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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.
【小题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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
选词填空（每小题1分，共10分）
| excite tell think surprise not mad anymore will however call |
句型转换
1. What do you think of the soap opera?（同义句）
_________ do you _________ the soap opera?
2. Tom had to stay at home yesterday.（一般疑问句）
_______Tom _______ to stay at home yesterday?
3. Wear sports shoes for gym class. （否定句）
________ ________ sports shoes for gym class.
4 . It is an interesting book. (改为感叹句)
________ _________ interesting book!
5.They are going to have a picnic this Sunday. (改为一般疑问句)
_________ they going to _________ a picnic this Sunday?
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根据下列句子及所给单词的首字母，在答卷上按题号写出各单词的完全形式（每空限填一词）。
【小题1】I didn’t watch the soap opera last night. So what was the r______ of it?
【小题2】Our English teacher has a computer, but he hardly ever s______ the Internet.
【小题3】Don’t f______ to buy me a pen when you are in the shop.
【小题4】Everybody must have a very healthy l______.
【小题5】There must be s______ different between these two skirts. Let’s look at them carefully.
【小题6】I b______ Tom can learn English well.
【小题7】I think Jiuzhaigou is a good place for s______.
【小题8】We must exercise every day to keep h______.
【小题9】I brush my t______ twice a day.
【小题10】We walk with our feet. We see with our e______.