tailieunhanh - IELTS Academic Reading Sample 148

Để đạt kết quả cao trong kì thi sắp tới, các bạn có thể tham khảo và tải về IELTS Academic Reading Sample 148 được chia sẻ dưới đây để có thêm tư liệu ôn tập, luyện tập giải đề thi nhanh và chính xác giúp các bạn tự tin đạt điểm cao trong kì thi này. Chúc các bạn thi tốt! | You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage below. A The Lumière Brothers opened their Cinematographe at 14 Boulevard des Capucines in Paris to 100 paying customers over 100 years ago on December 8 1985. Before the eyes of the stunned thrilled audience photographs came to life and moved across a flat screen. B So ordinary and routine has this become to us that it takes a determined leap of imagination to grasp the impact of those first moving images. But it is worth trying for to understand the initial shock of those images is to understand the extraordinary power and magic of cinema the unique hypnotic quality that has made film the most dynamic effective art form of the 20th century. C One of the Lumière Borthers earliest films was a 30-second piece which showed a section of a railway platform flooded with sunshine. A train appears and heads straight for the camera. And that is all that happens. Yet the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky one of the greatest of all film artists described the film as a work of genius . As the train approached wrote Tarkovsky panic started in the theatre people jumped and ran away. That was the moment when cinema was born. The frightened audience could not accept that they were watching a mere picture. Pictures were still only reality moved this must therefore be reality. In their confusion they feared that a real train was about to crush them. D Early cinema audiences often experienced the same confusion. In time the idea of film became familiar the magic was accepted- but it never stopped being magic. Film has never lost its unique power to embrace its audience and transport them to a different world. For Tarkovsky the key to that magic dynamic image of the real flow of events. A still picture could only imply the existence of time while time in a novel passed at the whim of the reader. But in cinema the real objective flow of time was captured. E One effect of this realism was to educate