单选题 Although the earliest films in cinema were done in the shot without any editing, cutting is so fundamental to the medium that it began to emerge relatively quickly. There was a basic disparity between the amount of film that a camera's magazine could hold and the evolving desire of filmmakers and audiences for longer and more elaborate story films. Only by editing shots together could longer narrative forms be achieved. A Trip to the Moon (1914), directed by Georges

单选题 What's this reading mainly about?

A、 Films of the early twentieth century.
B、 How film criticism influenced art.
C、 The development of film editing.
D、 The film technique of DW. Griffith.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】解析：文章主要讲述的是电影剪辑方式的发展、演变。故选C。

单选题 The underlined word abducted in Paragraph 5 probably means______.

A、 annoyed
B、 kidnapped
C、 raped
D、 robbed

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】解析：划线处为“强盗‘绑架’了女主人公”，故选B。

单选题 Who popularized parallel editing?

A、 DW. Griffith did.
B、 Georges
C、 Edwin S.Porter did.
D、 Steven Spielberg did.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】解析：由文章第二、三段可知，Edwin S.Porter的平行剪辑只是停留在初始阶段，而D.W.Griitith才使之成熟、流行起来。

单选题 Which of the following films is an excellent example of crosscutting?

A、 The Great Train Robbery
B、 The Girl and Her Trust
C、 The Birth of a Nation
D、 Intolerance

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】解析：由文章最后两句"Griffith extended his fluid use of continuity editing and crosscutting in his epics The Birth of a Nation(1915) and Intolerance(1916)．The latter film is a supreme example of crosscutting…”可知Intolerance是交叉剪辑手法的经典影片。

单选题 What can be inferred from the passage?

A、 Camera's magazine editors, filmmakers and audiences have the same desire for longer and more elaborate story films.
B、 Jaws employed a structurally different technique than crosscutting.
C、 Steven Spielberg used crosscutting in Jaws.
D、 Griffith invented parallel editing.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】解析：由文章最后一段第四句可推出，斯皮尔伯格在Jaws中也使用了交叉剪辑手法。