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Reference for Teaching 一、异域风情 Hollywood Say the name Hollywood and many people think of famous movie stars and expensive homes. For many years, Hollywood was the centre of the movie-making world. The area has changed a lot over the years, but today young actors who hope to be on TV, or in the movies, still travel to Hollywood to try and start their careers in show business. Many film companies also continue to have their studios and business offices here. Of course, Holly wood wasn’t always famous for making movies. Native Americans were the first people to live in the area which was originally called Cahuenga梩he name of an important native American leader. In the late 1700s, Spanish explorers arrived and the native people were forcned to move to other areas of what is now the city of Los Angles. Cahuenga Was divided into east and west, and the Spanish called the west Rancho La Brea. Here, the new settlers grew crops such as bananas pineapples and oranges on land good for farming. In 1886, a man named H.H. Wilcox bought a part of Rancho La Brea, which his wife renamed Hollywood. Later, Wilcox began to develop this area into a small community(社区). He believed that California’s warm weather could attract people to the area, and he was right. Soon, Wilcox was building expensive homes for many rich Americans from the middle and northern part of the US. In 1911, the first film studio opened in Hollywood on the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street. Soon after, movie director Cecil B. Demille made the first feature-length film The Squaw Man. Over the next ten years, many more movies were made in Hollywood. During the 1920s and 1930s, once the film industry grew, businesses took the place of farms. Exciting nightclubs and expensive homes were built for the growing population that worked in the movie industry. By the 1950s, many movie stars were leaving the area and moving to nearby places like Beverly Hills. When they left, so did many of the expensive shops and rest