Passage 2 Will you pay extra for a preview of TV series(教师版)202020年高考英语时文外刊精讲教学

【主题语境】人与社会——影视艺术

Will you pay extra for a preview of TV

series？

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近来，由作家猫腻原著改编的同名网剧《庆余年》大火。这部戏及其吸引观众的不仅仅是豪华的明显阵容，既有张若昀、李沁等当红明星的联袂表演，又有陈道明、吴刚等老戏骨的流量加持。

当然，更重要的莫过于“双十二”那天《庆余年》再次登上了搜索，不过这回不是因为好看，而是因为某视频网站推出的50元预点播服务，即在已经是VIP会员的基础之上，再充值50元可以预看6集。

这次《庆余年》VIP事件之所以会迅速成为热点，主要原因还是在于其个例性，此举在国内视频网站领域尚属首例。原本不花钱就能看的剧突然要收50元，这让许多观众都难以接受。这种种事件，无疑把这部戏即推上了“流量巅峰”，又推上了“风口浪尖”。

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Passage 3

1. The new TV series Joy of Life is a smash hit , scoring 8/10 among the notoriously rigorous

reviewers of Douban, a Chinese social networking service website.

2. But how would you feel if Tencent Video and iQiyi allowed anyone to pay an extra fee to see a show’s upcoming episodes ahead of schedule ?

3. The two of China’s biggest video streaming platforms decided to allow users to pay an extra fee on top of their subscription to get advanced access to episodes of Qing Yu Nian (Joy of Life).

4. In the face of extreme competition and perhaps an overly ambitious business model, China’s streaming giants are hoping that additional charges could turn their luck around.

1. The new TV series Joy of Life (庆余年) is a smash hit, scoring 8/10 among the notoriously

rigorous （严苛的）reviewers of Douban, a Chinese social networking service website.

翻译：新上映电视连续剧《庆余年》大受欢迎，在豆瓣的评分高达8分（满分10分），要知道豆瓣上的评分员都极为严格。

2. But how would you feel if Tencent Video and iQiyi allowed anyone to pay an extra fee to

see a show’s upcoming episodes ahead of schedule ?

翻译：但如果腾讯视频和爱奇艺允许任何人支付额外费用提前看即将播出的剧集，你会怎么想？

单句解析

hit, reviewer, allow, schedule, ahead of , subscription, advanced, competition

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Douban 的同位语

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解析

The new TV series Joy of Life

scoring 8/10 among the notoriously

rigorous reviewers of Douban

a Chinese social networking service website.

is a smash hit

① The new TV series Joy of Life (庆余年) is a smash hit , scoring 8/10 among the notoriously rigorous （严苛的）reviewers of Douban, a Chinese social networking service website. Also known as Thankful for the Remaining Years , it is a 2019 Chinese television series and stars Zhang Ruoyun, Li Qin, Chen Daoming and Wu Gang. The series premiered on Tencent Video and iQiyi

(online video platforms) on November 26, 2019.

② But how would you feel if Tencent Video and iQiyi allowed anyone to pay an extra fee to see a show’s upcoming episodes ahead of schedule ? That’s the latest money -making idea from China’s largest video platforms.

③ The two of China’s biggest video streaming platforms decided to allow users to pay an extra fee on top of their subscription to get advanced

access to episodes of Qing Yu Nian (Joy of Life). Monthly subscriptions for Tencent Video cost 15 yuan (US$2.14) and iQiyi charges 19 yuan (US$2.71). Under the new policy, users could pay 50 yuan (US$7.14) to always stay six episodes head in Qing Yu Nian. Alternatively, watching a single episode in advance costs 3 yuan (US$0.43). ④ Users are mad about Tencent Video’s and iQiyi’s extra fees on top of subscriptions. On Weibo, a Chinese microblogging website, hashtags related to the two platforms’ pricing policies repeatedly recurred on trending searches, where many people were found complaining about the platforms being greedy and called for the audience to boycott the policy.

⑤ The policy also drew criticism from People’s Daily . The state -owned news outlet said the platforms “have bad table manners” and “drain the pond to fish and burn the woods to hunt,” which are Chinese idioms used to describe someone focusing on quick profits as opposed to long -term interests. People’s Daily also said the sites “look down

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