:八年级英语上册Unit5Doyouwanttowatchagameshow第4课时同步练习(含答案)

:Unit 5　Do you want to watch a game show?
第4课时　(Section B 2a－4，Self Check)
一、阅读理解
When people go to the movies today, they can watch and listen to a story. But when the movie first appeared many years ago, there was no sound or music. Those silent movies played an important role in movie history.
When movie theaters showed silent movies, musicians were often there to play music along with the movie. Sometimes, musicians also made some special sounds. However, there was no sound in the movie itself. People learned the story through the actors, the musicians and words on the screen.
When movies first had sound, not everyone liked them. Many silent movie actors thought it was hard to perform in the new kind of movie. Clara Bow was a famous silentmovie actress in the early 1920s. She was so nervous(紧张的) about her voice that she couldn’t become a star in the world of talking pictures. She then left show business(演艺界). The Jazz Singer(1927) was the first movie with sound. Talk