中國電影業終于加入太空競賽

安徽太湖中學 周艷霞

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海詞積累

1.grailn.圣杯（據信為耶穌離世前所用）；渴望但永遠得不到的東西

2.devisev.發明；設計；想出

3.thrustersn.（尤指航天器的）推力器；推進器

4.scramblen.爭搶

China has entered the cinematic space race.The WanderingEarth,the country's first blockbuster sci-fifilm,setinspace，willrepresentthe dawningofanewerain Chinese filmmaking.

“Film-makers in Chinaseescience fictionasa holygrail,”said Raymond Zhou,an independent critic,who noted that Hollywood hadset thetechnologicalstandards,and thus audience's expectations are very high.

5.annihilationn.毀滅

6.renaissancen.（某一學科或藝術形式等衰落后的）復興

7.villainsn.惡棍

8.patriotismn.愛國主義

TheWanderingEarth,shown in 3-D,takes placein a distant future in which the sun is about to expand into a red giant and devour（吞沒）the Earth.The coming peril forces the world's engineers todeviseaplanto move the planet to a new solar system using giantthrusters.Thingsgoverybadlywhen the Earth has to pass Jupiter,settingoffa desperatescrambleto save humanity fromannihilation.

The WanderingEarthopens with the Lunar New Year,the beginning of an official,weeklong holiday that is traditionally a peak box-office period in China.At first，it has a limited release in the United States,Canada,Australia and New Zealand.

At home,it will compete withCrazyAlien,a comedy inspired byE.T.theExtra-Terrestrialabout two brothers hoping to capitalize （利用）on the arrival of a visitor from outer space.

BothThe WanderingEarthandCrazyAlien areadaptedfromworks by Liu Cixin,the writer who has led arenaissancein science fiction here,becoming the first Chinese winner of the Hugo Award for the genre in 2015.

ThepopularityofLiu'snovelscould help，andsocouldtworecentHollywood films,GravityandTheMartian.Both included important plots that,not incidentally,cast China's space program in a positive light,and both were huge hits here.

The opening came as China reached a milestone in space:the landing of a probe on

閱讀自測

1．What can be inferred from paragraph 2？

A．Chinese audience have lost confidence in China's sci-fifilm.

B．China's sci-fifilms develop with much pressure from Hollywood.

C．Raymond Zhou has made some positive comments onTheWanderingEarth.

D．China's sci-fifilms have made steady achievements beforeTheWandering Earth.

2．What is the third paragraphmainly about？

A．The plot of the film.

B．The influence of the film.the far side of the moon in January.Although decades behind Russia and the United States,China has now put astronauts in orbit and has ambitious plans to join or even lead a new age of space exploration.

UnlikeOperationRedSeaor the twoWolf Warriormovies,which featured a Rambo-like hero battling westernvillains,TheWandering Earthis not aboutpatriotism.In the film，a Russian soldier sacrifices his life to help a Chinese colleague.Wu Jing,the leading star ofWolfWarriorsplays an astronaut aboard an international space station who has tocontend witha HAL-like computer.

TheWanderingEarthtakes for granted China's central role in future space exploration,but it also has a vision of the international collaboration necessary tocopewiththe threats facing the planet,a theme that runs deeply through Liu's fiction.

——FromTheNewYorkTimes

C．The challenge in the film.

D．The background of the film.

3．How many factors in the movie's success are referred to in the text？

A．Three. B.Four. C.Five. D.Six.

4．The authormentions a Russian soldier's sacrifice in the film to___________.

A．add more vivid and moving details to the film

B．arouse the readers'interest in watching the film

C．compare the film with traditional Chinese films

D．prove that the film's theme is far beyond patriotism

文本探究

探究視角1：語篇分析

《流浪地球》的上映引起了外媒的廣泛關注。本文是一篇來自《紐約時報》的新聞報道，文章標題使用了Space Race一詞，隱射了中美在太空領域的競爭，信息量較大。全文從影片上映的意義與挑戰、電影的情節和成功的背景三個方面對電影《流浪地球》進行了綜述。

本篇報道兼具影評的寫作風格，閱讀時，應熟悉新聞寫作和影評寫作的相關知識。閱讀新聞類文章時，要關注新聞報道的結構。新聞的結構是指新聞作品謀篇布局的整體設計，主要組成部分是：導語—主體—結尾。導語部分通常是新聞的核心信息，是讀者關注的焦點；主體部分是對新聞事件的深入報道；結尾部分通常介紹的是事件產生的相關影響。新聞報道通常采用“倒金字塔”結構，記者在采寫新聞時，要遵循內容決定形式的原則，選擇最佳的新聞結構去靈活多樣地表述新聞內容。

本文的篇章結構如下：

Structure Paragraph（s） Main idea（s）Significance/Introduction Para.1～2 China has entered the cinematic space race with the challenge that Hollywood has set the technological standards.參考譯文Plot Para.3 The world's engineers devise a plan to save the earth using giant thrusters.Background on the success Conclusion Para.4～9 Para.10●Time for debut—The Wandering Earth opens with the Lunar New Year.●A unique script and the popularity of Liu Cixin's novels—Liu Cixin has led a renaissance in science fiction with hismasterpieces.●Inspiration from Hollywood films—help from two recent Hollywood films Gravity and The Martian.●China's development in space—China has reached a milestone in space exploration.●A difference from the former films—The Wandering Earth is not jingoistic（極端愛國主義的）.●China is establishing its central role in space exploration.●It is necessary to wrestlewith the threats facing the planet.

探究視角2：語言學習

I.高頻短語

represent the dawning of a new era代表一個新時代的開始

be set in以……為背景

see...as把……看作……

set the technologicalstandards設置技術標準

take place發生

devise a plan構思一個計劃

go badly進展不順利

set off引起

be adapted from由……改編

contend with（不得不）應付；處理

cope with （成功地）對付；處理Ⅱ.寫作推薦

“so+助動詞+主語”引導的倒裝句

The popularity of Liu's novels could help，and so could two recent Hollywood films,GravityandTheMartian.劉慈欣小說的流行可能會有所幫助，而最近的兩部好萊塢電影《地心引力》和《火星救援》也是會有所幫助的。

倒裝句“so+助動詞+主語”，意為“……也是如此”，表示上文所說的情況同樣適用于下文，用于肯定的倒裝。當表示“……也不”時用“neither/nor+助動詞+主語”結構。

【仿寫】Mike工作很努力，Jack也是如此。

文化拓展

SpaceRace：科幻背后的競賽

除認可之外，外媒還是把中國涉足科幻片，又看成了一場與美國的競賽。

《紐約時報》在標題里，就戲稱之為“Space Race”——這個詞一般專指美蘇爭霸期間那場曠日持久的“太空競賽”。不同于其他類型的電影，科幻電影最考驗一國的綜合實力：它的視覺效果依賴完整的電影工業體系；也只有當一個國家在現實中實現了科技探索的成就時，拍出的科幻片才更能被觀眾所接納。

《紐約時報》把中國最近在太空領域的成就與中國的科幻片聯系起來：

The opening came as China reached amilestone in space:the landing of a probe on the far side of themoon in January.這部影片的上映也正值中國在太空領域取得里程碑成就之際：今年1月，中國的一個航天探測器在月球背面著陸。

雖然這種聯系略顯牽強，但對于中國的實力是充滿肯定的，從標題當中的“finally”一詞就能看出來。

文章標題中的finally意為“終于怎么樣了”，當一件理所當然的事情終于如期發生了以后，你就可以用finally這個詞發出如是感慨。

這篇報道中，這個詞可能意味著，在作者的理解中，中美其實已經在很多其他領域展開了競賽。如今，科幻電影也終于加入了這一個賽道。而它同時也暗示了，作者對于中國科幻電影的興起絲毫不意外，他甚至可能覺得，這樣的作品早就應該出現了。