film editing
camera work
scene composing
sound editing
第1题：
Griffith's film innovations had a direct effect on all of the following EXCEPT ______.
A．film editing
B．camera work
C．range of subjects
D．sound editing
第2题：
What is the passage mainly about?（ ）
A．The changes of the author's attitude to her mother's English．
B．The limitation of the author's perception of her mother．
C．The author's misunderstanding of“limited”English．
D．The author's experiences of using broken English．
第3题：
Judging from the passage, the author ______.
A．suggests that New Castle is fortunate
B．wonders at Wilmington's prosperity
C．regrets that the two places should have become so different
D．thinks that Wilmington should not tear down old houses
第4题：
A.What a waste of time!
B.It‘s a pity it‘s too late to mend..
C.Not as good as I had expected.
D.Yes, the more, the better.
第5题：
Which of the following statements is true?
A. The author's father built a bonfire on VE Day.
B. The author's father had fought in the First World War.
C. The author's father had fought in the Second World War.
D. The author's father threw two chairs on the fire to keep it going.
第6题：
Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 3?（ ）
A．Americans do not understand broken English．
B．The author's mother was not respected sometimes．
C．The author'mother had positive influence on her．
D．Broken English always reflects imperfect thoughts．
第7题：
I got to the cinema and saw that the film ______ .
A. already started
B. had already started
C. starts
D. had been started
电影开始在他到达之前，时态应早于过去时。我赶到电影院，电影已经开始了。
第8题：
Practically speaking, the artistic maturing of the cinema was the single-handed achievement of David W. Griffith (1875-1948). Before Griffith, photography in dramatic films consisted of little more than placing the actors before a stationary camera and showing them in full length as they would have appeared on stage. From the beginning of his career as a director, however, Griffith, because of his love of Victorian painting, employed composition. He conceived of the camera image as having a foreground and rear ground, as well as the middle distance preferred by most directors. By 1910 he was using close-ups to reveal significant details of the scene or of the actors. The exploitation of the camera's possibilities produced novel dramatic effects. By splitting an event into fragments and recording each from the most suitable camera position, he could significantly vary the emphasis from camera shot to camera shot.
Griffith also achieved dramatic effects by means of creative editing. By juxtaposing images and varying the speed and rhythm of their presentation, he could control the dramatic intensity of the events as the story progressed. Despite the reluctance of his producers, who feared that the public would not be able to follow a plot that was made up of such juxtaposed images, Griffith persisted, and experimented as well with other elements of cinematic syntax that have become standard ever since. Those included the flashback, permitting broad psychological and emotional exploration as well as narrative that was not chronological, and the crosscut between two parallel actions to heighten suspense and excitement. In thus exploiting fully the possibilities of editing, Griffith transposed devices of the Victorian novel to film and gave film mastery of time as well as space.
Besides developing the cinema's language, Griffith immensely broadened its range and treatment of subjects. His early output was remarkably eclectic, it included not only the standard comedies, melodramas, westerns, and thrillers, but also such novelties as adaptations from Browning and Tennyson, and treatments of social issues. As his successes mounted, his ambitions grew, and with them the whole of American cinema. When he remade Enoch Arden in 1911, he insisted that a subject of such importance could not be treated in the then conventional length of one reel. Griffith's introduction of the American-made multireel picture began an elaborate historical and philosophical spectacle. It reached the unprecedented length of four reels, or one hour's running time. From our contemporary viewpoint, the pretensions of this film may seem a trifle ludicrous, but at the time it provoked endless debate and discussion and gave a new intellectual respectability to the cinema.
The author of this passage seems to imply that Victorian novels ______.
A．are like films
B．may not narrate events chronologically
C．exploit cinema's language
D．feature juxtaposed images
第9题：
The audience was quite disappointed at the film because it wasn't such a good film( ) the advertisement had promised them.
A. which
B. as
C. that
D. like
第10题：
The author suggests in the last paragraph that the effect of peer pressure is
[A] harmful
[B] desirable
[C] profound
[D] questionable