Cannes will rock to the sound of a cancan dance this year when Moulin Rouge by the Australian director Baz Luhrmann opens the French film festival(电影节)in May.The musical stars Nicole Kidman as a singer, and John Leguizamo as the artist Henri de Youlouse-Lautree.It will be competing for the palmed’Or, the festival’s top prize.The festival runs to May 21.
The American actor Tommy Lee Jones, 54, has married his longtime girlfriend, Dawn Maria Laurel, 36, in a private wedding in San Antonio.“It wasn’t a big to-do,”said Fred Biery, a U.S.District Judge who performed the service.He refused to discuss things further.“These are very private people,”he said.
Loretta Lynn is being treated for a very bad cold in Tennessee and will miss several appearances.The country dinger, 65, was admitted to a hospital near her home in Hurricane Mills.“She is in good condition, but the doctors are watching her closely,”a spokeswoman said.
The French-Algerican singer Enrico Macias was named a United Nations peace messenger.Enrico joins eight other people who act as goodwill envoys(使者)for the writer Elie Wiesel and the basketball player Magie Johnson.
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We can learn from the text that Henri de Toulouse-Lantree is ________.
Every kid wishes to be an adult, But now as grown-ups, some adults find they cannot leave childhood behind.They become“kidults”(kid+adult).Being a kidult has become a lifestyle choice among young people across Asia.
Some kidults collect toys they once played with.Hello Kitty, Garfield, and Snoopy have many adult fans around the world.It is not unusual to see a 20-something woman with a big, Garfield shaped cushion on her sofa or a Hello Kitty mobile phone accessory(配饰).
Other kidults still enjoy children’s stories and fairy tales.For example, Bloomsbury even published the Harry Potter novels with an adult cover.That way, no one else on the subway will know that an adult is actually reading a children’s book!
“Kidults can be like vitamins to society.Adults who value their childhood and hold on to pure, child-like emotion may be needed in such a rough and dry society,”said Lee Sojung, professor of Foreign Studies at Hankuk University(韩国外国语大学).He added that kidult culture may fill the generation gap between adults and kids.It could give children and their parents books, movies, and cartoon shows to enjoy together.He may be right.
Tim Greenhalgh, a professor, explained that some kidults just refuse to grow up.They value childhood because life in a busy and stressful city frightens them.Kiduhs would like to forget their age and openly show their fear of society and adulthood.
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We can infer from the passage that ________.
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A.
Kidults miss their childhood so much that they can’t give up their toys
B.
Bloomsbury knows some kidults don’t want people to know that they are kidults
C.
Kidults like to have vitamins very much
D.
Some toys are so interesting that even adults like them very much
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According to the author, being a kidult is good in some way except that ________.
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it can improve the relationship between parents and their kids