题目内容
There's ________ virus going round the office.
- A.a
- B.some
- C.any
- D.A and B
The film “Avatar” has received great popularity around the world. It turned out to be a great success. The film got $1 billion in ticket sales in a very short time. The story in the film happens on an alien planet called Pandora where many strange species live. Among the planet’s inhabitants(居民,栖息动物),the one that has the most similarities with humans is the Na’vi, and it is the struggle between the Ma’vi and human invaders(入侵者) that forms the story of the film.
As to the factors(因素) leading to the film’s success, many think that the entertaining feast(盛宴) for the eyes and the wonderful story shouldn’t be forgotten, but the new language invented especially for the film which provides audiences with a new experience also plays an important part.
In order to increase the truthfulness of an alien race(外星人), the film’s director James Cameron asked an expert in languages from the University of Southern California to invent a language for the Na’vi. Professor Paul Frommer combined the languages spoken among Indians, Africans and mid-Asians and worked with James Caneron for four years to create the Na’vi language based on the original 30 words that the director had already come up with.
According to Professor Frommer, the most important characteristic of the Na’vi language is that it could be pronounced. “This is an alien language but obviously it has to be spoken by human actors and actresses,” Professor Frommer told the BBC, “it has to sound natural and it should make human beings comfortable when using it.”
The language has a vocabulary of around 1000 words but Professor Formmer hopes to enlarge the vocabulary in possible follow-ups to the film and in video games. The professor hopes that one day his creation will be as successful as the Klingon alien language from the “Star Trek”films. “There’s a translation of Hamlet into Klingon and it has received great popularity among the audiences,” says Professor Frommer,“if anything like this happens to the Na’vi language, I’d be very happy.”
【小题1】What do we know about“Avatar” from this passage?
A.The story in it is a moving love story. |
B.It brings the producer $1 billion in total. |
C.The story in it happens on an alien planet. |
D.It talks about humans and aliens’ friendship. |
A.make the film a whole mystery |
B.make the Na’vi more believable |
C.make the Na’vi different from humans |
D.make the film have specific characteristics |
A.Paul Frommer. | B.An Indian. | C.James Cameron | D.Hamlet. |
A.it can be spoken by humans |
B.it has just 30 original words |
C.it has a vocabulary of 1000 words. |
D.it is like the Klingon alien language |
A.James Cameron will produce follow-ups to “Avatar” |
B.the Na’vi language is another kind of the Klingon language |
C.the director believes the Na’vi language will be popular |
D.Paul Frommer hopes to add new words to the Na’vi language |
The Elysee Palace in France enjoys equal popularity in the world with the Buckingham Palace in the United Kingdom, the Kremlin in Russia as well as the White House in the U. S. It is the residence of the president of the French Republic and the symbol of the supreme authority in France.
The Elysee palace, with an area of 11,000 square metres, is at the eastern end of the Champs Elysee in the city of Paris proper and backed by a large and peaceful garden of more than twenty thousand square metres. Its main building, quite handsome and graceful, is a two-story classical stone architecture of European style, and beside it are two side buildings facing each other and with an extensive rectangular courtyard in the middle. There are altogether 369 halls and rooms of different sizes.
The Elysee Palace, built in 1718, has a ling history of close to300 years to date. This house was at first a private residence of a count named d’Evreau, so it was called Hotel d’Evreau. It had later gone through many changes and its owners had been changed for many times, but all the residents in it were distinguished persons and high officials. The house was renamed Bonaparte Mansion when it was owned by Louis X V and Louis X VI successively when they acted as emperors. Napoleon I signed his act of abdication here when he had suffered defeat in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Nopoleon III moved in the Mansion in 1848 when he was elected president, and the house became a Royal Palace when he declared himself as emperor. The Third French Republic issued a decree in 1873, appointing officially the Elysee Palace as the residence president of the French Republic. Over the hundred years since then, almost all the president of the French Republic worked and lived there. Starting from 1989, the Elysee Palace is open to the public every year in September on the French Castles Day.
1.The number of the buildings of the Elysee Palace is ______.
A.3 |
B.4 |
C.5 |
D.6 |
2. Why does the writer mention the Buckingham Palace?
A.To tell us it’s very famous in the world |
B.To tell us the Elysee Palace is as large as it. |
C.To show that the Elysee Palace is also a symbolic building. |
D.To show that it is also the living place of the president. |
3.What’s the purpose of the passage?
A.To tell us the long history of the Elyseee Palace. |
B.To make an introduction of the Elysee Palace. |
C.To show the political importance of the Elysee Palace. |
D.To explain how the Elysee Palace became the residence of presidents. |
4. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
A.The time when the Elyusee Palace is open to the public. |
B.The reason why Napoleon I signed his act of abdication. |
C.The time when the Elysee Palace became the residence of president of the French Republic. |
D.The reason why there’s the French Castles Day. |