65.
What
does the underlined part “In the unlikely event of a fire” mean?
A. If
a fire breaks out and it is getting out of control.
B. If
a fire happens when some big events are taking place.
C. In
case a fire happens, though it is not very possible
D. In
case a fire happens in a public building.
E
In the
age of reality television, success isn’t the only way to the public eye. Failure
can also create fame, just like William Hung, 21, a native of Hong
Kong.
Hung
recently has made an agreement with US-based entertainment firms Koch Records
and Fuse Music Network. They will publish a full-length record, titled “The
True Idol” on April 6.
The
idol(偶像)is a civil
engineering student at the University of California at Berkeley. He did a version(改写本)of Ricky Martin’s
“She Bangs” on the television show “American Idol 3", on January 27. The
Fox TV singing contest searches for pop stars among ordinary people. In the
case of Hung, however, his act was so bad that the judges cut him off in
mid-act. Hung’s response? “I already gave my best, so I have no regrets at all.
” That’s interesting, because any common person would have found plenty to
regret: the off-key singing, the blue Hawaiian shirt worn with pants pulled up
too high, the terrible dancing, the hips jerking(摇摆)to a beat that did not
belong to the song, maybe not even to this planet. It was, by all accounts, bad.
But,
it was this very bad act that sold well.
Marc
Juris, president of Fuse, explained it this way: “Every one of us is happily
guilty of singing our favorite song at the top of our lungs with complete
freedom, completely off-key and completely unworried. That’s what William did
and immediately won the hearts of America. ”
Whatever
it is, for the moment it’s big. Three websites devoted to Hung have gone
up on the Internet in the past few weeks. Versions of his performance have been
remixed with hip hop and techno music and have made it to the top 10 request
list at a Chicago
radio station.
So,
what does Hung think of this?
“There
were all these people saying things about me. A lot were saying I was very
courageous and that I was great on the show, but some didn’t have much respect
for me and some were kind of mean. ”
Now he
says he’s not so sure whether to distance himself from the glamour(魅力)or to accept it. Returning
to normal hasn’t been easy.