What would you do if Martians (火星人) kidnapped (綁架) your mom? In the 3-D animated movie Mars Needs Moms, a young boy named Milo finds himself in this exact difficult situation. The aliens want to steal Milo’s mother’s “momness” for their own young. Now it’s up to the 9-year-old to get his mom back before she is lost forever.
Every good action movie has a bad guy. The villain (反派角色) in this film is the Martian Supervisor, played by Mindy Sterling. The Supervisor has an icy cold heart. Remarkably, Sterling acted out almost all of her scenes in a special Martian language created just for the movie. “Learning Martian was a piece of cake,” Sterling said. “There wasn’t too much to learn; sometimes, I just made it up!”
Anyone who has a mother will be moved by this movie. In fact, anyone who loves someone will be moved by this movie. Maybe it is because the story was inspired by a real-life event. The movie is based on a novel by prize-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed. He wrote the book after a dinner-table incident between his wife and son, who was then 4 years old. That night, Breathed’s son had thrown his broccoli into the air and rushed out of the room angrily, yelling at his mother on the way out. Breathed told his son, “You might think differently about your mom if she were kidnapped by Martians.” He wrote the novel that same evening.
All kids get into arguments with their parents. The fights may be about homework, chores or eating vegetables. Mars Needs Moms tells us to look past these silly disagreements and to remember the importance of family and the things that really matter.
小題1:In the movie Mars Needs Moms the aliens want to _____.
A．kill Milo’s mother
B．take Milo as their kid
C．make Milo’s mother their kids’ mom
D．send their kids to Milo’s family
小題2:To Mindy Sterling, learning Martian language is _____.
A．simpleB．difficultC．interesting D．unacceptable
小題3:What made Breathed write the novel?
A．The movie producer’s idea.
B．His wife’s inspiration and help.
C．His good relationship with his mother.
D．His son’s bad behavior toward his mother.
小題4:In the last paragraph the author wants to _____.
A．a(chǎn)dvise children to help with the housework
B．encourage readers to learn something from the movie
C．stress the importance of doing something different
D．a(chǎn)sk parents to be good teachers of their children

小題1:C
小題2:A
小題3:D
小題4:B
文章講述的是一個母親受到她兒子不好行為的啟發(fā)寫了一篇關(guān)于外星人為了幫自己的孩子尋找母親，而劫持地球母親的故事
小題1:事實細節(jié)題，根據(jù)第一段The aliens want to steal Milo’s mother’s “momness” for their own young可知，外星人是為了幫助他們的孩子尋找母親
小題2:推理判斷題，根據(jù)第二段的“Learning Martian was a piece of cake可知，學(xué)習(xí)火星語對他來說很簡單
小題3:事實細節(jié)題，根據(jù)第三段He wrote the book after a dinner-table incident between his wife and son, who was then 4 years old. That night, Breathed’s son had thrown his broccoli into the air and rushed out of the room angrily, yelling at his mother on the way out. Breathed told his son, “You might think differently about your mom if she were kidnapped by Martians.” He wrote the novel that same evening可知，
小題4:推理判斷題，根據(jù)最后一段tells us to look past these silly disagreements and to remember the importance of family and the things that really matter可知，作者想讓讀者從電影中學(xué)到點東西
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