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Hungry For a Win
A victor is, by definition, someone who wins a struggle or contest. However, that doesn’t mean he or she will live a proud and happy life ever after, as Katniss Everdeen is about to discover in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
Catching Fire, out in Chinese theaters on Nov 21, is set in a futuristic society called Panem. Every year its government holds a televised fight to the death. Two teenagers from each of the 12 districts of Panem are chosen to compete.
In the new film, last year’s victors Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and her partner Peeta are back home after winning the 74th Hunger Games. Katniss just wants to live a normal life. However, that never seems to happen. She has nightmares, which remind her that she is a killer.
Her worst nightmare comes true when the annual Hunger Games arrive again. The teenager finds herself back in the competition along with Peeta. Since Katniss brings hope to Panem through her courage, President Snow plans to use this year’s Games to kill off Katniss and Peeta and in turn dampen the fires of rebellion. 
“This is the next step of Katniss’ heroism and the next part of her journey to finding out who she is really going to be,” Lawrence told Reuters.
Fast-paced and full of action, Catching Fire looks to outdo the success that the first film had in 2012. With a 97 percent rating on the movie review website Rotten Tomatoes, it is enjoying positive reviews. Critics have praised it for being faithful to the book written by American author Suzanne Collins. The Hollywood Reporter said that Catching Fire outshines the first movie a lot.
Jennifer Lawrence, who won a best actress Oscar this year for her 2012 movie Silver Linings Playbook, has helped Catching Fire find success, Forbes pointed out. The 23-year-old actress does well playing a young lady who hates what she was forced to do to stay alive yet is determined not to give up.
“Lawrence’s down-to-earth personality in real life won the hearts of the public. So given a wildly popular first film that blew everyone away, a rising fan base and a lead performer beloved by the mainstream press and viewers, the sequel(续集) was always going to be big,” Forbes noted. 
63. The underlined word “dampen” in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to “_______”.
A. hold      B. light       C. reduce        D. support
64. Which of the following is TRUE about the film’s story according to the article?
A. Every year 12 teenagers in total are chosen to join in the televised fight.
B. Despite having won the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss doesn’t feel much joy.
C. Katniss and Peeta are chosen once again to make the TV show more appealing. 
D. Jennifer Lawrence won a best actress Oscar this year for the first Hunger Games movie.
65. What are some reasons why Catching Fire will probably be successful?
   a. The previous film was successful.        
   b. It is true to the original book’s story.
   c. Most of the reviews of the movie are positive.   
   d. It has many famous stars in addition to Jennifer Lawrence.
A. abc          B. abd           C. acd            D. bcd  
66. After reading the passage, we can infer that _______.
A. President Snow thinks highly of Katniss and Peeta’s victory 
B. Katniss decides to fight in the 75th Hunger Games because she loves it 
C. Critics hold a negative attitude to the first movie of Hunger Games 
D. The personality of the leading actress contributes to the success of Catching Fire 
D
The statistics I’ve cited and the living examples are all too familiar to you. But what may not be so familiar will be the increasing number of women who are looking actively for advancement of for a new job in your offices. This woman may be equipped with professional skills and perhaps valuable experience. She will not be content to be Executive Assistant to Mr. Seldom Seen of the Assistant Vice President’s Girl Friday, who is the only one who comes in on Saturday.
　 She is the symbol of what I call the Second Wave of Feminism. She is the modern woman who is determined to be.
　 Her forerunner was the radical feminist who interpreted her trapped position as a female as oppression by the master class of men. Men, she believed, had created a domestic, servile role for women in order that men could have the career and the opportunity to participate in making the great decisions of society. Thus the radical feminist held that women through history had been oppressed and dehumanized, mainly because man chose to exploit his wife and the mother of his children. Sometimes it was deliberate exploitation and sometimes it was the innocence of never looking beneath the pretensions of life.
　 The radical feminists found strength in banding together. Coming to recognize each other for the first time, they could explore their own identities, realize their own power, and view the male and his system as the common enemy. The first phases of feminism in the last five years often took on this militant, class-warfare tone. Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Germaine Greer, and many others hammered home their ideas with a persistence that aroused and intrigued many of the brightest and most able women in the country. Consciousness-raising groups allowed women to explore both their identities and their dreams—and the two were often found in direct conflict.
　 What is the stereotyped role of American women? Marriage. A son. Two daughters. Breakfast. Ironing. Lunch. Bowling, maybe a garden club of for the very daring, non-credit courses in ceramics. Perhaps an occasional cocktail party. Dinner. Football or baseball on TV. Each day the same. Never any growth in expectations—unless it is growth because the husband has succeeded. The inevitable question: “Is that all there is to life?”
The rapid growth of many feminist organizations attests to the fact that these radical feminists had touched some vital nerves. The magazine “Ms.” was born in the year of the death of the magazine “Life.” But too often the consciousness-raising sessions became ends in themselves. Too often sexism reversed itself and man-hating was encouraged. Many had been with the male chauvinist.
It is not difficult, therefore, to detect a trend toward moderation. Consciousness-raising increasingly is regarded as a means to independence and fulfillment, rather than a ceremony of fulfillment itself. Genuine independence can be realized through competence, through finding a career, through the use of education. Remember that for many decades the education of women was not supposed to be useful.
67. What was the main idea of this passage?
A. The Second Wave of Feminist.   B. Women’s Independent Spirits. 
C. The Unity of Women.     D. The Action of Union.
68. What was the author’s attitude toward the radical?
　A. He supported it wholeheartedly.   B. He opposed it strongly.
　C. He disapproved to some extent.   D. He ignored it completely.
69. What does the word “militant” mean?
　A. Aggressive.   B. Ambitions.    C. Progressive.     D. Independent.
70. What was the radical feminist’s view point about the male?
　A. Women were exploited by the male.　　  B. Women were independent of the male.
　C. Women’s lives were deprived by the male.　 D. The male were their common enemy.
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