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Where in the world can you take an hour’s train ride, and pass a forest, a London street, a scene from the Wild West, and a burning building that never burns down? There’s only one place, and that’s Hollywood, in California. The scenes you see from the tourist train are film sets(布景) in the Universal Studios, one of the oldest and largest movie companies(公司) in the USA.

A visit to Universal Studios brings back memories of great days of Hollywood, the films and the stars. But they are only memories. Hollywood isn’t quite the same as it used to be. Costs have gone up and confidence has gone down. Movie-makers are afraid to spend their money on expensive new ideas. Instead, they repeat old ones.

The film industry is changing fast. Teenagers still go out to the movies. The theatre is a good place to meet friends away from home. But older people mostly stay home to watch series, like Dynasty have become as important to Hollywood as expensive movies. These “soap opera”, as they are called, show rich, powerful families living in beautiful homes and wearing beautiful clothes. But the actors and actresses are nearly all middle-aged, like many of the people who watch them.

Though it is soap operas that are keeping the film-makers of Hollywood in Business, big films are still being made in America. But more and more of them are made outside Hollywood. New York is the most important new center, but there are many others as well. Movie-makers have realized that they don’t need Hollywood any more. Modern cameras and real houses instead of expensively made copies in a studio. Other states, especially Florida and Texas, are working hard to take the film business away from California. They are offering better working conditions and lower cost.

But Hollywood is fighting back. The state of California is trying hard to keep its best-known industry.

1.From the passage, we know Universal Studios is ______.

A.a very large park

B.a busy London street

C.a famous movie company

D.an old Hollywood movie

2.The movie industry in California isn’t as successful as before because ______.

A.young people don’t go to movie theatres any more

B.there is strong competition from other states

C.its movie companies are in neeed of young stars

D.the state hasn’t put a development plan into action

3.Which of the following seems to be a threat(威胁)to Hollywood?

A.The use of modern cameras and other equipment

B.The interest of middle-aged film stars

C.The making of TV series like Dynasty

D.The expensively made copies of scenes

 

【答案】

1.C

2.B

3.A

【解析】略

 

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  If you go into the forest with friends, stay with them.If you don’t, you may get lost.If you get lost, this is what you shold do.Sit down and stay where you are.Don’t try to find your friends, let them find you.You can help them find you by staying in one place.There is another way to help your friends or other people to find you.You can shout or whistle(吹口哨)three times.Stop.Then shout or whistle three times again.Any signal(信号)given three times is a call for help.

  Keep up shouting or whistling.Always three times together.When people hear you, they will know that you are not just making a noise for fun.They will let you know that they have heard your signal.They will give you two shouts or two whistles.When a signal is given twice, it is an answer to a call for help.

  If you don’t think that you will get help before night comes, try to make a little house with branches(树枝).Make yourself a bed with leaves and grass.

  When you need some water, you have to leave your little branch house to look for it.Don’t just walk away.Pick off small branches and drop them as you walk in order to go back again easily.When you are lost, the most important things to do is to stay in one place.

(1)

If you get lost in the forest, you should ________.

[  ]

A.

try to find your friends

B.

stay in one place and give signals

C.

walk around the forest

D.

shout as loudly as possible

(2)

Which signal is a call for help?

[  ]

A.

Shouting here and there.

B.

Crying twice.

C.

Shouting or whistling three times together.

D.

Whistling every where in the forest.

(3)

When you hear two shouts or two whistles, you know that ________.

[  ]

A.

someone is afraid of an animal

B.

people will come to help you

C.

someone needs help

D.

something terrible will happen

(4)

What’s the meaning of the underlined sentence?

[  ]

A.

Leave branches to find your way back.

B.

Pick off branches to build another house.

C.

Use branches to find your way back.

D.

Drop branches to look for water.

(5)

The main(主要的)idea of the passage is ________.

[  ]

A.

how to travel in the forest

B.

how to spend the night in the forest

C.

what you should do if you want to get some water

D.

what you should do if you are lost in the forest

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