Question

The Oscars, or to give them their proper name, “The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards of Merit”, are awards given to people who work in specific areas of the film industry.

Actors and directors, costume(服装)designers and songwriters, make-up artists and sound engineers, among others, all have the chance to win an Oscar.

The awards themselves are small statuettes(小雕像), around 34cm tall and weighing just over 3. 5 kg. The golden statuettes are all the same—they show a man(with no clothes on!)holding a sword and standing on a reel of film.

Sadly for the winner, the statue is not solid gold, but just goldplated. In actual value it is only worth around $250. However, although the statuette itself is not worth very much, winning one can be worth millions of dollars to the film studios.

Winning an Oscar means that the worldtop film makers liked your work. It is the best publicity any film can get. If a film can have “Academy Award Winner” under its title, many more people will go to see it.

The Academy was first formed in May 1927, and the awards have been given every year since then. This ceremony, when the awards are presented to the winners, is the highlight of the Hollywood calendar. It is the most glamorous(富有魅力的)and star-studded(星光灿烂的)evening of the whole year, and is shown on television in 90 countries around the world and watched by over 500 million people.

Everyone who is famous in the film world attends the awards ceremony. Most arrive in huge limousines, wearing wonderful clothes. The Oscar ceremony is the one night when Hollywood really is as glamorous as it appears.

For the first few years of the Academy, the Academy Awards themselves were simply called “The Statuettes”. There are various stories which explain why they were at last given the nick mane “Oscars”. The most popular is that the Academy librarian, Margaret Herrick, exclaimed when she saw the golden statuette, “He looks just like my Uncle Oscar!” and the name stuck.

Whatever the reason, it is certainly easier to say “Oscar”, than to say “Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards of Merit”, so the little golden man is now on a first name basis with everyone.

1. The passage is really about________________.

A. Hollywood

B. an award in the film industry

C. an award ceremony

D. a famous film star, Oscar

2. One story says that the Oscars are named after________________.

A. Oscar Hammerstein

B. the man who invented them

C. the Academy librarian’s uncle

D. one of the “Oscar” winners

3. The awards were first simply called________________.

A. Oscars

B. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards of Merit

C. Uncle Oscars

D. The Statuettes

4. A reader can learn from the text that________________.

A. only actors can have the chance to win Oscars

B. an Oscar is made completely of gold

C. winning an Oscar is worth millions of dollars to film studios

D. the Academy Awards are given every four years

5. The best title for the passage would be________________.

A. Everybody’s Favorite Uncle

B. Great American Films

C. Winning is Not Important

D. History of Film Industry

 

Answer 1

答案：B;C;D;C;A
提示：

1 本文主要讲述了电影业的一个奖项，故本题选B 2 2题参见文章倒数第二段。 3 从文章倒数第二段the Academy Awards themselves were simply called “The Statuettes”可知本题选D 5 5题为文章确定一个题目，A项是最佳选择。