最新版英语听力教程 Model Test8-part a
时间：2018-12-27 作者：英语课 分类：最新版英语听力教程
[00:30.30]Part A Directions:
[00:34.06]For Questions 1-5,you'll hear an introduction about the life of George Grizzard
[00:40.33]While you listen,fill out the table with the information you've heard.
[00:45.37]Some of the information has been given to you in the table.
[00:49.84]Write only 1 word or number in each numbered box.
[00:54.99]You now have 25 seconds to read the table below.
[01:00.55]M:An all-around actor,George Grizzard is noted 1 both for the
[01:07.58]quality and variety of his acting 2 career.
[01:12.65]Born in Roanoke Rapids North Carolina,
[01:17.61]Grizzard came from a religious family that
[01:22.05]did not encourage his early interest in acting.
[01:26.41]Grizzard's first big chance on Broadway was his role as an escaped prisoner
[01:32.94]in the 1955 crime thriller 3 The Desperate Hours,
[01:38.72]starring Karl Madden,Nancy Coleman,and Paul New-man.
[01:44.78]Following 212 performances on Broadway,
[01:50.24]Grizzard stayed with the cast for a three-month national tour.
[01:56.11]Returning to Broadway in 1956,
[02:00.56]he took a comic role in The Happiest Millionaire.
[02:05.41]For his work in that comedy he received the Theatre World Award.
[02:11.29]Both the clarity 4 and energy of his performance had been praised by many critics
[02:17.85]Grizzard's talent was perhaps best shown during his Broadway appearance
[02:25.42]in the four short comedies entitled 5
[02:29.79]You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running.
[02:34.54]In a single performance,he played the roles of four people
[02:39.69]and everyone was surprised that the roles were all played by the same actor.
[02:45.36]Since the late 1950s,Grizzard has been much admired
[02:51.42]for his many television and motion 6 picture roles.
[02:56.07]Of all these appearances,perhaps the most notable 7 is his role as John Adams
[03:02.73]in the first six of the thirteen--part series The Adams Chronicles.
[03:09.39]The chronicles cover 150 years in the history of the American political family
[03:16.34]that included John Adams,the second president,
[03:21.20]and his son John Quincy Adams,the sixth president.
[03:27.07]Earlier in his career,
[03:30.44]Grizzard spent morethan a year preparing the title role
[03:35.59]for a 1963 Minneapolis production of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
[03:42.07]More recently,at the Circle in the Square in New York,
[03:47.03]he played the lead in George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman,
[03:52.91]a five-hour-long romantic comedy.
- The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
- Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
- Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
- During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。
- He began by writing a thriller.That book sold a million copies.他是写惊险小说起家的。那本书卖了一百万册。
- I always take a thriller to read on the train.我乘火车时，总带一本惊险小说看。
- His writing has great clarity of style.他的写作风格清晰易懂。
- Mozart's music is characterized by its naivety and clarity.莫扎特的音乐特色是纯朴兴清澈。
- You will be entitled to your pension when you reach 65. 你到65岁就有资格享受养老金。
- He entitled us to enter his office at any time. 他授权给我们可以随时进入他的办公室。