Director: Barry Jenkins. Release Time: November 18, 2016. Duration: 111m.

●EVERYONE WANTS SOME (comedy)

In the summer of 1980, Jake, a freshman, moved into an old college house with his new rowdy teammates. Together they must navigate their way between girls, parties and baseball all in the last weekend before school began. The movie proves that good times never get old.

Director: Richard Linklater. Release Time: April 7, 2016. Duration: 117m.

●THE SHALLOWS (drama)

A young woman was grieving over the loss of her mother and surfing in an isolated area when she got stranded on a buoy and a gigantic great white shark came between her and shore. The short journey to safety became the ultimate contest of wills.

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra. Release Time: June 24, 2016. Duration: 86m.

24. In which movie yocan see different life periods of the leading role(s)?

A. TOWER.B. MOONLIGHT.C. EVERYONE WANTS SOME. D. THE SHALLOWS.

25. What kind of readers will most probably choose to watch EVERYONE WANTS SOME?

A. Those who want to learn communication skills.

B. Those who are trying to be baseball players.

C. Those who are interested in America’s college life in the1980s.

D. Those who like romantic movies.

26. What can we learn about the four movies?

A. MOONLIGHT focuses on a relationship between a black man and his girlfriend.

B. EVERYONE WANTS SOME centers on a year’s college life of several freshmen.

C. THE SHALLOWS mainly shows a young woman fighting against the sea.

D. TOWER is a documentary showing America’s mass school shooting.

27. In which part are yomost likely to find it if the passage appears on the website?

A. Entertainment. B. News.

C. Character. D. Art.

C

“Shake a leg” and “show a leg” are usually discussed together, but it isn’t at all clear how they are connected. Both phrases have more than one meaning.

“Shake a leg” means “hurry up” according to the definition in the New York Magazine in 1904. Before that, “shake a leg” had another meaning, which was “to dance”. There are several quotations from all kinds ofAmerican and Britain sources from the mid-19th century that are related to dancing; for example, the Dubuque Democratic Herald, October 1863, in an advertisement for a local ball: “Nearly every man in town able to shake a leg has purchased a ticket.”

“Show a leg” means either “make an appearance”, or it means “hurry up”. The second meaning isn’t commonly used, nor is it old. Whatever the source, it isn’t the original meaning of “show a leg”. Most commentators report that the phrase derives from the Royal Navy and that this was the order given to sailors to put a foot from their hammocks(吊床)and get up.

The use of “show a leg” as a wake-up call is well documented. John Masefield (Poet Laureate from 1930 to 1967) was a trainee mariner on HMS Conway until 1891. He reported the full version of the morning call as: “Heave out, heave out, heave out, heave out! Away!Come all yosleepers, Hey!Show a leg.”That’s the earliest quotation of the naval call I can find, although it may have been used well before 1891.

An alternative version comes from the fact that women were allowed on board Royal Navy ships in the 19th century and that they were allowed to stay asleep after the sailors had been woken. In the morning the bosun’s mates(水手长助手) had to check whoever was still asleep and did so by requiring them to show a leg over the side of the hammock. If a leg was hairy, it was probably male and its owner was ordered to get up and begin work. Believe that if yowill; personally, I don’t.

All in all, although both of the two English slangs are sometimes used to mean “hurry up”, they are two independent phrases that were coined with different meanings.

28. How many ways does the slang “show a leg” come from?

A.1. B.2. C.3. D.4.

29. In which sentence does “shake a leg” have a different meaning?

A. I will shake a leg with him at the next ball with great pleasure.

B. Nearly every man in town able to shake a leg has purchased a ticket.

C. They wanted to shake a leg on a TV show.

D. Yomust shake a leg to catch the last bus.

30. What is the author’s attitude to the version mentioned in Paragraph 5?

A. Doubtful. B. Supportive.

C. Indifferent.D. Neutral.

31. The author’s purpose of writing the text is most likely to __________.