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1、Understanding the TextUnit 3 James Camerons AmbitionStep 1: Focus on Meaning1.1. Skimming and Scanning: Read the text quickly and focus on all clues regarding time and sequence of events. Then, put the exact date (years) in the brackets before each of the following statements.1. (2009) James Cameron

2、 finally outdid rival George Lucas with Avatar. 2. (2000) James Cameron asked one of his team members about the possibility of inventing equipment that could produce high-definition 3-D films.3. (1977) James Cameron watched the movie Star Wars with a friend. 4. (1984-1994) James Cameron directed oth

3、er films and many of them became very successful. 5. (1984) The film Terminator was released.6. (2000) James Cameron negotiated with Sony company. 7. (1995) James Cameron began to draft and create the world of Avatar.8. (2003) The success of Spider Kids 3-D proved the efficiency of the new equipment

4、. 9. (2005-2009) Many U.S. theatres updated their theater equipment. 10. (2009) The blockbuster Avatar was released.11. (1981) James Cameron became a film director and made his first movie. 1.2. Scanning: Read paragraphs 1 through 6 in detail and answer the following questions orally. Use key words

5、only. 1. What job did James Cameron have in 1977?Truck driver. 2. What do you learn about his hobbies?Writing fictional stories. 3. How did he feel after watching Star Wars? Why?angry. 4. What did he do after he went home?Bought movie equipment and tried shooting fictional films. 5. Why did he shoot

6、 a 12-minute clip? What was it about?To use the clip to get a studio to back up feature film; fight scene between an a robot and a woman. 6. How did he advertise his clip? Was he successful?Peddling it around Hollywood; yes. 7. What can you infer about Roger Corman?Very nice person who provided newc

7、omers opportunities. 8. What was the main idea behind the first film James Cameron directed?A horror film. 9. How did Cameron get the inspiration for Terminator? From a dream. 10. According to paragraph 6, which of Camerons movies was the most successful? Why?Titanic. Won 11 Oscars. 11. According to

8、 paragraph 6, what can you learn about Avatar, the world Cameron created?A virtual world. Pandora, Navis.1.3. Scanning: Read paragraphs 7 through 23 in detail and supply the missing words. James Cameron spent as long as 12 years to shoot Avatar. The job was extremely complicated and Cameron faced ma

9、ny difficulties, among which were the invention of moviemaking technologies, persuading the theaters to retool, and the creation of every detail on the planet. Even his team doubted the possibility because Cameron wanted all characters in the movie to look utterly real and be computer-generated/be g

10、enerated by computer. In order to deal with the problem of technology, Cameron consulted a(n) underwater camera specialist. Though he was uncertain, Cameron firmly believed that they could invent cameras which would be easy to handle, digital, of high resolution, and 3D . Then, upon his commission,

11、Sony company successfully established a new line of cameras as Cameron wished in three months. To persuade theaters into adopting/updating/retooling their film-shooting equipment, Cameron tested his system with Spy Kids 3-D, proving that the new system would pay off. He also talked to theater owners

12、, explaining the promising future of 3-D films. As a result, U.S. theaters began to update their equipment over the following several years. Cameron was not satisfied. He wanted to make Avatar even more elaborate, so he hired a linguistic expert to invent an entirely new language system for the Navi

13、, from consonants, basic grammar structure, to even a specific grammatical rule. He also named everything on the planet, wrote detailed specific description for every plant, and complied all information into a Pandorapedia. His team consisted of people from various circles: a linguistic expert, a bo

14、tanical expert, an expert in astrophysics, a music professor, and an archaeologist. Camerons efforts made Avatar one of the highest grossing films of the day. Step 2: Focus on Language2.1. Sentence Translation:* He set up blindingly bright lights in the living room and rolled a camera along a track

15、to practice shots. He spent days reading everything he could about special effects. He became completely obsessed. (para.2) 他在客廳中打出亮得刺眼的光線、在軌道上推著攝像機練習拍攝。接連數(shù)天，他讀完了所有能找到的、和電影特效有關的書籍。他完全入了魔。* After peddling it around Hollywood for months, his effort did yield something worthwhile: a job with director R

16、oger Corman. Hired to build miniature spaceships for a Corman film, Cameron worked his way up to become a visual effects specialist. (para.4) 接下來的幾個月里，他一直在好萊塢四處兜售。他的努力沒有白費：他贏得了在羅杰科曼導演手下工作的機會。他受雇為科曼的一部電影打造微型太空飛船，此后經過努力一步步成為了視覺特效專家。* One night, after an editing session, Cameron went to sleep and

17、dreamed that he saw a robot clawing toward a frightened woman. Cameron soon used it as the basis for a script about a robot assassin sent back to kill the mother of a future rebel leader. (para.5) 一天晚上的剪輯會后，卡梅隆去睡覺，夢見自己看見一個機器人張牙舞爪地逼近一個驚慌失措的女人。很快，他便以此為素材創(chuàng)作了一個劇本，講述一名機器人殺手被派遣穿越時光去殺死未來抵抗軍領袖的母親。* Pandoras

18、 atmosphere is so toxic to humans that scientists grow genetically engineered versions of the Navi- the so-called avatars that can be linked to a humans consciousness, allowing remote control of the creatures body. (para.6) 潘朵拉星球的空氣能使人類致命，因此科學家們將納美人的基因進行改造，培養(yǎng)出了所謂的“阿凡達”這種生物體中可植入人類的意識、能受遠程控制。* But Cam

19、eron was relieved. He said. “It was time to go play.” (para.10) 但卡梅隆反倒釋然了，他說：“大展身手的時候到了?！?* Pace wasnt sure he knew about the cheap red-and-blue paper glasses of conventional 3-D filmmaking. They were notoriously uncomfortable, and the images could cause headaches. (para. 11) 佩斯不大清楚他了解傳統(tǒng)3D電影制作中那種紅藍相

20、間的廉價紙眼鏡。這種眼鏡令人極其不適，看到的影像會引起頭痛。* As if that werent enough, Cameron even hired an expert in botany to write detailed scientific descriptions of the plants he had created. (para. 20) 這一切似乎還不夠，卡梅隆甚至聘請植物學專家為他創(chuàng)造的幾十種植物撰寫了詳盡、科學的說明。* Thirty two years after realizing that he desperately wanted to make a space

21、 epic to rival Star Wars, Cameron has put the finishing touches on his picture, creating one of the all-time highest grossing films to date. (para.23) 自從卡梅隆意識到自己想要拍一部能匹敵星球大戰(zhàn)的太空巨片起，已經32年了。卡梅隆終于在他的宏偉藍圖上畫上了最后一筆，創(chuàng)造了史無前例的票房神話。2.2. Structural Analysis1. After peddling it around Hollywood for months,

22、his effort did yield something worthwhile: a job with director Roger Corman. (para.4)*Rewrite the following sentences using the same structure.Ø While he was at college, he was a prominent athlete. While at college, he was a prominent athlete.Ø You must study hard while you are young, or y

23、ou will regret when you are old.You must study hard while young, or you will regret when old. Ø Although he knew French, he wrote his applications in English. Knowing French, he wrote his applications in English. 2. Hired to build miniature spaceships for a Corman film, Cameron worked his way u

24、p to become a visual effects specialist. (para. 4)* Hired to build miniature spaceships for a Corman film is a past participle phrase functioning as a(n) adverbial phrase. * Find more sentences with the same structure from the text.* Rewrite the following sentences using the structure.Ø When a

25、fresh snow flake is seen under a microscope, it has a delicate six-pointed shape. When seen under a microscope, a fresh snow flake has a . Ø If we are compared with you, we still have a long way to go.Compared with you, we still haveØ Although we were exhausted by the climb, we continued our journey. Exhausted by the climb, weØ Because his homework was done in a hurry, it was full of mistakes. Done in a hurry, his homework was full of mistakes. Ø He was walking up and down the hallway, as if he was lost in thought. He was walking up and down the h