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【题目】Hidden camera shows are popular all over the world. But the 【1】 (origin) concept started way back in the 1940s with Candid Camera.

Candid Camera 【2】 (create) and produced by Allen Funt. It started out on radio in 1947, but ended up on TV in 1948. The idea for the show was simple. Hidden cameras would film ordinary people in unusual 【3】 (situation). When the joke was revealed, the victims would be told the show’s catch phrase, “Smile! You’re on Candid Camera.”

The humour was based on putting real people in fake situations. There 【4】 (be) many versions of the show since then, including Just For Laughs Gags and Trigger Happy TV, but Candid Camera was the 【5】 (begin).

There was bad news for the show in 2001. Philip Zelnick, 35,【6】 of the victims of the show, started a lawsuit (诉讼)【7】 Peter Funt (the son of the founder). Zelnick claimed he was injured during one of the show’s tricks. As part of this prank (恶作剧), Funt was posing as a security guard at 【8】 airport. He instructed passengers 【9】 (go) through a fake X-ray machine. When Zelniek was getting off the conveyor belt, he got injured in the leg. The jury (陪审团) awarded Zelnick a total of 5300,000, with Peter Funt and the show 【10】 (order) to pay $ 150,000 each.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】original

【2】was created

【3】situations

【4】have been

【5】beginning

【6】one

【7】against

【8】an

【9】to go

【10】ordered

【解析】本文主要讲了抓拍秀闻名于全世界，但是有时候它也会惹来麻烦。

【1】考查形容词。修饰名词concept，用形容词，所以填original。

【2】考查时态和语态。Candid Camera 与create之间是被动关系，用被动语态，表示发生在过去的事情，用一般过去时，综上所述，应该用一般过去时的被动语态，所以填was created。

【3】考查名词单复数。隐藏的照相机可以拍摄普通人的不同寻常的情况。“不同寻常的情况”是复数意义，所以填situations。

【4】考查时态。表示过去发生的、持续到现在的动作或状态，用现在完成时，所以填have been。

【5】考查名词。但是袖珍照相机是起点。这里应该使用名词，所以填beginning。

【6】考查固定用法。受害人之一开始提起诉讼反对Peter Funt。表示“……之一”，所以用one of + 可数名词复数，填one。

【7】考查介词。受害人之一开始提起诉讼反对Peter Funt。表示反对，所以填against。

【8】考查冠词。Funt在一个机场伪装成安保人员的样子。泛指“一个机场”，且airport的首字母发音是元音，所以填an。

【9】考查固定用法。instruct sb. to do sth. 命令某人干某事，是固定用法，所以填to go。

【10】考查时态。表示发生在过去的事情，用一般过去时，所以填ordered。