3．The Oscar nominations （提名） will be announced tomorrow morning and despite the Academy's best efforts，it looks like the biggest films of the year will be mostly shut out of competition．Don't expect big nominations for The Avengers，The Dark Knight Rises or The Hunger Games．
Since 2008，the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences （AMPAS） has been playing with the scheme for Best Picture in the hopes of getting more popular films nominated （提名） and increasing audience for the Oscar ceremony which last year was watched by fewer people than watched the Grammy Awards．First they increased the number of nominated films from five to ten．This year，to complicate things，there could be as many as ten nominees or as few as five．In order to qualify for a Best Picture nod，a film has to be the top pick of at least 5% of the Academy voters．
That means there's room for an unknown factor．Our in-house film expert，Mark Hughes，thinks that could be Skyfall or The Hobbit which would ruin the condition of this post．I think Skyfall has a decent chance of being a spoiler．It has a admirable director in Sam Mendes，it's earned almost universal praise from critics and it's the first Bond movie ever to bring in 1billionattheboxoffice．ButIsuspectwe'regoingtoseeaveryblockbuster（大片）-lightlistofnominations．ThefilmsthataregettingthemostawardareLincoln，LesMiserablesandZeroDarkThirty．WhileLincolnandLesMizaredoingwellattheboxoffice（earning144million and 172millionsofarseparately），theyaren'tnearthetopearnersof2012．ZeroDarkThirtyhasonlybeenplayinginafewtheaters．Itexpandsintowidereleasethisweekend．It'snotnecessarilyabadthingthatbigblockbustersdon'tgetnominated．Filmsthatearnover1billion at the box office don't really need any more publicity or anything else to help increase DVD income．Smaller films，like Zero Dark Thirty，rely on that Oscar boom．Nominations focusing on smaller films is good for the overall Hollywood ecosystem，even if the people running the awards would like to make things interesting a bit．
The awards are scheduled for February 24th on ABC．Seth MacFarlane is this year's host．
63．The AMPAS made changes to Best Picture toC．
A．a(chǎn)ttract more people to watch movies
B．keep the biggest films away from it
C．make the Oscar ceremony more popular
D．increase the number of popular movies
64．The underlined part"Skyfall has a decent chance of being a spoiler"（in Paragraph 3）meansB．
A．Skyfall is the best Bond movie
B．Skyfall is quite likely to be nominated
C．Skyfall is just so-so
D．Skyfall has little chance to be nominated
65．Nominations focusing on smaller films is in the hope thatB．
A．smaller films are better than those so-called blockbusters
B．more people will go to see smaller films
C．blockbusters needn't any nominations
D．blockbusters will have better environment
66．There is a room for an unknown factor in the nominations this year becauseB．
A．the film has to be selected by at least 5% of the Academy voters
B．there could be five to ten nominees
C．the biggest films will be mostly shut out of competition
D．The Hobbit would ruin the condition of this post．
分析 本文是一篇報道．文章報道了明天將會宣布奧斯卡的排名，又講述以往的奧斯卡于此此奧斯卡規(guī)則的對比．文章還對明天會提名的電影進行了預測．
解答 63．C．細節(jié)理解題．從文章第二段第一句…．in the hopes of getting more popular films nominated and promoting viewership for the Oscar ceremony可知，AMPAS修改奧斯卡最佳影片獎的評選規(guī)則，希望更多受到歡迎的電影獲得提名，同時提高奧斯卡頒獎典禮的收視率．故選C．
64．B．細節(jié)理解題．從文章第三段第四句It has an admirable director…..可知，對Skyfall這部電影評價很高，再結合第二段可推論出這部電影可能被提名．故選B．
65．B．推理預測題．從文章最后一段第二句Films that earn over $1 billion at the box office…．可推出小成本制作如果有更多的宣傳，就會有更多的人去觀看，這有利于HOLLYWOOD的整體發(fā)展．故選B．
66．B．細節(jié)理解題．從文章第二段的最后兩句"This year，to complicate things，there could be as many as ten nominees or as few as five．In order to qualify for a Best Picture nod，a film has to be the top pick of at least 5% of the Academy voters．"可知，提名名單存在很大的未知因素是因為提名影片有可能多達10部，也有可能少至5部．故選B．
點評 本文為新聞報道類閱讀．新聞報道類在英語閱讀理解中是一種特點十分鮮明的題材．因為文章往往呈現(xiàn)出"倒金字塔"的特征，此類題的英語閱讀理解技巧是重點看導語．導語位于新聞報道的首段，高度概括新聞事實，通過它點出新聞的主題，其次尋找關鍵詞，理解題意，做出解答．
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