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Passage Six
Questions 26-30 are based on the following passage.
Where did the movies begin? It is often said that they are an American invention, but this is not entirely true. The motion picture has been the most international of arts before the dawn of the 20th century.
Soon after 1889, when the famous American inventor Thomas Edison first showed motion pictures through a device called the kinetoscope, other devices for the same purpose appeared all over the world. One other important contribution by Edison was the introduction of 35mm as the international standard film width. When it became possible to use any 35mm machine for showing movies from any part of the world, the international trading of films could begin.
During the first years, there were no special movie theaters. Films were often shown in buildings which had formerly been stores. In America, these became known as nickelodeons because each member of the audience paid a nickel (five cents) to watch the movie.

At first, movies pleased people just because the experience of watching them was new. In the black and white shadows, one could see larger-than-life images of reality and they moved! But images alone cannot keep people interested forever. Then cameras wer
Edwin S. Porter was a director and cameraman for Thomas Edison’s company. He advanced the art of the film by a giant step when, in 1903, he produced The Great Train Robbery. Although this account of a mail robbery and the pursuit of the robbers was v
In 1908, Biograph, a small film company in New York, employed a man who was to become the first true genius of motion pictures. He was D.W. Griffith, an unsuccessful actor and writer of plays, who had worked briefly for Porter. Griffith preferred writing
A.1889
B.1903
C.1907
D.1908

试题出自试卷《2010年7月全国自主考试英语阅读(一)真题及答案》

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