Question

Geena David knew she wanted to be a movie star when she was very young. She was not sure what gave her the idea, but she wanted to look like a movie star. “I have a lot of pictures from my childhood of me wearing sunglasses,” she says. “I used to wear them to watch TV.”

Early movie actors started wearing sunglasses not because they looked good, but because their eyes hurt. The lights used on movie sets were extremely bright and could cause a painful problem known as “Klieg eyes”. It was named after the Klieg brothers who invented the lights. Actors wore sunglasses to give their eyes a rest. But when movie stars began wearing their sunglasses in public, they quickly became a must.

Eventually actors started wearing sunglasses in their movies as well as on the street. Audrey Hephburn wore ultra-cool Ray-Ban sunglasses in the 1961 movie, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. As a result, Ray-Ban sunglasses started to appear more and more in the movies. In 1979, Ray-Ban “Wayfarers” were worn by Jake and Elwood in The Blue Brothers. Tom Cruise wore Ray-Ban “Aviator” sunglasses in the 1986 hit, Top Gun. Then in 1997, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones made Ray-Ban “Predator” sunglasses famous in Men in Black.

Of course sunglasses aren’t just a fashion statement. The main reason to wear sunglasses is to protect our eyes against UV radiation. UV radiation can damage our eyes, so people now choose their sunglasses carefully. But you don’t have to give up style for safety. The choice of frames and lenses available these days is huge. So you can protect your eyes and still be the coolest person on the beach.

1.What is mainly discussed in this passage?

A. The use of sunglasses.

B. The history of sunglasses.

C. The sunglasses wearing.

D. Why movie stars like to wear sunglasses.

2.Why did Geena David like to wear sunglasses?

A. She was a movie star.

B. She wanted to follow a movie star.

C.Wearing sunglasses was good to her eyes.

D. It was good to wear sunglasses when watching TV.

3.Early actors’ eyes hurt because ______.

A. they wore sunglasses

B. they went out in the sun too much

C. the lights on movie sets were too bright

D. their scripts were written in very small writing

4.Now people wear sunglasses ______.

A. just to protect their eyes

B. for fashion and to protect their eyes

C. because of bright lights

D. because movie stars wear them

Answer 1

1.C

2.B

3.C

4.B

【解析】

試題分析：吉娜·大衛小時候想要成為一個明星，她找到了明星的一個共同特征：戴太陽鏡。于是她也模仿起來。墨鏡一開始并不是明星們想要“耍帥”才戴的，而是為了保護眼睛。而現在，在時尚時尚最時尚的墨鏡上，還能發現新的用處——防紫外線。

1.主旨大意體。文章主要講了明星們戴墨鏡以及為什么戴墨鏡。因此選C。

2.細節理解題。根據“She was not sure what gave her the idea, but she wanted to look like a movie star.”可知，她非常想成為明星，因此戴墨鏡是為了模仿。故選B。

3.The lights used on movie sets were extremely bright and could cause a painful problem known as “Klieg eyes”.”可知早期演員們戴墨鏡是因為電影上用的燈光太強烈了。故選C。

4.Of course sunglasses aren’t just a fashion statement. The main reason to wear sunglasses is to protect our eyes against UV radiation.”可知現在人們戴墨鏡一是時尚，二是保護眼睛。故選B。

考點：社科類短文閱讀。