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C.You’d better see a doctor
D.That’s all right
You Are Going Places
I work at a local restaurant in town as cashier, seater and waiter.
I went to work feeling 【小题1】 . And to make things worse, I was busy that evening.
It’s the same thing over and over again. 【小题2】 with customers who complain about their
food and where they are 【小题3】 is too big or too small. Little things like that tend to 【小题4】
a lot of us 【小题5】 but we manage to deal with it.
Three elderly ladies walked in and sat by the windows. It happened to be the very 【小题6】
near where I keep the dirty 【小题7】 in the boxes. Trying to keep up with all the dirty tables,
customers leaving and coming in and 【小题8】 running all over the house, it was crazy. 【小题9】
these elderly women were watching 【小题10】 I was working to make sure every table was clean
and ready for the next customers.
When they 【小题11】 their meals, I took their plates back to the kitchen. They talked to me
for a while about school, how I was doing, what 【小题12】 I was in and what I planned to do in
the future.
【小题13】 they were leaving, they walked past me and one of them said to me in a 【小题14】
and gentle voice, “You are going places. And that was it.” They left the 【小题15】 and I had tears
in my eyes, because they gave me 【小题16】 to believe in myself. They 【小题17】 my spirit from
being down and gave me a 【小题18】 to keep on working hard.
People used to tell me that I couldn’t have a career in 【小题19】 until I had a degree. I’m now
a co-anchor(联合支持人)of a student-produced television 【小题20】 . And the best thing is:
I’m only 17 years old and I am a senior in high school.
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Time, a faithful company of our life, is a universal topic. People are always curious about what it is, how it travels and who it meets.
Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s smartest physicists, once said. “I’m fascinated by time.”
Many of us are, and the popularity of time travel novels, movies and TV series has proved that. After Palace and Startling by Each Step achieved astonishing ratings last year, Palace 2 aired on January 20, attracting time travel fans back to TV.
Woody Allen’s movie Midnight in Paris achieved great success. It was nominated for Best Picture, Directing, Original Screenplay and Art Direction for the 2012 Academy Awards.
Dream of heroism
Time travel TV series and movies connect both today and the past, thus offering room for imagination. Imagination creates a chance for the young to fulfill a dream that is hard to achieve in reality.
Chinese writer Xi Juan is a pioneer of time-travel stories in China. In 1993 she published a love story about a young woman time traveling to ancient times. The leading role’s modern personality and perception of love help her win the heart of a cool, handsome martial art master. Such a plot satisfies female fans’ love fantasy.
Starting from the late 1990s, novels about men traveling back to the past prevailed (盛行), with a Step into the Past as the most popular example. In these stories, the male leading roles accomplish great things with their modern skills and wisdom.
It is usually “a dream of heroism come true”, along with enviable romances.
Eye candy
“I’m hooked by the shows because they are characterized by dramatic and poetic love and have eye-pleasing actors,” Xia Xiaoyan, who works for a foreign-owned enterprise in Shanghai, explained her love for time travel TV series.
Her comment echoes a 2011 survey by Creat Marketing Research Co Ltd in China. When asked about what is so appealing about time travel TV series, 21 percent of respondents answered, “These attractive characters.”
A bigger reason behind the popularity of time travel stories, however, is the relaxation they offer, according to the survey.
Cai Yinong agrees. “Many people are facing tremendous pressure in their fast-paced lives, so this genre is more relaxing than other shows as it provides people with a terrific outlet to escape reality,” Cai told China Daily.
Cultural homesickness
“Which dynasty would you like to live in if you could travel to the past?” asked a survey launched by Shanghai University and Shanghai Social Sciences Association last December.
About 60 percent of the 2,543 respondents chose Tang Dynasty, while Qing Dynasty, and the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods were the other top two destinations.
The survey results reflects people’s definition of the good days: prosperous economy and culture, steady society, fair and uncorrupted politics, and opening up to the outside world.
As for the movie Midnight in Paris, it features modernity versus cultural homesickness. The New York Times commented, “The past seems so much more vivid, more substantial, than the present. The good old days are so attractive because we were not around, however much we wish we were.”
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l Stephen Hawking shows great interest in 1. _. l People prefer 2.____ time travel movies and TV series. l Woody Allen was 3._______ in his time travel movie. |
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Dream of heroism |
l Chances are offered for the young to fulfill 5.__________ hard to l achieve in reality. l Xi Juan’s 1993 love story6._______ a young woman traveling to l ancient times, which satisfies females fans. l From the late 1990s, novels about 7.________ traveling back to l the past became increasingly popular. l The male leading role in A Step Into the Past travels back to the past l to fulfill great things by using his 8._______ skills and wisdom. |
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Attractive actors and travel stories make viewers under pressure 9._________. |
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Most respondents chose to live in a certain dynasty for: l Prosperous economy and10.________; l Steady society; l Fair and uncorrupted politics; l Opening up to the outside world. |