2014年职称英语考试理工类A级模拟题四

16、根据材料，回答16-23问题。
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      What are special effects? Do you enjoy movies that use a lot of special effects?
       Dinosaurs (恐龙) from the distant past! Space battles from the distant future! There has been a revolution in special effects, and it has transformed the movies we see.
      The revolution began in the mid-1970s with George Lucas's Star Wars, a film that stunned(使震惊) audiences. That revolution continues to the present, with dramatic changes inspecial-effects technology. The company behind these changes is Lucas's Industrial Light &Magic (ILM). And the man behind the company is Dennis Muren, who has worked with Lucassince Star Wars.
Muren's interest in special effects began very early. At the age of 6, he was photographingtoy dinosaurs and spaceships. At 10, he had an 8-millimeter movie camera and was makingthese things move through stop-motion. Stop-motion is a process in which objects are shot witha camera, moved slightly, shot again, and so on. When the shots are put together, the objectsappear to move.
    Talk to Muren and you'll understand what ILM is all about: taking on new challenges. By1989, Muren decided he had pushed the old technology as far as it would go. He saw computergraphics (图像) (CG) technology as the wave of the future and took a year off to master it.With CG technology, images can be scanned into a computer for processmg, and manyseparate shots can be combined into a single image. CG technology has now reached the point,Muren says, where special effects can be used to do just about anything so that movies can tellstories better than ever before. The huge success of Jurassic Park and its sequel, theLost World, the stars of which were computer-generated dinosaurs, suggests that this may verywell be true.

The special-effects revolution began in the mid-1980s with Star Wars.
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17、ILM is the company responsible for many of the changes in special-effects technology.
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18、Dennis Muren started his schooling at a very early age.
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19、At the age of 10, Muren was able to use computer graphics technology to make things move.
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20、By the stop-motion process, many separate shots can be combined into a single image.
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21、Muren feels that with CG technology, special effects can be used to make movies more expressive.
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22、Today's film makers emphasize special effects at the expense of the story.
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