江苏省盐城市2018-2019学年高二下学期期末考试 英语 Word版含答案

and we do some water sports together.

W: That’s good. Anyway, going on holidays is much better than staying at home. That’s really boring! M: I agree.

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M: I’m tired. I went to sleep late last night. W: Did you work overtime again?

M: No. I watched that new reality TV show till midnight.

W: Oh, I don’t know why you still watch that rubbish. It’s just a group of people stuck in a house, doing nothing! I have to admit it was attractive when it was a new program. But it’s strange to think people are still watching the same shows nowadays. It seems to me that those shows just feed the big desire everyone seems to have for media attention. Everyone wants to be a star these days.

M: But there are still some people signing up for those shows just to experience a different life or to earn some money.

W: Anyway, I have no interest in those people whose idea of fame is that they are on a reality TV show. I admire people with real talent who’ve actually earned their fame because they are different from the rest of us. M: Hmm, I don’t think so on that way. Maybe we need to rethink what fame is! Text 10

M: Jim Carrey’s humor is very much his own brand. Carrey was born in Canada in 1962. He believes that his sense of humor developed during his teenage years. This was his way of dealing with a difficult period in his life. His father had just lost his job and Carrey Junior had to earn money and study at the same time. Carrey first performed live when he was 15, at Yuk Yuks, a famous club in Toronto. Even though he failed to make his audience laugh on this occasion, he kept working on his material and within four years became the club’s top comedy star. He later moved to Los Angeles to tour the clubs there. From 1990, he starred regularly in an American TV show. The character he played was Fire Marshall Bill, who always went up in smoke. Sadly, this character finally had to be dropped because people thought that his fire act might have a bad influence on children.

Carrey’s first important film was Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, one of his most popular films. Other films since then have included The Mask, Batman Forever and Yes Man. His earnings are at around $20 million per film.