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 托福閱讀真題 Early Cinema 解答(1)

6) 4

This is a Factual Information question asking for specific information that can be found in paragraph 4. The correct answer is choice 4. Early movies were different from previous spectacles because they did not require live actors. The paragraph states (emphasis added):

“But the movies differed significantly from these other forms of entertainment, which developed on either live performance or (in the case of the slide-and-lantern shows) the active involvement of a master of ceremonies who assembled the final program.”

So the fact previous spectacles depended on live performances is explicitly stated as one of the ways (but not the way) that those earlier entertainments differed from movies. The other answer choices are not mentioned in the paragraph.

7) 1

This is a Factual Information question asking for specific information that can be found in paragraph 5. The correct answer is choice 1, “They decided how to combine various components of the film program,” because that idea is stated explicitly in the paragraph:

“Early exhibitors shaped their film programs by mixing films and other entertainments together.”

The other choices, while possibly true, are not explicitly mentioned in the paragraph as being among the exhibitors’ roles.

8) 4

This is a Factual Information question asking for specific that can be found in paragraph 6. The correct answer is choice4, “A different type of material was used to produce the images used in the Mutoscope.” The paragraph says that these machines were very similar but that they differed in one particular way:

“… the Mutoscope, which was similar machine that reproduced motion by means of successive images on individual photographic cards instead of on strips of celluloid.”

9) 2

This is Reference question. The word being is it. That word is highlighted in the passage. Choice 2, “the viewer’s relationship with the image,” is the correct answer. This is a simple-pronoun referent item. The sentence says that “it ” suddenly became “public,” which implies that whatever “it ” is, it was formerly private. The paragraph says that the “viewer’s relationship to the image was no longer private,” so that relationship is the “it ” referred to here.

10) 1

This is a Factual Information question asking for specific information that can be found in paragraph 6. The correct answer is choice 1. The paragraph says that the images expanded from an inch or toe to life-size proportions, so “small in size” must be correct. The paragraph does not mention the other choices.