Part A
Directions: Read the following three texts. Answer the questions on each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
When we think of Hollywood, a term I use loosely to describe American movie production in general, not simply films made in Los Angeles. we think of films aimed at amusing audiences and making money for producers.
During the early years of the new century, as workers won their demands for higher wages and a shorter working week, leisure assumed an increasingly important role in, everyday life. Amusement parks, professional baseball games, nickelodeons, and dance halls attracted a wide array of men and women anxious to spend their hard-earned dollars in the pursuit of fun and relaxation. Yet of all these new cultural endeavors, films were the most important and widely attended source of amusement. For mere five or ten cents, even the poorest worker could afford to take himself and his family to the local nickelodeon or storefront theatre. Taking root in urban working class and immigrant neighborhoods cinemas soon spread to middle-class districts of cities and into small communities throughout the nation. "Every little town that has never been able to afford and maintain an opera house", observed one journalist in 1908. "now boasts one or two Bijou Dream." By 1910 the appeal of films was so great that nearly one third of the nation flocked to the cinema each week; ten years later, weekly attendance equaled 50 percent of the nation's population.
Early films were primarily aimed at entertaining audiences, but entertainment did not always come in the form. of escapist fantasies. Many of the issues that dominated Progressive era politics were also portrayed on the screen. "Between 1900 and 1917," observed Kevin Brownlow. "literally thousands of films dealt with the most pressing problems of the day — white slavery, political corruption, gangsterism, loan sharking, slum landlords, capital vs. labor, racial prejudice, etc." While most of these films were produced by studios and independent companies, a significant number were made by what we might call today "special interest groups". As films quickly emerged as the nation's most popular form. of mass entertainment, they attracted the attention of a wide range of organizations that recognized the medium's enormous potential for disseminating propaganda to millions of viewers.
The passage is about ______.
A.the term Hollywood
B.American movie production
C.the history and function of the film
D.the early films
第3题
A.积极发展大城市是我国城市化战略一贯的方针
B.农村城市化是我国城市化发展的重点
C.从城市化的长远发展看,应该大力发展中小城镇
D.解决城市化问题,应对户籍制度进行全面改革
E.费孝通提出了以发展乡镇企业为依托,积极发展小城镇的主张
第4题
A.积极发展大城市是我国城市化战略一贯的方针
B.农村城市化是我国城市化发展的重点
C.从城市化的长远发展看,应该大力发展中小城镇
D.解决城市化问题,应对户籍制度进行全面改革
E.费孝通提出了以发展乡镇企业为依托,积极发展小城镇的主张
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