2018届高考英语第总复习全程训练考点集训：专练周周测二-3 含解析

W专练(三)

Passage 1

A laugh track, sometimes called canned laughter, is a collection of pre-recorded audience laughter and applause sounds added to television programs during post-production. The main purpose of the track is to trigger (激发) a response from home viewers who may not understand all of the intended humor when watching a taped sitcom (situation comedy). __1__ Therefore, canned laughter causes natural reactions to comedies.

__2__ The producers of the Hank McCune Show added canned laughter after the show's taping. Until that time, other radio and television comedies used a live studio audience or no canned laughter at all. In 1953, a sound engineer named Charley Douglass invented the Laff Box, a small electronic device (装置) containing numerous sounds of recorded laughter and applause. It is said that Charley Douglass selected almost all of his laugh track material from in-studio recordings of several different comedy shows. __3__

During the 1970s, many sitcoms chose to get rid of the practice altogether or mix live audience reactions with the canned laughter. Filming a show in front of a live audience became a symbol of honor. __4__ Live audiences did not always provide a usable response, especially after a long day of retakes.

Today, the same company created by Charley Douglass offers an improved digital version of the original Laff Box. __5__ Most sitcoms produced today are still recorded in front of a live audience, but a more subtle laugh track can be used to improve weak responses.

A. However, there was a problem.

B. The belief is that laughter creates laughter.

C. The first known use of a recorded laugh track is said to be in 1950.

D. The effective use of canned laughter is considered more of an art

than a science.

E. Douglass recorded different styles of laughter and applause without the sound of dialogue.

F．If this is true, audience reactions in modern sitcoms may have actually been recorded several years ago.

G. In addition to the original laughter and applause, there are tracks for foreign audiences and children's shows.

Passage 2(2016·湖北八校第一次联考)

If you intend to work with this book seriously, I suggest that you give yourself every advantage by carefully following the laws of learning.

Space your learning.

__1__ Each session may take one half hour to an hour and a half, depending on the amount of material and on your own speed of learning. Do one or two sessions at a time—three if you're going strong and are all involved—and always decide when you stop and exactly when you will return.

__2__

Everyone learns at a different pace. Fast learners are no better than slow learners—it's the end result that counts, not the time it takes you to finish.

Review.

When you start a new session, go back to the last exercise of the previous session, cover your answers, and see how much you remember. __3__ Test yourself.

You are not aiming for a grade, or putting your worth on the line, when you take the Comprehensive Tests. __4__ You are deciding where repairs have to be made, and especially, you are experiencing a feeling of success at work that is well done.

Use these tests, as well as the abundant drill exercises, as aids to learning. No one is perfect, no one learns in the exact same way or at the same speed as anyone else. __5__ And then, give yourself every opportunity