If you love reading books, you must know about the book The Little Prince. It’s a famous novel written by a French writer. As one of the best-selling books in history, it has been sold as many as 200 million copies in 253 languages and dialects(方言). Now, around seventy years after the birth of the book, an American director has found a way to make it into a 3D animated film.
The book tells the story of a pilot, called The Aviator, who crashes(撞击)into the desert and meets a young prince there. However, in the film, the story starts years after the crash when The Aviator is much older. He has got a new neighbor called The Little Girl, whose mother wants her to get ready to enter the grown-up world. Slowly, the Aviator shares his story with The Little Girl by writing it down and sending her a page at a time. The pages are complete with the pictures in the book, speaking about his time in the desert and taking The Little Girl to an amazing world where anything is possible.
China is the first country in the world to see the film in two versions--in Chinese and English. The film shows The Little Girl’s life and tells The Little Prince’s story at the same time in a beautiful way.
Huang Lei, who voices the film together with his 9-year-old daughter, says the film is like a childhood dream which is lost by most adults in this stressed-out society.
“The most touching part is that every one of us was a good-natured kid like the Little Prince, and it’s a pity that this good characteristic(品质)goes away as time flies,” he says.
根据短文内容，选择最佳答案（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）
1.The novel The Little Prince was written in the .
A. 1900s B. 1940s C. 1990s D. 2010s
2.The book The Little Prince is one of the best-selling books in history because .
A. you must know about it if you love reading books
B .it shows The Little Prince’s story in a beautiful way
C. it has been sold as many as 200 million copies in 253 languages and dialects
D. the director has made it into a 3D animated film
3.How does The Little Girl get to know the story of The Little Prince?
A. She reads the pages that The Aviator writes and sends to her.
B. Her mother wants her to get ready to enter the grown-up world.
C. The Aviator takes her to an amazing world.
D. She moves home next to The Aviator.
4.What does the underlined word”good-natured”mean?
A. kink B. friendly C. helpful D. all above
5.According to the passage, which is Huang Lei’s opinion?
A. He doesn’t believe the good characteristic is lost as we grow older in this stressed-out society.
B. He thinks all of us should keep our better nature and never let it disappear.
C. He feels excited because he can see the film in two versions first.
D. He and his daughter voice the film together.
Thang-ga(唐卡）is a special kind of painting .It was found only in Tibet,China. It started from the Tang Dynasty(唐朝). Thang-ga paintings show Tibetan people’s lives. In recent years, Tang-ga paintings have caught the public’s attention .At the same time,the Chinese government has also tried hard to protect the art.
The color of Tang-ga paintings looks wonderful and special. Because of the special environment of Tibet and the excellent skills of artists, the paints(颜料) used in Thang-ga are different from other paints. They were made from minerals like gold and silver, as well as some plants. The paints were made by hand and the beautiful colors could last(持续)for hundreds of years.
However, with the development of technology, people now use cheaper and more easily-made chemicals to make Thang-ga paints. The traditional paints used in Thang-ga paintings took a lot of work and they were made in many secret ways. Later people stopped making the paints and forgot about them. So the skills needed to make them were almost lost. The traditional Thang-ga paintings are difficult to find now.
根据短文内容，判断句子正(T)误(F)。
1.Tang-ga is a special and unusual kind of art.
2.Tang-ga was found only in Tibet in the Tang dynasty.
3.The special environment of Tibet and the excellent skills of artists make Tang-ga paints different from other paints.
4.The color of Tang-ga paintings can last for hundreds of years with modern technology.
5.The skills of artists have been already lost, so it is difficult to find the traditional Tang-ga paintings.
完形填空
从A、B、C三个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳答案。
One evening a young woman walked on the beach. She to see the footsteps（足迹） she had left in the sand, but they had already been washed away by the water. When she turned to continue her walk, She was surprised to see an old woman by a fire.
She walked up to the old woman and asked,”Where did you come from?I didn’t see you here a minute ago.
answering her question, the old woman said, ”Sit with me, my child. I have something to show you.”
As the young woman sat down beside the fire, the old woman handed her a book. She turned the pages of the book one by one and was to discover they told the story of her whole life, from the early days of to the present. But when she turned to the next page, she found it empty. and the rest of the pages in the book were all empty.
“Does this mean my life ends tonight?” she asked.
“No, my child. It means tonight your life .”
At that time the old woman took the book into her hands and began to tear(撕掉)each of the pages that had words out of the book. She then threw into the fire until all left were empty pages. She handed the book of empty pages to the young woman.
“You see,” she said, “just as the water washed away your footsteps in the sand, your past is forever gone. What you have is here and now. Each moment is the beginning of the rest of your life and you should live it to the fullest, because you won’t live that moment a(an) time. For your future, you are free to shape it as you wish, it has not yet been written.”
1.A. turns B. turned C. is turning
2.A. sitting B. to sit C. sat
3.A. Thanks to B. Instead of C. As for
4.A. tired B. sad C. amazed
5.A. childhood B. adulthood C. old age
6.A. ends B. lives C. begins
7.A. them B. it C. her
8.A. hardly B. lately C. truly
9.A. other B. another C. second
10.A. whether B. because C. then
Little Tom was in seventh heaven when he got a fashion bicycle for his birthday.
A. disappointed B. angry
C. upset D. happy
Emily got the first place in the Spelling Bee. We all admire her spelling ability.
A. a competition to spell words
B. a competition to give speeches
C. a competition to tell stories
D. a competition to sing songs
In order to have more tourists to Yunnan, we need to come up with more ideas.
A. awful B. meaningless
C. creative D. embarrassing
