研究生英语阅读Unit12课后答案.doc

Unit 12 Film and Drama Learning Objectives Part I Warm-up Activities A Directions: Below are three famous film stars and their works of art. Match the film stars and their films. Charlie Chaplin 2. Vivien Leigh 3. Tom Hanks Forrest Gump B. Modern Times C. Gone with the Wind B Directions: The following are the posters of three famous plays. Read the introductions and fill in the missing information with the words given in the chart. A B C French American British adventure fantasy musical 1. The Harry Potter film series is a British-American film series based on the Harry Potter novels by the British author J. K. Rowling. The series is distributed by Warner Bros. and consists of eight fantasy films beginning with Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (2001) and culminating with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011). It is the highest-grossing film series of all-time in inflation unadjusted dollars, with $7.7 billion in worldwide receipts. Each film is in the list of fifty highest-grossing films of all-time in inflation unadjusted dollars and is a critical success. 2. The Phantom of the Opera is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the French novel Le Fant?me de lOpéra by Gaston Leroux. It is considered by many to be the most successful musical of all time and is also the longest running show in Broadway history. 3. Ice Age is a 2002 American computer-animated comedy-drama adventure film created by Blue Sky Studios and released by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Carlos Saldanha and Chris Wedge from a story by Michael J. Wilson. The film was nominated at the 75th Academy Awards for best animated feature. The film was met with mostly positive reviews and was a box office success, starting a series with three sequels, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, and Ice Age: Continental Drift. Useful Words and Expressions mo