2019 高考英语阅读理解词义猜测试题及答案及解释1、The Edinburgh International Film Festival, after 60 years as one of the city's cultural focuses in August, willmove to June from next year. Artistic director Hannah McGill said the festival needed more breathing space.“There are huge advantages in having all these cultural events in one place and time,” she said. “But there islimited space. It’s like when a child has a birthday on Christmas Day —it all comes on top of each other.”Ms McGill said that the film festival wanted to use extra places to organize events and conferences whichEdinburgh was too crowded to provide in August. She spoke of her difficulty, for example, being unable to holdan exhibition as part of the film festival because of limited space.However, Jon Morgan, the director of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, deprecated the film festival s move whichsuggested the city was overburdened in August. “There are still hundreds of spaces that aren't used,and there isstill room for it to expand,” he saidThe move to June made sense. It would allow more air between it and the London Film Festival, providing formore distinctive (有特色的)programming. “June will give us the breathing space to expand and create our ownidentity, allowing us to further develop our position as one of the world's most innovative(创新的) andchallenging annual film events,” Ms McGill saidThe festival organisers thought that the move to June would not reduce audiences,saying film-lovers wouldvisit Edinburgh in early summer. Ginnie Atkinson, the festival’s managing director, said, “Our audiences are veryfilm-focused. Last year we asked in our market research if they would come if we were the only show in town andthey...
