题目内容
The two pictures look the same to me．It's hard to one from the other．
- A.speak
- B.say
- C.talk
- D.tell
Ang Lee won the Best Director Oscar for his adventure film Life of Pi at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 24, 2013.
Life of Pi shows a young Indian named Pi, who finds the world he knows swept away when his family sells their zoo and sets sail for Canada with a few animals. Only Pi escapes from the storm and floats in a lifeboat with a giant Bengal tiger.
“I really want to thank you for believing this story and sharing this unbelievablejourney with me,” Lee said in his speech. The film also won three other Oscars, for best original music, best cinematography(电影艺术) and best visual(视觉) effects. It won more awards than Lincoln and Argo which were also among the hottest nominees.
Coming from China's Taiwan, the 58-year-old Lee won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2001 for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and another for Best Director in 2006 for Brokeback Mountain. He is the only person of Asian to win the directing award and one of the rare people who won that award more than once.
In an after-ceremony interview, Lee said he believed Asian films would come to the main stage of the world sooner or later. "I was born in Asia and grew up with Chinese education. It is natural for me to put Asian thinking into Western things." The film, which cost 120 million U.S. dollars, has earned nearly 600 million dollars worldwide. Lee said most of the earnings came from outside China. Lee said he felt warm that he won the award on the day of the Lantern Festival, a Chinese traditional festival on which families get together to solve puzzles on lanterns and eat Tang Yuan. He wished everyone a happy new year of the snake and everybody gets lucky.
【小题1】What kind of film does Life of Pi belong to?
| A．Comedies. | B．Tragedies. |
| C．Detective films. | D．Adventure films. |
| A．One. | B．Two. |
| C．Three. | D．Four. |
| A．Families get together and have rice dumplings. |
| B．Children make lanterns out of big orange pumpkins. |
| C．People solve puzzles on lanterns and enjoy Tang Yuan. |
| D．Children go to the display of lanterns and receive red packets. |
| A．The 85th Academy Awards was held in Hollywood, California this year. |
| B．Pi was a young American who had an adventure trip with a tiger in India. |
| C．Lincoln and Argo won more awards than Life of Pi. |
| D．Asian films have come to the main stage of the world. |
| A．It was a great success as it won four Oscars. |
| B．It earned nearly 600 million dollars in China. |
| C．It describes Pi’s escape from a terrible earthquake. |
| D．It is the only successful film Ang Lee has ever made. |
Indian boy Piscine Patel is troubled by his first name. It sounds like a rude word, and his classmates laughed at him. He decides to change his name to “Pi”.
But Pi’s name problems are nothing compared to what is waiting for him.
Pi’s father owns a zoo. He decides to move to Canada. The family, together with all the zoo animals, set sail across the Pacific. One day, a huge storm hits the ship. The next morning, Pi finds his family has sunk with the ship. He is the only person still alive.
He finds himself on a lifeboat with several animals, one of which is a tiger called Richard Parker. Soon, all the animals are killed and Pi is left alone with the tiger.
As the tiger becomes hungrier, Pi starts to fish to feed him. Otherwise, he himself will become the food.
The boy and the tiger develop an amazing relationship on the sea. Although he feels hopeless, Pi never gives up. After 227 days, the lifeboat finally lands on a beach in Mexico, but Richard Parker runs away into the forest.
The ship company finds Pi and asks what happened. Pi tells them about Richard Parker but the company doesn’t believe him. Pi then tells another story in which there is no tiger, but some other shocking details(细节).
Is there really another story? If so, which one is the truth? Maybe you will have your own answer after watching The Life of Pi(《少年派的奇幻漂流》), the latest 3D movie from American Chinese director Ang Lee.
【小题1】What’s the first trouble of the Indian boy Piscine Patel?
| A．His classmates laughed at his name. |
| B．His family set sail across the Pacific to Canada. |
| C．A huge storm hits the ship with his family. |
| D．The tiger nearly killed him on the lifeboat. |
| A．they are hunted by others |
| B．they are eaten by the tiger |
| C．they are sunk under the sea |
| D．they are killed and cooked by Pi |
| A．how Pi’s lifeboat sank in the sea |
| B．how the tiger ran away from the sea to the forest |
| C．what happened to Pi on the lifeboat with a tiger |
| D．what happened to the animals in Pi’s father’s zoo |
| A．The tiger was killed at last. |
| B．Pi was saved by another ship. |
| C．The ship company believed Pi’s tiger story |
| D．Pi told two stories in the movie. |
