Steven Spielberg never fails to blow us away with his imagination.
The US director’s latest film Ready Player One （头号玩家），which was released in Chinese cinemas on March 30, is a story set in the year 2045, when people escape their hopeless everyday lives by putting on a VR mask and entering a virtual（虚拟）world named Oasis. This fantasy land is filled with characters and settings right out of classic films and videogames. At the age of 71, Spielberg is still at the top of his game.
Indeed, Spielberg has always been a “gamer” himself- or more precisely, a “game changer”.
When his thriller Jaws（大白鲨）came out in 1975, it struck a chord （引起共鸣）with audiences all around the world and even kept people from going swimming for fear of the “teeth in the sea”. The film was also an example of what we know as summer hits. And again in 1982 his alien film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Spielberg challenged people’s belief that aliens are something to be feared by telling a story about a loving friendship between a space culture and a little boy.
Now comes Ready Player One. When Wade Watts, the film’s teenager leading figure, finally prevents Oasis from falling into the wrong hands, he is given ownership of the virtual world by its late designer James Haliday. But Watts makes a decision that he hopes will make people want to appreciate their real lives, instead of spending all their free time escaping reality in Oasis, which is a real-life message that Spielberg is trying to deliver to the audience.
【小题1】Which movie mentioned in the passage is not a science fiction?| A．Ready Player One | B．Jaws |
| C．E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | D．All the above |
| A．because his movies are very thrilling. |
| B．because he could still make a breakthrough at the age of 71. |
| C．because he tries to convey an important message to his audiences. |
| D．because his movies are always leading the trend. |
| A．He holds an optimistic view about human’s future. |
| B．VR technology will be widely used in our society in the future. |
| C．We shouldn’t escape from reality. |
| D．There might be friendships between aliens and human beings. |
| A．A leading director | B．Remember Reality |
| C．Classical movies | D．A game changer |
