A

All hotels redecorate regularly．However，very few do it as frequently as Sweden’s Icehotel. As the name indicates，the hotel that is located in the remote village of Jukkasjarvi，is built entirely from ice and，therefore，has to be rebuilt annually! The 26th version of Icehotel，which welcomed its first visitors on December 11th，features 69 rooms．To make them affordable for everyone，they range from expensive luxury suites to basic accommodations．

Among this year’s unique suite offerings is the“Elephant in the Room”，which features a massive 3-m tall sculpted African elephant overlooking an ice—framed bed．The“Counting Sheep”suite features frozen sheep that may help those who don’t sleep well get a good night’s rest. Though the atmosphere between the luxury suites and the budget rooms may differ，they are all subject to the bone-chilling-5℃ temperatures．To get a good night’s rest guests have to lie inside sleeping bags and keep their gloves and hats on．Though that seems a little uncomfortable，visitors say it is an experience like none other．club.xuecan.net

The hotel also features a beautifully crafted ice church where over 100 couples will get married this year and an Ice Bar that will serve drinks in ice glasses．Though dining options are limited to the hotel’s only restaurant，guests will have little to complain about with Michelin—trained chef Alexander Meier．To keep customers entertained，the hotel offers a variety of fun activities like snowshoeing，moose or snowmobile safaris，dog sledding，and even overnight wilderness camping．

The 26-year-·old tradition began accidentally in 1989 when locals organized an art exhibition to draw winter visitors to the remote village that lies 200 km north of the Arctic Circle．Among the many tourists was an adventurous group and they announced their intention of spending the night in the place where the exhibition was being held．That’s when the idea of building the icy accommodations dawned on the locals．

56．Why is Sweden’s Icehotel rebuilt every year?

A．It needs more rooms．         B．It is entirely built from ice．

C．It follows old traditions．       D．It can be easily decorated．

57．What is unique about the hotel this year?

A．It opens earlier than ever before．  B．More expensive rooms are available．

C．Room prices are more affordable．  D．Some rooms have theme sculptures．

58．What can be inferred about the hotel in Paragraph 3?

A．Its service needs improving．   B．Its activities may be boring．

C．It tries to appeal to customers．  D．Its food is not delicious at a11．

B

Books, Films and Plays

  The novelist’s medium is the written word, one might almost say the printed word. Typically the novel is consumed by a silent, individual reader, who may be anywhere at the time. The paperback novel is still the cheapest, most portable and adaptable form of narrative entertainment. It is limited to a single channel of information---writing. The narrative can go, effortlessly, anywhere: into space, people’s head, palaces, prisons and pyramids, without any consideration of cost or practical possibility. In determining the shape and content of his narrative, the writer is restricted by nothing except purely artistic criteria. The novelist keeps absolute control over his text until it is published and received by the audience. He may be advised by his editor to revise his text, but if the writer refused to meet this condition no one would be surprised. It is not unknown for a well-established novelist to deliver his or her manuscript(手稿) and expect the publisher to print it exactly as written.

However, not even the most well-established playwright or screenplay writer would submit a script and expect it to be performed without any rewriting. This is because plays and motion pictures are cooperative forms of narrative, using more than one channel of communication.

The production of a stage play involves, as well as the words of the author, the physical presence of the actors, their voices and gestures, the “set” and possibly music. Although the script is the essential basis of both stage play and film, it is a basis for subsequent revision negotiated between the writer and the other creative people involved. They are given “approval” of the choice of director and actors and have the right to attend rehearsals(排演), during which period they may undertake more rewriting work. In the case of the screenplay, the writer may have little or no control over the final form of his work. Contracts for the production of plays protect the rights of authors in this respect.

In film or television work, on the other hand, the screenplay writer has no contractual right to this degree of consultation. While the script is going through its various drafts, the writer is in the driver’s seat, although sometimes receiving criticism from the producer and the director. But once the production is under way, artistic control over the project tends to pass to the director. This is a fact overlooked by most journalistic critics of television drama, who tend(unlike film critics) to give all the credit or blame for success or failure of a production to the writer and actors, ignoring the contribution, for good or ill, of the director.

59. Where might you find the passage?

A. In a textbook. B. In a movie magazine.  

C. In a travelling brochure. D. In a shopping guide.

60. Which of these subtitles would be most appropriate?

A. Why does the future look good for writers of books, plays and films?

B. What do audiences want from these three forms of entertainment?

C. How do these forms of media compare for their producers?

D. What benefit can we get from these forms of media?

61. Why can the novelist expect the publisher to print the manuscript exactly as written?

A. Because the novelist keeps absolute control over his text.

B. Because the paperback novel is most portable and adaptable.

C. Because the novel is limited to a single channel of information---writing.

D. Because the novelist is seldom advised by editors to revise the text.

62. Which of the following statements is True according to the passage?

A. Playwrights envy the simplicity of the novelist’s work.

B. Experience in the theatre improves the work of screenplay writers.

C. Screenplay writers usually have the final say in how a TV drama will turn out.

D. Playwrights are frequently involved in revising their work.

63. What can be implied from the last sentence of the passage?

A. TV critics often blame the wrong people for the failure of a program.

B. The director is a determining factor in the future of a television drama.

C. Few people know that the screenplay writer is often criticized by the director.

D. It is urgent for the film critics to realize their mistakes.