黄石市高考英语 阅读理解训练题（17）.doc

湖北省黄石市 2014 高考英语阅读理解训练题( 17 )及答案影评类(1) Since the beginning of winter break, I have mitted to doing lots of the things I could not do while school was in session. One of the Oscar-nominated ( 提名的) movies I’ ve seen this winter break is Slum-dog Millionaire. Hopefully readers will also have an opportunity to enjoy the movie the way I have halfway around the globe! Slum-dog Millionaire is about a poor boy from the slums ( 贫民窟), Jamal, who ends up winning the grand prize in an Indian show “ Who Wants to bea Millionaire ”. The night before he answers the prize-winning question, Jamal is captured by the police and tortured ( 拷打). They don ’t believe a slumdog like Jamal could answer seven questions correctly and possibly win 20 million rupees ( 卢比)! But, as the movie unfolds, Jamal reveals ( 透露) how he found the answers to each of the questions. Viewers also learn about Jamal ’s childhood, his selfish older brother Salim, and his childhood lover, Latika. The movie ’s point, however, is not just to tell a typical story of the underdog ( 弱者) who es a hero. The director also uses Slum-Dog Millionaire to give viewers a taste of India. The movie begins in Jamal ’s childhood home in the slums of India. The place where he and his family lived reminds one of the hutongs that used to make upa large part of Old Beijing. Jamal and his brother grow and travel across India, meanwhile surviving as