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BEIJING, Sep. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- The extra-large model baby in the Spain Pavilion（馆） was “conceived”
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（构思）by a Spanish filmmaker, Shi Yingying reports.
Visitors admiring the 6.5-meter-high giant baby, Miguelin, in the Spain Pavilion may be surprised to realize that it was not the concept of a famous designer or a group of groundbreaking engineers. It came from one filmmaker’s interpretation of the meaning of “Better City, Better Life”.
Spanish director Isabel Coixet developed the idea after being asked to contribute to Expo 2010 Shanghai.
“They asked me to do something to tell the Chinese audience about Spain in the future and the first thing jumping to my mind was a baby,” said Coixet. “If we really fight to have better cars, better cities and better lives, it’s for them - for our children.”
Despite her Spanish heritage, Coixet doesn’t focus on making Spanish films or using Spain as the setting. Fans of her various award-winning films, including My Life Without Me, The Secret Life of Words and Elegy, may not even be aware of Coixet’s Spanish background.
“The borders between countries are just illusion（假象）,” said Coixet. “Some directors feel really comfortable telling stories that belong to their territory.”
But Coixt feels the opposite: “I'm more comfortable outside my country. It gives me a strange freedom.”
One of her favorite things about being a director is the freedom. “The thing is that the world is wide and this freedom lets you make films everywhere,” she said.
Coixet’s curiosity took her latest exploration and movie work to Japan. In the movie Map of the Sound of Tokyo, the Catalan actor Sergi Lopez is the owner of a wine shop in Tokyo, and Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi is a young woman who works both as a fishmonger and as a hired killer.
The clash（冲突）of the two people's very different worlds and the tango-like relationship they develop is just one representation of what Coixet is able to produce by mixing cultures.
While she doesn’t know if she will shoot a film in Shanghai, two things have caught her attention: Shanghainese women and crickets（蟋蟀）.
After just arriving in the city, she was surprised by the mix of old Chinese culture in a booming metropolis. “Behind the skyscrapers, there is a flower and bird market with heaps of crickets and birdcages in,” she said. “I'm totally amazed with the city.”
59．The huge baby represents the idea that _________________________.
A. our children are the new generation full of imagination.
B. our children will develop the friendship between China and Spain.
C. our children are our future.
D. our children will understand the meaning of “better city, better life”.
60. We learn from the passage that Coixet’s award-winning films were set ________________.
A. only in Spain. B. only in Japan.
C. mainly in the countries outside Spain.
D. mainly in the countries within Europe.
61. According to Isabel Coixet, a flower and bird market behind the high rises_______________.
A. shows people in Shanghai are living a rich life spiritually and materially.
B. reflects prosperity of the market.
C. indicates the Chinese people are leading a peaceful life.
D. represents the traditional culture of China.
62. From the passage we can learn that ____________________________.
A. Isabel Coixet is dissatisfied with the design of the extra-large model baby.
B. A mix of different cultures is reflected in Isabel Coixet’s films.
C. Isabel Coixet feels less comfortable while making films all over the world.
D. Isabel Coixet designed the huge baby according to the requirement of a group of engineers.
D
Does anyone want to buy a weather forecaster? With Liam Fox overseeing（监管）the Ministry of Defence and promising to make cuts “cruelly and without mercy”, it is becoming ever harder to believe our national forecasting service will survive much beyond this glorious - dare I say it, - summer.
The trouble is, the Met Office(英国气象局) is
a soft target. We are more sceptical about scientists’ ability to predict the weather than we are about an octopus’s (章鱼)ability to predict the outcome of a football match. This is largely to do with our own fear of complexity.
Few of us get enough information to judge the quality of the forecast. As I write, one forecast says the overview for the day is “a good scattering of showers mixed in with brighter weather for many of us”. Snow or hail would be a shock; beyond that, the words are fairly meaningless.
But, in fact, we don't want our forecasters to be more specific. The most scientifically accurate statements that a forecaster can make involve probabilities, but probabilities leave us in difficulty. A study in the United States, for example, showed that most people thought “a 50 percent chance of rain” meant that the forecasters hadn't a clue whether it would rain or not.
What it really means is that, in a given set of conditions, it rains half of the time. But who has time to think about when Newsnight is about to start? It's far easier just to let something concrete settle in our minds and, when the next day rolls around and it doesn't happen, complain that the forecast was wrong. But the World Meteorological Organisation thinks we have something worth holding on to: it consistently rates the Met Office as one of the world's top two (Japan is also blessed with accurate forecasters).
Perhaps that praise alone should make us think twice about selling off the Met Office. To me, however, there is an even more convincing reason.
For most of us, the weather doesn't matter much - generally, we do what we do, come rain or shine. Accurately forecasting and monitoring climate change, on the other hand matters to everybody. The idea of making that function a slave to market forces sends a cold front down my back.
63.The underlined words “a soft target” mean that the Met Office is_________________.
A. deliberately chosen to survive the summer.
B. easily chosen to be done away with.
C. difficultly chosen to continue the forecasts.
D. roughly chosen to be bought.
64. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A. It is easy to get enough information to judge the quality of the forecast.
B. The octopus’s prediction of a football match is more accurate than that of the weather.
C. 50 percent chance of climate change leaves people in trouble in their life.
D. Japan is only the world’s top country in accurate forecasts.
65. The forecasts have received a number of complaints about _______________.
A. the accuracy of the weather forecasts
B. the management of the weather bureau(局)
C. the organization of the weather agencies.
D. the timing of the weather forecasts.
66. The author thinks that selling off the Met Office is ____________.
A. unreasonable B. acceptable
C. unavoidable D. legal
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