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Read the passage and choose the correct choice. (3 points)
Up to about 1915, movies were shot and programs were made up of several works. Then, D.W.Griffith and others began to make longer films that provided the same powerful emotional appeal as did melodrama and presented spectacles far beyond what the theater could offer. Consequently, after World War I increasing numbers of spectators deserted the theater for the movies. This trend was accelerated in the late 1920s as a result of two new elements. In 1927 sound was added to the previously silent film, and thus one of the theater's principal claims to superiority vanished. In 1929 a serious economic depression began. Since audiences could go to the movies for a fraction of what it cost to see a play, theater going became a luxury that few could afford, especially as the depression deepened. By the end of World War II, the American theater had been reduced to about thirty theaters in New York City and a small number of touring companies originating there.
1. One thing that movies could do better than the theater was to ______
A. provide longer programs.
B. provide emotional appeal.
C. provide more melodrama.
D. provide greater spectacles.
2. Up to the 1920s one objection to film was that ______
A. they were too short
B. they were silent.
C. they were too expensive.
D. they did not tell a complete
3. One thing that made people choose the movies over the theater was ______
A. World War I.
B. the fact that films were less expensive.
C. the fact that films were silent.
D. the fact that films were shorter.
4. By the end of the World War II, ________.
A. theater had become entertainment for the masses.
B. the theater was no longer considered a luxury. C. professional theatrical performances were confined mainly to New York
D. There were no theatrical performances outside of New York City.
5. When the author of this paragraph says "this trend was accelerated in late 1920s" he means that ________
A. many more people went to the theater than to the movies.
B. the shift away from the movies to the theater was slowed down.
C. the popularity of the theater was gradually increasing.
D. the shift away from the theater to the movies was speeder up.
1. Operation Stargate was the name of a secret spying operation that was run by the Pentagon in the United States for over 20 years. The aim of the operation was to (1) ............... the possibility of using mind readers, clairvoyants and astrologers to help with spying operations. The pentagon employed six of these psychic people, and the experiments were held at a secret military base in Maryland. Put in special rooms, the psychics were asked to concentrate on parular spting operations. By using a technique called 'remote viewing', they were asked to (2) ............... solutions to specific problems. The team had a limited number of successes. They were able to give (3) ............... of the layout of the building where American diplomats were held hostages in 1979, and on another occasion they assisted Customs officials by describing exactly where a drug dealer could be found. When a US diplomat was kidnapped in Italy, they described the town he was in and in addition said exactly what the building looked . (4) ..............., they had many more failures than successes. In the end, the government ordered the CIA to take over the mission. The team was then examined by a group of experts, who were not (5) ............... by the results. They decided that (6) ............... the psychics had been right a few times, this had probably just happened by (7) ............... At other times, they were probably repeating information that they had (8) ............... in newspapers orr magazines. The military authorities now have the (9) ............ task of explaining to (10) ......... they wasted $ 20 million on the project.
1- A. look through B. look down on C. look up D. look into
2- A. come into B. come up with C. come across D. come up agianst
3- A. description B. definition C. plan D. details
4- A. But B. Yet C. Although D. However
5- A. impressive B. impressing C. impressed D. impression
6- A. despite B. although C. in spite of D. besides
7- A. chance B. possibility C. occasion D. opportunity
8- A. come into B. come round C.come across D. come up against
9- A. embarrassed B. embarrassing C. embarrassment D. embarrass
10- A. crial B. criize C. criism D. cris
1.illness
2.lonely
3,misbehaved
4,refused
5,opportunity
6,fold
7.touched
8,gestures
9,curious
10,manners
Điền"in,to,on,at,of,about,with"
1. When a sequence of still pictures were set in motion, they could give the feeling
2. Early films were little more than moving photographs,usually about 1' in length.
3. As the old silent films were being replaced by spoken ones on the screen
4. More than a thousand people die in the disaster of Titanic
5. Do you feel disappoint in the service of that restaurant?
6. What do you think about horror films ?
7. The cinema changed completely at the end of the 1920s
8. The rumour has spread at the rest of the village
9. In the early 1910s,audiences were able to enjoys the first long films10. In the first 2 decades of its existence,the cinema develiped rapidly
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1. I read an interested (interest) article in the newspaper this morning
2. Mary always finds it (satisfy) to see people enjoy some thing she cooked
3.she has really learnt very fast. She has made......(astonish) progress
4. My dad is completely (satisfy)......... with what he is having in his present life
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