题型:阅读理解 题类:常考题 难易度:普通
湖北省十堰市2019-2020学年高一上学期英语期末考试试卷
"Film" and "movie" often mean the same thing. Either of the words you use may help others guess where a person lives or is from. First, let's look at the word "film". One definition (定义)of it is the special material used for taking photographs. But you can also see a film in a theater. Used this way, "film" and "movie" mean the same thing.
And as a verb, to film means to record something with a video camera. Here is an example: "Do you want me to film the important moment so you can remember it?"
Now let's turn to "movie". The word—a noun—comes from the phrase "moving pictures". Movies and films are recordings of moving pictures that tell a story. Here are some example sentences with the word "movie": "Do you want to go to the movies tonight?" "If you go to Hollywood in California, you might see a movie star." In the United States, it is common to say "the movies" when you talk about going to a movie theater.
Stephen Follows is a writer, producer and film researcher who lives in England. He wrote that people who work in the film industry use "film" more than "movie". However, he found people who live in the US usually say "movie", while those in Britain use both. "Film" is still more popular in Europe and parts of Africa, but "movie" is best used in America, as well as in Japan and India. So that is why Americans say "English at the movies" and not "English at the films"!
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