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In the coming months, we are
bringing together artists form all over the globe,
to enjoy
speaking Shakespeare’s plays
in their own language, in our Globe, within the
architecture
Shakespeare wrote for.
Please come and join us.
National
Theatre of China
Beijing|Chinese
This great
occasion(
盛会
) will be the
National Theatre of China’s first visit to the UK.
The
company’s productions show the new
face of 21st century Chinese theatre. This
production of
Shakespeare’s
Richard III will be directed by the National’s
Associate Director
，
Wang
Xiaoying.
Date & Time :
Saturday 28 April,2.30pm & Sunday 29 April,1.30pm
& 6.30pm
Marjanishvili Theatre
Tbilisi
|
Georgian
One of the most
famous theatres in Georgia,the
Marjanishvili,founded in 1928,appears
regularly at theatre festivals all over
the world. This new production of
It
is helmed
（指导）
by the
company’s Artistic Director Levan
Tsuladze.
Date & Time
:Friday 18May,2.30pm & Saturday 19May,7.30pm
Deafinitely Theatre
London
| British Sign
Language
（
BSL
）
By transla
ting the rich and
humourous text of Love’s Labour’s Lost into the
physical
language of BSL,Deafinitely
Theatre creates a new interpretation of
Shakespeare’s
comedy and aims to build
a bridge between deaf and hearing worlds by
performing to both
groups as one
audience.
Date & Time : Tuesday 22
May,2.30pm & Wednesday 23 May,7.30pm
Habima National Theatre Tel Aviv |
Hebrew
The Habima is the centre of
Hebrew-language theatre worldwide ,Founded in
Moscow
after the 1905 revolution, the
company eventually settled in Tel Aviv in the late
1920s,Since 1958, they have been
recognised as the national theatre of Israel .This
production of Shakespeare’s The
Merchant of Venice marks their first visit to the
UK.
Date & Time :Monday
28May,7.30 & Tuesday 29 May,7.30pm
play will be performed by the National Theatre of
China?
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Ⅲ
.
’s Labour’s Lost
You Like It
Merchant of
Venice
is special about Deafinitely
Theatre?
has two groups of actors
is the leading theatre in London
performs plays in BSL
is good at producing comedies
can you
see a play in Hebrew?
Saturday 28
April.
Sunday 29 April
Tuesday 22 May.
D.
On Tuesday 29 May
B
I first
met Paul Newman in 1968, when George Roy Hill, the
director of Butch Cassidy and
the
Sundance Kid, introduced us in New York City. When
the studio didn’t want me for the
film
- it wanted somebody as well known as Paul -
he stood up for me. I don’t know how
many people would have done that; they
would have listened to their agents or the studio
powers.
The friendship that
grew out of the experience of making that film and
The Sting four years
later had its root
in the fact that although there was an age
difference, we both came from
a
tradition of theater and live TV. We were
respectful of craft
（技艺）
and
focused on digging
into the characters
we were going to play. Both of us had the
qualities and virtues that are
typical
of
American
actors:
humorous,
aggressive,
and
making
fun
of
each
other
-
but
always with an
underlying affection. Those were also at the
core
（核心）
of our relationship
off the screen.
We
shared
the
brief
that
if
you’re
fortunate
enough
to
have
success,
you
should
put
something back -
he with his
Newman’s Ow
n food and his Hole in the
Wall camps for kids
who are seriously
ill, and me with Sundance and the institute and
the festival. Paul and I
didn’t see
each other all that regularly, but sharing that
brought us together. We supported
each
other financially and by showing up at events.
I last saw him a few months ago. He’d
been in and out of the and I both knew
what the deal was,and we didn’t talk
about was a relationship that didn’t need a lot
of words.
was the studio
unwilling to give the role to author at first?
Newman wanted it.
studio powers didn’t like his
agent.
wasn’t famous
enough.
director recommended someone else.
did
Paul and the author have a lasting friendship?
were of the same dge.
worked in the same theater.
were both good actors.
han similar charactertics.
does the underlined word “that” in paragraph 3
refer to?
belief.
care for chileden.
success.
support for each other.
is the
author’s purpose in writing the test?
show his love of films.
remember a friend.
introduce a new movie.
share his acting experience.
C
Terrafugia Inc. said
Monday that its new flying car has completed its
first flight, bringing
the
company
closer
to
its
goal
of
selling
the
flying
car
within
the
next
year.
The
vehicle-named the
Transition
–
has two
seats
，
four
wheels and wings that fold up so it
can
be driven like a car. The Transition, which flew
at 1,400 feet for eight minutes last
month, can reach around 70 miles per
hour on the road and 115 in the air. It flies
using a
23-gallon tank of gas and bums
5 gallons per hour in the air. On the ground, it
gets 35
miles per gallon.
Around 100 people have already put down
a $$10,000 deposit to get a Transition when
they
go
on
sale,
and
those
numbers
will
likely
rise
after
Terrafugia
introduces
the
Transition to the public
later this week at the New York Auto Show. But
don’t expect it to
show up in too many
driveways. It’s expected to cost $$279, it won’t
help if you’re
stuck in traffic. The
car needs a runway.
Inventors have been
trying to make flying cars since the 1930s,
according to Robert Mann,
an
airline industry
expert.
But
Mann
thinks
Terrafugia
has
come
closer
than
anyone
to
making
the flying car a reality. The govemment has
already permitted the company to use
special
materials
to
make
it
easier
for
the
vehicle
to
fly.
The
Transition
is
now
going
through
crash tests to make sure it meets federal safety
standards.
Mann said
T
errafugia was helped by the Federal
Aviation
Administration’s decision
five
years ago to create a separate set
of standards for light sport aircraft, which are
lower
than those pilots of larger
planes T
errafugia says an owner would
need to pass a test and
complete 20
hours of flying time to be able to fly the
Transition, a requirement pilots would
find redatively easy to meet.
28. What is the first paragraph mainly
about?
A. The basic data of the
Transition.
B. The advantages of
flying cars.
C. The potential market
for flying cars.
C. The designers of
the Transition.
29. Why is the
Transition unlikely to show up in too many
driveways?
A. It causes traffic jams.
B. It is difficult to operate.
C. It is very expensive.
D. It bums too much fuel.
30. What is the government’s attitude
to the development of the flying car?
A. Cautious
B. Favorable.
C. Ambiguous.
D. Disapproving.
31. What is
the best title for the text?
A. Flying
Car at Auto Show
B. The
Transition’s Fist Flight
’Dream Coming True
D. Flying Car Closer to Reality
D
When a leafy plant is
under attack
，
it
doesn’t
sit quietly. Back
in 1983,two
scientists,Jack Schultz and
Ian Baldwin,reported that young maple trees
getting bitten by
insects send out a
particular smell that neighboring plants can get.
These chemicals come
from the injured
parts of the plant
and seem to be an
the plants pump
through the air is a
mixture of chemicals known as volatile organic
compounds,VOCs for
short.
Scientists have found that all kinds of
plants give out VOCs when being
attacked .It’s a
plant’s way
of crying is anyone listening?e we can watch the
neighbours react.
Some plants pump out smelly chemicals
to keep insects others do double
duty
.They pump out perfumes designed to attract
different insects who are natural
enemies to the they arrive,the tables
are turned .The attacker who was
lunching now becomes lunch.
In study after study,it appears that
these chemical conversations help the
neighbors .The damage is usually more
serious on the first plant,but the
neighbors ,relatively speaking ,stay
safer because they heard the alarm and knew what
to
do.
Does
this mean that plants talk to each other?
Scientists don’t know. Maybe the first
plant just made a cry of pain or was
sending a message to its own branches, and so, in
effect, was talking to itself. Perhaps
the neighbors just happened to “overhear” the cry.
So