英语影视欣赏卷4

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《英语影视欣赏》考试试卷4

试题总分： 100 分考试时限：120 分钟

PartⅠ. Writing (25’)

Task I (10’)

Directions: For this part, you are required to write an essay based on the following questions and your understanding of the movie Forrest Gump. Write it on the Answer Sheet in more than 50 words

How would you describe Forrest to your friend? What are his good features?

Task II (15’)

Directions:. Write on the Answer Sheet a movie review on The Pursuit of Happyness in more than 100 words.

PartⅡ. Listening Comprehension (2’*15=30’)

Directions:In this section, you will listen to an episode of a movie three times. When the episode is played for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the episode is played for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 1 to 15 with the exact words you’ve just heard. Finally, when the episode is played for the third time, you should check what you have written. Then put them on the Answer Sheet.

An episode from Legally Blonde

Elle and Warner are in a restaurant

Elle: Here’s to us.

Warner: To us.

Warner: Elle.

Elle: Yes?

Warner: One of the reasons I wanted to come here tonight was to discuss our future .

Elle: And I’m fully amenable to that discussion.

Warner: Good. Well, you know how we’ve been having all kinds of fun lately?

Elle: Yeah.

Warner: Well, Harvard is gonna different. Law school is a completely different world and I need to be serious.

Elle: Of course.

Warner: I mean my family expects a lot from mr.

Elle: Right.

Warner: I expect a lot from me. I’m planning on running an office someday.

Elle: I fully support that, Warner. You know that, right?

Warner: Absolutely . But the thing is, if I’m gonna be a senator by the time I’m 30, I need to stop dicking around.

Elle: Warner, I completely agree.

Warner: Well, that’s why I think it’s time for us, Elle, pooh bear …

Elle: Yes, I do.

Warner: I think we should break up .

Elle: What?

Warner: I’ve been thinking about it, and I think it’s the right thing to do.

Elle: You’re breaking up with me ? I thought you were proposing .

Warner: Proposing? Elle, if I’m gonna be a senator , I need to marry a Jackie, not a Marilyn.

Elle: So you are breaking up with me because I’m too blonde ?

Warner: No, that’s not entirely true.

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PartⅢ. Comprehension of the Scenes (2’*5=10’)

Directions: The following scenes appeared in the movies you’ve seen. Each scene is followed by a question. For each question there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the ONE best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

1. The part from The Parent Trap. Annie is told “She’s got your father eating out of the palm of her hand”.

What does that sentence mean?

A. She’s feeding your father using the palm of her hand.

B. Your father’s diet is arranged all by her.

C. She’s got your father completely under her control.

D. Your father’s food is cooked all by her.

2. The part Betty Warren talking with her mother about divorce.

What does her mother mean by saying: “Don’t wash your dirty laundry in public”?

A. Family scandals should be kept as secrets.

B. Don’t show others your dirty clothes in public.

C. Dirty clothes should not be washed outside their houses.

D. Washing laundry in public can be very expensive.

3. The part Forrest talking with his mother about death.

How does Mrs. Gump think of life?

A. Life is as wonderful as Chocolate.

B. Life is what comes to you.

C. Life can never be foreseen. You can only make the best of whatever it is.

D. Life is doomed to end in death.

4. Why was Shrek unwilling to see Fiona’s parents?

A. Because he had no money to give them.

B. Because their palace was too far away.

C. Because he was afraid they would be unhappy to see his ugly appearance.

D. Because they only wanted to see their daughter rather than the son-in-law.

5. The part Mrs. Forrest talking with the school headmaster about Forrest’s IQ.

What does Mom mean by saying: “He might be a bit on the slow side?”

A. Forrest might run slowly.

B. Forrest might be a little dumb.

C. Forrest might be a bit slow in rethreading tires.

D. Forrest might be a little out of side.

PartⅣ. Comprehension of Language and Cultural Points (1’*25=25’)

Directions:In this section, there are 25 statements. For each statement there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best matches the situation. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

1. The jury is normally addressed as __A___.

A. ladies and gentlemen

B. Mr. and Mrs.

C. juryman

D. jurors

2. To open a court session, the bailiff says, “ ___B_______”

A. You all stand like me!

B. All rise, the court is now in session.

C. Here comes the judge, here comes the judge.

D. Stardate 2503.

3. A student’s GPA is their “_____B________”.

A. General Plan Amendment

B. Grade Point Average

C. General Purpose Amplifier

D. Generic Pharmaceutical Association

4. ---They keep one plane on permanent standby in case I should kick__C____.

A. the clouds

B. the wind

C. the bucket

D. the ball

5. ---I believed that was what people wanted from their Queen—not to make a fuss, nor wear one’s heart on one’s__D___.

A. collar

B. back

C. hand

D. sleeve

6. ---You ever hear the expression “keeping up with the Joneses”?

This expression keeping up with the Joneses is used to __A____________.

A. criticize those people who like to show up and pursue riches to match others.

B. criticize those people who work hard to satisfy their sense of vanity.

C. praise those people who try their best to satisfy their sense of vanity.

D. praise those people who like to show up and pursue riches to match others.

7. ---Don’t let those girls know that they got to you.

The phrase get to sb. means ___B____.

A. to make sb. feel happy

B. to make sb. feel angry

C. to come to help sb.

D. to come to understand sb.

8. ---How are you going on with Jenny now?

---Very well. ____B_______.

A. We are like peanuts again.

B. We are like peas and carrots again.

C. We are wonderful.

D. We may see each other once in a while.

9. When somebody sneezes, what will the people around say? ____C______.

A. Oh, my God.

B. What is wrong?

C. Bless you.

D. Take care.

10. ---I’m dying to meet her.

This means the speaker is _____C______.

A.scared to meet her

B. resented to meet her

C. eager to meet her

D. sick to meet her

11. ---My destiny is to die in the field with __A__. That was my destiny, and you cheated me out of it.

A. honor

B. shame

C. justice

D. pain

12. ---Now here I am. I am a man of my _C___.

A. face

B. tongue

C. word

D. deed

13. ---My parents say my future is right on the horizon.

---Tell them that the horizon is an imaginary line that __B__ as you approach it.

A. emerges

B. recedes

C. looms

D. shines

14. ---I’m sorry, Lillian. I just wish I could be the man you deserve.

---You’re more that man today than you ever were…____A_____.

A. warts and all

B. with reservations

C. to some extent

D. with no fault

15. ---I wouldn’t worry. Betty’s just a young girl flexing her _C____.

A. fat

B. hands

C. muscles

D. feet

16. ---Just give me a chance to _D___ things out, okay?

A. clean

B. clear

C. stress

D. straighten

17. ---Don’t disregard our traditions just because you’re _A_____.

---Don’t disrespect this class just because you’re married.

A. subversive

B. submissive

C. subjective

D. suspicious

18. I’ve heard some Whoppers in my time, but that _D___ them all.

A. tips

B. ticks

C. tolls

D. tops

19. Mama always said, dying was a part of life, something we’re all _C__ to do.

A. determined

B. defined

C. destined

D. departed

20. There’s an _B__ lot you could tell about a person by their shoes, where they’re going and where they’ve been.

A. awesome

B. awful

C. available

D. admirable

21. ---Let me see…I know how to fence and you don’t …Or I have class and you don’t. Take your__A__.

A. pick

B. choice

C. option

D. alternative

22. ---I can’t put my _D__ on it, but something about you has definitely changed.

A. feeling

B. face

C. foot

D. finger

23. ---His and hers kids. No_C__, Mom, but this arrangement really sucks.

---I agree. It totally sucks.

A. objection

B. object

C. offense

D. offensive

24. ---Would you be willing to _D___ your life on it?

A. strike

B. stick

C. stab

D. stake

25. Keep June 1st _C___; you’re one of my bridesmaids.

A. shine

B. shut

C. open

D. obedient

Part V. Vocabulary (0.5’*20=10’)

Directions: In this section, there are 20 words and expressions, choose the definition from Column B that best matches each word or phrase in Column A. Then write out the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

A B

__ 1. nudge a. mend or repair, make whole

__ 2. get the scoop b. waste time

__ 3. crooked c. find or show exactly the cause of something

__ 4. fine and dandy d. good or well

__ 5. gear e. equipment such as clothes, helmets, guns, etc.

__ 6. tush f. have a strong but unusually temporary love for someone

__ 7. fence g. extreme, outrageous

__ 8. proper h. show one’s respect or admiration

__ 9. put one’s finger on i. bottom

__ 10.buddy j. decent, socially right and acceptable

__ 11. dick around k . fight with a long thin sword as a sport

__ 12. internship l. agree formally or conclusively

__ 13. hit on someone m. used as a form of address to a man

__ 14. deposition n. testimony of a witness taken under oath outside the courtroom

__ 15. patch up o. talk to someone in a way that shows you are sexually attracted to them __ 16. pay tribute to p. find out the news before others do

__ 17. over the top q. a period of time spent unpaid doing a job

__ 18. sign off r. push

__ 19. go weak at the knees s. be overcome by great emotion

__ 20. go gaga t. corrupt and dishonest