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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 o
2、ne 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.” 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 Augus
3、t. 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 a
4、re still hundreds of spaces that arent used,and there is still room for it to expand,” he said The move to June made sense. It would allow more air between it and the London Film Festival, providing for more distinctive (有特色的)programming. “Junewillgive us the breathingspaceto expand and create our o
5、wn identity, allowing us to further developourposition as one oftheworldsmost 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
6、, 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 they said yes.”1.The passage intends to tell us that the Edinburgh International Film Festival_.A.needs improvingB.enjoys g
7、reat successC.needs more breathing spaceD.will move to “quieter” June2.The underlined sentence in the second paragraph suggests that_.A.having two important events in one place and time has many advantagesB.having two important events in one place and time will cause pressureC.wonderful things alway
8、s go hand in handD.having a birthday on Christmas Day is a lucky thing3.The underlined word “deprecated” in Paragraph 4 probably means_.A.disagreed 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 festi
9、val is one of the world s most innovative and challenging annual film eventsC.the festival has been one of Edinburghs cultural focuses for 60 yearsD.it is generally believed that August is a busy month to the cultural circles in Edinburgh2、 Stonehenge, the world-famous circle of stone columns may 12
10、. 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 W
11、alls, 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 Vin
12、ce Gaffney. The evidence was found under 3 feet of earth. 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 th
13、e stones, said professor Wolfgang Neubauer, director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology. “ 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 Landsca
14、pes Project, which the new discoveries at Durrington Walls, is changing fundamentally(根本上) our understanding of Stonehenge and the world around it, Neubauer added. Everything written before about the Stonehenge landscape and the ancient monuments within it will need to be rewritten,” said Paul Garwo
15、od, 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.1.It is believed that the superhenge is _earlier than the Stonehenge.A.1,000 yearsB.2,500 yearsC.3,
16、500 yearsD.4,500 years2.What do researchers think of the superhenge?A.It is the biggest monument discovered in the world.B.It was built much later than the Stonehenge.C.It is the largest surviving stone monument found in England.D.It is better protected than the Stonehenge.3.What do the underlined word “t
