“Now I just don’t believe that.” Surely all of us, at some point, have watched a movie and thought: It’s simply badly researched, or, the makers must think we’re fools.
If movies were completely scientifically accurate, they’d probably be as interesting as a Physics 101 lecture. In real life, there are no explosions in space, gas usually doesn’t explode from a lit cigarette, and Bruce Willis / Jackie Chan / Will Smith would most likely be in a coma(昏迷) after getting kicked in the head.
Recently, the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph ran a humorous piece on unconvincing tech moments from some top movies. Let’s see what they are all about.
Telegraph writer Tom Chivers’ first example is from the end-of-the-world movie Independence Day, in which a character comes up with a virus capable of destroying Windows, the computer system the alien(外星人的) spacecraft uses. “It’s a good thing they didn’t have Norton antivirus,” jokes Chivers.
It’s just one case of a movie that takes a lot of license with its science. Another one Chivers mentions is from Star Wars, where glowing beams of light traveling through space look very impressive. The problem is that in space there are no air particles(顆粒) for the light to reflect off. In reality, they’d not be seen, which wouldn’t look so cool on the big screen.
Chivers’ second piece of Star Wars nonsense is the sound the fighters make in the movies: “ the bellow(咆哮) of an elephant mixed with a car driving on a wet road”. But sound needs a medium to travel through, like air. In space, there wouldn’t actually be any sound at all.
Few people would deny that the mind-bending Matrix films make for great viewing, but for Chivers, the science in the movies is a little silly.
And finally: as Chivers points out, DAN is not replaceable. But this bit of elementary genetics passed the makers of the 2002 Bond film Die another Day by. In the film the villain(壞人) has “gene therapy” to change his appearance and his DNA, which is completely impossible.
小題1:What does the text mainly deal with?
A．Plots of some famous movies.B．Characters in space movies.
C．Popularity of space movies.D．Mistakes made in some movies.
小題2:From the first two paragraphs we can know that some movie makers ____.
A．went against general knowledge of science
B．didn’t pay attention to the viewers’ real demand
C．overestimated viewers’ appreciation of movies.
D．didn’t try their best to improve the quality of the movies.
小題3:What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A．The newspapers. B．Unconvincing tech moments
C．Some top movies.D．Heroes in the movies.
小題4:We can learn from Paragraph 7 that ____.
A．most people like Matrix films
B．the truth of Matrix films remains in doubt
C．few people think Matrix films silly
D．Chivers thinks science is unacceptable

小題1:D
小題2:A
小題3:B
小題4:A

試題分析：文章講述了在電影中使用了很多科幻的東西，便影片看起了非常刺激，電影不可非常的遵循科學(xué)，如果那樣的話，他就成了物理的講座。但是在電影中所采用的很多手段，其實(shí)在現(xiàn)實(shí)生活中是不存在的，文章舉了幾個電影作業(yè)例子。
小題1:D綜合理解題。本文前兩自然段介紹了本文的主要內(nèi)容，即電影中很多的場面都是不能令我們信服的，電影的制作人認(rèn)為我們是傻子，在實(shí)際生活中，太空是不會有爆炸的，汽油也不會因?yàn)橐桓銦煻āＫ源鸢窪是正確的，意為：在電影中犯的一些錯誤。A為一些著名電影的小伎倆；B為太空電影中的人物角色; C為太空電影的流行。均不符合文章的意思。
小題2:A細(xì)節(jié)理解題。從電影的制作者認(rèn)為我們是傻子以及電影中的很多場面在現(xiàn)實(shí)中不會存在，例如太空的爆炸等可知電影的制作者違背了科學(xué)的常識，故答案A是正確的。
小題3:B詞義理解題。第三自然段的意思是：最盡，英國的太晤士報(bào)發(fā)布了一些頂尖電影中的不令人信服的科學(xué)元素，讓我們看看他們是什么吧。由此可知They是指不能令人信服的科學(xué)元素。
小題4:A段落理解題。第七自然段的意思是沒有人否認(rèn)這些怪怪的電影取得了好的觀看效果，但是對Chivers來說，電影中的科學(xué)有點(diǎn)愚蠢。
考點(diǎn):社會現(xiàn)象類文章的閱讀理解。
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