English Exam
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CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS INDUSTRIAL Y DE SERVICIOS N°97
ENGLISH EXAM
Name: __________________________________________ Date:__________________
I. Read this article and then answer thefollowing questions..
Passage
Probably the most famous film commenting on twentieth century technology is Modern Times, made in 1936. Charlie Chaplin was motivated to make the film by a reporterwho, while interviewing him, happened to describe working conditions in industrial Detroit. Chaplin was told that healthy young farm boys were lured to the city to work on automotive assembly lines.Within four or five years, these young men’s health was destroyed by the stress of work in the factories.
The film opens with a shot of a mass of sheep jammed into pens. Abruptly the scene shifts to ascene of factory workers into a narrow entranceway, jostling one another on their way to a factory. This biting tone of criticism, however, is not sustained throughout the film. It is replaced by agentle note of satire. Chaplin preferred to entertain rather than lecture to the audience.
Scenes of factory interiors account for only about one-third of the footage of Modern times, but theycontain some of the most pointed social commentary as well as the funniest comic situations. No one who has seen the film can ever forget Chaplin vainly trying to keep pace with the fast-moving conveyorbelt, almost losing his mind in the process. Another popular scene features an automatic feeding machine brought to the assembly line so that workers need not interrupt their labor to eat. It hurls foodat Chaplin, who is strapped into his position on the assembly line and cannot escape. This serves to illustrate peoples’ utter helplessness in the face of machines that are meant to serve their basicneeds.
Clearly, Modern Times has its faults, but despite its flaws, it remains the best film treating technology within a social context. It does not offer a radical social message, but it does...
ENGLISH EXAM
Name: __________________________________________ Date:__________________
I. Read this article and then answer thefollowing questions..
Passage
Probably the most famous film commenting on twentieth century technology is Modern Times, made in 1936. Charlie Chaplin was motivated to make the film by a reporterwho, while interviewing him, happened to describe working conditions in industrial Detroit. Chaplin was told that healthy young farm boys were lured to the city to work on automotive assembly lines.Within four or five years, these young men’s health was destroyed by the stress of work in the factories.
The film opens with a shot of a mass of sheep jammed into pens. Abruptly the scene shifts to ascene of factory workers into a narrow entranceway, jostling one another on their way to a factory. This biting tone of criticism, however, is not sustained throughout the film. It is replaced by agentle note of satire. Chaplin preferred to entertain rather than lecture to the audience.
Scenes of factory interiors account for only about one-third of the footage of Modern times, but theycontain some of the most pointed social commentary as well as the funniest comic situations. No one who has seen the film can ever forget Chaplin vainly trying to keep pace with the fast-moving conveyorbelt, almost losing his mind in the process. Another popular scene features an automatic feeding machine brought to the assembly line so that workers need not interrupt their labor to eat. It hurls foodat Chaplin, who is strapped into his position on the assembly line and cannot escape. This serves to illustrate peoples’ utter helplessness in the face of machines that are meant to serve their basicneeds.
Clearly, Modern Times has its faults, but despite its flaws, it remains the best film treating technology within a social context. It does not offer a radical social message, but it does...
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