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What are special effects? Do you enjoy movies that use a lot of special effects?
Dinosaurs (恐龙) from the distant past! Space battles from the distant future! There has been a revolution in special effects, and it has transformed the movies we see.
The revolution began in the mid-1970s with George Lucas"s Star Wars , a film that stunned (使震惊) audiences. That revolution continues to the present, with dramatic changes in special-effects technology. The company behind these changes is Lucas"s Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). And the man behind the company is Dennis Muren, who has worked with Lucas since Star Wars .
Muren"s interest in special effects began very early. At the age of 6, he was photographing toy dinosaurs and spaceships. At 10, he had an 8-millimeter movie camera and was making these things move through stop-motion. Stop-motion is a process in which objects are shot with a camera, moved slightly, shot again, and so on. When the shots are put together, the objects appear to move.
Talk to Muren and you"ll understand what ILM is all about: taking on new challenges. By 1989, Muren decided he had pushed the old technology as far as it would go. He saw computer graphics (图像) (CG) technology as the wave of the future and took a year off to master it.
With CG technology, images can be scanned into a computer for processing, and many separate shots can be combined into a single image. CG technology has now reached the point, Muren says, where special effects can be used to do just about anything so that movies can tell stories better than ever before. The huge success of Jurassic Park and its sequel (续集), the Lost World , the stars of which were computer-generated dinosaurs, suggests that this may very well be true.

单选题 The special-effects revolution began in the mid-1980s with Star Wars .

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 通过题干的关键词1980s和专有名词Star Wars可以定位到第三段“The revolution began in the mid-1970s with George Lucas"s Star Wars ”，意为“这场革命在20世纪70年代中期以乔治·卢卡斯的《星球大战》为开端”。由此可知，题干信息与文章信息不一致，故答案为B。

单选题 ILM is the company responsible for many of the changes in special-effects technology.

单选题 Dennis Muren started his schooling at a very early age.

单选题 At the age of 10, Muren was able to use computer graphics technology to make things move.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 利用题干关键词10和computer graphics technology可以定位到第四段“At 10, he had an 8-millimeter movie camera and was making these things move through stop-motion”，即“在十岁时，他就有一台8毫米的电影摄像机，通过单格拍制就可以使东西动起来”。由此可知，不是通过电脑技术，所以答案为B。

单选题 By the stop-motion process, many separate shots can be combined into a single image.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 利用题干中的stop-motion process，shot和image可以定位到第四段“Stop-motion is a process in which objects are shot with a camera, moved slightly, shot again, and so on. When the shots are put together, the objects appear to move”，意为“单格拍制就是用相机进行快照拍摄，移动一点，再拍照，以此类推。当所有的快照放在一起时，物体就好像是移动的”。可知，题干信息与原文信息不符合，所以答案为B。

单选题 Muren feels that with CG technology, special effects can be used to make movies more expressive.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 利用题干专有名词CG和movie可以定位到第六段，即“CG technology has now reached the point, Muren says, where special effects can be used to do just about anything so that movies can tell stories better than ever before”，即“CG技术已经实现这一点，在使用了特效的地方，能使电影比以往更好地讲故事”。由此可知，CG技术使电影的表达力更强，所有题干信息与文章信息相符，因此选择A。