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A. have B. has C. have been D. has been
When you look up into the sky at night, have you ever felt that your eyes are playing tricks on (捉弄) you? It seems that the stars are moving all the time.
Actually, there is nothing wrong with your eyes. This twinkling effect is called scintillation (交光). Scintillation happens because of air movements in the earth’s atmosphere (大气). Light is “bent (弯曲的)” when it travels through different parts of the earth’s atmosphere. As the air in the earth’s atmosphere is moving all the time, the light from the stars looks as if it is moving too.
The same thing also happens to things on the ground. On a very hot and shiny day, if you look at the road, the image in the distance is not clear and things move slightly. You can also see the same effect if you drop a rock into water. The rock appears a little unclear under the moving water.
This twinkling effect causes a lot of problems for astronomers (天文学家) since they cannot observe the stars clearly. A telescope (望远镜) was sent into space so that the air movements in the atmosphere could be avoided (避免). It took a long time to build the space telescope but finally in 1990, a huge space telescope called the Hubble Space Telescope was successfully sent into space. Since then, astronomers have many important observations that have helped people understand space better.
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【小题1】What happens to the light from the stars we see when the air in the earth’s atmosphere is moving?
| A.It looks even brighter. |
| B.It looks as if it is bent. |
| C.It looks as if it is moving. |
| D.It looks like drops of rain. |
| A.rainy days | B.shiny days |
| C.cloudy days | D.windy days |
| A.The rock gets broken. |
| B.The rock becomes unclear. |
| C.The water becomes much polluted. |
| D.The water does not move anymore. |
| A.watch | B.listen | C.draw | D.explain |
| A.The stars never stay still. |
| B.It makes the stars too dark to see. |
| C.It makes astronomers feel too hot to work. |
| D.Astronomers cannot observe the stars clearly. |
Warner Brothers is an American company that produces movies and television shows. It started as a small family business operated by four brothers — Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack Warner. In nineteen-oh-three, the brothers began their business by traveling throughout Ohio and Pennsylvania showing movies using a projector (放映机). By nineteen-oh-seven, they opened a movie theater in New Castle, Pennsylvania. Within ten years, the Warner brothers started producing movies, and moved that part of the business to California.
In nineteen eighteen, their first complete picture was called “My Four Years in Germany.” The film was based on a book by the United States’ ambassador to the court of Kaiser Wilhelm. In nineteen twenty-five, they began to work to include the technology for sound in their movies.
Two years later, Warner Brothers Pictures released the first major movie with sound, or “talking picture.” It was called “The Jazz Singer” and it was a huge success. In the nineteen thirties, the company made several films that were highly praised, including “Little Caesar,” “The Public Enemy”, “The Gold Diggers” and “Forty-Second Street.”
The Warner Brothers’ success continued in the nineteen forties with movies like “The Maltese Falcon,” and “Casablanca.” Movies during this time starred popular actors like Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Gary Cooper and Bette Davis. The company continues to produce popular movies today.
By the nineteen seventies, the Warner Brothers studios had also become well set up in television. In nineteen ninety, Warner Communications combined with Time Incorporated to form Time Warner Incorporated.
In two thousand one, the company combined with America Online. The company now includes film production, cable television networks, music and publishing. This year, the company announced a deal with the CBS Corporation to form a new television broadcast network. The CW began broadcasting this month.
【小题1】According to the text, at the beginning of their business the four brothers __________.
| A.started a movie theater |
| B.started to produce films |
| C.were projectionists |
| D.settled their business in California |
| A.1918 | B.1925 | C.1927 | D.1930 |
| A.The Maltese Falcon |
| B.Casablanca |
| C.Forty-Second Street |
| D.My Four Years in Germany |
| A.The Warner Brothers has closed. |
| B.The Warner Brothers has expanded(扩张) its business greatly since it was set up. |
| C.The CW doesn’t belong to the Warner Brothers. |
| D.People in the U.S. can’t buy music records produced by the Warner Brothers. |