Unit 2 What's on at the cinema?
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Part I Script
Directions: Listen to the short dialogs, and then choose the correct answers
to the questions. You will hear the recording twice. After the first playing,
there will be time for you to choose the correct answers. Use the second
playing to check your answers.
1.
(Listen to the audio recording for the question.)
A. The man is inviting the woman to go to theater.
B. The woman always sees movies in theater.
C. The man likes to see movies in theater.
D. The woman doesn't like seeing movies at all.
2.
(Listen to the audio recording for the question.)
A. The woman likes animation while the man likes realistic movies.
B. The man likes animation while the woman likes realistic movies.
C. They both like computer animation.
D. They both like realistic movies.
3.
(Listen to the audio recording for the question.)
A. He doesn't want to see the movie.
B. He wants to see the movie with the woman.
C. He wants to see the movie with the woman and her friends. D. He has never heard of the movie.
4. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)
A. New films, especially war films.
B. Any films except violent films.
C. Any great films.
D. A war film with a hero.
5. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)
A. He is an American.
B. He has a poor hearing.
C. He understands the movie completely.
D. He missed some details of the movie.
Part II Script
Directions: Listen to the following recording, and then fill in the blanks
with the missing words. You will hear the recording twice. After the first
playing, there will be time to write the missing words. Use the second
playing to check your answers.
M: Have you seen the movie The Green Mile yet?
W: No, I haven't. I heard it wasn't (1)a very good movie.
M: Not good? How can a movie (2)starring Tom Hanks with a script
based on Stephen King's fictional (3)best-seller not be good? The wonderful special effects, the unbearably horrible scenes, and the
downright magical scenes make this movie (4)a new classic.
W: But isn't it too (5)violent?
M: Yeah, it is (6)somewhat violent. What I liked in particular is
how the movie sequences lead to the green mile, a long, grey-colored path prisoners finally walk (7)before their executions. I
was impressed by (8)the calmness they showed before their
(9)death.
W: Maybe the movie is better than I (10)thought.
Your answer
Correct
answer
(1) a very good a very good
(2) starring starring
(3) best-seller best-seller
(4) a new classic a new classic
(5) violent violent
(6) somewhat somewhat
(7) before before
(8) the calmness the calmness
(9) death death
(10) thought thought
Part III Script
Directions: Listen to the following recording, and then choose the correct
answers to the questions. You will hear the recording twice. After the first
playing, there will be time for you to choose the correct answers. Use the
second playing to check your answers.
1. What are the man and woman talking about?
A. The good sound system of a theater.
B. The good and bad points about a horror movie.
C. What movies to watch.
D. The movies they plan to watch and what they have already
watched.
2. Which of the following movies did the man not suggest?
A. A science fiction movie.
B. A comedy.
C. A horror movie.
D. A war movie.
3. According to the woman, why does the man want to see a horror movie?
A. Because he likes movies that are really violent.
B. Because he likes to see monsters.
C. Because the girl is crazy about horror movies.
D. Because he wants the girl to move closer to him.
4. What did the man do at the sight of a monster moving across the
screen? A. He jumped out of excitement.
B. He coughed.
C. He jumped and screamed.
D. He ran out of the theater.
5. What did the man do that annoyed the girl?
A. He threw popcorn in the aisle.
B. He ate popcorn with a lot of noise.
C. He threw Coke at a neighbor.
D. He threw Coke on the floor.
Part IV
Directions: Choose the best answer to each of the following statements.
1. The film The Pianist is _____ in the Second World War.
A. put
B. settled
C. set
D. laid
2. The film is about three native girls, who ____________ their families
by the racist police.
A. separate with
B. are separated with
