When the Japanese attacked America’s ships at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, they did it secretly. The makers of the movie Pearl Harbor have behaved differently.
The noise about Pearl Harbor, made by Disney,has reached its highest point with its premiere (首次公演) before the movie opens in cinemas across the US at the start of the Memorial Day holiday weekend, a time to recall national heroes who sacrificed their lives on the battlefield.
As Ben Affleck is the main star, the movie seems sure to become a success in the United States at least.
At almost three hours in length, it promises to be a good old Hollywood movie. There is a love story. Affleck and his co-star, Josh Hartnett, both fall in love with the navy nurse, Kate Beckinsale and, of course, there is much human courage and love of country.
It’s certain that Disney will be accused of “changing” history. The showing of actual events in a movie always causes arguments.
Bits of the story are deliberately not mentioned in the movie. It does not address the theory held by some historians that President Franklin Roosevelt knew about Japan’s intention to attack the ships in Pearl Harbor.It is said he did nothing, as he was aware that such a blow would allow him to take America into the Second World War.
Japan remains sensitive about being accused of wartime atrocities (暴行). And Disney is sensitive about its business in Japan, where it has a theme park.
Not all the reviews of the movie have been full of praise. A reviewer for Newsweek, who was given an early preview, acknowledged that the 40-minute sequence (连续镜头) showing the attack itself was powerful. The attack comes quite late in the movie, however, and the reviewer was less impressed with the characters and the love story.
“Almost every line of the dialogue sounds like it comes from an old movie, ” the reviewer wrote.
1.From the passage we can infer that the Memorial Day refers to
A.the day the United States was founded |
B.the day people remember their ancestors |
C.a day people celebrate the victories of World War Ⅱ |
D.a day people remember those who died in wars |
2.From the passage we know that Ben Affleck .
A.regarded Josh Hartnett as an enemy |
B.may be a very popular movie star |
C.experienced the Pearl Harbor Incident |
D.was in love with the actress Kate Beckinsale |
3.Which of the following statements is TRUE about Pearl Harbor?
A.The movie will cause a lot of arguments. |
B.The movie has made the Japanese angry. |
C.The movie truly describes the Pearl Harbor Incident. |
D.The movie shows that President Roosevelt knew about Japan’s intention. |
4.According to the passage, what does the reviewer for Newsweek think of the movie?
A.The scenes of the attack leave no impression. |
B.The dialogue in the movie is original and creative. |
C.The attack scenes occupy too much time of the movie. |
D.The characters and the love story are less attractive. |
5.Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A.Ben Affleck in Pearl Harbor. |
B.The True Fact of Pearl Harbor. |
C.Reviewer:Pearl Harbor is a success. |
D.Attention!Pearl Harbor is arriving. |
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题
When the Japanese attacked America’s ships at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, they did it secretly. The makers of the movie Pearl Harbor have behaved differently.
The noise about Pearl Harbor, made by Disney,has reached its highest point with its premiere (首次公演) before the movie opens in cinemas across the US at the start of the Memorial Day holiday weekend, a time to recall national heroes who sacrificed their lives on the battlefield.
As Ben Affleck is the main star, the movie seems sure to become a success in the United States at least.
At almost three hours in length, it promises to be a good old Hollywood movie. There is a love story. Affleck and his co-star, Josh Hartnett, both fall in love with the navy nurse, Kate Beckinsale and, of course, there is much human courage and love of country.
It’s certain that Disney will be accused of “changing” history. The showing of actual events in a movie always causes arguments.
Bits of the story are deliberately not mentioned in the movie. It does not address the theory held by some historians that President Franklin Roosevelt knew about Japan’s intention to attack the ships in Pearl Harbor.It is said he did nothing, as he was aware that such a blow would allow him to take America into the Second World War.
Japan remains sensitive about being accused of wartime atrocities (暴行). And Disney is sensitive about its business in Japan, where it has a theme park.
Not all the reviews of the movie have been full of praise. A reviewer for Newsweek, who was given an early preview, acknowledged that the 40-minute sequence (连续镜头) showing the attack itself was powerful. The attack comes quite late in the movie, however, and the reviewer was less impressed with the characters and the love story.
“Almost every line of the dialogue sounds like it comes from an old movie, ” the reviewer wrote.
1.From the passage we can infer that the Memorial Day refers to
A.the day the United States was founded |
B.the day people remember their ancestors |
C.a day people celebrate the victories of World War Ⅱ |
D.a day people remember those who died in wars |
2.From the passage we know that Ben Affleck .
A.regarded Josh Hartnett as an enemy |
B.may be a very popular movie star |
C.experienced the Pearl Harbor Incident |
D.was in love with the actress Kate Beckinsale |
3.Which of the following statements is TRUE about Pearl Harbor?
A.The movie will cause a lot of arguments. |
B.The movie has made the Japanese angry. |
C.The movie truly describes the Pearl Harbor Incident. |
D.The movie shows that President Roosevelt knew about Japan’s intention. |
4.According to the passage, what does the reviewer for Newsweek think of the movie?
A.The scenes of the attack leave no impression. |
B.The dialogue in the movie is original and creative. |
C.The attack scenes occupy too much time of the movie. |
D.The characters and the love story are less attractive. |
5.Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A.Ben Affleck in Pearl Harbor. |
B.The True Fact of Pearl Harbor. |
C.Reviewer:Pearl Harbor is a success. |
D.Attention!Pearl Harbor is arriving. |
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Only after being attacked by the Japanese in Pearl Harbor ___in the Second World War thoroughly.
A.had America involved | B.was America involved |
C.America had involved | D.America was involved |
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Only after being attacked by the Japanese in Pearl Harbor ________in the Second World War thoroughly.
A. had America involved B. was America involved
C. America had involved D. America was involved
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Howard Weistling wanted to be a comic strip (连环漫画) artist. But when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, he joined the Army.
After flight engineer training, Howard was shipped off to Europe. On his maiden flight, his plane was shot down over Austria. The entire crew of eight men landed safely. But a farmer found Howard hiding in his barn and turned him over to a prison of war camp in Barth, Germany. It was freezing and the men almost starved to death eating the guards' garbage.
Hungry and homesick Howard coped the only way he knew how. He drew a comic strip. The book, made of cigarette wrappers bound together with scrap metal, was sent around the camp. Every couple of days he would add a new panel. One panel at a time would be passed around the whole camp. And they'd have something to look forward to.
After an entire year of this, they woke one morning to find their guards gone. They fled and Howard finally got to go home. Just lucky to get out alive, he left the book behind.
Back home in California, Howard soon had a wife and kids to feed so he had to set aside his dream of becoming an artist. He took a job as a gardener instead.
Morgan shared his father's artistic gifts. At 15 his parents sent him to art school. And Howard got to see his son become a well﹣known painter before he died in 2002. That's how, seven decades after the war, when a stranger in New York googled the name "Weistling," he found Morgan online.
"I get an email from a gentleman and he says, ‘I think I may have some drawings your father did when he was a POW (prisoner of war) in World War II,'" Morgan recalls. "‘Would you like them?' And I just stared at that email and started crying."
Luckily Howard had engraved his name on the comic book, which is how the man from New York City had connected with Morgan. A couple of days later when it arrived in California, Morgan couldn't believe it. "It was like getting my father back," Morgan says. "It was like him being able to tell me the story over again ﹣ only this time it was real in my hands."
1.The passage details Howard's life as a POW to show that .
A.war cannot stop his pursuit of success.
B.passion for art helped ease his sufferings.
C.loss of freedom encouraged his creativity.
D.misery drives him to fight against his fate.
2.What can we infer about Howard's comic strip in prison?
A.It satisfied prisoners' curiosity.
B.It aroused the guards' sympathy.
C.It was popular among the prisoners.
D.It raised prisoners' confidence in freedom.
3.What contributes to the stranger's success in finding Morgan?
A.The email from a gentleman.
B.Howard's experience in the war.
C.Morgan's recalling of his father.
D.Morgan's status in the field of art.
4.What can we infer about Morgan from the last paragraph?
A.He didn't believe the stranger's story.
B.He was excited to get the comic strip.
C.He couldn't wait to tell others his good news.
D.He hadn't heard about his father's war stories.
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A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not ______ ships are built for.
A. what B. whom
C. why D. when
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A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not ______ ships are built for.
A. what B. whom C. why D. when
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A ship in the harbor is safe,but that’s not __________ ships are built for.
A.what B.that C.why D.how
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When she entered the police station, she recognized the man who ______ her at once.
A.was attacking B.attacked C.had attacked D.would attack
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The long, lonely voyage of the Japanese ghost ship is over.
A US Coast Guard cutter poured cannon fire into an abandoned Japanese ghost ship that had been drifting since last year’s tsunami (海啸), sinking the vessel into waters more than 305 meters deep in the Gulf of Alaska and removing the danger it posed to shipping and the coastline on Thursday.
The cutter’s guns tore holes in the 164-foot Ryou-Un Maru, and then it began to take on water and lean to one side. In about four hours, the ship disappeared into the sea, said Chief Petty Officer Kip Wadlow.
The ship had no lights or communications system, and its tank was able to carry more than 7,570 liters of diesel fuel. Officials, however, didn’t know exactly how much fuel was aboard.
“It’s less risky than it would be running into shore or running into other ships,” coast guard spokesman Paul Webb said.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency studied the problem and decided it is safer to sink the ship than let the fuel evaporate and pollute the sea environment.
Ryou-Un Maru was probably among the first wave of the 1.5 million tons of garbage of refrigerators, washing machines, televisions, roofs and fishing nets heading toward North America since last March when a magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck Japan.
As the coast guard was ready to fire on the vessel, a Canadian fishing vessel, the 19-meter Bernice C, claimed the rights to save the ghost ship in international waters.
Plans to sink it were paused so the Canadian crew could have a chance to take the stricken ship. A Canadian official with knowledge of the situation told the Associated Press that the Bernice C was unable to drag it.
Then the Canadian boat left, and once it was about 10 kilometers from the Japanese vessel, the Coast Guard began to fire, first with 25 mm shells, then a few hours later with ammunition (弹药)twice that size.
State officials have been working to test the danger of garbage including materials affected by a damaged nuclear power plant, to see if Alaska residents, seafood or wild animals could be affected.
1.The plan to fire on the Japanese ghost ship was paused because ____________.
A.the ghost ship was beyond the reach of the Coast Guard’s guns
B.state officials worried the ghost ship might give out radiation
C.the shells were not powerful enough to sink the ghost ship
D.a Canadian fishing boat wanted to save the ghost ship
2.What’s the right order of the events related to the ship of Ryou-Un Maru?
a. Its long, lonely voyage came to an end.
b. The US Coast Guard sank it into the sea.
c. The ship began to float across the Pacific Ocean.
d. A big tsunami was caused by great earthquakes.
e. Bernice C claimed rights to save the ghost ship.
A.d, c, e, b, a B.a, b, d, c, e C.c, e, d, a, b D.b, a, d, c, e
3.Which of the following could be the best title for the passage?
A.Japanese ghost ship arriving at US
B.Tsunami garbage heading to US
C.Japanese ghost ship polluting the Pacific
D.Cannon fire sinking Japanese ghost ship
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The long, lonely voyage of the Japanese ghost ship is over.
A US Coast Guard cutter poured cannon fire into an abandoned Japanese ghost ship that had been drifting since last year’s tsunami, sinking the vessel into waters more than 305 meters deep in the Gulf of Alaska and removing the danger it posed to shipping and the coastline on Thursday.
The cutter’s guns tore holes in the 164-foot Ryou-Un Maru, and then it began to take on water and lean to one side. In about four hours, the ship disappeared into the sea, said Chief Petty Officer Kip Wadlow.
The ship had no lights or communications system, and its tank was able to carry more than 7,570 liters of diesel fuel. Officials, however, didn’t know exactly how much fuel was aboard.
“It’s less risky than it would be running into shore or running into other ships,” coast guard spokesman Paul Webb said.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency studied the problem and decided it is safer to sink the ship than let the fuel evaporate and pollute the sea environment.
Ryou-Un Maru was probably among the first wave of the 1.5 million tons of garbage of refrigerators, washing machines, televisions, roofs and fishing nets heading toward North America since last March when a magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck Japan.
As the coast guard was ready to fire on the vessel, a Canadian fishing vessel, the 19-meter Bernice C, claimed the rights to save the ghost ship in international waters.
Plans to sink it were paused so the Canadian crew could have a chance to take the stricken ship. A Canadian official with knowledge of the situation told the Associated Press that the Bernice C was unable to drag it.
Then the Canadian boat left, and once it was about 10 kilometers from the Japanese vessel, the Coast Guard began to fire, first with 25 mm shells, then a few hours later with ammunition twice that size.
State officials have been working to test the danger of garbage including materials affected by a damaged nuclear power plant, to see if Alaska residents, seafood or wild animals could be affected.
1.Which of the following is NOT the reason for sinking the Japanese ship?
A.It had no lights or communications system.
B.It might be washed up onto the shore.
C.It was a danger to other passing ships.
D.The oil it carried could pollute the sea.
2.The plan to fire on the Japanese ghost ship was paused because ____________.
A.the ghost ship was beyond the reach of the Coast Guard’s guns
B.the shells were not powerful enough to sink the ghost ship
C.state officials worried the ghost ship might give out radiation
D.a Canadian fishing boat wanted to save the ghost ship
3.Which of the following could be the best title for the passage?
A.Japanese ghost ship arriving at US
B.Tsunami garbage heading to US
C.Cannon fire sinking Japanese ghost ship
D.Japanese ghost ship polluting the Pacific
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