聽力每日練習 listen 4492 How much do you know Hollywood

2--Hackneyed theme !

1--What? How much do you know Hollywood?

2--Nearly eveythjng.

1--You are full of hoasts. I can examine you by question and answer.What is Hollywood? Where is it?What is the function of it?

2--Too easy queations. Listen carefully. Hollywood is the  movie capital of the world.It is located in southem Califomia.Many films have been made there,and the kinds have changed often.

1--Not bad.What kind of film did it produce from the easy-to mid 1930's

2--Ganster movies,Movie-Soers at that time could get a look at the people involved in crime and their violent activitiea by watching it.

1--Mm.What cume after that?

2--After all of that violence.people needed to laugh,so from the mid-to-late l940's.many detective movies about policemen who solved crimes were made.Then came musicals.

1--Pretty good. Please continue.

2--Right.By the mid-50's,this light-hearted genre was competing with films about nxiw senous aubjects.There was one kind that could be found throughout all of these yezcrs,and that was the ,mm,the. . .

1--The western films about America's cowbays.Indians and early setders.

B.Come on.

1--Since the early 1960's,there are horror movies about people who encounter frightenin8.unnatural suuations, and  aerious films such as documentanes about events that actually happened ,and science fiction movies about possible frrture and future worlds. Some peo-ple have also enjoyed watching psycho-dramas about the everyday problems that people have.

2--Any more?

1--Of course, no list of film would be complete without animated movies.These are especially popular among children.

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注解：

1.Hackneyed theme老調(diào)  

2.function功能

3.Ganster匪徒

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譯文：

1--看這條消息，好萊塢簡介。

2--都老掉牙了！

1--什么？關于好萊塢你知道多少？

2--了如指掌。

1--別吹了。讓我用問答的方式考考你。好萊塢指什么？在哪兒？它是干啥的？

2--這也叫問題。仔細聽著。好萊塢是世界電影之都，坐落在加利福尼亞南部，很多影片都是在這兒拍的，影片的風格也在不停地變化。

1--還行。那么從20世紀30年代初期到中期它生產(chǎn)什么樣的片子？

2--警匪片。那時的影迷們通過看這種片子可以看到犯罪的人和他們的暴力行為。

1--嗯，后來呢？

2--看夠了暴力片過后，人們需要一些笑料。這樣30年代中后期，喜劇開始得到觀眾的青睞。

1--不錯，接著說。

2--很好。到了50年代中期，這種輕喜劇形式受到嚴肅題材影片的沖擊。還有一類片子是貫穿整個時期的，是……，嗯，是...

1--西部片。是關于美洲牛仔印第安人和早期移民的。

2--請繼續(xù)。

1--從60年代起，關于人們經(jīng)歷恐懼、神秘事件的恐怖片開始興趣。也有嚴肅題材的關于真實事件的紀錄片，以及關于有可能發(fā)生的未來事件和未來世界的科幻片。還有些觀眾喜歡看的關于日常問題的心理劇。

2--還有嗎？

1--當然，如果沒有動畫片，那電影世界就不算完整。這也是小觀眾喜歡看的影片。