一九九八年陕西省秋季高等教育自学考试英语2e

Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.
Have you ever seen a movie in which a building was burned down or a bridge was
destroyed?Have you seen films in which a train crashed or a ship sank into the
ocean?If so, you may have wondered how these things could happen without harming
the people in the file.
The person who knows the answer is the "special-effects" person. He has one of
the most important jobs in the film industry.
In a scene for one movie there was a big glass bowl filled with water in which
small fish were swimming. The director of the movie wanted the fish to stop
swimming suddenly whilt they seemed to stare at an actor. Then the director wanted
the fish to stoop staring and awim away. But fush can’t be ordered to do anything.
It was quite a problem.
The special-effects person thought about this problem for a long time. The ersult
was an idea for controlling the fish with a harmless use of electricity. First
hwe applied electricity to the fish bowl, causing the fish to be absolutely still.
Then he rapidly reduced the amount of electricity, allowing the fish to swim away.
Thuas he got the humorous effect that the director wanted.
As in other parts of movie making, there are those who have developed particular
skill in creating certain kinds of effects. Jim White, who has been a
special-effects person for thirty-two years, is best known for work with ships
and airplanes.
Calmly he builds and crashes airplanes or sends tiny models of ships on dangerous
voyages. For a movie about World War Ⅱ he built a boat which was a copy of a
real ship. The copy was made of wood and was 165 feet long. As it sailed along
at a speed of seven sea miles an hour in the Pacific Ocean, it seemed so real
that a United States military airplane flew down near it, trying to discover which
country owned it.
All the special effects require training, skill,and experience. It also adds a
great deal to the expense of producing the film. It helps explain why so many
movies are expensive to make.
56.The special-effects people’s job is important because _____.
a. they reduce the costs of movie making
b. they make scenes look real
c. they make destroyed things reusable
d. the protect their works from being destroyed
57.The special-effects person made the fish stop swimming ________.
a. by staring at them
b. by applying electricity to the fish bowl
c. by reducing the amount of electricity applied to the fish bowl
d. by ordering them to stop
58.A.U.S.mmilitary airplane followed the boat because ______.
a. the boat was on a dangerous voyage
b. the boat was from an enemy country
c. the boat looked like a ship from an unknown country
d. it was the effect that the director wanted
59.According to this passage, one of the reasons that films are often expensive
to make is that ______.
a. special effects often cost a lot
b. actors destroy many things
c. many actors are harmed or killed in film making
d. special-effects people earn high salaries
60.Which of the following is NOT an example of special effects in this passage?
a. Making the fish stop swimming
b. Causing the fish to swim away
c. The flying of a military plane
d. The sailing of an 165-foot-long boat.