2012年考研英语一冲刺模拟试题及答案.docVIP

2012年秋季精英班入学测试-英语 Section II Reading Comprehension Part A TEXT 1 It was a little weird at first, Erin Tobin said, seeing Harry Potter right there on the stage without his pants, or indeed any of his clothes. Not actually Harry Potter, of course, since his is fictional, but the next best thing: Daniel Radcliffe, who plays him in the movies. Now 17, Mr. Radcliffe has cast off his wand, his broomstick and everything else to appear in the West End revival of Peter Shaffers Equus. He stars as Alan Strang, a disturbed young man who, in a distinctly un-Harry-Potterish moment of frenzied psychosexual madness, blinds six horses with a hoof pick. To make it clear what audiences are in for, at least in part, photographs of Mr. Radcliffes buff torso, stripped almost to the groin, have been used to advertise the production. It is as jarring as if, say, Anne Hathaway suddenly announced that instead of playing sweet-natured princesses and fashion-world ingénues, she wanted to appear onstage as a nude, murderous prostitute. To explain how is surprising the change of Radcliffe to the audience, the author mentions Anne Equus opened last week, and the consensus so far is that Mr. Radcliffe has successfully extricated himself from his cinematic alter ego. Considering that playing Harry Potter is practically all he has done in his career, this is no small achievement. I think hes a really good actor, and I sort of forgot about Harry Potter, said Ophelia Oates, 14, who saw the play over the weekend. Anyway, you cant be Harry Potter forever. In The Daily Telegraph, Charles Spencer said that Daniel Radcliffe brilliantly succeeds in throwing off the mantle of Harry Potter, announcing himself as a thrilling stage actor of unexpected depth and range. Mr. Radcliffe told The Daily Telegraph that I thought it would be a bad idea to wait till the Potter films were all finished to do something else. There are still a few to go. The fifth, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is sche