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Read the following passage and answer the questions.
India has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world. Graph 1 shows
that, when it comes to the number of films made a year, India comes first, producing
easily more films than the U.S. This has put the Indian city *Mumbai in the center of
the global film industry.
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LESSON
[Graph 1] Film Production (2015)
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5 One of the most common features of Indian films is that they have a lot of singing
and dancing scenes. Songs often comment on the action taking place in the film. A
song may be part of the *plot, so a character has a reason to sing. It may express a
character's thoughts, or an event in the film, such as two characters falling in love.
Some say that the reason for so much singing and dancing is because India is a
1o *multi-lingual country. Many different languages are spoken in India. As shown in
Graph 2, by far the most common is *Hindi, which is used by nearly half of the
population. Hindi is followed by *Bengali, *Telugu and many others. However, most
people can enjoy the singing and dancing scenes, even if they don't understand the
language spoken in the film. quifi
15 Among the Indian films, there are films in Hindi, Bengali, *Tamil, and so on. The
ones in Hindi are called "*Bollywood" films (named after “Hollywood”) and are gaining
huge popularity in and outside of the country. Its films are watched throughout
Southern Asia and across many areas in the world, reaching over 90 countries. Indian
cinema has become a global power.
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Marathi
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[Graph 2] Speakers of Languages in India (2011)
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multi-lingual: 多言語の
Bengali : ベンガル語 Telugu: テルグ語 Tamil : タミル語 Bollywood : ボリウッド
※本書では,アメリカ発音, イギリス発音, オーストラリア発音の音声を扱っています。 ファッ
Reading の CDトラック番号の横にそれぞれを米・英・豪で示しています。
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Bengali Telugu
Tamil
Others
Hindi : ヒンディー語
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