科目：初中英语 来源：2013届江苏省南京市玄武区中考一模英语试卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
Ang Lee won the Best Director Oscar for his adventure film Life of Pi at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 24, 2013.
Life of Pi shows a young Indian named Pi, who finds the world he knows swept away when his family sells their zoo and sets sail for Canada with a few animals. Only Pi escapes from the storm and floats in a lifeboat with a giant Bengal tiger.
“I really want to thank you for believing this story and sharing this unbelievablejourney with me,” Lee said in his speech. The film also won three other Oscars, for best original music, best cinematography(电影艺术) and best visual(视觉) effects. It won more awards than Lincoln and Argo which were also among the hottest nominees.
Coming from China's Taiwan, the 58-year-old Lee won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2001 for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and another for Best Director in 2006 for Brokeback Mountain. He is the only person of Asian to win the directing award and one of the rare people who won that award more than once.
In an after-ceremony interview, Lee said he believed Asian films would come to the main stage of the world sooner or later. "I was born in Asia and grew up with Chinese education. It is natural for me to put Asian thinking into Western things." The film, which cost 120 million U.S. dollars, has earned nearly 600 million dollars worldwide. Lee said most of the earnings came from outside China. Lee said he felt warm that he won the award on the day of the Lantern Festival, a Chinese traditional festival on which families get together to solve puzzles on lanterns and eat Tang Yuan. He wished everyone a happy new year of the snake and everybody gets lucky.
【小题1】What kind of film does Life of Pi belong to?
| A．Comedies. | B．Tragedies. |
| C．Detective films. | D．Adventure films. |
| A．One. | B．Two. |
| C．Three. | D．Four. |
| A．Families get together and have rice dumplings. |
| B．Children make lanterns out of big orange pumpkins. |
| C．People solve puzzles on lanterns and enjoy Tang Yuan. |
| D．Children go to the display of lanterns and receive red packets. |
| A．The 85th Academy Awards was held in Hollywood, California this year. |
| B．Pi was a young American who had an adventure trip with a tiger in India. |
| C．Lincoln and Argo won more awards than Life of Pi. |
| D．Asian films have come to the main stage of the world. |
| A．It was a great success as it won four Oscars. |
| B．It earned nearly 600 million dollars in China. |
| C．It describes Pi’s escape from a terrible earthquake. |
| D．It is the only successful film Ang Lee has ever made. |
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科目：初中英语 来源：2013年广东省广州市南沙区中考一模英语卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
Born in 1954 in Taiwan, Ang Lee（李安）has become one of today's greatest filmmakers. Ang graduated from the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975. Later on, he went to the USA. for further study on art. And he got a Master Degree in Film Production at New York University.
During Ang’s film career, he has made a lot of successful films and honored himself with many international awards. Early in 1993, Ang’s film The Wedding Banquet (喜宴)won a Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, which drew the whole world’s attention to this Chinese director. In the following years, Ang’s talent got more brilliant. At the beginning of 2000, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon（Wo Hu Cang Long）, a kongfu film directed by Ang Lee, won Best Foreign Language Film at the 73rd Academy Awards(奥斯卡金像奖). This surprised the world. However. what really takes Ang to the peak of the film world is the film Brokeback Mountain (2005). For this film, Ang Lee won the Best Director Academy Award. And he is the first Chinese director who’s ever won the golden statuette(小金人).
In 2012, Ang made a huge success again. His first 3D film Life of Pi came out. It was a story about the adventure of a brave Indian boy. This film helped him beat out Michael Haneke of "Amour", Benh Zeitlin of "Beasts of the Southern Wild", Steven Spielberg of "Lincoln" and David O. Russell of "Silver Linings Playbook". For the second time, Ang was honored as the Best Director at the 85th Academy Awards in 2013.
Along Ang Lee’s film road, we can say that he is really born for films and he is worth all the praise from the world, especially all the Chinese.
【小题1】How old was Ang Lee when he won the Best Director Academy Award for the second time?
| A．59. | B．58 | C．51 | D．39 |
| A．The Wedding Banquet. | B．Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. |
| C．Beasts of the Southern Wild. | D．Life of Pi. |
| A．②⑤①③④ | B．②⑤④①③ | C．⑤②③④① | D．⑤②④③① |
| A．边缘 | B．顶峰 | C．荣誉 | D．成就 |
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科目：初中英语 来源：2013-2014学年山东省临清市九年级上学期第二次阶段性检测英语试卷（解析版） 题型：其他题
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You may love to see tigers at the zoo. But what if you had to stay with one on a boat on the open sea for over 200 days? Life of Pi(《少年派的奇幻漂流》)，the movie from American Chinese director（导演），Li An, tells an amazing story.
Pi is a boy. He lives happily with his family in a beautiful Indian town. His father has a zoo, so Pi knows a lot about animals.
But one day, his father decides to move to Canada, He will sell all his animals there. The family begin to sail on the Pacific with all the zoo animals. But a big storm（暴风雨）hits their ship at night Finally, Pi finds the only survivors(幸存者)are himself and a large tiger called Parker on an 8 meter boat.
To keep himself alive, Pi has to keep feeding the tiger so that he himself does not get eaten. He tries to get on well with the tiger during a 227-day sail on the sea.
The movie is from a Canadian writer Yann Martel’s book of the same name. The book has sold 7 million copies worldwide. It discusses not only hope but also relationship（关系）between humans and nature.
It took Li An four years to make the movie. He also used 3D for his first time. He hopes the movie will “make the people think”. Life of Pi opened in Chinese theaters on November 22,2012.
1.Where does Pi’s father decide to move?
2.What happens when they sail on the Pacific at night?
3.Pi doesn’t keep feeding the tiger, does he ?
4.What does the movie discuss?
5.How long did it take Li An to make the movie?
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科目：初中英语 来源：2012-2013学年江西十一校联盟初三5月中考模拟英语卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Indian boy Piscine Patel is troubled by his first name. It sounds like a rude word, and his classmates laughed at him. He decides to change his name to “Pi”.
But Pi’s name problems are nothing compared to what is waiting for him.
Pi’s father owns a zoo. He decides to move to Canada. The family, together with all the zoo animals, set sail across the Pacific. One day, a huge storm hits the ship. The next morning, Pi finds his family has sunk with the ship. He is the only person still alive.
He finds himself on a lifeboat with several animals, one of which is a tiger called Richard Parker. Soon, all the animals are killed and Pi is left alone with the tiger.
As the tiger becomes hungrier, Pi starts to fish to feed him. Otherwise, he himself will become the food.
The boy and the tiger develop an amazing relationship on the sea. Although he feels hopeless, Pi never gives up. After 227 days, the lifeboat finally lands on a beach in Mexico, but Richard Parker runs away into the forest.
The ship company finds Pi and asks what happened. Pi tells them about Richard Parker but the company doesn’t believe him. Pi then tells another story in which there is no tiger, but some other shocking details(细节).
Is there really another story? If so, which one is the truth? Maybe you will have your own answer after watching The Life of Pi(《少年派的奇幻漂流》), the latest 3D movie from American Chinese director Ang Lee.
1.What’s the first trouble of the Indian boy Piscine Patel?
A．His classmates laughed at his name.
B．His family set sail across the Pacific to Canada.
C．A huge storm hits the ship with his family.
D．The tiger nearly killed him on the lifeboat.
2.Why are all the other animals on the lifeboat killed? Because .
A．they are hunted by others
B．they are eaten by the tiger
C．they are sunk under the sea
D．they are killed and cooked by Pi
3.The passage mainly tells us .
A．how Pi’s lifeboat sank in the sea
B．how the tiger ran away from the sea to the forest
C．what happened to Pi on the lifeboat with a tiger
D．what happened to the animals in Pi’s father’s zoo
4.Which would be true according to the passage?
A．The tiger was killed at last.
B．Pi was saved by another ship.
C．The ship company believed Pi’s tiger story
D．Pi told two stories in the movie.
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科目：初中英语 来源：2013年广东省广州市南沙区中考一模英语卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Born in 1954 in Taiwan, Ang Lee（李安）has become one of today's greatest filmmakers. Ang graduated from the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975. Later on, he went to the USA. for further study on art. And he got a Master Degree in Film Production at New York University.
During Ang’s film career, he has made a lot of successful films and honored himself with many international awards. Early in 1993, Ang’s film The Wedding Banquet (喜宴)won a Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, which drew the whole world’s attention to this Chinese director. In the following years, Ang’s talent got more brilliant. At the beginning of 2000, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon（Wo Hu Cang Long）, a kongfu film directed by Ang Lee, won Best Foreign Language Film at the 73rd Academy Awards(奥斯卡金像奖). This surprised the world. However. what really takes Ang to the peak of the film world is the film Brokeback Mountain (2005). For this film, Ang Lee won the Best Director Academy Award. And he is the first Chinese director who’s ever won the golden statuette(小金人).
In 2012, Ang made a huge success again. His first 3D film Life of Pi came out. It was a story about the adventure of a brave Indian boy. This film helped him beat out Michael Haneke of "Amour", Benh Zeitlin of "Beasts of the Southern Wild", Steven Spielberg of "Lincoln" and David O. Russell of "Silver Linings Playbook". For the second time, Ang was honored as the Best Director at the 85th Academy Awards in 2013.
Along Ang Lee’s film road, we can say that he is really born for films and he is worth all the praise from the world, especially all the Chinese.
1.How old was Ang Lee when he won the Best Director Academy Award for the second time?
A．59. B．58 C．51 D．39
2.Of the following films, which one is NOT made by Ang Lee?
A．The Wedding Banquet. B．Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
C．Beasts of the Southern Wild. D．Life of Pi.
3.According to the passage, what is the correct order of the following events?
①. Life of Pi came up on the screen.
②. Ang Lee went to America for further study.
③. Ang Lee won a Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
④. Ang Lee won Best Foreign Language Film at the 73rd Academy Awards.
⑤. Ang graduated from the National Taiwan College of Arts.
A．②⑤①③④ B．②⑤④①③ C．⑤②③④① D．⑤②④③①
4.What is the Chinese meaning of the underlined word “peak” in the second paragraph？
A．边缘 B．顶峰 C．荣誉 D．成就
5.According to the passage, which statement is RIGHT?
A. Ang Lee was born in the USA.
B. Ang Lee only won the Best Director Academy Award once.
C. Life of Pi is Ang Lee’s second 3D film.
D. Ang Lee has great talent in making films.
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