外国电影经典影评(英语)

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Unit One E.T. the Extraterrestrial

Part II Movie Reviews

Passage One

Directions: Listen to the following movie review and then answer the questions.

The movie "E.T the Extra-Terrestrial" made my heart glad. It is filled with innocence, hope, and good cheer. It is also wickedly funny and exciting as well. "E.T the Extra-Terrestrial" is a movie that you can grow up with and grow old with, and it won't let you down. It tells a story about friendship and love. Some people are a little baffled when they hear what it described: It's about a relationship between a little boy and a creature from outer space that becomes his best friend. It works as science fiction, it's sometimes as scary as a monster movie, and at the end, when the lights go up, there's not a dry eye in the house.

The movie's hero is one particular little boy named Elliott. He's natural, defiant, easily touched, conniving(纵容的), brave and childlike. A lot of those achievements rest on(依靠) the very peculiar (特殊的)shoulders of the E.T. itself. With its odd little walk, its high-pitched squeals（尖叫声）of surprise, its tentative imitations（模仿）of human speech, and its catlike but definitely alien purring, E.T. becomes one of the most intriguing fictional creatures I've ever seen on a screen. And one of the ways E.T. communicates is to share its emotions with Elliott. That's how Elliott knows that the E.T. wants to go home

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" is a reminder of what movies are for. Most movies are not for any one thing, of course. Some are to make us think, some to make us feel, some to take us away from our problems, some to help us examine them. What is enchanting about "E.T." is that, in some measure, it does all of those things.

Passage Two

Direction s: Listen to the following movie review and then answer the questions.

Almost 50 percent of Americans, according to recent polls, and millions of people elsewhere in the world believe that UFOs are real. For many it is a deeply held belief. For decades there have been sightings of UFOs by millions and millions of people. It is a mystery that only science can solve, and yet the phenomenon remains largely unexamined. Most of the reporting on this subject by the mainstream media holds those who claim to have seen UFOs up to ridicule. On Feb. 24, "Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs — Seeing Is Believing" takes a fresh look at the UFO phenomenon. "As a journalist," says Jennings, "I began this project with a healthy dose of skepticism and as open a mind as possible. After almost 150 interviews with scientists, investigators and with many of those who claim to have witnessed unidentified flying objects, there are important questions that have not been