in America
D.donated leftovers to avoid food waste
小题3:Ben Slye’s attitude toward the volunteers’ effort was that of________.
A.unconcern  B.doubt
C.appreciationD.opposition
小题4:We can learn from the text that________.
A.over 40% of the country’s entire food is wasted each year
B.altogether 25 million Americans suffer from hunger nowadays
C.Simon aims to expand the program to restaurants and farms
D.every college has started the Food Recovery Network
小题5:What can be the best title for the text?
A.College Students Rescue Leftover Food
B.Battles Against the Problem of Hunger
C.How to Pick up Leftovers on College Campuses
D.Waste Problems in University of Maryland

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(2014·山东实验中学一模)When Peng Liyuan stepped off the plane in Moscow,the whole world wanted to know who dressed the elegant first lady.The reporter released the secret—Ma Ke.

Peng Liyuan has been wearing Ma Ke’s designs for more than a decade,a fact that was only highlighted recently when she was on her first state visit,accompanying her husband President Xi Jinping.The elegant and attractive Peng,formerly a popular singer,has been compared with the US’ first lady Michelle Obama and France’s Carla Bruni­Sarkozy,since stepping off the airplane in Moscow on March 22.Suddenly,everyone was curious to know more about the first lady’s wardrobe.
Even so,Ma prefers a low­key approach.“If you eat a tasty egg why would you want to see the hen?” she says of all the media attention.
Ma’s relationship with Peng began 10 years ago after a concert in Guangzhou when a reporter told Peng she knew the designer behind the label Exception de Mixmind.Peng asked for an introduction because she was a fan of Ma’s designs and had been wearing them for years.
The two naturally became friends.Ma says:“The painting reflects the painter,and clothes reflect both the designer and the wearer.Someone desires fame and wealth,or love and sympathy;what you have in your heart is reflected in the design.Those who don’t share my philosophy won’t buy my clothes.Peng is a caring person,devoted to charity and environmental protection,which is exactly what I’m doing now.”
However,regardless of the brand,Peng’s support of Chinese labels has surprised millions of Chinese who favor foreign fashion brands.
“Instead she presented a vision of Chinese fashion,desiring to bring Chinese designers to the world stage,” says a western designer.
The first lady’s double­breasted coat and her black leather handbag aren’t available at any of Exception’s shops,though Exception’s physical stores do have seen a rising number of visitors.
小题1:The passage mainly discusses________.
A.the designer of the first lady Peng Liyuan’s dress,Ma Ke
B.the friendship between Peng Liyuan and her designer
C.Peng Liyuan’s clothes on her first state visit
D.the reactions to Peng Liyuan’s first visit to Moscow
小题2:In the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 Ma Ke mentioned “an egg and the hen” to show________.
A.it is hard to explain “Which came first,the egg or the hen?”
B.paying such great attention to her was unnecessary
C.the outcome was more important than the process
D.her dissatisfaction with the media attention on her dress
小题3:What can be inferred from the passage?
A.First ladies compete with each other whenever they are together.
B.Peng’s suits can be bought in Ma Ke’s clothes stores.
C.Ma Ke offered to design the first lady’s clothes through her friends.
D.Peng had liked Ma’s designs long before she got to know her in the flesh.
小题4:In the passage,Peng Liyuan________.
A.often reflects on what she has in her heart before choosing clothes
B.is sympathetic and has a strong environmental consciousness
C.always desires the exceptional charm of the brand
D.is knowledgeable in philosophy
小题5:Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A.Peng wears the dress designed by a Chinese designer probably to support Chinese brands
B.Many citizens found Peng Liyuan’s choice quite unexpected.
C.Black leather handbags like Peng’s are widely sold in bag stores in big cities.
D.After Peng Liyuan’s visit to Moscow Ma Ke’s clothes became more popular.

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