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 托福閱讀真題 Early Cinema 解答(3)

11) 1

This is a Vocabulary Question. The word being tested is expanded. It is highlighted in the passage. Choice 1, “was enlarged,” is the correct answer. If something expanded, it grew or got bigger. ”Enlarged” also means “grew or got biggest.”    

12) 4

This is an Insert Text question. You can see the four black squares in paragraph 3 that represent the possible answer choice here.

■ Exhibitors, however, wanted to maximize their profits, which they could do more readily by projecting a handful of films to hundreds of customers at a time (rather than one at a time) and by charging 25 to 50 cents admission.  ■ About a year after the opening of the first Kinetoscope parlor in 1894, showmen such as Louis and Auguste Lumiere, Thomas Armat and Charles Francis Jenkins m and Orville and Woodvulle Latham (with the assistance of Edison’s former assistant, William Dickson) perfected projection devices. ■ These early projection devices were used in vaudeville theaters, legitimate theaters, local town halls, makeshift storefront theaters, fairgrounds, and amusement parks to show films to a mass audience. ■

This inserted sentence fits best at square 4 because it represents the final result of the general use of projectors. After projectors became popular, Edison lost money, and although he had previously refused to develop projection technology, now be was forced to do so. To place the sentence anyplace else would interrupt the logical narrative sequence of the events described. None of the sentences in this paragraph can logically follow the inserted sentence, so squares 1,2, and 3 are all incorrect.

13) 3,5,6   

This is a Prose Summary question. It is complete correctly below. The correct choices are 3,5,and 6. choices1,2, and 4 are therefore incorrect.