显现英文高三阅读训练

2021年1月19日发(作者：wholesome)
阅读训练（三）

Have you ever seen a movie in which a building was burned down or a bridge was destroyed?
Have you seen films in which two trains crashed or a ship

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into the ocean? If

37 , you may
have wondered how these things could happen without

38

the actors and actresses in the film.

The
man
who
knows
the

39

is
the
“special
-
effects”
man.
He
has
one
of
the
most
important

40

in the film industry. He may be ordered to

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a flood or to make a battlefield
explode. But he may also be told to create a

42

effect which is much less exciting,

43

just
as important to the success of the film.

In
a

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for
one
movie
there was
a
big
glass
bowl
filled
with water
in which
small
fish
were swimming. The director of the movie

45

the fish to stop swimming suddenly

46

they
seemed
to
stare
at

an
actor. Then the
director wanted
the fish
to

47

staring
and swim.
But
fish can’t be ordered to do anything. It was quite a

48 .

The special-effects man thought about the problem for a long time. The result was an idea for

49

the
fish
with
a
harmless
use
of
electricity.

50

he
applied
electricity
to
the
fish
bowl
causing the fish to be absolutely

51 . Then he rapidly reduced the amount of
52 , allowing the
fish to be free. Thus he got the humorous effect the 53 wanted.

In other parts of movie making there are also special-effects men who have developed

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skills
in
creating
certain
kinds
of
effects. Jim
White,
who
has
been
a special-
-effects
man for
thirty-two years, is best known for his

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with ships and airplanes.

36. A. buried

37. A. so





38. A. telling

39. A. news





B. sank





C. fell






D. dropped



B. such





C. possible



D
. necessary



B. harming


C. protecting

D. organizing



B. question



C. message







B. jobs





C. factories
B. fight








D. secret
D. companies
40. A. films


41. A. prevent


42. A. terrible

43. A. or



C. pour







D. create
B. peaceful


C. funny




D. special
B. as








C. though





D. only
44. A. scene


45. A. ordered

46. A. while






B. step








B. wanted


C. stage




D. room
C. decided


C. so that





D. doubted
D. even if




B. since





47. A. return


B. continue

C. stop








D. start
48. A. success







B. failure





C. problem





D. disappointment

49. A. controlling




B. operating



C. driving





D. lighting
50. A. As a result

51. A. pure


52. A. fish




B. Above all




C. First







D. Immediately

B. interesting

C. still








D. quiet

C. electricity
D. bowl

C. director




D. special-effects man

C. humorous
D. careful

C. repair






D. design




B. water

53. A. actor









B. actress





54. A. fast






B. particular
B. work



55. A. imagination






★
★
★






High speeds. Cool looks. Unusual names. That is what a typical American looks for when
buying
a
car.
This
is
a
wasteful
method
because
the
cars
we
buy
don’t
fit
our
lifestyles
of
thriftiness (
节俭
). But we feel powerful when we drive huge cars, so
that’s why we buy them.






More people should drive hybrids (
混合动力汽车
). Y
ou may complain, “They’re not cool.”
But what are you going to say when your planet gets so fouled (
弄脏
) up that you need a gas mask
just
to
go
outside?
Well,
that’s what’s
going
to
happen
if
we
don’t
act
soon.
Hybrids
may
cost
more, but they will end up saving our life one day.






Gasoline cars are inefficient ones that chew up cash. The best ones get only around 40 miles
per gallon. We need to change our habits or we are going to run out of fossil fuel, and then no cars
will be traveling down the street. Gasoline cars also pollute the air and create breathing problems.







Some
problems we will
have
in
the
future
if we continue
using
gasoline
cars
are
global
warming,
high
levels
of
air
pollution
and
groundwater
toxicity
(
毒性
).
We will
also
use
up
our
supply
of
fossil
fuels.
A

part
of
civilizations
will
disappear
and
many
will
die
because
of
air
pollution
and
the
poisoning
of
groundwater
sources.
We may
also cause
a
large
increase
in
the
speed of global warming, which will result in a rise in temperature and in turn bake our planet and
all its living things.





Cars should
be
bought
not
based
on
looks,
but
because
they work
well
and
help save
the
environment. Hybrids fulfill this.
If enough people used them, we wouldn’t be as worried about
global warming. We are at a point where we can only do one thing: reduce the amount of fossil