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Here’s a movie—a sharp, sugar-rush of fun that’s guaranteed to entertain the entire family.
With some terrific computer-generated effects, a great cast and a fun-packed storyline, Robots is the best animated film (动画片) since The Incredibles. Yep, it really is that good.
Set in a world populated by robots, Ewan McGregor plays Rodney Copperbottom, a young robot who leaves his small-town home to pursue his dream of becoming an inventor.
But after arriving in Robot City, his hopes of getting a job at Bigweld Industries are destroyed when he learns the firm has been taken over by the evil Ratchet (Greg Kinnear).
Egged on by his controlling mum, Madame Gasket (Jim Broadbent), Ratchet plans to reduce half of Robot City’s citizens to scrap metal by refusing to sell the spare parts they need to survive.
Instead, he wants to make a fortune selling expensive upgrades that few can afford. As he says, “Why be you when you can be new?”
Aided by a few misfit robots known as the Rustles—including Robin Williams as the cowardly' (胆小的）Fender (“I’m made of a metal called Afraidium”)—Rodney must track down the firm’s founder, Bigweld (Mel Brooks), and convince him to save the city from Ratchet’s plans.
The first thing that’ll strike you about the movie is the thought that's gone into creating Robot City. It’s a wondrous world full of mechanical marvels including wind-up cars and walking streetlamps.
Also terrific are the special effects. This might be an animated movie but at times you’ll catch yourself thinking it’s really a live-action film.
Of course, there have been plenty of animated movies that looked the part but were let down by a weak storyline (see Shark Tale, for example).
But Robots grips (扣人心弦) right from the start thanks to a heart-warming and thoroughly engaging plot that never bores.
My only complaints are with Williams who, as usual，has a one-in-10 success rate with his jokes. Also a letdown is a romantic subplot between Rodney and a shapely robot called Cappy (Halle Berry) that doesn’t go anywhere.
Complains aside, this is a mechanical marvel that’ll have you bolted firmly to your seat.
BEST QUOTE(引述): Fender: “Even though you had a discouraging day, just remember there’s another one coming tomorrow.”
BEST BIT: Check out those amazing images.
WORST BIT: Robin Williams, character does an unfunny Britney Spears dance routine.
IF YOU LIKED…Ice Age, The Incredibles, Toy Story... YOU’LL LIKE THIS.
1.This piece of writing is a _______.
A. commercial advertisement B. film review
C. movie poster D. literary essay
2.The cast of Robots is made up of all the following actors or actresses EXCEPT _______.
A. Ewan McGregor B. Robin Williams
C. Britney Spears D. Halle Berry
3.What is Shark Tale an example of?
A. A great cast. B. A poor plot.
C. Special effects. D. Clumsy animation.
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The black robin（知更鸟）is one of the world's rarest birds. It is a small, wild bird, and it lives only on the island of Little Mangere, off the coast of New Zealand. In 1967 there were about fifty black robins there; in 1977 there were fewer than ten. These are the only black robins left in the world. The island has many other birds, of course, of different kinds, large and small; these seem to multiply very happily.
Steps are being taken to guard those remaining and to increase their number. Detailed studies are going on, and a public appeal for money has been made. The idea is to buy another island nearby as a special home for wild life, including black robins. The organizers say that Little Mangere should then be supplied with the robin's food——it eats only one kind of seed. Thousands of the required plants are at present being grown in New Zealand. The public appeal is aimed at the conscience（良心）of mankind, so that the wild black robin will not die out or disappear from the earth in our time at least.
Is all this concern a waste of human effort? Is it any business of ours whether the black robin survives or dies out? Are we losing our sense of what is reasonable and what is unreasonable?
In the earth's long, long past hundreds of kinds of creatures have evolved（进化）, risen to a degree of success——and died out. In the long, long future there will be many new and different forms of life. Those creatures that adapt themselves successfully to what the earth offers will survive for a long time. Those that fail to meet the challenges will disappear early. That is Nature's proven method of operation.
The rule of selection——“the survival of the fittest”——is the one by which man has himself arrived on the scene. He, being one of the most adaptable creatures the earth has yet produced, may last longer than most. You may take it as another rule that when, at last, man shows signs of dying out, no other creature will extend a paw to postpone（推迟）his departure. For Nature, though fair, is a hard-hearted mistress. She has no favourites.
Life seems to have grown too hard for black robins. I leave you to judge whether we should try to do something about it.
(1) The black robins are getting fewer and fewer because________.
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A. there are too many other kinds of birds on the island
B．of lack of food
C．they can't multiply
D．there is no room for them on the island
(2) The creatures that _______ can survive.
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A．come across some challenges in their lives
B．don't come across any challenges in their lives
C．are protected by mankind
D．fit the surroundings perfectly
(3) What's the text mainly about?
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A．Nature is unfair to man.
B．What the earth offers makes man survive.
C．Everything will be selected by Nature including man.
D．Small animals will certainly survive for a longer time than man.
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