第三部分 阅读理解(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)

阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。

If you’ve ever seen a James Bond movie you’ll know that the hero gets around in a smart Aston Martin car. Even if you know full well that you could never afford such an expensive vehicle, you don’t forget the name, or the car.

Why? You have been subjected to product placement.

Companies pay a film to place their products in the movie. Product placement took off in the West in the 1980s and is now catching on in China. Two Hunan Satellite TV dramas arerecent examples:Ugly Wudi and Let’s Go Watch the Meteror Shower(《一起去看流星雨》).

Shampoo, mobile phones, cars and fitness centers-anything can be product-placed. Advertisers value the mass appeal of the movies, knowing that a successful film can showcase their goods to hundreds of thousands of viewers. But when product placement takes over, artistic considerations can take a back seat.

Cai Zhiyong has been product-placing for years. The Beijing-based advertiser admits there is a conflict between art and business. He explains the way one ad works. In If You are the One(《非诚勿扰》),the actress Shu Qi plays a flight attendant. The movie contains product placement for airline companies.

Cash-strapped filmmakers often have to sacrifice the quality of their work because they need money form advertisers. In the original story for Meteor Shower, the heroine’s mother owned an ice cream shop. But no ice cream company wanted to sponsor the film. For this reason, the story was changed. In the film the man drinks20 cups of milk tea where it was originally intended that he would eat ice cream.

Even here tough, you may see the power of business over the movies, since the script was perhaps written so a product could be placed-whether it was ice cream or milk tea.

1.James Bond movies are mentioned in the first paragraph to show_________.

A.how popular James Bond is    B.how great the Aston Martin car is

C.how to make a movie more artistic D.how effectively product placement works

2.Product placement can have a bad effect on the_________ of a movie.

A.atmosphere      B.mass appeal      C.commercial success  D.artistic value

3.What does the underlined word “cash-strapped” in Paragraph 6 probably mean?

A.Short of money.             B.Self-financed  

C.With abundant cash. D.Intending to earn money

4.We can learn from the adaptation of Meteor Shower that__________.

A.business has a big say in the movie

B.the original story was not suitable for a movie

C.filmmakers are more concerned about making money.

D.milk tea companies are more successful than ice cream companies.

Domestic airline passengers will be able to make phone calls and send e-mails from the sky from next year, a local carrier has said.

Shenzhen Airlines said on Monday it has signed an agreement with Geneva-based On-Air to provide passengers with in-flight communications services on all its planes by the end of 2009. The service will be introduced on three aircraft ahead of the 2008 Olympics, on two routes----from Shenzhen to Beijing and Shenzhen to Shanghai, the airline said.

Passengers will be able to use their own electronic devices to send e-mails and short messages, make calls and surf the Internet, it said. The service is expected to be of particular interest to business travelers.

According to a survey at the end of last year, China had 4.55 million mobile-phone subscribers. Ninety-three percent of those polled said they wished they could send and receive e-mails and messages while on a plane.

Despite the introduction of the new service, passengers will still be prevented from using their cell phones and laptops when the plane is taking off and landing, or flying at less than 3,000 m above sea level, the official said.

The official said the new service would not lead to an increase in ticket prices, but users of Chinese mobile-phone services will be charged the international roaming rate for any calls made from the sky.

Shenzhen Airlines is the first Chinese carrier to provide such in-flight communications services. Its president, Li Kun, said installing the facilities will cost 4.5 million yuan ($596,000) per aircraft.  However, the project still needs to be approved by the Civil Aviation Administration of China, a source said.

1. According to the report, passengers can      on the plane by the end of 2009.

A. make phone calls    B. surf the Internet     

C. send short messages      D. all of the above

2. We can learn that the new service will be introduced           .

A. on two routes   B. in two cities    C. after the Beijing Olympics       D. on two aircrafts

3. Passengers will still be prevented from using their cell phones in the following situations except_______.

A. when the plane is taking off               B. when the plane is landing

C. when the plane is flying at less than 3,000 m in above sea level

D. when the plane is flying at 4,000 m above sea level

4. It can be inferred that the new service will probably cause           .

A. higher ticket prices   B. lower ticket prices  C. higher cell phone fee   D. lower cell phone fee

5. What’s the main idea of the passage?

  A. Domestic airline needs to improve their service.

  B. Domestic airline will make phone calls and e-mails available.

  C. Chinese mobile-phone services will help domestic airline.

  D. Chinese mobile-phone will charge more.

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