South Korean films

      Beijing audience(观众) can view five new South Korean films, all with Chinese subtitles(中文字幕), until April 19 at the Tuixin Cinema on the Beijing National Library grounds.

      Two other South Korean films completed their full runs（展出） at the Tuixin Cinema earlier this month.

     Location：Tuixin Cinema, Beijing National Library, 39 Baishiqiao Road, Haidian District Telephone：86425566

     My love, My Bride

     April 15： 9: 00, 13: 00, 15: 30, 17:30, 19:30

      Kim's War

     April 16： 9:00, 13:00, 18:15

      Because You Are a Woman

     April 17：13:30, 18:15

      Marriage Story

     April 18：9:00, 13:30, 15:30, 18:15

      Sopyonje

     April 19：9:00, 13:30, 15:30, 17:30, 19:30

Leon's show

   Hong Kong popstar...Leon Lai will give a personal performance at 7：30pm from tomorrow through to September 21 at the Shanghai Gymnasium. The show is to celebrate the opening of the 93 Huangpu Tourism Festival.

   Tickets：60, 90, 120, 180 yuan RMB, available (有票) at 66 Jiangning Road.

   Address：Shanghai Gymnasium, 1111 Caixi Road N.

 Tel：29189188, 29171145, 49384952, 29197113

Russian Concert

    The Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra will put on some excellent Russian choral(合唱的) works at 7：15pm on September 26 and 27 at the Shanghai Concert Hall. They will sing Russian folk songs and a Mass under a Russian conductor who is very famous for conducting chorus(歌唱队) and has given a successful choral concert in Beijing.

    Tickets：6, 8, 10, 12 yuan RMB, available at the hall's ticket office.

    Address：523 Yan’an Road M. Shanghai

    Tel：32275694

Korean songs

    The Song and Dance Troupe of the Republic of Korea will give a Song and Dance show at 7: 30pm tonight at the Shanghai Centre Theatre.

    Tickets：10, 20, 30 yuan RMB available at the theatre's ticket office.

    Address：1376 Nanjing Road W. Shanghai

Tel：29798663

64．The audience in _______ can watch the performance given by Leon Lai from tomorrow through to September.

         A．Beijing        B．Korean     C．Shanghai      D．Hong Kong

65．_______ will be on April 18．The cinema's telephone number is_________.

         A．Kim’s War; 29798663         B．My love, My Bride; 32275694

         C．Because You Are a Woman; 29189188      D．Marriage Story; 86425566

66．________will give a Song and Dance show at 7：30 pm tonight at Shanghai Centre Theatre.

         A．Leon Lai, a Hong Kong pop star

B．The Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra

C．The Song and Dance Trupe of the Republic of Korea

D．A Russian Philharmonic Orchestra

67．The address of the Shanghai Centre Theatre is________.

  A．1111 Caoxi Road N                B．1376 Nanjing Road W

C．523 Yan’an Road                  D．66 Jiangning Road

68．Which of the following statement is TRUE?

  A．We can see all the South Korean films in the morning.

  B．Leon’s show is to celebrate a festival.

C．There are some famous pop singers in Russian concert.

D．We can enjoy the Korean songs at the Shanghai Concert Hall.

 

 Titannic 3D moved all audience to tears once again, _____our attention to Cameron’s films and the definition of true love.

A. turned       B. to turn       C. turning        D. being turned

 

If you look for a book as a present for a child, you will be spoiled for choice even in a year when there is no new Harry Potter. J.K. Rowling’s wizard is not alone: the past decade has been a harvest for good children’s books, which has set off a large quantity of films and in turn led to increased sales of classics such as The Lord of the Rings.

Yet despite that, reading is increasingly unpopular among children. According to statistics, in 1997 23% said they didn’t like reading at all. In 2003, 35% did. And around 6% of children leave primary school each year unable to read properly.

Maybe the decline is caused by the increasing availability of computer games. Maybe the books boom has affected only the top of the educational pile. Either way, Chancellor Gordon Brown plans to change things for the bottom of the class. In his pre-budget report, he announced the national project of Reading Recovery to help the children struggling most.

Reading Recovery is aimed at six-year-olds, who receive four months of individual daily half- hour classes with a specially trained teacher. An evaluation earlier this year reported that children on the scheme made 20 months’ progress in just one year, whereas similarly weak readers without special help made just five months’ progress, and so ended the year even further below the level expected for their age.

International research tends to find that when British children leave primary school they read well, but read less – often for fun than those elsewhere. Reading for fun matters because children who are keen on reading can expect lifelong pleasure and loving books is an excellent indicator of future educational success. According to the OECD, being a regular and enthusiastic reader is of great advantage.

Which of the following is true of Paragraph 1?

A. Many children’s books have been adapted from films.

B. Many high-quality children’s books have been published.

C. The sales of classics have led to the popularity of films.

D. The sales of presents for children have increased.

Statistics suggested that ___.

A. the number of top students increased with the use of computers.

B. a decreasing number of children showed interest in reading.

C. a minority of primary school children read properly.

D. a large percentage of children read regularly.

What do we know about Reading Recovery?

A. An education of it will be made sometime this year.

B. Weak readers on the project were the most hardworking.

C. It aims to train special teachers to help children with reading.

D. Children on the project showed noticeable progress in reading.

Reading for fun is important because book-loving children ____.

A. takes greater advantage of the project.

B. shows the potential to enjoy a long life.

C. is likely to succeed in their education.

D. would make excellent future researchers.

The aim of this text would probably be ____.

A. to overcome primary school pupils’ reading difficulty.

B. to encourage the publication of more children’s books.

C. to remind children of the importance of reading for fun.

D. to introduce a way to improve early childhood reading.

Men can be beautiful too, right?

CHINA is going to host the 18^th World University Student Beauty Contest in Guangzhou this December. This year for the first time the contest will include a male section. Students from over 130 countries will compete for Mr. and Miss Beauty. The contest is one of the most respected beauty contests in the world. It was copied by the United Nations University (an international university belonging to the United Nations) in 1986.

Stick to studying

LI Yining, an economics professor at Peking University, said that he would not encourage students to try their luck in the stock market (股市). “They should stress study,” Li said, in his speech at Beijing Foreign Studies University. When asked, the professor said he expected house prices in Beijing to continue to rise. Li thinks the government should provide more affordable houses for low-level income people.

Campus cinema

Students at over 100 universities will have a digital cinema on campus after the National Day holiday. The 21^st Century Digital Film on Campus Project was launched at the end of September. The ticket will cost 3-8 yuan, rather than 30-40 yuan at cinemas in town. Students often download movies online or watch DVDs. Now they can enjoy original films in the digital cinema. The digital cinema will show a variety of films other than Hollywood blockbusters (好莱坞大片).

Getting practical

All 12,000 graduates from vocational school in Shanxi Province have landed a job, according to the provincial government. In the past five years, it is estimated that over 95 percent of the professional school graduates have found jobs. However, the number for university graduates is 70 percent. Some employers said that they prefer professional school graduates who learned something more practical in school and expected lower salaries than university students.

1. In the third part, the underlined word “launched” may mean ______.

A．started

B．ended

C．told

D．mentioned

2. Where can the material be chosen from?

A．A novel.

B．A newspaper.

C．An advertisement.

D．A fashion magazine.

3.. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A．More than 130 countries will take part in the 18th World University Student Beauty Contest.

B．The ticket for digital film will cost 3-8 yuan.

C．In the past five years, over 95 percent of the university graduates have found jobs in Shanxi.

D．Over 100 universities took part in the 21st Century Digital Film on Campus Project.

4.. Professor Li thinks that ______.

A．the house prices in Beijing will keep going up.

B．the students should try their luck in the stock market.

C．the government can do nothing about housing problem.

D．the students should not only pay attention to study.

5.. What can we infer from the passage?

A． In Shanxi, the professional school graduates are less popular with employers than university graduates recently.

B．The digital cinema will only show Hollywood blockbusters.

C．The graduates from universities can put what they learned into practice more easily.

D．No men competed in the World University Students Beauty Contest before this year.

 

Gu Changwei was the first Chinese cinematographer to be nominated (提名) for an Oscar, and he is regarded by Zhang Yimou as the best cinematographer in China. Gu was behind the camera for many of Zhang Yimou’s famous films including the one that rocketed Zhang to fame: "Red Sorghum (高粱)". And now this master of the visual has taken on his first directing role with the film "Peacock". So Gu Changwei has come out from behind the camera into the spotlight (聚光灯).

Gu Changwei is very serious about his directing "Peacock". To get the authentic atmosphere, Gu took his film crew to the city of Anyang in central China’s Henan province where the story took place, to shoot the film. He chose all new actors because he didn’t want "stars" appeal to weaken the power of the story, and he also had his actors trained in the local dialect. For this film Gu has been able to get out from behind the camera to manage every aspect of the film, and to realize his own ideals in movie-making.

"Peacock" is about the life of an average family in a small town in Henan province in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Gu chose this story for his first movie because he grew up during this same pe??riod and it struck a chord with him.

“Peacock” wrapped up production in June, 2004. It’s aimed at the foreign film market and will be entered in February’s Berlin Film Festival, and released in China at the same time. But at the end of last October, Gu took “Peacock” to his Alma Mater, the Beijing Film Academy, one of the most fa??mous film colleges in China, to hold a preview. The film was warmly received by both teachers and students.

The underlined word “cinematographer” refers to a person who ________.

A. has been nominated for an Oscar     B. uses a camera to shoot films

C. directs first-class films                    D. arranges for cinema shows

Gu didn’t employ “stars” in his film because ________.

A. tars usually stick to their own acting styles

B. the stars may not be able to speak the local dialect

C. the stars may share the audience’s attention with the story

D. it was not easy for him, a fresh hand, to invite stars to join him

Gu chose such a story for his first movie because ________.

A. he was born in the early 1970s              

       B. he grew up in Henan province

C. he was popular in Henan province  

D. the story had something to do with his own experience

From the passage we can learn that "Peacock"________.

A. is the film for which Gu is likely to win an Oscar prize

B. has already become popular both at home and abroad

C. has its production started last summer

D. will be publicly shown in spring, 2005

Please choose a proper title for this passage.

A. rom behind the camera into the spotlight

B. Chinese cinematographer to be nominated for Oscar

C. New faces to appear in “Peacock”

D. "Peacock" to enter foreign film market