【正文】 icle would be a positive addition to the “I Can Do It” section of the magazine. The article is 2,114 words, and has been divided into categories in a way that holds children?s interest. Being a mother of four children and using our home as a meeting place for most of the neighborhood, I?ve had the opportunity to test and confirm that the fun and easy “exercises” offered here are not only effective but are los of fun for kids. I?ve been writing children?s stories and articles for several years, and have had many of my stories published in Kids Know Best, a small newspaper that the Cinder Primary School publishes each month. I?m also a founding member of the “Right On Baby” editorial group which publishes a monthly ezine for parents with newborns, and I?m a contributing editor to “Write Now,” an online site that teaches creative writing. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Claudia Parker 8 60. The author has written this letter to a ______________. A. magazine B. website C. newspaper D. primary school 61. By writing the third paragraph, the writer wants to show that she______. A. is experienced in writing articles for children B. writes lots of articles about her own children C. often reads different stories for her children D. is good at designing activities for children. 62. The purpose of the letter is to _______________. A. open a new section in a publication for parents B. start a game to promote good health and fitness C. anize a class teaching children how to play safely D. remend an article on how to have fun on the playground C Movie Extras Would you mind lying in a coffin(棺材 )? Would you shave your head? Are you willing to take out your false teeth? These are just a few of the questions Anne Marie Stewart and her staff sometimes ask the talent who serve as nonspeaking extras in special films, television series, and madeforTV movies produced in Toronto. Of course, the majority of extra calls are for more ordinary people, and Stewart has a list of about 650 registered extras. Crowd scenes, which are mon, call for everyday people of all ages, ethnic backgrounds, and sizes. Over at Movie People, lastminute requests are not unusual. We got a request once for an entire brass band of 30 people. They wanted it within the hour, said manager Yvonne McCartney. Another time, the pany got a lastminute request for a newborn baby. We found a baby that was three weeks premature, said Jonathan Aiken, an owner of the pany. Then there was the worried call from a casting director whose Star got doggone stubborn one day and decided to just lie down and not work. The director needed a replacement dog, fast. We got them two in one hour. said Aiken. It was a matter of good connections and fast phone work. The eight phone lines needed to make 350 to 400 calls a day are one of Movie People39。s interesting. Others with flexible jobs have a desire to do something different. Some homemakers want to get out of the house and 9 onto a movie set. Money39。t make a living at this.39。re just a person lying down. This is planking, described variously as a global participatory art project, a meaningless inter craze. It began 14 years ago with a pair of bored kids. Gary Clarkson, then 15, and his friend Christian Langdon, 12, would perform the plank in public places, amusing one another and puzzling onlookers. _____72______ The game was a pointless way for the boys to pass the time. As Clarkson puts it: It was just a really stupid, random thing to do. For its first 10 years planking spread very slowly, from Clarkson and Langdon to their friends at school and, after a while, on to other kids from the neighborhood. ______73______ Soon, they had a few thousand followers. Photographs of plankers came in from all over the world: American plankers on top of their televisions, British plankers in trees, and Europeans on country roads and steep riverbanks. Then things got really interesting. A few days later, a mass gathering of plankers attracted more than 100 people. The planking in the photos posted to Facebook became riskier and stranger. One brave airport worker performed the plank in the engine fan of a jet plane. ______74______ Some people have linked the practice to the 1995 video for the Radiohead song, “Just”. In the video, a man lies down on a busy London road and a crowd of strangers gather to try to understand and help him. He refuses to move, or to tell them why he39。s not clear – and Clarkson and Langdon don39。 2. 詞數(shù)不少于