2018年郑州市高中毕业年级第二次质量预测英语.pdfVIP

2018 年郑州市高中毕业年级第二次质量预测 英语 二、阅读理解 第一节 A Chinese movie theaters are never running short on youth films. Youth( 芳华 ) ，directed by Feng Xiaogang, was released in December, 2017 and hit the screen. But this one is different: It is dedicated to the youth of our parents ’ generation. Set in the 1970s, the story begins in a military art troupe( 部队文工团 ) ， in which the soldiers ’ duties are to sing, dance and promote culture. He Xiaoping, a newcomer, is a talented dancer. With a painful childhood, she wants to make a fresh start in the troupe, yet her family background makes her the laughing stock( 笑柄 ) among the other girls. The only person who is nice to her is Liu Feng, a kind and unselfish man. In most youth films, the characters ’ life paths are only influenced by thei r own choices. However, the young people in Youth are also a part of “the whirlwind( 旋风 ) of historical changes ”, as film critic Justin Chang wrote in the Los Angeles Times. In a period of more than 30 years, they have to experience the Cultural Revolution and the Sino-Vietnamese Conflict, during which Liu Feng loses one arm and He Xiaoping suffers from a mental illness. The disbandment( 解散 ) of the troupe also tears them away from the life and people they are so familiar with, throwing them into a new life they know nothing about. They all have to learn “to make peace with the past and make the most of the present ”, wrote reporter Giovanna Fulvi on the website T. But there ’s still something that never changes about youth. No matter what time of history it is, people share the same longing for love and beauty. Sunshine