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1、阅读理解-词义猜测三1、 The Edinburgh International Film Festival, after 60 years as one of the citys 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 on
2、e place and time,” she said. “But there is limited space. Its like when a child has a birthday on Christmas Day it all comes on top of each other.”矚慫润厲钐瘗睞枥庑赖賃軔朧碍鳝绢懣硯涛镕頃赎巯驂雞虯从躜鞯烧。 Ms McGill said that the film festival wanted to use extra places to organize events and conferences which Edinburgh was t
3、oo 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.聞創沟燴鐺險爱氇谴净祸測樅锯鳗鲮詣鋃陉蛮苎覺藍驳驂签拋敘睑绑。 However, Jon Morgan, the director of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, deprecated the film festival s move
4、which suggested the city was overburdened in August. “There are still hundreds of spaces that arent used,and there is still room for it to expand,” he said残骛楼諍锩瀨濟溆塹籟婭骒東戇鳖納们怿碩洒強缦骟飴顢歡窃緞駔蚂。 The move to June made sense. It would allow more air between it and the London Film Festival, providing for more
5、distinctive (有特色的)programming. “Junewillgive us the breathingspaceto expand and create our own identity, allowing us to further developourposition as one oftheworldsmost innovative(创新的) and challenging annual film events,” Ms McGill said酽锕极額閉镇桧猪訣锥顧荭钯詢鳕驄粪讳鱸况閫硯浈颡閿审詔頃緯贾。 The festival organisers thought
6、 that the move to June would not reduce audiences,saying film-lovers would visit Edinburgh in early summer. Ginnie Atkinson, the festivals 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
7、they said yes.”彈贸摄尔霁毙攬砖卤庑诒尔肤亿鳔简闷鼋缔鋃耧泞蹤頓鍥義锥柽鳗铟。1.The passage intends to tell us that the Edinburgh International Film Festival_.A.needs improvingB.enjoys great successC.needs more breathing spaceD.will move to “quieter” June2.The underlined sentence in the second paragraph suggests that_.A.having two
8、 important events in one place and time has many advantagesB.having two important events in one place and time will cause pressureC.wonderful things always go hand in handD.having a birthday on Christmas Day is a lucky thing3.The underlined word “deprecated” in Paragraph 4 probably means_.A.disagree
9、d toB.approved ofC.supportedD.held4.We can infer from the passage that_.A.the move to June will affect the number of people who visit EdinburghB.the festival is one of the world s most innovative and challenging annual film eventsC.the festival has been one of Edinburghs cultural focuses for 60 year
10、sD.it is generally believed that August is a busy month to the cultural circles in Edinburgh謀荞抟箧飆鐸怼类蒋薔點鉍杂篓鳐驱數硯侖葒屜懣勻雏鉚預齒贡缢颔。2、 Stonehenge, the world-famous circle of stone columns may 12. have had a brother. A much bigger, older brother.厦礴恳蹒骈時盡继價骚卺癩龔长鳏檷譴鋃蠻櫓鑷圣绋閼遞钆悵囅为鹬。 University of Bradford researche
11、rs 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 comple
12、ted 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.茕桢广鳓鯡选块网羈泪镀齐鈞摟鳎饗则怿唤倀缀倉長闱踐識着純榮詠。 The evidence was found under 3 feet of ea
13、rth. Some of the stones are thought to have stood 15 feet tall before they were toppled. Our radar data have shown an amazing row of up to 90 standing stones, a number of which have survived after being pushed over, and a large bank placed over the stones, said professor Wolfgang Neubauer, director
14、of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology.鹅娅尽損鹌惨歷茏鴛賴縈诘聾諦鳍皑绲讳谧铖處騮戔鏡謾维覦門剛慘。 “ In the east,up to 30 stones . have survived below,” he said. “The extraordinary scale and details of the evidence produced by the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project, which the
15、 new discoveries at Durrington Walls, is changing fundamentally(根本上) our understanding of Stonehenge and the world around it, Neubauer added.籟丛妈羥为贍偾蛏练淨槠挞曉养鳌顿顾鼋徹脸鋪闳讧锷詔濾铩择觎測。 Everything written before about the Stonehenge landscape and the ancient monuments within it will need to be rewritten,” said P
16、aul Garwood, a scientist and lead historian on the project at the University of Birmingham. The findings were announced on the first day of the British Science Festival being held at the University of Bradford.預頌圣鉉儐歲龈讶骅籴買闥龅绌鳆現檳硯遙枨纾釕鴨鋃蠟总鴯询喽箋。1.It is believed that the superhenge is _earlier than the Stonehenge.A.1,000 years
