Some people say that"a picture is worth a thousand words"，but many people would question the common saying according to the books and the movies based on them.But great books often end up being turned into bad movies.
  Good movies need good stories.If so，why has one of the earliest and greatest works in Western storytelling，Homer's The Odyssey，never had an equally（同等地） great movie based on it？Movies need strong characters.So why have the movies based on The Great Gasby never been praised as "great"？Movies of course need great images（形象），so why has Alice in Wonderland only resulted in movies best described as "interesting"？
  One of the key reasons behind this is that while a book usually takes a few days to read，a movie typically lasts under two hours.This means that great books can lose plot details（情節(jié)細(xì)節(jié)） and characters when they move to the big screen.This is something that even the highly successful Harry Potter movies can't avoid，with fans of the books disappointed not to see some of their favorite characters in the movies.
   There are a thousand Hamlets（哈姆雷特） in a thousand people's eyes.Besides，books and movies are two different forms of media（媒體） and therefore have different rules.With this in mind，perhaps we should judge（評(píng)判）a movie in itself，and not against its book.Interestingly，people have in recent years turned to TV plays such as Sherlock or Mad men，which can have many characters and gradual plot development.Perhaps，one day，readers will find themselves interested in their screens by episodes（劇集） of The Great Gatsby.

（1）Great books often end up being turned into bad movies because

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A．the movies don't have good stories
B．the movies lose some good characters.
C．the movies don't have great images
D．the movies lose some details from books
（2）Which of the following is True？

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A．Homer wrote a book named The Odyssey.
B．The movie，The Great Gasby is better than the book.
C．People like the movies，Harry Potter more than books.
D．Sherlock is a good movie that people like better.
（3）What does the underlined sentence " There are a thousand Hamlets（哈姆雷特） in a thousand people's eyes"in the last paragraph mean？

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A．Different countries have different cultures.
B．Different people like different books and movies.
C．People have different ideas about books and movies.
D．People from all over the world like Hamlet very much.
（4）What does this passage mainly talk about？

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A．How good books are turned into good movies.
B．Bad movies come from bad books.
C．Bad movies are about bad stories.
D．Why good books may be bad movies.