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Film Critic

Mark Adams looks back over the last ten years of his workas a film critic for a newspaper called The Front Page Writing articles about films for The Front Page was my first proper joB.Before then I had done bits of reviewing — novels for other newspapers, films for a magazine and anything I was asked to do for the radio. That was how I met Tom Seaton, the first arts editor of The Front Page who had also written for television. He hired me, but Tom was not primarily a journalist, or he would certainly have been more careful in choosing his staff.

At first, his idea was that a team of critics should take care of the art forms that didn't require specialized knowledge: books, TV, theatre, film and radio. There would be a weekly lunch at which we would make our choices from the artistic material that Tom had decided we should cover, though there would also be guests to make the atmosphere sociable.

It all felt like a bit of a dream at that time: a new newspaper, and I was one of the team. It seemed so unlikely that a paper could be introduced into a crowded market. It seemed just as likely that a millionaire wanted to help me personally, and was pretending to employ me. Such was my lack of self-confidence. In fact, the first time I saw someone reading the newspaper on the London underground, then turning to a page on which one of my reviews appeared, I didn't know where to look.

Tom's original scheme for a team of critics for the arts never took off. It was a good idea, but we didn't get together as planned and so everything was done by phone. It turned out, too, that the general public out there preferred to associate a reviewer with a single subject area, and so I chose film. Without Tom's initial push, though, we would hardly have come up with the present arrangement, by which I write an extended weekly piece, usually on one film.

The Luxury of this way of working suits me well. I wouldn't have been interested in the more standard film critic's role, which involves considering every film that comes out. That's a routine that would make me stale in no time at all. I would soon be sinking into my seat on a Monday morning with the sigh, “What insulting rubbish must I sit through now?”— a style of sigh that can often be heard in screening rooms around the world.

1. What do we learn about Tom Seaton from the first paragraph?

A、He encouraged Mark to become a writer

B、He had worked in various areas of the media

C、He met Mark when working for television

D、He prefers to employ people that he meets somewhere

2. A weekly lunch was arranged for critics to ___.

A、get to know each other

B、exchange information

C、take works for new criticism

D、entertain occasional visitors

3. When Mark started working for The Front Page, he___.

A、doubted the paper would succeed

B、was embarrassed at being recognized

C、felt it needed improvement

D、was surprised to earn so much

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