Michael Jackson's family ______ a statement scotching the widespread rumors about the pop star&
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第1题
I am really ______ about Michael Jackson's rock roll.
A.crazy
B.cowered
C.furious
D.sane
第2题
A.ITV
B.HBO
C.MTV
D.CBS
第3题
However, the change was【48】______ (organ) as well as deliberate. Michael Jackson grew into his body, and out of that new body emerged wholly new ideas of what pop music, and the【49】move___it generates, were, it can be hard to remember now, 30 years later, just how ubiquitous the hits from that album, especially "Rock with "You," really were. In soul, in rock n' roll, and in pop, there is a long tradition of men singing in high voices, the height of the voice suggesting the pitch of the singer' s fervour. Michael Jackson made the sweetness of that high voice guttural and【50】______ (demand). He showed that it was rooted in his feet and hips and hands. He re-sexualized it in a way that you could never really mistake—then—as androgynous.
Very few artists—certainly very few child stars—have ever redefined themselves as thoroughly or as【51】______ (success) as Michael Jackson did. His second act was better than any number of first acts put together. The uncanny thing wasn't just his physical transformation, or his hypnotic new ability to move. It was the certainty of ''Off the Wall" and its sequel "Thriller" that this was the music we wanted to hear. He knew, too, that this was a music we wanted to【52】______ (visual) , to see formalised and set loose in dance. In a sense, he was loosing his transformation upon the rest of us , expecting us to be caught up in the【53】excite______the music caused in him, and we were.
Michael jackson came to be synonymous with transformation—ultimately, with an eerie stasis that comes from seeking transformation all the time. The alchemy of change worked longer and【54】______(well) for him—through the'80s and into the early'90s—than it has for almost any other artist. Yet somehow all the changes always take us【55】______ to the album in which Michael Jackson grew up.
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第4题
Madonna and Michael Jackson are not considered heroes because ______.
A.they are not clear about the principles they should follow
B.they are popular only among certain groups of people
C.their primary concern is their own financial interests
D.their performances do not improve their fans morally
第5题
Madonna and Michael Jackson are not considered heroes because ______.
A.they are popular only among certain groups of people
B.their performances do not improve their fans morally
C.their primary concern is their own financial interests
D.they are not clear about the principles they should follow
第6题
Michael Jackson is famous for his ______ trot Muhammad Ali for his ______.
A.films; heavy weight
B.basketball; Olympic record
C.songs; heavy weight boxing
D.voice; Olympic record
第7题
Madonna and Michael Jackson are not considered heroes because ________.
A.they are popular only among certain groups of people
B.their performances do not improve their fans morally
C.their primary concern is their own financial interests
D.they are not clear about the principles they should follow
第8题
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第9题
How To Get Famous in 30 Seconds
Oct. 6, 2001, was the night that would make David Bernal famous, although he didn't know it at the time. He was 21 and a senior at California State University at Long Beach, majoring in art and illustration and doing a little break dancing on the side. On the night in question he had been hired to perform. at a Korean-American talent show in Los Angeles. There's a grainy amateur video of the event in which you can see him mumble his name into the microphone and then do his thing for about 60 sec.
The audience goes insane. Those watching can't believe what's happening. Bernal, who performs under the name David Elsewhere, describes his dance style. as a mixture of "popping, waving, liquiding, breaking, roboting". What this means in practice is that, first, his body physically melts into a little puddle and then rebuilds it self bone by bone; then he becomes a giant robot; then weird energies go surging through his arms and legs; then he makes it look as though something is crawling around under his shirt; then he becomes a springy hopping creature. And then, just like that, it's over.
Except it wasn't over. Somebody converted the grainy video from that night into a digital file and posted it on the Web. One by one, then hundreds by hundreds, people started downloading the video, e-mailing it, linking to it, sharing it, copying it and reuploading it. In other words, the little video went viral—it multiplied and reproduced and spread out of control on the Internet like a virus. And millions of people caught it.
Bernal is famous now, in a way, but it's a new kind of fame, courtesy of a new medium. Viral videos are only a few minutes or even a few seconds long, and they're generally amateur in execution and wildly eclectic in subject matter. Browse one of the websites that hosts them, like YouTnbe on Google Video, and you'll see drunken karaoke, babies being born, plane crashes, burping contests, freakish sports accidents and far, far stranger things. The one thing they have in common is that people can't stop watching them.
The viral video probably began with the infamous Dancing Baby, which surfaced in 1996. A strangely compelling animation of a diapered infant getting its tiny groove on, the Dancing Baby was born as a software demo, but people started sending it to one another as an e-mail attachment. Until the Baby came along, nobody realized that that kind of spontaneous. In box-to-In box sharing, following the and-they'll-tell-two-friends model, could ever add up to much, let alone scale to the level of a mass medium. "It wasn't as though a marketing firm attempted to create the phenomenon," says Michael Girard, one of the programmers who helped create the Dancing Baby.
Soon, other clips followed the same branching path the Baby did: a cheerleader apparently being flipped through a basketball hoop; Paris Hilton's sex tape; Janet Jackson's famous wardrobe mall unction; a 19-year-old New Jersey man(doomed to be forever known as "the Numa Numa guy") overenthusiastically lip synching to a Romanian pop song. Last December, Saturday Night Live's Lazy Sunday video appeared on the Net 'after airing on the show. The white-boy rap about cupcakes and Narnia immediately went viral, spawning haft a dozen catchphrases and endowing SNL with an aura of cool it hasn't enjoyed since Wayne's World.
But most viral videos come from amateurs, brilliant or lucky camcorder amateurs who just put their work on the Net and watch it take off. Traffic to viral-video sites is surging, driven by ubiquitous broad-hand Internet access and cheap, easy-to-use digital video cameras. Since last year, visits to Yahoo!'s Video section have gone up 148%. Traffic to iFilm.com grew 102%. YouTube, launched in December, is storming the Web. It already had 9 million unique visitors in February, compared with Google Video's 6.2 million a
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第10题
Huntsville(June 10)-When JNC Film Studio decided to change its business focus from animation movies to action movies, the company determined to consolidate production facilities and operations. Currently one of the largest film studios in the Midas City is an 80-year-old local film company with more than 120 employees. Its business is getting bigger, so the owner, Charles Williams decided to move its main studio to Huntsville City. Martin Cooper, the mayor of Huntsville City was pleased to hear this news and promised to give the company many incentives such as tax breaks. At a press conference on Thursday, June 10, at 2 p.m., Mr. Cooper and Mr. Williams met together and signed an agreement The mayor said that the relocation was expected to bring additional revenue to the city, as the actors and crew typically frequent hotels and restaurants in and around the city while filming is taking place."Filming also attracts tourists who want to try to catch sight of a celebrity, and we anticipate that this will lead to an increase in sales in shops and local businesses, too." added Mr. Cooper. Next week on June 15, Mr. Williams will give a presentation at the Huntsville Community Center. Many business owners will be invited to hear his upcoming project. Scheduled to appear with him to discuss the plans will be Michael Woods, producer of the recent hit Walking with Two Sons, and Emily Jackson, director of the documentary Hunger in Africa.The public is also welcome to attend the event, as space allows. For information, visit the City Halls web site at www.huntsvillecity.org.
Whats the purpose of the article?
A.To announce a new movie release
B.To recruit actors and movie crews
C.To report the relocation of a business
D.To celebrate a studio"s 80th anniversary