What benefits can you have from a film? A well-made film offers a whole world of things to watch. First there are the story aspects — the plot, characters, dialogue and themes. Then there are the technical aspects — the camera work, cuttings and special effects. And there are many other things, like the credits, musical score and the acting. A well-made film offers much more than you see in one viewing (观看).

Films are a means of communication. They can tell you things, just as newspapers do, or television, or any other means of communication. Sometimes they communicate important things to you, like ideas or lifestyles or ways of looking at the world. Sometimes people are aware of this, and sometimes not. The more you are aware of this, the better you are.

Notice, for example, the way films sometimes affect fashion. A star dresses or wears her hair in a certain way, and suddenly everyone is imitating (模仿) her. Boys in the 1950s could sometimes be seen wearing black leather jackets, idling (闲逛) on street corners and smoking cigarettes. They were imitating Marion Brando. His films taught them a certain way to behave.

Films can also teach politics. In Star Wars, the heroes were a bunch of lovable incompetents (无能者) fighting with guts (胆量) and not much else. They were, in fact, rather like the British in the early days of WWII. Their enemies, like the Nazis, had a big advantage in equipment and numbers of troops, and they were like the Nazis in discipline and heartlessness too. The whole film, in fact, was a re-run (重演) of WWII, and taught values like faith and love of liberty. This is all to the good, but the point is, did you notice it?

【小题1】The last underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 probably means ________.

A．viewers can enjoy lots of things if they see a well-made film again and again

B．a well-made film always attracts a number of viewers more than one time

C．viewers usually know nothing about a well-made film but a good story theme

D．a well-made film can help viewers understand well-known film stars better

【小题2】What can we know from the second paragraph?

A．Films are much more important than newspapers and television.

B．Films can send us information like any other means of communication.

C．Some people usually talk about the films that they have watched.

D．Nobody knows how films communicate important things to them.

【小题3】It can be inferred from the passage that in his films, Marion Brando played the part of ________.

A．a motorist who always wore a black leather jacket

B．a homeless man who died of smoking too much finally

C．a lazy man who didn’t have any serious things to do

D．a fashionable man who wore long hair during World War II

【小题4】What can we learn about from the film Star Wars according to the last paragraph?

A．the WW II heroes.	B．politics around the world.
C．some great values.	D．people loving world peace.