The slavery drama “12 Years a Slave” won the Academy Award for best picture on Sunday, making history as the first movie from a black director to win the film industry’s highest honor in 86 years of the Oscars. British director Steve McQueen’s brave portrayal of pre-Civil War American slavery won two other Oscars, including best supporting actress for newcomer Lupita Nyong’o and best adapted screenplay based on the memoir of Solomon Northup, a free man tricked and sold into slavery in Louisiana. “Everyone deserves not just to survive but to live. This is the most important legacy of Solomon Northup,” said McQueen in his acceptance speech.
“12 Years a Slave” was better over space thriller “Gravity” from Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron, which nevertheless got the most Oscars of the night with seven, including the best director honor for Cuaron, a first for a Latin American director.The film starring Sandra Bullock as an astronaut lost in space swept the technical awards like visual effects and cinematography, a reward for its groundbreaking work on conveying space and weightlessness. Referring to the “transformative” experience he and others undertook in the four-plus years spent making “Gravity”, Cuaron, whose hair is graying, said, “For a lot of these people, that transformation was wisdom. For me, it was just the color of my hair.”
In one of the strongest years for film in recent memory, the 6,000-plus voters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences scattered golden Oscar statuettes among the many acclaimed movies in contention.
It was a good night for the scrappy, low-budget film “Dallas Buyers Club”, directed by Jean-Marc Vallee, a biopic of an early AIDS activist two decades in the making that won three Oscars, including the two male acting awards.
Matthew McConaughey, in a validation of a remarkable career turnaround, won best actor for his portrayal of the homophobe who turned AIDS victim and then turned treatment crusader Ron Woodroof, a role for which he lost 50 pounds (23 kg). His co-star, Jared Leto, won best supporting actor for his role as Woodroof’s unlikely business partner, the transgender woman Rayon, for which he also slimmed down drastically.
Australia’s Cate Blanchett won the best actress Oscar for her acclaimed role as the socialite unhinged by her husband’s financial crimes in Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine.” “As random and subjective as this award is, it means a great deal in a year of, yet again, extraordinary performances by women,” said Blanchett, who beat out previous Oscar winners Bullock, Amy Adams, Judi Dench and Meryl Streep.
小題1:The film which won the largest number of Oscar awards this year is ______.
A．12 Years a SlaveB．Gravity
C．Dallas Buyers ClubD．Blue Jasmine
小題2:Which director spent the least money in making the film?
A．Steve McQueen.B．Alfonso Cuaron.
C．Jean-Marc Vallee.D．Woody Allen.
小題3:How many Oscar best actresses are mentioned in this passage?
A．One.B．Three.C．Five.D．Six.
小題4:Which of the following statements is WRONG?
A．“12 Years a Slave” won two Oscar awards altogether.
B．The director of “Gravity” is from Latin America.
C．The character Rayon is played by Jared Leto.
D．The woman film star Cate Blanchett comes from Oceania.

小題1:B
小題2:C
小題3:C
小題4:A

試題分析: 本文是介紹了一些獲得了第86屆奧斯卡獎(jiǎng)的電影和對(duì)它們的介紹。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題：根據(jù)第二段的句子：“12 Years a Slave” was better over space thriller “Gravity” from Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron, which nevertheless got the most Oscars of the night with seven, including the best director honor for Cuaron, a first for a Latin American director.可知電影Gravity獲得的奧斯卡獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)最多，選B。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題：根據(jù)第四段的句子：It was a good night for the scrappy, low-budget film “Dallas Buyers Club”, directed by Jean-Marc Vallee 可知導(dǎo)演Jean-Marc Vallee.拍電影花的錢最少，選C
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)題：根據(jù)最后一段的句子：Australia’s Cate Blanchett won the best actress Oscar for her acclaimed role as the socialite unhinged by her husband’s financial crimes in Woody Australia’s Cate 和who beat out previous Oscar winners Bullock, Amy Adams, Judi Dench and Meryl Streep.可知文章提到5個(gè)最佳的女演員，選C。
小題4:細(xì)節(jié)題：根據(jù)文章第一段的句子：The slavery drama “12 Years a Slave” won the Academy Award for best picture on Sunday, making history as the first movie from a black director to win the film industry’s highest honor in 86 years of the Oscars. British director Steve McQueen’s brave portrayal of pre-Civil War American slavery won two other Oscars, 可知“12 Years a Slave” 一共是贏得了三項(xiàng)奧斯卡獎(jiǎng)，所以A的表達(dá)錯(cuò)誤。
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