Old Henry and his wife Phoebe loved one another. They were simple ____21____ . Their world was their fruit trees, cornfields and a backyard ____22____ pigs and chickens. The rest of the world was a ____23____ place like stars in the sky. Sometimes, Henry worried about ____24____ . His wife would say, "If you ____25____ talking like that, I will go away and what would you do There is nobody to ____26____ you. " Old Henry knew his wife would never ____27____ him. The only thing he ____28____ was death and the life if his wife died. Knowing she was there, beside him, in the dark, made Henry ____29____ again. In this way, they lived ____30____ in their world. One day, Phoebe became sick and ____31____ . Old Henry watched them put her body in the earth. When people left, he still stood near the tomb for long. At night, he read newspapers ____32____ most of the time, he just sat, looking at the door, ____33____ where Phoebe was and ____34____ he would die. For five months, he lived like this. One day, he went out to cut grass. Just ____35____ the hill, he saw Phoebe again. Yes, there she was, down in the valley, smiling up at him. She was in the same blue dress. She ____36____ a hand and seemed to say, "Come, come with me. " Henry felt the strong pull of a new world ____37____ he and Phoebe would always be together. He gave a ____38____ cry, " Wait, Phoebe, wait for me. I’m coming. " The next day, some farm boys ____39____ Henry at the bottom of the hill. His body was broken. There was a soft, happy smile on his face. The ____40____ smile he had worn when Phoebe was alive. 26().
A. look at
B. look after
C. look up
D. look for
A Young adult filmmakers all hope to show their works in international festivals like Sundance and Toronto. But what about really young filmmakers who aren’t in film school yet and aren’t, strictly speaking, even adults They are at the heart of Wingspan Arts Kids Films Festival, tomorrow, in a setting any director might envy: Lincoln Center. Complete with "red carpet" interviews and various awards, the festival has much in common with events for more experienced moviemakers, except for the age of the participants: about 8 to 18. "What’s really exciting is that it’s film for kids by kids," said Cori Gardner, managing director of Wingspan Arts, a nonprofit organization offering youth arts programs in the New York area. This year the festival will include films not only from Wingspan but also from other city organizations and one from a middle school in Arlington, Virginia. "We want to make this a national event," Ms. Gardner added. The nine shorts to be shown range from a Claymation biography of B. B. King to a science fiction adventure set in the year 3005. "A lot of the material is really mature," Ms. Gardner said, talking about films by the New York City branch of Global Action Project, a media arts and leadership-training group. "The Choice is about the history of a family and Master Anti-Smoker is about the dangers of secondhand smoke. " Dream of the Invisibles describes young immigrants’feelings of both belonging and not belonging in their adopted country. The festival will end with an open reception at which other films will be shown. These include a music video and full-length film whose title is Pressures. The underlined word "shorts" in Paragraph 4 refers to ______.
A. short trousers
B. short kids
C. short films
D. short stories
What will Lucy do first tonight()
A. See a film.
B. Finish a report.
C. Go to the airport.
A Young adult filmmakers all hope to show their works in international festivals like Sundance and Toronto. But what about really young filmmakers who aren’t in film school yet and aren’t, strictly speaking, even adults They are at the heart of Wingspan Arts Kids Films Festival, tomorrow, in a setting any director might envy: Lincoln Center. Complete with "red carpet" interviews and various awards, the festival has much in common with events for more experienced moviemakers, except for the age of the participants: about 8 to 18. "What’s really exciting is that it’s film for kids by kids," said Cori Gardner, managing director of Wingspan Arts, a nonprofit organization offering youth arts programs in the New York area. This year the festival will include films not only from Wingspan but also from other city organizations and one from a middle school in Arlington, Virginia. "We want to make this a national event," Ms. Gardner added. The nine shorts to be shown range from a Claymation biography of B. B. King to a science fiction adventure set in the year 3005. "A lot of the material is really mature," Ms. Gardner said, talking about films by the New York City branch of Global Action Project, a media arts and leadership-training group. "The Choice is about the history of a family and Master Anti-Smoker is about the dangers of secondhand smoke. " Dream of the Invisibles describes young immigrants’feelings of both belonging and not belonging in their adopted country. The festival will end with an open reception at which other films will be shown. These include a music video and full-length film whose title is Pressures. At the end of the film festival, there will be ______.
A. various awards
B. "red carpet" interviews
C. an open reception
D. a concert at Lincoln Center