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.

1.What kind of film does Life of Pi belong to?

A．Comedies.                             B．Tragedies.

C．Detective films.                         D．Adventure films.

2.So far, how many Oscar directing awards has Ang Lee won?

A．One.                                 B．Two.

C．Three.                                D．Four.

3.How do Chinese people celebrate the Lantern Festival?

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.

4.What can we know from the passage?

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.

5.Which of the following about Life of Pi is true?

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.

 

My father was preparing for his speech __ my mother was doing some washing last night.

 A. if                  B. while               C. unless             D. until

 

完形填空(本题共15小题, 每小题1分, 共15分)
On my first day of high school, I met David. It was cloudy. When I went home after school, I saw a boy also walking back home. He was my classmate, David. He was carrying his books. 21._______ he was walking, I saw a group of kids rushing to him. David 22._______ and his glasses went flying. All his 23._______ fell on the ground. Then the kids ran away. He looked up and I saw sadness in his eyes. I helped him stand up and 24._______ his glasses. Then I saw there 25._______ a big smile on his face.
From then on, we became 26._______. The more I got to know David, the more I liked him. During the four years, we always studied, played together and had a 27._______ time.
On the day when we finished high school, I could see that he was 28._______ about his speech. So I said, “Don’t be stressed out. Believe in 29._______ and you’ll be the best!” Then he began, “Today is a good time to say 30._______ to those people who helped you succeed through the difficult years. Our parents, our teachers, but mostly our 31._______. Being a friend to someone is the best gift you can give them. I’ll 32._______ you a story…” I just looked at the handsome popular boy amazingly when he told the story of the 33._______ day when we met each other.
All of us were 34._______. Everyone was listening to his story in silence. I saw his parents looking at me and smiling. I did not know the deep meaning 35._______ that moment. I know even a small action can change a person’s life. As you know, “Friends are angels to make us rise when our wings have problems flying.”

【小题1】 A. Because	B. While	C. Though
【小题2】 A. fall down	B. fell down	C. falling down
【小题3】 A. books	B. money	C. glasses
【小题4】 A. look for	B. look after	C. look like
【小题5】 A. is	B. was	C. will be
【小题6】 A. classmates	B. students	C. friends
【小题7】A. happy	B. bad	C. sad
【小题8】 A. bored	B. nervous	C. excited
【小题9】 A. himself	B. yourself	C. myself
【小题10】 A. hello	B. sorry	C. thanks
【小题11】 A. friends	B. parents	C. teachers
【小题12】A. give	B. tell	C. ask
【小题13】A. first	B. second	C. last
【小题14】 A. crazy	B. quiet	C. strange
【小题15】 A. until	B. for	C. but

 

用所给词的适当形式填空，每空限用一次。（7分）

copy,  rise,  experience, save,  regard… as…,  mention,  be

1. _____________ careful to look both ways before you cross the sheet.

2. —I_____________ my money so I can buy a car.

 — So am I.

3. Good boy! You're doing such a good job of_________ materials for me.

4.The old teacher used to get up before the sun _____so that he could catch the early bus to work.

5.Every baby_____ the apple of the parents' eye.

6. As a volunteer, she___________ love and hate, sadness and happiness in. the

past ten years.

7. He thinks it necessary____________ his sister in his speech, who has supported

him in his university study.

 

Have successful people ever felt sad? Do they have any “secrets” to success? The answers to these questions can be found in US president Barack Obama’s “back to school” speech. Here is an excerpt(摘录) from his speech.
I know that sometimes, you get the sense that you can be rich and successful without any hard work—that your ticket to success is through pop music or basketball or being a TV star, when chances are, you’re not going to be any of those things.
But the truth is, being successful is hard. You won’t love every subject you study. Not all the homework will seem rather important to your life right this minute. And you may not succeed at everything the first time you try.
That’s OK. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who’ve had the most failures (the opposite of success). JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter book was turned down 12 times before it finally came out. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team, and he lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots (投篮) during his career. But he once said, “I have failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
These people succeeded because they understand that you can’t let your failures beat you—you have to let them teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently next time.
No one’s born being good at things. You become good at things through hard work.
Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn’t a sign of weakness; it’s a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to tell when you don’t know something, and to learn something new.
And even when you’re struggling(奋斗), even when you’re discouraged (泄气), and you feel other people have given up on you—don’t ever give up on yourself. Because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country.
【小题1】Why does Barack Obama mention (提到) JK Rowling and Michael Jordan in the third paragraph?

A．To compare these two famous persons.

B．To explain that the more failures he has, the more successful he is.

C．If you want to be successful, you should fail first.

D．To show that failure is the mother of success.

【小题2】Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A．No one can be successful without working hard.

B．Failure can be good if you treat it in a right way.

C．Those who believe in themselves shouldn’t ask others for help.

D．One should try his best to make his dream come true.

【小题3】Which of the following has the closest meaning to the underlined sentence?

A．One shouldn’t ask questions because it is a sign of strength.

B．One should believe in himself though he will face much difficulty.

C．One doesn’t have to work hard when he has failed several times.

D．One doesn’t have to ask for help because it is a sign of weakness.