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When people discover that I work as a film and TV extra (临时演员), they always ask me the same questions: Emily, is it easy to get work? Isn't it boring? Do you get to meet famous actors? Does it pay well? My answers are pretty standard as well: Yes, sometimes, once in a while, and… kind of. The life of an extra is both more interesting and more boring than you might imagine.
Extras, who play the people in crowds, on streets, or in the background of indoors scenes, can come from all walks of life. Unlike many extras, I'm a trained actor. I do get real speaking roles, but work can be hard to come by if you're not a popular star. I'm registered (注册) with an agency that deals only with extras, so I get calls all the time. The agency explains who I'll be someone in a crowd, a member of a jury, a clerk and tells me where to go. Call time is usually bright and early, so I try to get to bed at a reasonable hour.
Sometimes being an extra is a "hurry up and wait" job. In my first extra role, I was one of a group of office workers who come out of a building just as a car explodes (爆炸) in the street. We waited for hours for the scene to be shot, and then went in and out of the building about fifty times, trying to act terrified by an explosion which was not real. Then we had lunch, changed clothes, and spent the afternoons as customers in a department store.
It may sound like I don’t enjoy the work, but I do. Being part of the background in a convincing (令人信服的) way is challenging, and being on a film or TV set is always fascinating. A lot of famous actors don't even notice the extras, but the ones who do make the job a lot of fun for everyone. As for the money, it's nothing compared to what the big actors make, but it pretty much pays the bills. And, as a bonus, I've beaten my high scores on all my phone games, thanks to all the time I spend sitting around, waiting for something to happen.
1.Emily gives standard answers because ______.
A.she is proud of her job B.she wants to hide her feelings
C.she thinks it's unnecessary to explain D.they are the exact answers to the questions
2.What does Emily think of her job?
A.Busy. B.Enjoyable. C.Fashionable. D.Easy.
3.In line 21, another way to say as a bonus would be ______.
A.above expectation B.as a result C.in general D.after all
4.According to the passage, _____.
A.the famous actors look down upon the extras
B.being an extra is always a "hurry up and wait" job
C.Emily tells the truth about being a film and TV extra
D.those who want to be film or TV extras must be trained
5.We can infer that Emily ______.
A.often pays the bills for others
B.sometimes has to get up very early
C.has beaten all the phone game players
D.was in face of danger in her first extra role
九年级英语阅读单选中等难度题查看答案及解析
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The problem happens when people think that too much homework means taking work as pain and making life ___ at the same time. They feel stressed out and unhappy.
Does hard work have to be ___ ? No, of course not! Too much hard work means throwing out ____activities and making a decision to do well in something. When we do too much hard work, it means that we are challenging something, which holds power to challenge us. If we take_____of all the great work done in this world, we'll find that____ the hard work is the heart driving force, without which everything is___ .
The strong feeling to hard work cannot be put upon anyone. It comes from the deep inside of one's heart. Hard work cannot be measured（丈量）.How much hard work that you can do___on how much positive (积极的)feeling about life you have. Without hard work, a person cannot face ___ and he ends up becoming the failure in his life.
Hard work is helpful. We have to work hard in life_____it is the only duty（职责）to our life. It is better to die than live a life without goals（目标）.Hard work gives directions to our life and ___ our future.
1.A.unusual B.uncomfortable C.unknown D.unimportant
2.A.sad B.serious C.free D.busy
3.A.different B.common C.useless D.extra
4.A.care B.place C.advice D.notice
5.A.beyond B.behind C.beside D.below
6.A.boring B.incorrect C.impossible D.possible
7.A.depends B.lives C.agrees D.falls
8.A.success B.chances C.dreams D.challenges
9.A.when B.because C.unless D.although
10.A.explains B.develops C.influences D.attracts
九年级英语完型填空简单题查看答案及解析
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On June 9th, 1870, Charles Dickens died at the age of 58. The next day, a headline in The New York Times read: “Death of the Great Novelist…Will Be Remembered by the People…”
The headline was not overstating （夸大） the popularity of Dickens. Even today, the British novelist is loved by readers all over the world. Dickens created some unforgettable characters. You must have heard of or even read some of his novels: Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol and A Tale of Two Cities. A Tale of Two Cities has sold more than 200 million copies. Since 1897, there have been more than 300 film and TV adaptations（改编版本） of Dickens' works. A Christmas Carol alone has had nearly 50.
Natalie Mcknight is a literature professor（文学教投） who studies Dickens and his works. She explains why the novelist has remained so popular. One important reason, she says, is that Dickens wrote from his heart. He tried hard to produce emotional effects（情感效果） among his readers. In his works, he paid special attention to the "little man" at the bottom of society in the UK, which deeply mirrored the social reality at that time. A Christmas Carol, for example, was written to make every reader think about how they could make a difference to their society. People always enjoy works that make them laugh, cry and think. Many other 19th-century novelists wrote entertaining（娱乐的） works. However, few of them worked as hard as Dickens to touch the readers deeply.
Dickens wrote about situations and emotions that still interest people today. He used his pen to fight social inequality and gave voice to the poor. His works led to many important social changes. Readers always enjoy seeing poor people rise and succeed.
This year marks the 150thyear of Dickens' death. It's another chance to remember this great writer. Will you read or re-read some of his famous works?
1.What is Paragraph（段落）2 mainly about?
A.Personality of Dickens. B.Appearance of Dickens. C.Popularity of Dickens.
2.As a novelist, why has Dickens remained so popular?
A.He wrote for fun.
B.He wrote from his heart.
C.He mainly wrote for the upper class.
3.When people read Dickens novels, they could ________.
① meet the “little man” at the bottom of society in the UK
② know about the social reality at that time
③ not be influenced by the works at all
④ think about how to make a difference to their society
A.①②③ B.②③④ C.①②④
4.What does the underlined word "inequality" mean in Paragraph 4?
A.不平等 B.不现实 C.不稳定
5.The purpose of writing this text is probably to ________.
A.introduce Charles Dickens' life and death
B.encourage readers to read or re-read Charles Dickens' works
C.present the similarities between Charles Dickens and other writers
九年级英语阅读单选中等难度题查看答案及解析
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If you are in charge of a project, the key to success is getting everyone to volunteer to help you. As a director, I point. I suggest. I gently push the actors in the direction I want them to go.
In the 1986 movie, Nothing in Common, Jackie Gleason's character, Max Basner, gets fired from his job as a clothing salesman. The scene, shot on a boat, shows Max's despair about being out of work. I was looking for some gesture that would allow Max to show his feelings.
Jackie had far more experience at everything than I did, and at first I was frightened. What could I possibly tell "The Great One" about acting? Out of fear I decided to direct by suggestion, and sat down with Gleason to talk about the scene. "So Max is sad, right?" I said.
Gleason nodded.
"And he's probably still carrying his pens with name on them ﹣ the ones he used to hand out to his customers, right?"
Gleason nodded.
"So what would you want to do with the pens after you were fired?"
He was silent for a moment, "Why don't I throw them overboard?"
I stood up and turned toward the crew. "Hey, everybody, Jackie has a wonderful idea. Let's shoot it."
After filming the scene, Gleason called me over and smiled at me, "Garry, what kind of wonderful idea am I going to have tomorrow?"
You and your team can discover the answers to problems together. When there are no prizes or gold stars for whoever gets the solution first, you'll all benefit when everything turns out right.
1.What did the writer do to achieve success as a director?
A.He gave orders and instructions directly.
B.He pushed his team hard to follow him.
C.He said repeatedly who had the final say.
D.He guided the actors with great patience. .
2.We can infer that Jackie Gleason was ________ of the film Nothing in Common.
A.the director B.an actor C.the writer D.an character.
3.What did Gleason mean by smiling at the writer?
A.He enjoyed the writer's way of directing films.
B.He was self﹣confident about his acting the next day.
C.He had managed to get over his unpleasant feelings.
D.He had discovered the answers to all the problems. .
4.The purpose of the writer's sharing his filming experience is to tell us________.
A.different ways to direct films
B.skills of working with film stars
C.the key to success in a project
D.a wonderful idea of showing feelings.
九年级英语阅读单选困难题查看答案及解析
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How to Invent a Product
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It's unnecessary to think of something that no one has ever thought of before. Just ask yourself what exactly you are trying to improve or solve? If you want to build a better dust mop (拖把),how will it be better? What interesting or important part does it have? What could you do differently?
2.
Try coming up with 15 solutions in a minute, no matter how crazy. Or choose one of the solutions and ask how is that like my idea? "How and why does it work?" "When, where and how is it used?" "How is it described?" Let your questions and imagination come up with new ideas or find a different way of looking at a problem
3.
Visit stores that offer products similar to what yours will do and even go as far as to ask store workers for products they might sell with a similar purpose. If you have a name for your product created, search this to find out whether it is already being used.
4.
This is often the longest part of inventing! Thomas Edison's lab tested more than 6,000 different materials for light bulbs before they came up with one that worked. Make the model until it works the way you want. Sometimes you might discover an entirely different idea.
5.
When you think you've got everything ready, it's time to make a working model of your invention --- a prototype. This is what you'll use to show people what it will look like and how it will work. You can use this prototype to show and introduce to the people who might have interest.
A.Research your invention.
B.Brainstorm
C.Ask for advice.
D.Find a problem worth solving.
E.Make your invention to a reality.
F.Build, test, rebuild, repeat.
九年级英语补全短文6选5困难题查看答案及解析
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The movie Ne Zha came back to the big screen last year. And lots of people watched it.
For many years, the character Ne Zha has been familiar to many children of China. Most Chinese children came to know Ne Zha from the TV series Journey to the West. Of course, Ne Zha in that TV series is not as great as Sun Wukong. But still, Ne Zha is popular in Chinese children's hearts.
Now, the relationships among the characters in the 3D movie Ne Zha are given modern meanings. New Ne Zha in the 3D movie is more than a child. He is very happy when he feels the warmth of the family. And he does not hide his anger when he meets bad men. He lives as he wants to live.
It was hard to believe that a panda-eyed, buck-toothed(龅牙) child could be a hero in hearts of millions of people. But it made it and the movie was a big success. The film's director and screenwriter is Yang Yu. It took him three years to write this play and two more years to make the cartoon. It is one of the most successful cartoons made in China. You can enjoy the beauty created by high technology when watching it.
1.From which TV series did most Chinese children come to know Ne Zha?
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2.What does new Ne Zha look like in the 3D movie?
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3.How long did it take Yang Yu to write the play and make the cartoon?
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4.请把划线句子翻译成汉语。
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5.请给短文拟一个恰当的标题。
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九年级英语多任务混合问题中等难度题查看答案及解析
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Erin, an American woman, was born in Kansas. In 1990, when she was thirty years old, she was in a car accident. A law company helped her after the accident, and later she started to work for them.
Her job was to organize papers. One day Erin realized that there were lots of papers about some very sick people in a place called Hinkley. She started to look for more information about the town.
Erin worked very hard for five years. She visited lots of sick people in Hinkley and listened to their stories. All the people lived near a big factory and she discovered that there was a chemical called chromium in the local water. It was from the factory. Erin believed that the people were sick because of the chromium in their drinking water. She planned to help them.
Erin started law case(官司) against the factory. The factory didn’t agree that the people were ill because of the water, but in 1996 the judge(法官) ordered the factory to pay the people in Hinkley $500,000 each (there were about 600 sick people, so that was $333 million in total).
In 2000, there was a film about Erin, and it was very successful. Now Erin is famous — she has her own company and she gives talks all over the world.
1.What was Erin’s job in the law company?
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2.How long did it take her to look for the information about Hinkley?
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3.What did she find in the local water?
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4.What conclusion did she come to from her research?
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5.What did she do to help the sick people?
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九年级英语回答问题中等难度题查看答案及解析
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Most of us think the telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell.1.In fact,an Italian named Antonio Meucci was officially recognized(认定)as the inventor a few years ago. Who is Meucci and why wasn’t he known for his invention at the time?
Antonio Meucci was bom in Italy in 1808. He studies, Meucci started to experiment with electricity.2.When two places were connected with wire, people in those places could hear each other talk.
In 1850, Meucci and his wife, Ester, moved to New York. Meucci was worried about his wife ,because she had become very ill.3.To solve this problem, he connected metal cables between his home and his workshop. This way, they could talk to each other conveniently.
Meucci invited a group of people to see his new invention.They listened in amazement as the voice of a singer was heard through the wires.4.Even worse, Meucci never applied for a patent(专利) on his invention. Meanwhile, Alexander graham Bell was working on the same idea and in 1876 the patent for the telephone was given to him.
In 2002, more than a century after Meucci's death, his work was finally recognized by the government.5.
根据短文内容，从方框中选出五个句子填入文中空缺处，使短文内容通顺完整。
A. He discovered that sound could travel through metal cables.
B. However, he wasn't the first person to think of the idea.
C.Unfortunately,only a few people attended this talk.
D. He will now be known all over the world as the telephone’s invent.
E. He needed to keep in touch with her at all times.
F. Luckily, many people thought it was such a great idea.
九年级英语补全短文6选5中等难度题查看答案及解析
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Most of us have made an exercise plan, but only a few can follow it. WebMD (an American website) has listed the following tips for making exercise a habit in your life.
1.
Remember, there's no rule that says you have to go to a sports center or buy equipment like swimming suits. Many types of activities, such as push﹣up, can be done whenever it is rainy or snowy.
2.
Don't go home first. Few people are so motivated that they will go out again and exercise after they go home and change clothes.
3.
Tiredness is not an excuse. While exercising, you breathe deeply and your body makes better use of the oxygen exchange. Then, you will feel energetic.
4.
It's great when your clothes fit better. You can lift heavier things or take exercise longer. There's something good too, like getting a good night's sleep or thinking more clearly.
5.
Not everyone can start out with 10,000 steps a day. Use a pedometer, and find out your daily steps. And then, try your best to walk 300 extra steps each day. Finally, you can reach 10,000 steps a day.
A.Exercise after work.
B.Record your daily steps.
C.Do activities you enjoy.
D.Exercise even when you are tired.
E.Notice that you are better than before.
九年级英语补全短文5选5中等难度题查看答案及解析
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Most of us have made an exercise plan, but only a few can follow it. WebMD (an American website) has listed the following tips for making exercise a habit in your life.
1. Do activities you enjoy.
Remember, there's no rule that says you have to go to a sports centre or buy equipment like swimming suits. Many types of activities, such as push﹣up (俯卧撑), can be done whenever it is rainy or snowy.
2. Exercise after work.
Don't go home first. Few people are so motivated (有动力的) that they will go out again and exercise after they go home and change clothes.
3. Exercise even when you are tired.
Tiredness is not an excuse. While exercising, you breathe deeply and your body makes better use of the oxygen (氧气) exchange. Then, you will feel energetic.
4. Notice that you are better than before.
It's great when your clothes fit better, you can lift heavier things or take exercise longer. There's something good too, like getting a good night's sleep or thinking more clearly.
5. Walk with a pedometer (计步器)
Not everyone can start out with 10,000 steps a day. Use a pedometer, and find out your daily steps. And then, try your best to walk 300 extra steps each day. Finally, you can reach 10,000 steps a day.
Complete the summary of the passage above with one word for each blank.
According to WebMD, there are some easy ways to make exercise a habit. First, when you do activities you enjoy, such as push﹣up, you don't have to consider 1. conditions. Second, the best way is to exercise before going home because most people are unwilling to go out again and exercise after 2. clothes at home. Third, keep on exercising even though you feel tired. That's because taking a 3. breath will help your body make better use of oxygen exchange. Moreover, pay attention to your 4. in exercising, like losing some weight, exercising longer, etc. Finally, walk with a pedometer and find out your daily steps. Then, increase the number of steps day 5. day. Your goal of 10,000 steps a day can be achieved.
九年级英语信息归纳中等难度题查看答案及解析