题目内容
Nearly 600 years ago in Beijing,some workers made an excellent bell(钟,铃).It was 6.75 metres high,3.3 metres in diameter(直径)and 46.5 tons(吨)in weight.Its loud and clear sound could be heard 50 kilometres away at night when everything was quiet.Even now it would be very difficult to make such a wonderful bell.
But then there was a problem:how could they move it to the temple? The big bell was made in their factory:The temple was on the other side of the city.They had to move it through the streets across the city.At that time they had no machine to lift it or move it for such a long way.
Finally they had an idea:they dug(挖)a small river from their factory to the temple.Then they poured water into it.In winter the water in the small river froze to make an “ice road”.They tied thick wood to the bottom of the bell,pulled the bell to the ice and skated it along on top of the ice to the temple.
This wonderful bell,named the Yong Le Bell,is the largest one in China.Now it is stored in the Great Bell Temple in the west of Beijing.
1.Which sentence is TRUE about the Yong Le Bell?
A.It had loud and clear sound. B.It was made more than 600 years ago.
C.It was 6.75 tons in weight. D.At that time it was very easy to make it.
2.Which of the following is UNNECESSARY for the workers to move the bell?
A.The small river. B.Cold weather.
C.The thick wood. D.Quiet night.
3.What does the underlined word “froze” mean?
A.融化 B.上冻 C.上涨 D.下降
4.What’s the main idea of this passage?
A.How the bell was moved. B.How the bell was made.
C.Who made the bell. D.Where the bell was made.
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Ang Lee won the Best Director Oscar for his adventure film Life of Pi at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 24, 2013.
Life of Pi shows a young Indian named Pi, who finds the world he knows swept away when his family sells their zoo and sets sail for Canada with a few animals. Only Pi escapes from the storm and floats in a lifeboat with a giant Bengal tiger.
“I really want to thank you for believing this story and sharing this unbelievablejourney with me,” Lee said in his speech. The film also won three other Oscars, for best original music, best cinematography(电影艺术) and best visual(视觉) effects. It won more awards than Lincoln and Argo which were also among the hottest nominees.
Coming from China's Taiwan, the 58-year-old Lee won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2001 for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and another for Best Director in 2006 for Brokeback Mountain. He is the only person of Asian to win the directing award and one of the rare people who won that award more than once.
In an after-ceremony interview, Lee said he believed Asian films would come to the main stage of the world sooner or later. "I was born in Asia and grew up with Chinese education. It is natural for me to put Asian thinking into Western things." The film, which cost 120 million U.S. dollars, has earned nearly 600 million dollars worldwide. Lee said most of the earnings came from outside China. Lee said he felt warm that he won the award on the day of the Lantern Festival, a Chinese traditional festival on which families get together to solve puzzles on lanterns and eat Tang Yuan. He wished everyone a happy new year of the snake and everybody gets lucky.
【小题1】What kind of film does Life of Pi belong to?
| A.Comedies. | B.Tragedies. |
| C.Detective films. | D.Adventure films. |
| A.One. | B.Two. |
| C.Three. | D.Four. |
| A.Families get together and have rice dumplings. |
| B.Children make lanterns out of big orange pumpkins. |
| C.People solve puzzles on lanterns and enjoy Tang Yuan. |
| D.Children go to the display of lanterns and receive red packets. |
| A.The 85th Academy Awards was held in Hollywood, California this year. |
| B.Pi was a young American who had an adventure trip with a tiger in India. |
| C.Lincoln and Argo won more awards than Life of Pi. |
| D.Asian films have come to the main stage of the world. |
| A.It was a great success as it won four Oscars. |
| B.It earned nearly 600 million dollars in China. |
| C.It describes Pi’s escape from a terrible earthquake. |
| D.It is the only successful film Ang Lee has ever made. |