安徽太湖中学 周艳霞

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海词积累

1.grailn.圣杯（据信为耶稣离世前所用）；渴望但永远得不到的东西

2.devisev.发明；设计；想出

3.thrustersn.（尤指航天器的）推力器；推进器

4.scramblen.争抢

China has entered the cinematic space race.The WanderingEarth,the country's first blockbuster sci-fifilm,setinspace，willrepresentthe dawningofanewerain Chinese filmmaking.

“Film-makers in Chinaseescience fictionasa holygrail,”said Raymond Zhou,an independent critic,who noted that Hollywood hadset thetechnologicalstandards,and thus audience's expectations are very high.

5.annihilationn.毁灭

6.renaissancen.（某一学科或艺术形式等衰落后的）复兴

7.villainsn.恶棍

8.patriotismn.爱国主义

TheWanderingEarth,shown in 3-D,takes placein a distant future in which the sun is about to expand into a red giant and devour（吞没）the Earth.The coming peril forces the world's engineers todeviseaplanto move the planet to a new solar system using giantthrusters.Thingsgoverybadlywhen the Earth has to pass Jupiter,settingoffa desperatescrambleto save humanity fromannihilation.

The WanderingEarthopens with the Lunar New Year,the beginning of an official,weeklong holiday that is traditionally a peak box-office period in China.At first，it has a limited release in the United States,Canada,Australia and New Zealand.

At home,it will compete withCrazyAlien,a comedy inspired byE.T.theExtra-Terrestrialabout two brothers hoping to capitalize （利用）on the arrival of a visitor from outer space.

BothThe WanderingEarthandCrazyAlien areadaptedfromworks by Liu Cixin,the writer who has led arenaissancein science fiction here,becoming the first Chinese winner of the Hugo Award for the genre in 2015.

ThepopularityofLiu'snovelscould help，andsocouldtworecentHollywood films,GravityandTheMartian.Both included important plots that,not incidentally,cast China's space program in a positive light,and both were huge hits here.

The opening came as China reached a milestone in space:the landing of a probe on

阅读自测

1．What can be inferred from paragraph 2？

A．Chinese audience have lost confidence in China's sci-fifilm.

B．China's sci-fifilms develop with much pressure from Hollywood.

C．Raymond Zhou has made some positive comments onTheWanderingEarth.

D．China's sci-fifilms have made steady achievements beforeTheWandering Earth.

2．What is the third paragraphmainly about？

A．The plot of the film.

B．The influence of the film.the far side of the moon in January.Although decades behind Russia and the United States,China has now put astronauts in orbit and has ambitious plans to join or even lead a new age of space exploration.

UnlikeOperationRedSeaor the twoWolf Warriormovies,which featured a Rambo-like hero battling westernvillains,TheWandering Earthis not aboutpatriotism.In the film，a Russian soldier sacrifices his life to help a Chinese colleague.Wu Jing,the leading star ofWolfWarriorsplays an astronaut aboard an international space station who has tocontend witha HAL-like computer.

TheWanderingEarthtakes for granted China's central role in future space exploration,but it also has a vision of the international collaboration necessary tocopewiththe threats facing the planet,a theme that runs deeply through Liu's fiction.

——FromTheNewYorkTimes

C．The challenge in the film.

D．The background of the film.

3．How many factors in the movie's success are referred to in the text？

A．Three. B.Four. C.Five. D.Six.

4．The authormentions a Russian soldier's sacrifice in the film to___________.

A．add more vivid and moving details to the film

B．arouse the readers'interest in watching the film

C．compare the film with traditional Chinese films

D．prove that the film's theme is far beyond patriotism

文本探究

探究视角1：语篇分析

《流浪地球》的上映引起了外媒的广泛关注。本文是一篇来自《纽约时报》的新闻报道，文章标题使用了Space Race一词，隐射了中美在太空领域的竞争，信息量较大。全文从影片上映的意义与挑战、电影的情节和成功的背景三个方面对电影《流浪地球》进行了综述。

本篇报道兼具影评的写作风格，阅读时，应熟悉新闻写作和影评写作的相关知识。阅读新闻类文章时，要关注新闻报道的结构。新闻的结构是指新闻作品谋篇布局的整体设计，主要组成部分是：导语—主体—结尾。导语部分通常是新闻的核心信息，是读者关注的焦点；主体部分是对新闻事件的深入报道；结尾部分通常介绍的是事件产生的相关影响。新闻报道通常采用“倒金字塔”结构，记者在采写新闻时，要遵循内容决定形式的原则，选择最佳的新闻结构去灵活多样地表述新闻内容。

本文的篇章结构如下：

Structure Paragraph（s） Main idea（s）Significance/Introduction Para.1～2 China has entered the cinematic space race with the challenge that Hollywood has set the technological standards.参考译文Plot Para.3 The world's engineers devise a plan to save the earth using giant thrusters.Background on the success Conclusion Para.4～9 Para.10●Time for debut—The Wandering Earth opens with the Lunar New Year.●A unique script and the popularity of Liu Cixin's novels—Liu Cixin has led a renaissance in science fiction with hismasterpieces.●Inspiration from Hollywood films—help from two recent Hollywood films Gravity and The Martian.●China's development in space—China has reached a milestone in space exploration.●A difference from the former films—The Wandering Earth is not jingoistic（极端爱国主义的）.●China is establishing its central role in space exploration.●It is necessary to wrestlewith the threats facing the planet.

探究视角2：语言学习

I.高频短语

represent the dawning of a new era代表一个新时代的开始

be set in以……为背景

see...as把……看作……

set the technologicalstandards设置技术标准

take place发生

devise a plan构思一个计划

go badly进展不顺利

set off引起

be adapted from由……改编

contend with（不得不）应付；处理

cope with （成功地）对付；处理Ⅱ.写作推荐

“so+助动词+主语”引导的倒装句

The popularity of Liu's novels could help，and so could two recent Hollywood films,GravityandTheMartian.刘慈欣小说的流行可能会有所帮助，而最近的两部好莱坞电影《地心引力》和《火星救援》也是会有所帮助的。

倒装句“so+助动词+主语”，意为“……也是如此”，表示上文所说的情况同样适用于下文，用于肯定的倒装。当表示“……也不”时用“neither/nor+助动词+主语”结构。

【仿写】Mike工作很努力，Jack也是如此。

文化拓展

SpaceRace：科幻背后的竞赛

除认可之外，外媒还是把中国涉足科幻片，又看成了一场与美国的竞赛。

《纽约时报》在标题里，就戏称之为“Space Race”——这个词一般专指美苏争霸期间那场旷日持久的“太空竞赛”。不同于其他类型的电影，科幻电影最考验一国的综合实力：它的视觉效果依赖完整的电影工业体系；也只有当一个国家在现实中实现了科技探索的成就时，拍出的科幻片才更能被观众所接纳。

《纽约时报》把中国最近在太空领域的成就与中国的科幻片联系起来：

The opening came as China reached amilestone in space:the landing of a probe on the far side of themoon in January.这部影片的上映也正值中国在太空领域取得里程碑成就之际：今年1月，中国的一个航天探测器在月球背面着陆。

虽然这种联系略显牵强，但对于中国的实力是充满肯定的，从标题当中的“finally”一词就能看出来。

文章标题中的finally意为“终于怎么样了”，当一件理所当然的事情终于如期发生了以后，你就可以用finally这个词发出如是感慨。

这篇报道中，这个词可能意味着，在作者的理解中，中美其实已经在很多其他领域展开了竞赛。如今，科幻电影也终于加入了这一个赛道。而它同时也暗示了，作者对于中国科幻电影的兴起丝毫不意外，他甚至可能觉得，这样的作品早就应该出现了。