《大学英语3》期中口试阅读部分试题(学生版)10.27

《大学英语3》期中口试阅读部分试题（学生版）

重点单词的句子翻译： 1. 盗版版本是对原版的低劣复制。(version) 2. 这本书有免费的和付费版本。(version) 3. 这是她最近一部电影的片段。(clip) 4. 该14分钟的视频片段被认为是有史以来最有影响力的音乐录像带之一。(clip) 5. 那棵树结了很多果实。 (yield) 6. 他们作了长时间的搜查，但没有找到任何线索。(yield) 7. 近视是一个视力缺陷。(visual) 8. 视觉艺术是指相对于音乐和文学而言的绘画、舞蹈等。(visual)

5 One night, after an editing session, Cameron went to sleep and dreamed that he saw a robot clawing toward a frightened woman. Cameron soon used it as the basis for a script about a robot assassin sent back to kill the mother of a future rebel leader. When it was released in 1984, The Terminator suddenly established James Cameron as a leading director. 6 Over the next 10 years, Cameron directed a series of daring films, including Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and True Lies. Their worldwide success gave Cameron the prestige to realize his dream of outdoing Lucas. So in 1995, he wrote an 82-page outline about a paralyzed soldier‘s virtual quest on a faraway planet after Earth becomes a wasteland. The alien world called Pandora is populated by the Na‘vi, 10-foot-tall blue humanoids with catlike faces and lizard-like tails. Pandora‘s atmosphere is so toxic to humans that scientists grow genetically engineered versions of the Na‘vi- the so-called avatars that can be linked to a human‘s consciousness, allowing remote control of the creature‘s body. Cameron thought that this project — titled Avatar — could be his next blockbuster after Titanic–the little adventure-romance that won 11 Oscars. So what did he do? 重点单词的句子翻译： 1. 牛津和剑桥这两所老牌大学仍然很有声望。(prestige) 2. 随着市场份额的下降，传统金融中心丧失的不仅仅是声望。(prestige) 3. 他不能停止为治疗各种疾病而做出不断探索。(quest) 4. 他们为寻找黄金而长途跋涉。(quest) 5. 他毕生都在进行精神探索。(quest) 6. 在岛的这一边居住的主要是渔民。(populate) 7. 这个城市里居住着来自世界各地的移民。(populate) 8. 他们是生活于大洋洋底的生物。(creature) 9. 鳄鱼是一种模样古怪的动物。(creature) 8. 7 He disappeared for 12 years. He would not release Avatar until December 18, 2009. Why did it take one of the most powerful men in Hollywood so long to come out with a single film? 8

《大学英语3》期中口试阅读部分试题（学生版）

8 In part, the answer is that it‘s not easy to outdo George Lucas. Cameron needed to invent a suite of moviemaking technologies, push theaters nationwide to retool, and imagine every detail of an alien world. And there‘s much more than that. 9 Cameron once presented his concept for Avatar at a meeting with his visual effects team. He explained that the main characters were 10-foot-tall blue aliens with narrow waists and powerful legs. They had to look utterly real, and would have to be computer-generated. But his team told him that was impossible. ―It can‘t be done. The technology doesn‘t exist.‖ 重点单词的句子翻译： 1. 这次事故引起公众对核动力问题的广泛关注。 (generate) 2. 劳动部长说这些改革将带来新的工作。(generate) 10 But Cameron was relieved. He said ―It was time to go play.‖ 11 During a scuba diving trip in the summer of 2000, he asked Vincent Pace, an underwater camera specialist a question: What would it take to build a high-definition rig that could deliver feature-film quality in both 2-D and 3-D? Pace wasn‘t sure — he knew about the cheap red-and-blue paper glasses of conventional 3-D filmmaking. They were notoriously uncomfortable, and the images could cause headaches. Cameron believed there must be a way to do it better: with the invention of the next generation of cameras that would be easy to handle, digital, high-resolution, 3-D. 重点单词的句子翻译： 1. 他在开场白中讲了几句老套的话，随即做了一次非常精彩的演讲。(conventional) 2. 我恐怕在个人爱好方面是相当守旧的。(conventional) 12 Two months later, Cameron and Pace were sitting in front of the engineers at Sony‘s hi-def-camera division. Sony agreed to establish a new line of cameras, and after three months, they had fitted the lenses into a rig that allowed an operator to precisely control the 3-D imaging. 13 The new camera performed well, delivering accurate 3-D images that wouldn‘t cause headaches over watching a long movie. 14 However, unfortunately, theaters were not adopting the technology. It would cost approximately $100,000 per theater. Cameron needed some high-profile 3-D films that could generate enough revenue to convince them that it would pay off. 重点单词的句子翻译： 1. 他在公司的出口部工作。(division) 2. 爱立信把它的手机部门卖给了索尼。(division) 3. 警方强调这是迄今对凶手最精确的描述。(accurate) 4. 我们要求语法与拼写正确无误。 (accurate) 9 《大学英语3》期中口试阅读部分试题（学生版）

15 So he decided to let the director of Spy Kids 3-D test his system using the new camera. Released in the summer of 2003, the film made $200 million worldwide, but theaters remained reluctant to invest in the technology. 16 Cameron decided to talk to theater owners directly. He told them that the world was ―entering a new age of cinema‖ and that those who didn‘t switch would regret it. By the end of the year only 79 theaters in the US could show digital 3-D movies but between 2005 and 2009, they added some 3,000 screens capable of showing digital 3-D. 17 The lack of 3-D theaters wasn‘t the only thing holding Cameron back. He was still looking for a way to make Avatar even more elaborate. 重点单词的句子翻译： 1. 他十分勉强地承认了自己的错误。(reluctant) 2. 他们不愿意请求帮助。(reluctant) 3. 现在是投资的最佳时机。(invest) 4. 他全力以赴学习英语。(invest) 5. 她为那事费尽心血。(invest) 6. 查尔斯王子于1969年受封为威尔士亲王。(invest) 18 He hired the linguistic expert Paul Frommer to invent an entirely new language for the Na‘vi. Frommer asked Cameron what he wanted the language to sound like? To narrow the options, he recorded a handful of samples for Cameron. 19 The director liked ejective consonants, a popping utterance that resembles choking. Frommer then started developing the language‘s basic grammatical structure, with Cameron helping establish a rule regarding the nature of nouns. It took months to create the grammar alone. 20 With the language established, Cameron set about naming everything on his alien planet. Every animal and plant received Na‘vi, Latin, and common names. As if that weren‘t enough, Cameron even hired an expert in botany to write detailed scientific descriptions of the plants he had created. 重点单词的句子翻译： 1. 她的外表像她姐姐，但个性不像。(resemble) 2. 夜空中，星星象无数的小亮点。(resemble) 3. kindle很像一个电子阅读器，但它只不过是一个便携式书店。(resemble) 21 This was work that would never appear on screen, but Cameron brought in more people – an expert in astrophysics, a music professor, and an archaeologist. 22 Eventually, a team of writers and editors compiled all this information into a 350-page 10

《大学英语3》期中口试阅读部分试题（学生版）

Pandorapedia. It documents the science and culture of the imaginary planet, and represents the world Cameron had created. 23 Thirty two years after realizing that he desperately wanted to make a space epic to rival Star Wars, Cameron has put the finishing touches on his picture, creating one of the all-time highest grossing films to date. 重点单词的句子翻译： 1. 他们在那里汇编了不少关于风俗、政府、宗教、等方面的宝贵资料。(compile) 2. 编辑一部好词典需要数年的艰苦工作。(compile) 3. 许多孩子都会凭空想象一些朋友。(imaginary) 4. 此书中的所有人物都是虚构的。(imaginary) 11