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.
【小题2】So far, how many Oscar directing awards has Ang Lee won?
A.One.B.Two.
C.Three.D.Four.
【小题3】How do Chinese people celebrate the Lantern Festival?
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.
【小题4】What can we know from the passage?
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.
【小题5】Which of the following about Life of Pi is true?
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.

There are about fifteen hundred languages in the world. But only a few of them are very important. English is one of them. Many, many people use it, not only in England and the USA, but also in other parts of the world. About 200,000,000 people speak it as their own language. It is difficult to say how many people are learning it as a foreign language. Many millions of people are trying to do so. Is it easy or difficult to learn English? Different people may have different answers. Have you ever noticed ads(广告) of this kind in the newspapers or magazines? “Learn English in six weeks, or give your money back…” “Easy and funny…” “Our records and tapes help you master English in a month”. Of course, it never happened quite like that.
The only language that seems easy to learn is the mother tongue. We should remember that we all learned our own language well when we were children. If we could learn English in the same way, it would not seem so difficult. Think of what a small child does. He listens to what people say. He tries what he hears.
So it is hard to say that learning English is easy. We must do a lot of practice. And practice needs great efforts and takes much time. Good teachers, record, tapes, books, and dictionaries will be helpful, but they cannot do the student’s work for him.
【小题1】How many languages are very important in the world?

A.A fewB.FewC.About 1500D.Many
【小题2】If we want to learn English well, what shall we do?
A.We should study it without any help.
B.We must do a lot of practice.
C.We need to get much money back.
D.We must live in England or America.
【小题3】How does the writer like the ads in the newspapers or magazines?
A.He thinks the ads very expensive.
B.He thinks the ads are true.
C.It never happened quite like what the ads said.
D.He believes” Learn English in six weeks, or give your money back”.
【小题4】Which language is easy to learn?
A.EnglishB.Chinese
C.JapaneseD.The mother language
【小题5】Which countries use English as the mother tongue?
A.China and FranceB.Japan and Italy
C.England the AmericaD.Germany and France

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