阅读理解-词义猜测三
1、 The Edinburgh International Film Festival, after 60 years as one of the
city's cultural focuses in August, will move to June from next year. Artistic
director Hannah McGill said the festival needed more breathing space.
“There are huge advantages in having all these cultural events in one place and time,” she said. “But there is limited space. It’s like when a child has a birthday on Christmas Day —it all comes on top of each other.”
Ms McGill said that the film festival wanted to use extra places to organize events and conferences which Edinburgh was too crowded to provide in August. She
spoke of her difficulty, for example, being unable to hold an exhibition as part
of the film festival because of limited space.
However, Jon Morgan, the director of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival,
deprecated the film festival s move which suggested the city was overburdened in
August. “There are still hundreds of spaces that aren't used,and there is still
room for it to expand,” he said
The move to June made s ense. It would allow more air between it and the London Film Festival, providing for more distinctive (有特色的)programming.
“June will give us the breathing space to expand and create our own identity, allowing us to further develop our position as one of the world's most innovative(创新的) and challenging annual film events,” Ms McGill said The festival organisers thought that the move to June would not reduce
audiences,saying film-lovers would visit Edinburgh in early summer. Ginnie Atkinson, the festival’s managing director, said, “Our audiences are very film-focused. Last year we asked in our market research if they would come if we were the only show
in town and they said yes.”
1.The passage intends to tell us that the Edinburgh International Film
Festival ___________.
A.needs improving
B.enjoys great success
C.needs more breathing space
D.will move to “quieter” June
2.The underlined sentence in the second paragraph suggests that _______.
A.having two important events in one place and time has many advantages
B.having two important events in one place and time will cause pressure
C.wonderful things always go hand in hand
D.having a birthday on Christmas Day is a lucky thing
3.The underlined word “deprecated” in Paragraph 4 probably means__________.
A.disagreed to
B.approved of
C.supported
D.held
4.We can infer from the passage that ________.
A.the move to June will affect the number of people who visit Edinburgh
B.the festival is one of the world s most innovative and challenging annual film
events
C.the festival has been one of Edinburgh's cultural focuses for 60 years
D.it is generally believed that August is a busy month to the cultural circles in
Edinburgh
2、 Stonehenge, the world-famous circle of stone columns may 12. have had a
brother. A much bigger, older brother.
University of Bradford researchers announced they had discovered about 100
stones covering several acres thought to have been built around 4,500 years ago.
The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project discovered the monument, which is near
Durrington Walls, also known as “ superhenge”. Stonehenge, which is believed to
have been completed 3,500 years ago, is about 2 miles away. "What we are starting
to see is the largest surviving stone monument, preserved underneath a bank, that
has ever been discovered in Britain and possibly in Europe,” said Vince Gaffney.
