单选题   Crash. Shatter. Boom. Crash. Shatter. Boom. Smattering of silly dialogue. Pretty girl screams: 'Dad!' Crash. Shatter. Boom. Silly dialogue. 'DAD!!!' Crash. Shatter. Boom.
    What? Oh, sorry. We were falling into a trance there.
    Which is, dear moviegoer, what may happen to you during Michael Bay's Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth Transformers film and lasts 165 minutes, which is precariously close to the three-hour mark that Bay undoubtedly will reach—by our sophisticated calculations, and at the current growth rate, with his sixth instalment.
    But let's not get ahead of ourselves. Despite what you've just read, this film will likely be a massive hit because by now, if you're buying a Transformers ticket, you surely know what you're getting into, and you want more, more, more. And Bay is the Master of More.
    Or just take it from the 11-year-old sitting next to me, who reserved any audible judgment—he, too was in a trance, though maybe from sugar intake—until the moment he saw a Transformer become a dinosaur. Overwhelmed by the pairing, he proclaimed, 'That's the sickest thing I've ever seen in my life.' It was as if peanut butter and jelly had been tasted together for the first time.
    This time, there's a whole new human cast. Most important, Mark Wahlberg has replaced Shia LaBeouf as well, Main Human Guy.
    A significant part of the movie also takes place in China—clearly a nod to the franchise's huge market in the country.
    In any case, we begin in Paris, Texas, where Cade Yeager (Wahlberg), a struggling inventor, is desperately seeking a big discovery. He's also a widowed dad, and super-protective (as the movie incessantly reminds us) of his high-school daughter, Tessa (Nicola Peltz, blond and pretty and ineffective, though the one-note script does her no favours).
    One day, Cade buys a rusty old truck. Examining it back home, he soon discovers it's none other than Optimus Prime, the Autobot hero, seriously damaged.
    As Cade works on fixing him up, his assistant, wisecracking surfer-dude Lucas, has the dumb idea of calling the authorities. What he doesn't know is that the government is plotting to destroy all remaining Autobots in favour of a man-made army of Transformers. He's being helped in this endeavour by the shadowy KSI Corporation, run by the nasty-but-complicated Joshua Joyce (Stanley Tucci).
    So now, it's evil humans that pitted against the trustworthy Autobots. So much for gratitude. There's also a subplot involving Tessa and her secret boyfriend, Shane (Jack Reynor, underused), whose Irish accent leads Cade to dismissively call him 'Lucky Charms'—at least until the two bond in battle.
    The obvious question: Is it too much for its own good? Bay is very talented at all things visual, the 3-D works well and the robots look great. But the final confrontation alone lasts close to an hour. At some point, you may find yourself simply in a daze, unable to absorb any further action into your brain.
单选题     What can be inferred from the first paragraph?
 
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】推断题。联系下文可知，本文的主题是电影《变形金刚4》，第一段讲到，接连不断的爆裂声、粉碎声、轰隆声撕裂着最简单的对白。小姑娘狂呼“爸爸!”由此推知，这部电影场面宏大，效果抢眼，非常震撼人心。
单选题     What does the word 'trance' (Line 1, Para.2) mean?
 
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】语义题。文章第一段讲到一个女孩观看《变形金刚4》时异常激动，不断呼喊“爸爸!”可见，她对该部电影非常着迷，即We were falling into a trance there. 即“只因此刻我们太入迷了。”B项fascination意为“着迷，入迷”，与trance意思一致，因而可代替trance。
单选题     What did the author mean by saying '...and you want more, more, more. And Bay is the Master of More.' (Para.4)?
 
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】推断题。要推断该句的意思，关键是要理解其中more代替的是什么，根据该句中的this film will likely be a massive hit可知，more相当于more hit，那么And Bay is the Master of More. 意为“迈克尔·贝是能够创造这些震撼的一位大师。”选项中，B项“迈克尔·贝擅长制造巨大的震撼”，符合原文文意，且作者在文中多次提到影片震撼人心的效果，可见，他意在肯定该部影片导演的实力。
单选题     What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
 
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】主旨题。文章最后一段开头讲到The obvious question: Is it too much for its own good?即“然而，有个问题显而易见：是不是在自己的优势方面费时过多?”接着展开来讲，影片最后的对峙持续了有将近一个小时，虽然场面宏大，效果震撼，但持续时间太长，以至于观众到最后感觉眼花缭乱，再也看不下去。该段中心句是第一句，也就是导演在自己擅长的方面投入太多，进而产生了负面影响。C项正确。
单选题     Which of the following statement is wrong?
 
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】细节题。A项意为“《变形金刚6》可能会持续3小时”，这与文章第三段部分内容相对应，故正确；B项意为“影片中，政府想要打造人造变形金刚部队。”这与第十一段中What he doesn't know is that the government is plotting to destroy all remaining Autobots in favour of a man-made army of Transformers. 部分内容对应；C选项意为“影片中，KSI公司支持政府的行动”，这与第十一段中He's being helped in this endeavour by the shadowy KSI Corporation相对应；D项意为“约书亚·乔伊斯向政府报告了擎天柱的消息”，文中并未提到，故不正确。