Kids who live a happy childhood dream about what they will be when they grow up. But less____kids, who live in poverty, sometimes wonder why they were born in the first place.
Children like these ____ Lebanese director Nadine Labaki's new film Capernau(《何以为家》),which arrived in Chinese mainland____ on April 29 , 2019.
In the slums (贫民窟)of Beirut, Lebanon's capital, Labaki saw kids selling gum or flowers or ____carrying heavy gas tanks. Some of them were alone on the street , unfed and __
One of these kids told her, "I don't know ____I was born if no one is going to love me, if no one is going to ____ me before I go to sleep, or if Fm going to be beaten up every day. ”
This is how Capernaum begins: A 12-year-old boy named Zain9 who lives in one of Beirut's slums, charges his parents for giving ____ to him, even though, he says, they knew they couldn't ____ him.
Capernaum is fictional but ifs as ____ as it gets. There are no ____actors in this film. Zain, for example, is __ by a boy with the same name, a Syrian refugee (难民)called Zain Al Rafeea. He had never slept in a ____ before the film, or gone to schooL He didn't even have papers to ____ he was a human being --just like his character in the film.
By making the film, Labaki wanted to "become the voice of these kids",, according to The Guardian. The voice is being heard. It ran first at Cannes Film Festival in May, 2018, and ___ the Jury Prize. Soon after the festival, under the ___of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Zain and his family got the chance to resettle in Norway. They now live in a house by the sea, and Zain is going to schooL
When Labaki told The New York Times that she wanted the film "to go beyond the borders of just being a film” and be "a ____ for help" , she wasn't ____ how big an impact it would have. “I might never get anywhere, but ____ I want to try," she said.
But she has certainly gone somewhere indeed 一 to say the least, the real-life Zain isnow able to ____ his future.
【小题1】A.fortunate | B.optimistic | C.attractive | D.desperate |
【小题2】A.urged | B.produced | C.watched | D.inspired |
【小题3】A.audiences | B.cinemas | C.houses | D.hearts |
【小题4】A.ever | B.more | C.even | D.otherwise |
【小题5】A.ashamed | B.violent | C.hopeless | D.independent |
【小题6】A.why | B.how | C.where | D.whether |
【小题7】A.help | B.call | C.guide | D.kiss |
【小题8】A.poorness | B.birth | C.pressure | D.unhappiness |
【小题9】A.put up with | B.care for | C.look on | D.pay attention to |
【小题10】A.beneficial | B.interesting | C.true | D.simple |
【小题11】A.typical | B.proper | C.ambitious | D.professional |
【小题12】A.played | B.moved | C.encouraged | D.selected |
【小题13】A.bed | B.village | C.street | D.tent |
【小题14】A.write | B.witness | C.argue | D.prove |
【小题15】A.expected | B.won | C.deserved | D.shared |
【小题16】A.desire | B.control | C.support | D.agreement |
【小题17】A.sign | B.love | C.promise | D.cry |
【小题18】A.concerned | B.sure | C.aware | D.doubtful |
【小题19】A.at least | B.now and then | C.on the whole | D.all in all |
【小题20】A.decide on | B.go through | C.dream about | D.keep up |