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1、考研考博-考博英语-华中科技大学模拟考试题含答案1. 单选题African-American filmmakers should be in an enviable position, for since the early 1990s there has been a steady wave of low budget black films which have turned a solid profit due to a very strong response in the African-American community and a larger crossover audien
2、ce than anticipated. Any rational business manager would now identify this sector as a prime candidate for expansion, but if the films have done so well with limited production and marketing costs, why have they not received full scale support?Many analysts feel the business is engulfed in a miasma
3、of self-serving and self-fulfilling myths based on the unspoken assumption that African-American films can never be vehicles of prestige, glamour, or celebrity. The relationship players have convinced themselves that black films can do only a limited domestic business under any circumstance and have
4、 virtually no foreign box office potential. As executives who now control the film industry grew up in those decades when there were few black images on the screen and those that did exist were produced by film-makers with limited knowledge of the black community, it is little wonder that they avoid
5、 ideological issues, and seek to continue making films that they are comfortable with by avoiding the negative imagery of films they would prefer to eschew entirely.Also to blame for this deleterious phenomenon are legions of desperate and Machiavellian African-American film producers, directors, an
6、d writers who would transform The Birth of a Nation into a black musical as long as it would provide them with gainful studio employment. These filmmakers not only perpetuate negative stereotypes in their films, but they also season them with a sprinkling of African-American authenticity. This situa
7、tion would be onerous enough, given the economic exploitation of the community involved; unfortunately these films also validate the pathologies they depict. The constant projection of the black community as a kind of urban Wild Kingdom, the glamorization of tragic situations, and the celebration of
8、 inner city drug dealers and gangsters has a programming effect on black youth. The power of music in film is a particularly seductive and propagandistic force which in the recent crop of African-American films has rarely been used in a positive social manner.What flows from this combination of fact
9、ors is a policy of market exploitation rather than market development, evidenced by the fact that any number of films may open to 1,500 screens in one week, only to totally disappear in less than a month. This restricted body of film products erodes the genres long-term viability, particularly with
10、the more fickle non-African-American audiences and foreign audiences. Furthermore, when African-American actors begin to emerge as stars, their projects are usually designed to be “more” than a black film, such that any success that follows is therefore perceived not as a reflection of the viability
11、 of African-American filmmaking but as the broader pursuit of celebrity.36.Which of the following best describes the main purpose of the passage?37.According to the passage, each of the following is characteristic of African-American films being produced at present, EXCEPT （ ） .38.According to the p
12、assage, film industry executives have been reluctant to support African-American cinema for which of the following reasons?39.It may be inferred that the author of the passage considers The Birth of a Nation to be （ ） .40.According to the author, African-Americans filmmakers have failed to take whic
13、h of the following steps in properly promoting African-American cinema?问题1选项A.To contrast the condition of African-American cinema with that of mainstream cinemaB.To provide an economic explanation for the unpopularity of African-American cinemaC.To criticize the assumptions mainstream audiences all
14、egedly make toward African-American cinemaD.To catalogue the attitudes and practices responsible for the unpopularity of African-American cinema问题2选项A.long-term viability as a genre in which audiences keep a consistent interestB.success in attracting audiences outside the African-American communityC
15、.a tendency to glamorize the problems existing in African-American urban communitiesD.a limited level of authenticity in terms of their presentation of African - American culture问题3选项A.Executives believe that African-American audiences are often repelled by the presentation of ideological issues in
16、film.B.Executives conclude that African-American cinema is not likely to attract audiences overseas.C.Executives are of the opinion that African-American actors who emerge as stars are reluctant for the executives to associate them with “black” films.D.Executives are under the impression that there are many strong African-American producers, but few willing to work with mainstream studios.问
