高中英语人教版2003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   Listen to the interview with Mr Malcolm Langland
[00:12.46]Today,on our program of the history of mordern theater film.
[00:18.81]We'll interview Mr Malcolm Langland.
[00:23.04]He is a famous actor who plays the leading part
[00:27.87]in the new Shakespeare play in London.
[00:31.82]"Welcome to studio,Mr Langland."
[00:35.97]"Thank you.It's a pleasure to be here."
[00:40.12]"As the first question
[00:43.36]I should like to ask you how your career in the theater started."
[00:49.11]"Have you always wanted to be an actor?"
[00:52.95]"No,I'm not really.When I was a student I hope to become a teacher."
[00:59.40]"I sometimes dreams of being a famous star
[01:03.95]but I grow up in a small town in the west.
[01:08.21]People there don't have big dreams.
[01:12.46]When I was young,I looked only what I saw was possible in our small town.
[01:18.11]We live far away from the big cities.
[01:22.36]We didn't even have a theater.
[01:25.92]Films were shown in the school library,there wasn't a lot to do.
[01:32.29]"When you were 18 years old you went to university in Lebanon.
[01:37.93]You studied law,why didn't you study art?"
[01:43.08]"Because my father didn't want me to study art.
[01:48.72]He said that I could never find a good job as an art student.
[01:54.08]My father wanted me to study medicine or engineering.
[01:59.54]Well,I chose to study law,It was boring to me.
[02:05.28]In my free time,I joined the students'club.
[02:10.14]I spent many many evenings there.
[02:14.61]We used to sing,dance and act on the stage."
[02:19.86]"And when did you decide to become an actor?"
[02:24.22]"When I met my wife Meryl in the students club.
[02:28.77]She made me live in university and start a career with her in the thearter."
[02:35.01]"You had a job in the theater before planning your first film.
[02:40.89]How did that come about?
[02:44.23]"In the first film I acted I was only given a small part.
[02:49.87]It was the dream machine."
[02:54.52]Keanu introduced me to the director.
[02:58.57]I was only a beginning actor and didn't have any experience.
[03:03.93]It was a small beginning but it was the beginning of my career.
[03:09.20]SPEAKING
[03:15.13]Ask questions about the place where they grew up,the time when they were young,
[03:22.37]the reasons why they chose their jobs and about their career.
[03:29.32]Meryl Streep was born in a small village in American in 1949.
[03:37.08]After high school Meryl went to study at a famous drama school.
[03:43.92]While still a student,she played roles in many plays.
[03:50.09]After graduating,she went to New York,where she started working as an actress
[03:57.84]and won the Theater World Award for her role in a play.
[04:02.00]Meryl Streep made her first film,called Julia in 1977.
[04:10.04]A few years later,
[04:13.88]she won her first Oscar as Best Actress for the film Kramer vs Kramer(1979).
[04:21.43]During the 1980s and 1990s she won many more prizes while acting in famous films
[04:30.58]such as Sophie's Choice(1982),
[04:34.34]Out of Africa(1985)and Music of the Heart(1999).
[04:39.59]Meryl Streep got married in 1978 and has a son and three daughters.
[04:47.95]Keanu Reeves was born in Lebanon in 1964.
[04:53.90]He grew up in Toronto and left high school without a degree when he was seventeen.
[05:01.17]In the beginning he took many small jobs to make money.
[05:05.92]When he was twenty years old,he acted in his first film,called Wolfboy(1984).
[05:13.29]In 1986 he moved to Hollywood to live with his stepfather,who is a film director.
[05:21.54]After acting in many cheap films for a few years,
[05:27.11]he was asked to play a role in the film Speed in 1994.
[05:33.95]This film quickly made him famous.
[05:38.52]Since then Keanu Reeves has acted in more than twelve films such as
[05:45.97]The Matrix (1999),Sweet November (2001)and Hardball (2001).
[05:51.84]READING   GETTING TO KNOW STEVEN SPIELBERG
[06:00.80]Steven Spielberg, whose mother was a music teacher,
[06:06.45]was born in 1946 in a small town in America.