高中英语人教版2000年高二上05

[00:08.80]A journalist (J) is interviewing the director 2 (D) of a play.

[00:13.84]J:What do you do in the theatre?

[00:17.40]D:I'm a director.I direct 1 plays.

[00:21.84]J:Some of us do not know much about the theatre.

[00:26.28]Could you explain exactly what you do?

[00:30.22]D:Yes.At the very beginning I choose a play and the actors.

[00:36.70]Then for a period of several weeks we practise doing the play.

[00:42.27]At the end of this period we put the play on in a theatre

[00:47.44]J:What do you do as a director.

[00:50.96]D:First,I tell the actors where to stand and where to move.

[00:55.93]We practise entrances and exits.

[00:59.77]J:Do you direct comedies?

[01:03.01]D:Yes,I love doing comedies.You need to practise a lot with the actors before.

[01:10.37]The timing 3 is very important,

[01:13.90]not only for the movements but also for the lines of the dialogue.

[01:19.36]J:What do you plan to do next?

[01:23.12]D:There's a particular comedy which I have decided 4 to do.

[01:28.16]I've chosen the main actors and we intend to put it on next January.

[01:34.01]J:I hope it will be very successful.

[01:37.96]D:It will certainly be very funny!

[01:41.72]Lesson 18 1 Reading comprehension 5

[01:51.70]Read the passage to find the answers to these questions:

[01:56.74]1.What kind of films did Chaplin act in?

[02:02.31]2.Which were more popular,his early films or his later films?

[02:08.86]CHARLIE CHAPLIN (1)

[02:12.62]Charlie Chaplin,who died in 1977,

[02:17.80]is considered one of the greatest and funniest actors in the history of the cinema.

[02:24.04]During his lifetime,he acted in 13 films,

[02:29.50]and he wrote,directed 6 and acted in 69 other films.

[02:35.98]Chaplin was born in London in 1889 and first acted when he was five years old.

[02:44.34]At the age of eight,he joined a group of child dancers,

[02:49.67]and at seventeen he set off for the USA with a group of comedy actors.

[02:56.43]During a second trip to the USA in 1912,

[03:01.58]an important film director saw Chaplin acting 7 a very funny part in a play.

[03:08.42]As a result,Chaplin got his first film part in the States.

[03:14.27]As early as his second film,Chaplin had developed his own manner of acting,

[03:21.12]the one that was to become world-famous 8.

[03:23.96]He wore a small black hat,very wide trousers,

[03:28.54]a moustache 9 and carried a stick that he swung in the air as he walked.

[03:34.60]Even his way of walking down the street and turning a corner

[03:40.06]could be recognized as his own.

[03:43.71]In less than three months Chaplin acted in 11 films.

[03:49.46]After a short while he started directing 10 films himself.

[03:54.92]During his first year,Chaplin acted in 35 films,

[04:00.98]many of which he wrote and directed himself.

[04:05.42]Chaplin's earliest films were silent 11,

[04:09.65]because the equipment for adding sound to films had not yet been developed.

[04:15.90]The development of films with sound became a problem for Chaplin,

[04:21.54]as he was uncertain about making films with dialogue.

[04:26.81]Instead,he continued to make films without dialogue,

[04:32.27]but he added 12 music,which he wrote himself.

[04:36.64]Two of his greatest films,"City Lights" and "Modern Times" were of this kind.

[04:44.08]Chaplin's later films,however,were not well received.

[04:49.52]He made only six films between 1940 and 1966

[04:56.36]and only the first of these is still popular today.

[05:01.51]Chaplin lived the last years of his life in Switzerland,

[05:06.68]where he was buried in 1977.

[05:11.12]Before he died,

[05:14.17]he was honoured in a number of ways for his contributions to the film industry.

[05:20.65]Lesson 19  1 Reading comprehension

[05:31.81]CHARLIE CHAPLIN (2)

[05:35.88]One of Charlie Chaplin's most famous films was "The Gold Rush",

[05:42.36]which was made in 1925.

[05:46.31]The film was set in California 13 in the middle of the nineteenth century

[05:52.47]At that time,gold was discovered in California

[05:57.64]and thousands of people rushed there to look for gold,

[06:02.89]so it became known 14 as "the gold rush".

[06:07.33]People said gold could easily be picked up by washing sand from the river

[06:13.39]in a pan 15 of water.

[06:16.84]This was known as "panning 16 for gold".

[06:21.49]In the film,Chaplin and his friend are in California.

[06:26.95]So far,they have been unlucky in their search for gold and have no money at all.

[06:34.32]Chaplin and his friend are caught on the edge 17 of a mountain

[06:39.49]in a snow storm in a small wooden house.

[06:44.24]They have nothing to eat.

[06:47.30]They are so hungry that they cook a pair of shoes,

[06:52.55]by boiling them in a pan of water.

[06:57.10]Chaplin sits down at the table and eats the shoe with a knife and fork,

[07:03.05]enjoying every mouthful 18.

[07:05.90]He makes it seem as if this is one of the most delicious meals

[07:12.14]that he has ever enjoyed.

[07:15.59]Words and expressions Unit  5

[07:20.56]Charlie Chaplin      direct               director             comedy

[07:24.33]查理.卓别林          vt.导演              n.导演               n.喜剧

[07:28.10]line                 particular           actress              act

[07:31.64]n.台词               特殊的;特别的        n.女演员             vi.表演

[07:35.18]intend               lifetime             set off              moustache

[07:38.76]vt.想要，打算        n.一生               动身                 n.小胡子

[07:42.34]swing(swung swung)   after a (short)while silent               add...to

[07:48.52]挥舞摆动             不久以后             adj.无声的           把…加到…上

[07:54.70]uncertain            be uncertain about   bury                 honour(honor)

[07:58.63]adj.不确定的         对…不确定           vt.埋葬              vt.尊敬

[08:02.56]contribution         appearance           stage                set

[08:06.19]n.贡献               n.出现，露面         n.阶段               vt.设置

[08:09.82]California           search               in (one's) search forstorm

[08:14.05]加利福尼亚           n.搜寻               寻找                 n.暴风雨

[08:18.29]wooden               mouthful             as if                in a hurry

[08:21.97]adj.木制的           n.满口的             好象                 匆忙的

[08:25.65]have...on            piano                play the piano       pianist

[08:29.78]藏着,穿着            n.钢琴家             弹钢琴               n.钢琴家

[08:33.91]excite               exciting             manager              Syd

[08:37.33]vt.使兴奋            adj.兴奋的           n.经理               西德

[08:40.75]film                 Switzerland          bring up             pick out

[08:44.38]vt.拍摄              n.瑞士               教育                 挑出