Day 5
Passage 1
China’s homegrown sci-fi blockbuster （ 大 片 ） The Wandering Earth scored at the Spring Festival box office. The film is an 1.___________( adapt ) of a novel of the same name by Liu Cixin, author of the Hugo Award-winning The Three-Body Problem. As 2.____________ ( it ) visual effects impress a global audience, a united human community when 3.____________( face ) a big disaster gets attention too.
Director Guo Fan said that he 4._______________ ( conscious ) avoided making a do-it-alone superhero; instead, the fight to save Earth 5.____________ ( fight ) by all humans. In The Wandering Earth, mankind is threatened by a dying sun, 6._____________ forces them to go on a generations-long space journey to look for a new one. At 7.______________center of the story are a Chinese astronaut and his son, who join a global task 8.___________( prevent ) Earth from crashing into Jupiter. At the end of the film 9._____________( come ) international rescue teams who help the Chinese team and give a final try to save Earth.
One online review reads, “It fits the Hollywood standard on presentation and visual effects, but the themes of family and love of homeland are typical 10.____________ Chinese sci-fi films.”
Passage 2
To this day, Kevin Hart still recalls the exact moment he learned this lifelong lesson,1.______________ he says came about one afternoon while he was under the care of his after-school babysitter,2.____________ kind, grandmotherly woman named Miss Davis.
3. ____________ (typical), Han helped Miss Davis with housework after school. One day, however, Han skipped the housework and joined some friends 4. ____________ a “game” of throwing rocks at passing cars.
As it went, one of the 5. ____________ (stone) Hart threw broke a car window. On seeing this, Hart and his friends 6. ____________ (flee) from the scene. The car stopped and the driver stepped out to find who did it. Eventually, his friends all pointed to Hart. “They threw me under the bus so fast!” he says.
News of the incident quickly made 7. ____________ (it) way to Miss Davis.
He spent the rest of the day in panic, fearing what 8. ____________ (happen) when Davis told his mother.
Yet, Miss Davis never told. Her act gave Hart an important lesson about trust. “You’ve got to give trust 9. ____________ (get) trust,” he says. He was so 10. ____________ (thank) that he never got into trouble as a teenager from then on, all because of Miss Davis.
Keys
Passage 1
1 adaption 2 its 3 facing 4 consciously 5 was fighted 6 which 7 the 8 to prevent 9 come 10 of
Passage 2
1 which 2 a 3 typically 4 in 5stones 6 fled t its 8 would happen (might/could happen) 9 to get 10 thankful
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