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READING GETTING TO KNOW STEVEN SPIELBERG
Steven Spielberg, whose mother was a music teacher,
was born in 1946 in a small town in America
He started making short films when he was still a young boy.
He made his first real film when he was twelve.
This was a film in which Spielberg used real actors instead of toys.
He wrote the scripts for the films himself.
In 1959 Spielberg won a prize for a short film which he made
when he was thirteen years old.
A few years later, when he was sixteen,he made a film called Firelight.
When Spielberg was young,his dream was to go to the Film Academy,but he could't.
The reason why he could not go there was that his grades were too low.
After studying English he got a small job at a film studio.
Here he worked on a short film,
which won him a job as the youngest film director in the world.
This was the moment
when Spielberg's career really took off Jaws(1975),
one of his first films,was a real blockbuster.
It is about a big white shark that attacks swimmers who are spending their holidays in a small village by the sea.
Many people who saw the film
were afraid to swim in the sea when they remembered the scenes in which people were eaten by the shark.
Spielberg has made two films about creatures that come to the earth from outer space.
For example,ET(1982)is about a young boy called Elliott
who makes friends with a small creature from outer space
and helps him to find a way to go home.
The world of adults is cold.
Scientists want to find ET to cut him into pieces to do research.
But in the world of children and the world where ET comes from,
love and friendship are the most important things in life.
Jurassic Park,which Spielberg made in 1993,
is about a park where a very rich man keeps different kinds of dinosaurs.
When the park is hit by a storm,things start going wrong.
The film becomes very exciting when the children are hunted by meat-eating dinosaurs.
After these highly successful films Spielberg made several follow-ups of Jaws and Jurassic Park.
His later films such as Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan
are about the cruelty of war.
In his war films,he has shown that love and peace will win over war in the end.
Steven Spielberg is one of the top directors in the film industry
and also has many fans in China.
When asked about the secret of his success,
He met Cate Capshaw,who is an actress,when he was working on one of his films.
After that it still took seven years before they finally got married.
The couple has seven children in all.
n. 屏，幕，銀幕，屏風
v. 放映，選拔，掩
