Unit 4 课时跟踪练(一) Welcome to the unit & Reading Prereading

　　Ⅰ.课文缩写填空

　　Today we'll talk about the six major international film 1.festivals. The Venice Film Festival is the oldest festival in the world, which began in 1932. 2.Unlike the Venice Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival only includes small, 3.independent films.The Sundance Film Festival boycotts all Hollywood films.I think it is 4.fair to say that Cannes is the most famous and 5.exciting (excite) festival.Most people agree that the Berlin Film Festival is one of the most 6.international of all the film festivals.Films that are likely to be 7.overlooked at other festivals have a real chance of becoming champions in Berlin.The Toronto International Film Festival is the second largest festival.The Shanghai International Film Festival, which was founded in 1993, is the 8.youngest festival.

　　Ⅱ.阅读理解

　　If you never read the classic F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, now is your chance to catch up - by watching the latest film adaptation. Because if there's one sentence to sum up the film, it would be, as Fox News says in its review, "It's just like the book."

　　Director Baz Luhrmann's main challenge was "either to find a visual equivalent (相等物) for Fitzgerald's elegant essay - the open secret of the book's staying power - or to bend the material to his own exotic (异国的) strengths，" a Time magazine review says. He tries it both ways, with varying degrees of success.

　　Considered to be Fitzgerald's representative work, The Great Gatsby explores themes of idealism, resistance to change, social change, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.

　　Nick, the narrator, moves to New York for the summer to visit his cousin Daisy. His next­door neighbor is Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio), who rarely contacts with others and is rumored to be a hero of the Great War. Gatsby claims to have attended Oxford University, but the evidence is suspect. As Nick learns more about Gatsby, every detail about him seems questionable, except his love for Daisy. Though Daisy is married, Gatsby still adores her as his "golden girl". They first met when she was a young lady from a wealthy family and he was a working­class military officer. Daisy promised to wait for his return from the war. However, she married Tom, a classmate of Nick. Having obtained a great fortune, Gatsby sets out to win her back again.

　　"All of Fitzgerald's original creation finds its way into this film, even going as far as to include quite a bit of the original dialogue，" US film critic Justin Taroli writes in his review. "The cast is beautiful as is the script, and the scenes are a visual feast，" Taroli adds.

DiCaprio does a good and professional job as the socialite by recreating Fitzgerald's