Dear Mr. Shyamalan,According to the box offic...

Dear Mr. Shyamalan,

According to the box office, congratulations are in order. It seems your new movie, Split, is doing gangbusters. That means millions of people all over the world have seen or will soon see your story about a man who is suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).

As much as I'm rooting for you as an artist, Mr. Shyamalan, personally, I think you climbed to success on the overburdened backs of the mentally ill.

As a person who suffers from multiple(多面的)personalities, as well as a psychologist with professional knowledge and skills in the subject, I feel it is my duty to school you in a few facts: People who suffer from DID are not, generally speaking, scary or cheating. We are normal people who silently suffer from a painful condition in which our sense of who we are feels divided into broken parts. Our condition is often caused by a history of severe and repeated child abuse(虐待). In truth, we are victims(受害者) of unimaginable violence.

With the release of your movie, you have become my bully(恃强凌弱者). I am personally harmed by the absurd fixed image you use in Split. Your description of Kevin Crumb as one gender confused, cross-dressing multiple with a strong liking for violence has the same effect as shouting across the playground, “People with DID are dangerous nut jobs!”

I have lived for years with the shame created by movies such as yours. Despite being a successful doctor who runs a charity for adult survivors of child abuse, I live with constant anxiety that people will learn of my diagnosis(诊断). For no matter how long I’ve known someone or how highly they think of me, once they know I'm a multiple, the reaction is imaginable.

In the future, I’d appreciate it if you stopped using our pain and suffering as materials for your entertainment.

Michelle Stevens

1.What does the author think of Shyamalan’s success?

A. He was very fortunate．　　 B. He deserved it.

C. His efforts were worthwhile．　　 D. He got it in an immoral way．

2.What’s the probable cause of DID?

A. Poor living conditions.　　 B. Extreme anxiety from life.

C. Tense relations among people.　　 D. Being badly treated in childhood.

3.Who is Kevin Crumb according to the text?

A. A friend of Mr. Shyamalan’s.

B. A character in Split.

C. A patient of Michelle Stevens’s.

D. A psychologist with multiple personalities.

4.What’s the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A. To give the movie Split a review.

B. To show respect for people with DID.

C. To state that the movie Split hurt people with DID.

D. To argue that people with DID can make a difference.

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Tom had no trouble at all ________ the office building according to the note written by Mr. Smith.

A. to find       B. found      C. finding     D. find

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When you have a post-office box, the postman doesn’t bring letters to you, but you go to the post-office and get your letters and parcels from your box. The box is locked, only you have the key, so the letters and parcels are safe.

One day the headmaster of a school wrote to the post-office and asked for a post-office box for his school. He soon got an answer. It said, “We will give you a post-office box in one month.”

Three months later, the headmaster wrote to the post-office and said, “Why haven't we got a post-office box yet?”

This was the answer from the post-office:

“Dear sir,

We gave you a post-office box two months and wrote to you then to tell you. Here is the key to your box. You will find our letter to you in it.”

1.When you have a post-office box, _____.

2.The word “key” in this passage means _____.

3.The headmaster _____.

4.When the post-office said that you could get a post-office, he meant _____.

5.Which of the following might not be true?

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China's box office numbers continue to grow rapidly. It is estimated that the revenues( 收入) may pass the U. S. market's as soon as this year. However, this cinematic party could be over just as it's getting started. Some companies are working to convince consumers that the ultimate viewing experience is not on the big screen.

Instead, it's on the small ones that are already in their pockets-thanks to the technology of virtual reality.

Already,VR experience centers are popping up in major cities like Beijing and Shanghai. They give customers the opportunity to watch VR movies or play VR games for about the same price as a discount movie ticket. Online video sites, meanwhile, are also moving into the VR field. Some of them, like Youku, have launched(推出) their own VR apps and channels.

China has more than 700 million smartphone users. A large percentage of them are already more than willing to download and watch TV shows and even full-length movies on their handsets. This potentially makes them more likely to embrace VR content than Americans and Europeans.

But in fact, it's not just Chinese companies and video websites that believe VR will pull viewers away from movie theaters. International production companies that, for years, have made block busters (大片) for cinema audiences are also warning that disruptive change is around the corner.

Maureen Fan, chief executive of the Silicon Valley VR start-up Baobab Studios, after bringing her company's animated VR short Invasion to the Shanghai International Film Festival last year, concluded that the field had been evolving much more rapidly than she expected. "What I thought would take ten years has happened in one or two," she said. However, she also noted that the industry needs more people who can create great stories to move VR beyond a niche product(小众产品 ) and into the mass market. "The technology is already there. What continues to be lacking is good content," Fan said. "There's a certain amount, but we would love to see more."

1.What is the main idea of the article?

A. China's box office numbers might see a slight decline in the coming years.

B. People don't need to mind their manners when watching VR movies.

C. Movie theaters in China will be increasingly challenged by virtual reality.

D. More and more Chinese online video sites have had their own VR channels.

2.According to the article, Chinese people might be readier for VR movies than Westerners because .

A. China's box office numbers have been growing faster than those in the West

B. more Chinese people have experienced virtual reality than Westerners

C. China has been more supportive of the development of VR than Western countries

D. more Chinese people have been watching shows on handsets than Westerners

3.According to the article, it could be hard for VR movies to move into the mass market until

A. VR movies become available in theaters

B. online video sites launch more VR channels

C. VR experience centers appear in smaller cities

D. there is a larger amount of good content

4.Which of the following statements would Maureen Fan probably agree with?

A. VR movies will completely replace traditional movies sooner or later.

B. Virtual reality has been experiencing an enormous development.

C. Content matters more than technology when it comes to making movies.

D. The West will catch up with China in terms of the development of VR.

高一英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析

Mary went to the box office at lunch time, but all the tickets ____out.

A.would sell　　　　 B.had sold　　　　　　　　 C.have sold　　　　　　 D.was selling

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根据首字母和英文释义填空

1.Tickets are a__________(able to be bought or got) from the box office.

2.After fighting the fire continuously for 12 hours, the firefighters were e___________ (extremely tired).

3.I finally p___________ (to make someone decide to do something through reasoning or argument) her to change her mind.

4.She is still r____________ (to get well again after being ill or hurt, etc) from her operation.

5.Parking is b___________ (to say that something is not allowed) around the harbor in summer.

6.You may not like her, but you have to a___________ (to agree unwillingly that something is true or that someone else is right) that she is good at her job.

7.Before boarding the plane, the security officers need to check every piece of your l________ (the cases, bags etc that you carry when you are travelling).

8.She was extremely a________(feeling worried or nervous) about the results of the final exams.

9.Only 12 of the 140 passengers s_________ (to continue to live after an accident, war or illness) in the horrible air crash.

10.The full-sized double bed o__________ (to take up a space or area) almost the whole room.

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Dear Mr. Black,

I’m very thank to you for inviting me to stay with you in the come summer vacation. I have been dreamed of seeing you again so that I can get help from you in my English learning. And I’m afraid I cannot go to your place in this summer. I’ve promised my grandmother, she lives in the country, to spend this summer with her. She misses me too much that I find difficult to refuse her request. I’m busy preparing for my examinations in present. I planned to visit you in winter if it’s convenient to you.

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Dear Mr. Barton,

I am writing for the residents’ association (业主协会) to inform you of our feelings about your act. We’ve really had enough of you. Although we have tried to speak to you politely on several occasions, you have always answered with a stream of verbal abuse(辱骂).

Ever since you moved in three months ago, you have shown very little consideration for the other residents of this building, though many residents expressed their unhappiness with you. For the past six weekends, you have held very noisy parties, which have not finished until early the next morning. As you know, most of the people here are elderly or have very young children, and the noise keeps them awake all night. You don’t have to be so noisy, do you? Last weekend the situation deteriorated when two of your friends fought with each other on the first floor. The fighting was so bad that the police had to be called. What’s more, your friends left the stairs in a terrible state --- they even broke two windows on their way out! We feel that we can’t bear this type of act.

We strongly demand that you pay for this damage to the window soon. If you don’t and you carry on being a nuisance(令人讨厌的人或物). We will kick you out! Legal steps will be taken if necessary.

Yours sincerely

1.What does the writer feel?

2.What does the word “deteriorated” mean?

3.What is the main purpose of the letter?

4.Why were the police called?

5.What is true according to the letter?

高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Dear Mr. Barton,

I am writing for the residents’ association (业主协会) to inform you of our feelings about your act. We’ve really had enough of you. Although we have tried to speak to you politely on several occasions, you have always answered with a stream of verbal abuse(辱骂).

Ever since you moved in three months ago, you have shown very little consideration for the other residents of this building, though many residents expressed their unhappiness with you. For the past six weekends, you have held very noisy parties, which have not finished until early the next morning. As you know, most of the people here are elderly or have very young children, and the noise keeps them awake all night. You don’t have to be so noisy, do you? Last weekend the situation deteriorated when two of your friends fought with each other on the first floor. The fighting was so bad that the police had to be called. What’s more, your friends left the stairs in a terrible state --- they even broke two windows on their way out! We feel that we can’t bear this type of act.

We strongly demand that you pay for this damage to the window soon. If you don’t and you carry on being a nuisance(令人讨厌的人或物). We will kick you out! Legal steps will be taken if necessary.

Yours sincerely,

Resident

1.What does the writer feel?

A. Excited          B. surprised            C. Angry            D. Happy

2.What does the word “deteriorated” mean?

A. Changed          B. Improved         C. Moved        D. Worsened

3.What is the main purpose of the letter?

A. To ask Mr. Barton to leave the building for the peace.

B. To inform Mr. Barton of the noise he made.

C. To talk about what Mr. Barton did.

D. To give a warning to Mr. Barton.

4.What is true according to the letter?

A. Mr. Barton paid no attention to the others’ unhappiness.

B. Mr. Barton never replied to the others’ unhappiness

C. Mr. Barton always said sorry to those unhappy with him.

D. Mr. Barton never apologized to the other residents.

高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Mr. Grey was the manager of a small office in London. He lived in the country, and came up to work by train. He liked walking from the station to his office unless it was raining, because it gave him some exercise.

One morning he was walking along the street when a stranger stopped him and said to him, “You may not remember me, sir, but seven years ago I came to London without a penny in my pockets, I stopped you in this street and asked you to lend me some money, and you lent me £ 5, because you said you were willing to take a chance so as to give a man a start on the way to success.”

Mr. Grey thought for a few minutes and then said, “Yes, I remember you. Go on with your story!” “Well,” answered the stranger, “are you still willing to take a chance?”

1.Mr. Grey liked walking to his office because ________.

A．he couldn’t afford the buses

B．he wanted to save money

C．he wanted to keep in good health

D．he could do some work on the way

2.Mr. Grey had been willing to lend money to a stranger in order to_______

A．give him a start in life                  B．help him on the way to success

C．make him rich                           D．gain more money

3.One morning the stranger recognized Mr. Grey, and_______

A．wanted to return Mr. Grey the money

B．again asked Mr. Grey for money

C．would like to make friends with him

D．told Mr. Grey that he had been successful since then

4.In the second paragraph,“… take a chance” means ______.

A．Mr. Gray happened to meet a stranger

B．Mr. Grey had a chance to help a stranger

C．Mr. Grey helped a stranger by chance

D．Mr. Grey took the risk that the stranger would not give back the money which he lent him

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