高中英语人教版2000年高一上05

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[00:00.00]和谐英语学习网 Unit5                The silver screen
[00:05.49]LISTENING
[00:08.25]Listen to the interview with Mr Malcolm Langland
[00:13.53]and answer the following questions.
[00:17.48]Today,on our program of the history of mordern theater film.
[00:23.72]We'll interview Mr Malcolm Langland.
[00:27.95]He is a famous actor who plays the leading part
[00:32.78]in the new Shakespeare play in London.
[00:36.73]"Welcome to studio,Mr Langland.""Thank you.It's a pleasure to be here."
[00:43.57]"As the first question
[00:46.84]I should like to ask you how your career in the theater started."
[00:52.58]"Have you always wanted to be an actor?" "No,I'm not really.
[00:58.83]When I was a student I hope to become a teacher."
[01:03.79]"I sometimes dreams of being a famous star
[01:08.34]but I grow up in a small town in the west People there don't have big dreams.
[01:15.42]When I was young,I looked only what I saw was possible in our small town.
[01:22.18]We live far away from the big cities.We didn't even have a theater.
[01:28.74]Films were shown in the school library, there wasn't a lot to do.
[01:35.09]"When you were 18 years old you went to university in Lebanon.
[01:40.75]You studied law,why didn't you study art?"
[01:45.90]"Because my father didn't want me to study art.
[01:51.57]He said that I could never find a good job as an art student.
[01:57.03]My father wanted me to study medicine or engineering.
[02:02.49]Well,I chose to study law,It was boring to me.
[02:08.34]In my free time,I joined the students' club.
[02:13.09]I spent many many evenings there.We used to sing,dance and act on the stage."
[02:20.96]"And when did you decide to become an actor?"
[02:25.21]"When I met my wife Meryl in the students club.
[02:29.89]She made me live in university and start a career with her in the thearter."
[02:36.34]"You had a job in the theater before planning your first film.
[02:42.19]How did that come about? "In the first film I acted I was only given a small part.
[02:50.14]It was the dream machine." Keanu introduced me to the director.
[02:56.69]I was only a beginning actor and didn't have any experience.
[03:02.57]It was a small beginning but it was the beginning of my career.
[03:08.63]SPEAKING
[03:14.38]Ask questions about the place where they grew up,the time when they were young,
[03:21.64]the reasons why they chose their jobs and about their career.
[03:28.61]Meryl Streep was born in a small village in American in 1949.
[03:36.48]After high school Meryl went to study at a famous drama school.
[03:43.32]While still a student,she played roles in many plays.
[03:49.69]After graduating,she went to New York,
[03:54.74]where she started working as an actress
[03:59.18]and won the Theater World Award for her role in a play.
[04:05.21]Meryl Streep made her first film,called Julia in 1977.
[04:13.26]A few years later,
[04:17.10]she won her first Oscar as Best Actress for the film Kramer vs Kramer(1979).
[04:25.04]During the 1980s and 1990s she won many more prizes while acting in famous films
[04:34.31]such as Sophie's Choice(1982),
[04:38.07]Out of Africa(1985)and Music of the Heart(1999).
[04:43.32]Meryl Streep got married in 1978 and has a son and three daughters.
[04:51.66]Keanu Reeves was born in Lebanon in 1964.
[04:57.72]He grew up in Toronto and left high school without a degree when he was seventeen.
[05:04.98]In the beginning he took many small jobs to make money.
[05:10.75]When he was twenty years old,he acted in his first film,called Wolfboy(1984).
[05:18.12]In 1986 he moved to Hollywood to live with his stepfather,who is a film director.
[05:26.48]After acting in many cheap films for a few years,
[05:31.94]he was asked to play a role in the film Speed in 1994.
[05:38.89]This film quickly made him famous.
[05:43.33]Since then
[05:46.17]Keanu Reeves has acted in more than twelve films such as The Matrix(1999),
[05:53.41]Sweet November(2001)and Hardball (2001).
[05:57.96]READING GETTING TO KNOW STEVEN SPIELBERG