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Make a five-minute film and win!
Do you love the summer holidays but hate being bored? Then why don’t you enter the Film Street Summer Shorts Competition by making a short film this summer with your family and friends?
What you have to do
To enter the competition, you have to make a short film that is around 5 minutes long (It can be shorter but not longer!) on a digital camera, or mobile phone.
Awards
The best short film entered into our competition will be shown in Film Street’s Cinema and you’ll win a Cineworld Cinema pass for yourself and three more for other members of your filmmaking crew. If you have a Cineworld Cinema pass, you can watch as many films as you like for a year, for free, at any Cineworld Cinema.
Rules
We can’t show films that tell others about either your, or any other kids’, name or address.
We can’t show films that hurt, harm or insult other people.
We can’t show films that have bad language.
Copyright Checklist
Getting permission to use someone else’s work in your film can be expensive, so check your film to make sure that:
Your film is original and you haven’t copied someone else’s.
There are no scenes of branding on shop signs, books, magazines or CDs.
There are no scenes of someone else’s artwork.
Address and Date
Post your finished film on tape, CD or DVD by Monday, October 1st, 2008 to:
Film Street Summer Shorts Competition
First Light Movies
Unit 6, Third Floor, The Bond
180-182 Fazeley Street
Birmingham
So what’s stopping you? Start making your Film Street Summer Short now!

  1. 1.

    Who is the passage mainly written for?

    1. A.
      Students
    2. B.
      Parents
    3. C.
      Teachers
    4. D.
      Actors
  2. 2.

    How many Cineworld Cinema passes will the winner of the competition be awarded in all?

    1. A.
      One
    2. B.
      Two
    3. C.
      Three
    4. D.
      Four
  3. 3.

    From the third paragraph we can learn that ________

    1. A.
      the winner’s short film can be shown in any cinema
    2. B.
      the competition is held by Cineworld Cinema
    3. C.
      the winner can watch films for free for one year at any Cineworld Cinema
    4. D.
      the winner will be paid for his short film
  4. 4.

    The underlined word “original” is the closest in meaning to “      ”

    1. A.
      interesting enough
    2. B.
      exciting enough
    3. C.
      good for children
    4. D.
      made by yourself

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Most British people prefer to live in a house rather than a flat and one of the reasons is that houses usually have gardens. The garden is a place where people can be outside and yet private.
If a house has a front and back garden, the front is likely to be formal(正規(guī)的) and decorative(裝飾性的), with a lawn (an area of grass) or fancy flower borders. The back garden usually also has a lawn and flower beds, and sometimes a vegetable plot(菜地) fruit trees. There’s often a bird table, on which food is put for birds, and a small simple house in which garden tools are kept.
Many British people spend quite a lot of money on their gardens and even the smallest may contain different kinds of flowers and plants. For them gardening is a hobby and they take pride in their gardens. Some towns and villages have competitions for the best-kept small garden. People with a small garden, or no garden at all, can rent a piece of land, on which most grow vegetables.
There are garden centers near most towns, selling everything a gardener might need, from flower pots to fish ponds as well as many types of plants.
The British interest in gardening affects the appearance of whole towns. Public parks and some roads often have bright displays of flowers in summer and public buildings have windows boxes(窗口花壇) and hanging baskets. Towns and villages enter for the Britain in Bloom competition every year

  1. 1.

    According to paragraph 2, a back garden _________

    1. A.
      is also formal
    2. B.
      has flower beds
    3. C.
      doesn’t have a lawn
    4. D.
      has beautiful flower borders
  2. 2.

    What do we know about garden centers?

    1. A.
      They are in the centre of the town
    2. B.
      Each town has a garden center
    3. C.
      Gardeners can buy tools there
    4. D.
      They have gardens for rent
  3. 3.

    From the last paragraph we know that _________

    1. A.
      gardening improves the appearance of British towns
    2. B.
      British parks are full of flowers all year round
    3. C.
      the British interest in gardening is decreasing
    4. D.
      Britain in Bloom is a worldwide competition

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I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in (旁聽生）   for another l8 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unmarried college graduate student, and she decided to, put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course. " My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers, She only gave in a few months later when my parents promised that would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I artlessly chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and ail of my working class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the $ 5 deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on

  1. 1.

    From the passage we know that the author          

    1. A.
      was adopted by a lawyer and his wife
    2. B.
      dropped out when he was 17 years old
    3. C.
      The author was admitted to Stanford
    4. D.
      valued his dropping out
  2. 2.

    The author dropped out mainly because           

    1. A.
      His academic performance was very poor
    2. B.
      He did not want to waste his parents' money
    3. C.
      His parents were too poor to afford the college tuition
    4. D.
      He didn't think university could help him to get a well-paid job
  3. 3.

    Why did the author think dropping out was a good decision?

    1. A.
      He could transfer to Stanford
    2. B.
      He could follow his passion
    3. C.
      He didn't have to attend classes any more
    4. D.
      He could spend more time in Hare Krishna temple
  4. 4.

    What can be inferred from this passage ?

    1. A.
      The author was taking a risk when he made the decision of dropping out
    2. B.
      The author enjoyed the comfort and pleasure of life after he dropped out
    3. C.
      The author's parents were very angry at his decision
    4. D.
      The author was a very curious person

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Some fifty years ago , I was studying in a middle school in New York . One day , Mrs. O’Neil gave a maths test to our class . When the papers were marked , she found that twelve boys had made exactly the same mistakes in the test .
There is nothing new about cheating in exams . Perhaps that was why Mrs. O’Neil didn’t even say one word about it . She only asked the twelve boys to stay after class . I was one of the twelve .
Mrs. O’Neil asked no questions , and she didn’t scold us , either . Instead , she wrote the following words on the blackboard : On your way home you find some money and you’re completely sure that you will never be found out . Later someone comes to ask you if you have found some money he lost . What will you do ?
She then ordered us to write down the question , and asked us to take our whole lives to try to find out our own answer to it .
I don’t know about the other eleven children . Speaking for myself I can say : it was the most important single thing of my life. From then on , I have been asking this question to myself when I have to make a decision .
Because of this , Mrs . O’Neil has become the most unforgettable teacher for me in my whole life . I often think of this : if Mrs . O’Neil had scolded us as many other teachers often did , would I go on cheating every day ?

  1. 1.

    Who wrote this story ?

    1. A.
      A student in New York who is not interested in maths
    2. B.
      Mrs. O’Neil from New York who found some money on her way home
    3. C.
      An old maths teacher in a middle school
    4. D.
      An old person who once lived in New York when he was young
  2. 2.

    When did the story happen?

    1. A.
      Over sixty years ago
    2. B.
      Over fifty years ago
    3. C.
      Over seventy years ago
    4. D.
      Over eighty years ago
  3. 3.

    In the sentence “…she didn’t scold us either” , what does “scold” maybe mean ?

    1. A.
      表?yè)P(yáng)
    2. B.
      批評(píng)
    3. C.
      教育
    4. D.
      原諒
  4. 4.

    When Mrs. O’Neil found twelve boys made exactly the same mistakes in the test , she                      

    1. A.
      became very , very angry and shouted at the children for an hour
    2. B.
      thought maybe she made some mistakes in her teaching
    3. C.
      tried to find out who made the mistakes first
    4. D.
      wanted to teach the twelve boys to stop cheating
  5. 5.

    Why did the writer think Mrs. O’Neil unforgettable ?

    1. A.
      Because Mrs. O’Neil often gave her student maths tests
    2. B.
      Because Mrs. O’Neil taught maths very well
    3. C.
      Because Mrs. O’Neil loved her students as she loved her own children
    4. D.
      Because Mrs. O’Neil taught a very important lesson to the writer

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Your body, which has close relation with the food you eat, is the most important thing you own. So it needs proper treatment and proper nourishment(營(yíng)養(yǎng)).
The old saying “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” is not silly as some people think. The body needs fruit and vegetables because they contain vitamin C Many people take extra vitamins in the form of pills(藥丸), believing that these will make them healthy. But a good diet is made up of nourishing food and this gives all the vitamins you need. The body doesn’t need or use extra vitamins. So why waste money on them?
In the modern western world many people are too busy to care about eating properly. They throw anything into their stomachs, eating hurriedly and carelessly. The list of illness caused or made worse by bad eating habits is frightening

  1. 1.

    The old saying in the passage tells us that_______

    1. A.
      the apple is the best among all kinds of fruits
    2. B.
      apple can take the place of doctors
    3. C.
      eating apples regularly (有規(guī)律的) does lots of good to our health
    4. D.
      an apple is a sure cure for illness
  2. 2.

    In the second paragraph the writer tries to let us know______

    1. A.
      our bodies need food or we can’t live
    2. B.
      often eating apples is a good habit
    3. C.
      taking extra vitamin pills is completely useless
    4. D.
      a good diet is very important to our health
  3. 3.

    From the passage we can draw a conclusion that if we want to keep healthy, we should______

    1. A.
      only eat an apple a day
    2. B.
      eat properly
    3. C.
      take as many vitamins pills as possible
    4. D.
      throw food into our stomachs slowly and carefully

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The medical world is gradually realizing that the quality of the environment in hospitals may play a significant role in the process of recovery from illness.
As part of a nationwide effort in Britain to bring art out of the galleries and into public places, some of the country's most talented artists have been called in to transform older hospitals and to soften the hard edges of modern buildings. Of the 2,500 National Health Service hospitals in Britain, almost 100 now have significant contemporary art in corridors, waiting areas and treatment rooms.
These recent initiatives(首創(chuàng)) owe a great deal to one artist, Peter Senior who set up his studio at a Manchester hospital in northeastern England during the early 1970s. He felt the artist had lost his place in modern society and that art should be enjoyed by a wider audience.
A typical hospital waiting room might have as many as 5,000 visitors each week. What a better place to hold regular exhibitions of art! Senior held the first exhibition of his own paintings in the outpatients waiting area of the Manchester Hospital in 1975. Believed to be Britain's first hospital artist, Senior was so much in demand that he was soon joined by a team of six young art school graduates.
The effect is striking. Now in the corridors and waiting rooms the visitor experiences a full view of fresh colors, playful images and restful courtyards.
The quality of the environment may reduce the need for expensive drugs when a patient is recovering from an illness. A study has shown that patients who had a view onto a garden needed half the number of strong pain killers compared with patients who had no view at all or only a brick wall to look at

  1. 1.

    The underlined part "to soften the hard edges of modern buildings" in Paragraph 2 means"________"

    1. A.
      to decorate hospitals with art collections
    2. B.
      to make the corners of hospital buildings round
    3. C.
      to change people's attitude toward hospitals
    4. D.
      to replace the old buildings with modern buildings
  2. 2.

    Peter Senior is a(n) ________

    1. A.
      doctor interested in arts
    2. B.
      artist who refuses to hold art exhibitions in hospitals
    3. C.
      pioneer in introducing art into hospitals
    4. D.
      artist who owns a great deal of property
  3. 3.

    The improvement of the hospital environment seems to be effective in ______

    1. A.
      making it unnecessary to give drugs to patients
    2. B.
      helping the modern artists regain their status in society
    3. C.
      calling in more talented artists to hospitals
    4. D.
      helping patients recovering from illness
  4. 4.

    The writer’s attitude towards the effect of art exhibitions in hospitals is ______

    1. A.
      suspicious
    2. B.
      positive
    3. C.
      neutral(中立的)
    4. D.
      unfavorable

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In 1883. John Roebling was inspired by an idea to build a spectacular bridge connecting New York with the Long Island. However, bridge building experts throughout the world thought this was an impossible mission and told Roebling to forget the idea, but Roebling could not ignore the vision he had in his mind of this bridge. After much discussion and persuasion he managed to convince his son Washington, an up and coming engineer, that the bridge in fact could be built.
The project started well, but when it was only a few months underway a tragic accident on the site took the life of John Roebling. Washington was injured and left with a certain amount of brain damage, which resulted in him not being able to walk or talk or even move.
"We told them so." "Crazy men and their crazy dreams.'' "It's foolish to chase wild visions." Everyone had a negative comment to make and felt that the project should be scrapped since the Roeblings were the only ones who knew how the bridge could be built. In spite of his handicap, Washington was never discouraged.
One day he was lying on his bed in hospital, seeing the sky and the tops of the trees outside for just a moment with the sunlight streaming through the windows, and a gentle breeze bowing the  flimsy white curtains apart when an idea hit him. He decided to make the best use of the only finger  he could move. Thus, he slowly developed a code of communication with his wife.
He touched his wife's arm with that finger, indicating to her that he wanted her to call the engineers again. Then he used the same method of tapping her arm to tell the engineers what to do. It seemed foolish but the project was under way again.
For 13 years Washington tapped out his instructions with his finger on his wife's arm until the bridge was finally completed

  1. 1.

    Which of the following is true of Washington and his father?

    1. A.
      They are hardworking and courageous
    2. B.
      They are stubborn and bold
    3. C.
      They are creative and persistent
    4. D.
      They are curious and modest
  2. 2.

    In the third paragraph, the underlined phrase ''wild vision" refers to______

    1. A.
      the tragic accident
    2. B.
      the building of the bridge
    3. C.
      the brain damage
    4. D.
      the discussion and persuasion
  3. 3.

    From the passage, we know that _______ when Roebling proposed building the bridge

    1. A.
      people all over America supported him
    2. B.
      almost no bridge experts in the world supported him
    3. C.
      his friends were strongly in favor of his idea
    4. D.
      many people considered it would be a great project
  4. 4.

    The passage suggests that______

    1. A.
      NO pains, no gains
    2. B.
      Many hands make light work
    3. C.
      A lighted heart is a good medicine
    4. D.
      Passion creates wonder

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Ben and his wife Susan were on their way to have dinner with their friends. It was a dark，windy night, and they did not know the way very well. They drove through a town until they found what they thought was the road to Dorling，where their friends lived. But it soon became clear that they were not on the road to Dorling at all. The road that they were on was getting narrower，and there were no other cars on it. The wind was blowing harder with every minute that passed.
They came to a small village .They drove past a church and then two houses without lights on. There was nobody about to tell them where they were，or where the road went. Just then，Ben saw a telephone box，twenty meters or so further on. While he walked back along the road to see if there was a name outside the church，Susan telephoned their friends and told them that they were still on their way.
Their friends were just saying that the dinner was already getting rather cold，when Ben came back to the telephone box，his head down against the wind. He said that there was a tree lying across the road，and that the telephone lines were down. Susan heard nothing more from their friends about the dinner

  1. 1.

    Some time later Ben and Susan found they took a wrong road because ________

    1. A.
      their friends lived nearer than they drove
    2. B.
      the road was getting narrower and their car alone was on it
    3. C.
      the hard wind made them get lost
    4. D.
      the road was not the same as before
  2. 2.

    Ben went to the church to see if there was a name outside because ________

    1. A.
      he was sure to find some people who knew Dorling
    2. B.
      he hoped to get help from there
    3. C.
      he wanted to telephone his friends where they were
    4. D.
      he wanted to stay there for the night
  3. 3.

    Susan could hear nothing more from their friends because ________

    1. A.
      the telephone lines were broken by a tree
    2. B.
      the strong wind made too much noise
    3. C.
      they got angry
    4. D.
      they had all left
  4. 4.

    From the passage we know ________

    1. A.
      Ben and his wife often went out for dinners
    2. B.
      Ben and his wife lived in the country
    3. C.
      both Ben and his wife were short­sighted(近視的)
    4. D.
      Ben and his wife seldom(很少) went to Dorling

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Walking down a path through some woods in Georgia, I saw a small pool of water ahead on the path. I angled my direction to go around it on the part of the path that wasn't covered by water or mud. As I reached the pool, I was suddenly attacked!
Yet I did nothing for the attack. It was so unpredictable and from somewhere totally unexpected. I was surprised as well as unhurt though I had been struck four or five times. I backed up a foot and my attacker stopped attacking me. Had I been hurt I wouldn't have found it amusing. And I was laughing. After all, I was being attacked by a butterfly!
Having stopped laughing, I took a step forward. My attacker rushed me again. He charged towards me at full speed, attempting to hurt me but in vain. For a second time, I took a step backwards while my attacker paused. I wasn't sure what to do. After all, it’s just not everyday that one is attacked by a butterfly. I stepped back to look the situation over. My attacker moved back to land on the ground. That's when I discovered why my attacker was charging me only moments earlier. He had a mate and she was dying.
Sitting close beside her, he opened and closed his wings as if to fan her. I could only admire the love and courage of that butterfly in his concern for his mate. He had taken it up on himself to attack me for his mate’s sake, even though she was clearly dying and I was so large. He did so just to give her those extra few precious moments of life. Should I have been careless enough to step on her? His courage in attacking something thousands of times larger and heavier than himself just for his mate’s safety seemed admirable. I couldn’t do anything other than reward him by walking on the more difficult side of the pool. He had truly earned those moments to be with her, undisturbed.
Since then, I’ve used that butterfly’s courage as an inspiration and to remind myself that good things are worth fighting for

  1. 1.

    The writer changed his direction while walking down a path because he wanted_______

    1. A.
      to get close to a butterfly
    2. B.
      to escape a sudden attack
    3. C.
      to look over the bad situation
    4. D.
      to avoid getting his shoes dirty
  2. 2.

    From the passage we can learn that the attacker ______.

    1. A.
      struck the author four or five times and made him badly hurt
    2. B.
      paused until the author took a step backwards
    3. C.
      thought it was the author who caused the death of his mate
    4. D.
      attacked the author for his mate’s safety and to accompany her for the last moments of life
  3. 3.

    From this experience the man learned______.

    1. A.
      butterflies are brave insects
    2. B.
      the small can defeat the large
    3. C.
      how to deal with challenges in his life
    4. D.
      people should try their best to fight for everything
  4. 4.

    Which of the following words can best describe the butterfly?

    1. A.
      caring
    2. B.
      ambitious
    3. C.
      courageous
    4. D.
      aggressive

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Who Owns the Moon?
Within the next ten years, the U. S., China, Israel, and a crowd of private companies plan to set up camp on the moon. So if and when they plant a flag, does that give them property rights?
A NASA working group hosted a discussion this week to ask: Who owns the moon? The answer, of course, is no use. The Outer Space Treaty, the international signed by more than 100 countries, states that the moon and other celestial bodies (天體) are the province of all mankind. No doubt that would annoy all of the people throughout the ages, like monks from the Middle Ages, who have tried to claim the moon was theirs.
But ownership is different from property rights. People who rent apartments, for example, don’t own where they live, but they still hold rights. So with all of the upcoming missions (派遣團(tuán)) to visit the moon and beyond, space industry thought leaders are seriously asking themselves how to deal with a potential land rush.
“ This is a very relevant discussion right now. We’ve got this wave of new lunar missions from around the world,” said William Marshall, a scientist in the small-spacecraft office at NASA, but who spoke this week at an event hosted by NASA’s Co Lab, a collaborative(協(xié)力完成的) public-private working group. He was speaking from his personal interest and not on behalf of the agency.
To be sure, the United States aims to send astronauts back to the moon by as early as 2015, in a mission that would include a long-term settlement. China and Israel, among others, are also working on lunar projects. And for the first time, several private groups are building spacecraft to land on the moon in an attempt to win millions of dollars in the Google Lunar X Prize. Some participants say that they plan to gain some property rights in the mission

  1. 1.

    In the passage the writer seems to be worrying that______.

    1. A.
      the US will live on the moon forever
    2. B.
      the moon will not be able to hold all mankind
    3. C.
      the potential land rush will become more and more frequent
    4. D.
      no one can answer the question “ Who owns the moon?”
  2. 2.

    “ The Google Lunar X Prize” aims to ______.

    1. A.
      encourage private groups to land on the moon
    2. B.
      help NASA host a discussion about land rush on the moon
    3. C.
      help some developing countries to complete their lunar projects
    4. D.
      reward some countries or private groups which haven’t stepped on the moon
  3. 3.

    The underlined word “ that” in the first paragraph refers to ______.

    1. A.
      the Outer Space Treaty
    2. B.
      if and when they plant a flag
    3. C.
      the NASA working group
    4. D.
      monks from the Middle Ages
  4. 4.

    What is the main idea of the last paragraph?

    1. A.
      The U. S. astronauts will live on the moon for longer time
    2. B.
      Many countries and private groups plan to go to the moon
    3. C.
      Why some private groups wish to land on the moon
    4. D.
      It is easy to gain some property rights on the moon
  5. 5.

    We can infer from the passage that______.

    1. A.
      it’s a waste of time to work on the lunar project
    2. B.
      “ The Outer Space Treaty” forbids private groups to land on the moon
    3. C.
      all mankind has the right to land on the moon
    4. D.
      whenever you come to the moon, you’ll get some property rights on it

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