As a Hollywood film star in the 1930s and 1940s, Hedy Lamarr at one point was called "the most beautiful woman in the world." What she was less known for was her scientific intellect.
Lamarr had a natural curiosity about the world around her. As young as age 5, she would spend time taking apart and rebuilding her music box to understand how it worked. But her technical mind was overshadowed by her looks-at 16, she got her first film role and quickly became an international icon.
As her acting career continued to take off during World War II, Lamarr became restless, feeling that she should do more to contribute to the Allies' war efforts. Together with her friend Antheil, Lamarr came up with a groundbreaking new form of wireless communication known as spread spectrum(光谱).The concept was to create a wireless signal that could hop from frequency to frequency, making it impossible to track or jam.They received a patent for their technology in 1942, but the military refused to implement(实施) it in their war effort.
The technology sat unused for years, until one day the military revived it in the 1960s and the system "spread like wildfire."It became the backbone of Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS and a range of wireless communication mechanisms we rely on today.By the time the technology was implemented, Lamarr's patent had been due, and she never received a single payment for her revolutionary invention.
Hedy Lamarr played the role she was expected to play in Hollywood — a beautiful object to admire on the big screen.If she yielded to society's expectations in other ways, communication as we know it could look completely different today.
1.What was special about Hedy Lamarr?
A.She was the most beautiful woman in the world at one time.
B.She was a naughty girl when she was young.
C.She was gracefully beautiful as well as scientifically intellectual.
D.She decide to quit her acting career after World War II broke out.
2.What was the main reason for Lamarr to invent spread spectrum?
A.She was no longer a popular actress.
B.She wanted to make some contribution to the Allies' war efforts.
C.She was out of condition and couldn’t continue her acting career.
D.Her friend Antheil asked her to do so.
3.When did Lamarr’s patent come into use ?
A.During World War II B.In 1942
C.In the 1960s D.In recent years
4.Why did the author write the text?
A.To remember a great inventor. B.To introduce an invention.
C.To encourage women to invent. D.To stress the importance of Lamarr’s invention.
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As a Hollywood film star in the 1930s and 1940s, Hedy Lamarr at one point was called "the most beautiful woman in the world." What she was less known for was her scientific intellect.
Lamarr had a natural curiosity about the world around her. As young as age 5, she would spend time taking apart and rebuilding her music box to understand how it worked. But her technical mind was overshadowed by her looks-at 16, she got her first film role and quickly became an international icon.
As her acting career continued to take off during World War II, Lamarr became restless, feeling that she should do more to contribute to the Allies' war efforts. Together with her friend Antheil, Lamarr came up with a groundbreaking new form of wireless communication known as spread spectrum(光谱).The concept was to create a wireless signal that could hop from frequency to frequency, making it impossible to track or jam.They received a patent for their technology in 1942, but the military refused to implement(实施) it in their war effort.
The technology sat unused for years, until one day the military revived it in the 1960s and the system "spread like wildfire."It became the backbone of Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS and a range of wireless communication mechanisms we rely on today.By the time the technology was implemented, Lamarr's patent had been due, and she never received a single payment for her revolutionary invention.
Hedy Lamarr played the role she was expected to play in Hollywood — a beautiful object to admire on the big screen.If she yielded to society's expectations in other ways, communication as we know it could look completely different today.
1.What was special about Hedy Lamarr?
A.She was the most beautiful woman in the world at one time.
B.She was a naughty girl when she was young.
C.She was gracefully beautiful as well as scientifically intellectual.
D.She decide to quit her acting career after World War II broke out.
2.What was the main reason for Lamarr to invent spread spectrum?
A.She was no longer a popular actress.
B.She wanted to make some contribution to the Allies' war efforts.
C.She was out of condition and couldn’t continue her acting career.
D.Her friend Antheil asked her to do so.
3.When did Lamarr’s patent come into use ?
A.During World War II B.In 1942
C.In the 1960s D.In recent years
4.Why did the author write the text?
A.To remember a great inventor. B.To introduce an invention.
C.To encourage women to invent. D.To stress the importance of Lamarr’s invention.
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As a film star she was a success, but as a wife she was ________ failure, so their marriage ended in ________ failure
A. /; / B. /; a C. a; a D. a; /
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As the film star began to appear，the children watched, ________.
A．fascinating B．fascinated
C．being fascinated D．having fascinated
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Life Is Beautiful is a 1997 Italian film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni. The film was a critical and financial success, winning Benigni the Academy Award for Best Actor as well as the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
In 1939 in the Kingdom of Italy, a bookstore keeper Guido, who is a Jew, falls in love with a local school teacher, Dora, who is to be engaged to a rich civil servant. Guido steals her from her engagement party on a horse. Soon they are married and have a son, Giosue.
In 1945, Guido and his son are forced onto a train and taken to a concentration camp. Despite being a non-Jew, Dora demands to be on the same train to join her family. In the camp, Guido hides their true situation from his son, telling him that the camp is a complicated game in which Giosue must perform the tasks Guido gives him, earning him points；the first team to reach 1,000 points will win a tank.
Guido uses this game to explain features of the concentration camp that would otherwise be scary for a young child. Despite being surrounded by the misery, sickness and death at the camp, Giosue does not question this fiction because of his father’s convincing performance and his own innocence. Guido keeps the story right until the end when, in the chaos（混乱）of shutting down the camp as the Americans approach, he tells his son to stay in a small box until everybody has left, this being the final competition before the tank is his. Guido tries to find Dora, but is caught and killed by a Nazi soldier. As he is taken away to be shot, he maintains the fictions of the game by marching in a goose-step on purpose…
1.How many Academy Awards does the film win?
A. One. B. Two.
C. Three. D. Four.
2.What kind of person is Dora?
A. Loving and responsible. B. Money-loving and foolish.
C. Romantic and hot-headed. D. Brave and intelligent
3.What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. Guido lies to make their life more interesting.
B. Giosue regards all that happens as a game.
C. Nazi soldiers killed all the Jews in the camp.
D. Giosue finally knows the truth.
4.This passage is most probably taken from a(n) ________.
A. game brochure B. travel journal
C. history book D. entertainment magazine
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Life Is Beautiful is a 1997 Italian film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni. The film was a critical and financial success, winning Benigni the Academy Award for Best Actor as well as the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
In 1939 in the Kingdom of Italy, a bookstore keeper Guido, who is a Jew, falls in love with a local school teacher, Dora, who is to be engaged to a rich civil servant. Guido steals her from her engagement party on a horse. Soon they are married and have a son, Giosue.
In 1945, Guido and his son are forced onto a train and taken to a concentration camp. Despite being a non-Jew, Dora demands to be on the same train to join her family. In the camp, Guido hides their true situation from his son, telling him that the camp is a complicated game in which Giosue must perform the tasks Guido gives him, earning him points；the first team to reach 1,000 points will win a tank.
Guido uses this game to explain features of the concentration camp that would otherwise be scary for a young child. Despite being surrounded by the misery, sickness and death at the camp, Giosue does not question this fiction because of his father’s convincing performance and his own innocence. Guido keeps the story right until the end when, in the chaos（混乱）of shutting down the camp as the Americans approach, he tells his son to stay in a small box until everybody has left, this being the final competition before the tank is his. Guido tries to find Dora, but is caught and killed by a Nazi soldier. As he is taken away to be shot, he maintains the fictions of the game by marching in a goose-step on purpose…
1.How many Academy Awards does the film win?
A. One. B. Two. C. Four. D. Three.
2.What kind of person is Dora?
A. Romantic and hot-headed. B. Money-loving and foolish.
C. Loving and responsible. D. Brave and intelligent
3.What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. Giosue regards all that happens as a game.
B. Guido lies to make their life more interesting.
C. Nazi soldiers killed all the Jews in the camp.
D. Giosue finally knows the truth.
4.This passage is most probably taken from a(n) ________.
A. game brochure B. entertainment magazine
C. history book D. travel journal
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Wanting his audience to feel a roller coaster of emotions, Neil Simon used his own personal experiences of family pain and sorrow to make light of the banalities（陈词滥调）of human existence.
It was this fine ability to dig his audiences' consciousness that brought him big success. With crowds turning up in groups, in 1966, Simon had four plays running on Broadway at the same time. By 1983, he was named the most notable comedy writer in the English language.
He grew up in a household filled with conflict, often caused by his quarrelsome parents' on-off relationship. When he was seven, Simon began writing comedy as a way of blocking out the “really ugly painful things in my childhood" and through the medium of laughter he escaped the heavy atmosphere at home. Often visiting the cinema, Simon was amused and then inspired by watching Charlie Chaplin and Ernst Lubitsch movies, and with his elder brother Danny created comedy sketches.
Receiving a positive reception, he would go to the local library to read books on famous comedians to help him learn the tricks of the trade. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx and studied at New York University, before starting as a clerk at Warner Brothers.
Meanwhile, Simon continued to work on his own plays, developing Come Blow Your Horn which was a fictionalized version of his upbringing. It opened on Broadway in 1961 and enjoyed relative success.
His next play, Bare foot In The Park, was a comedic account of his marriage to Joan Baim. Convinced it would be a failure before it had even begun, Simon begged the producer to pull the play. However, to his disbelief, Barefoot In The Park proved to be a runaway success, became one of Broadway's longest-running plays and pushed him to Hollywood fame when it was made into a movie starring Jane Fonda and Robert Redford.
He received an incredible 16 Tony nominations（提名）and won the best play three times. He also earned four Oscar nominations, a Pulitzer Prize, the Mark Twain Prize and countless other honours.
1.What may Simon's audience be impressed by in his works?
A.The confusing plot and painful ending.
B.The ups and downs in mood.
C.The knowledgeable and experienced characters.
D.The fine ability to recognize valuable information.
2.What can we learn about Simon from paragraph 3?
A.He was born in a large family.
B.He had a very happy childhood.
C.He worked in a cinema with his elder brother.
D.His parents couldn't offer him a harmonious family atmosphere.
3.Why did Simon go to the local library?
A.To improve himself in creating comedies.
B.To learn how to run a company successfully.
C.To make friends with some famous comedians.
D.To find out more information about New York University.
4.What was Bare foot In The Park based on?
A.Simon's marriage to Joan Baim.
B.Simon's previous failure in a play.
C.A beggar's story in Broadway.
D.A movie starring Jane and Robert.
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________ his career as an actor he never gave up his hope of becoming a Hollywood star.
A．Throughout B．Within
C．For D．In
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(2013·东北三校一模)________ his career as an actor he never gave up his hope of becoming a Hollywood star.
A．Throughout B．Within
C．For D．In
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In the western Los Angeles sits the famous city of Hollywood, known as the global center of movie studios and film stars.
The Selig Film Manufacturing Company was the first major film company to come to Hollywood, shooting its first film entitled The Heart of A Race Tout in 1908. The next year the film company built the first permanent film studio.
Although electric lights existed at that time, none were powerful enough to adequately expose film. The best source of illumination for movie production was nature sunlight. Besides the sunny weather, film producers were also drawn to Hollywood because of its open spaces and wide variety of natural scenery.
Another reason was the distance of Southern California from New Jersey, which made it more difficult for Thomas Edison to enforce his film patents. At that time, Edison owned almost all the patents relevant to film production. As a result, in the East, movie producers acting independently out of Edison’s Motion Picture Patents Company were often accused by Edison. But in Los Angeles, things were different. If he sent his men to California, word would usually reach Los Angeles before they did and the movie makers could escape to nearby Mexico.
In 1911, a second movie studio—Nestor Studios, was founded. At about the same time, many film production companies from New York and New Jersey started moving to sunny California because of the good weather.
The first Academy Awards presentation ceremony took place in 1929 in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Tickets were $10 and there were 250 people attending the ceremony.
From about 1930, five major “Hollywood” movie studios in Hollywood, Paramount, RKO, 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warner Bros, owned almost all large theatres throughout the country for the exhibition of their movies. The period between the years 1927 to 1984 was considered the “Golden Age of Hollywood”.
1.The word “illumination” in the third paragraph can be replaced by ________.
A. light B. story
C. patent D. film
2.According to the text, film producers were drawn to Hollywood for the following reasons EXCEPT ________.
A. open spaces B. various scenery
C. unique culture D. sunny weather
3.What can we infer from paragraph 4?
A. Thomas Edison moved his office to Hollywood to enforce his film patents.
B. Movie producers working on the West Coast were never accused by Edison.
C. Edison’s Motion Picture Patents Company owned many studios in Hollywood.
D. Movie makers in Los Angeles could work independently out of Edison’s control.
4.What do we know about the first Academy Awards presentation ceremony?
A. It was held in a restaurant.
B. There were 250 people receiving the awards.
C. There were 250 people present at the ceremony.
D. It was held by five major “Hollywood” movie studios.
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—Why was the famous film star wearing dark glasses when she was shopping in the supermarket?
—Because she hoped that no one her.
A. recognized B. will recognize
C. has recognized D. would recognize
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