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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 unbelievable journey 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 bom 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 luck.

根据材料内容选择最佳答案。

(   ) 56. What kind of film does Life of Pi  belong to?

A. Comedies.  B. Tragedies.  C. Detective films.  D. Adventure     films.

(   ) 57. So far,how many Oscar directing  awards has  Ang  Lee won?

A. One.  B. Two.  C. Three.  D. Four.

(   ) 58. How do Chinese people celebrate  the Lantern  Festival?

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.

(   ) 59. What can we know from the passage?

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.

(   ) 60. Which of the following about Life of Pi is  true?

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.

Answer 1

56. D  

57. B根据第一段和第四段内容可知获奖作品分别为"Life of Pi"和"Brokeback Mountain"两部电影，故答案为B。

58. C根据文章倒数第二句可知中国人庆祝元宵节的活动为选项C。

59. A根据第一段内容可得出答案为八。

60. A本题为细节题，根据文章内容，只有选项A 符合原文。