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Ticket tax fuels Indian cinema strike
Cinemas in Mumbai, Bollywood’s homeland are striking against high taxes on ticket sales.
Owners of Mumbai’s single-screen theatres will keep their shutters (百叶窗) down until Friday to protest about taxes, which they say are driving them out of business.
More than a third of single-screen cinemas in the state of Maharashtra have closed down in the last five years. According to the Cinema and Exhibitors Association of India, just 700 are still in operation. The association blames the closing down on Maharashtra’s high rate of entertainment tax. Its president, R V Vidhani, says that cinemas must pay a tax for every ticket sold, which is 45%, and this makes it hard to break even. It’s the highest of all states across India. The majority of the states in India pay zero entertainment tax. Mr Vidhani says his members had decided to go ahead with a one-week closure after getting no response from the state government on the matter.
It is not just a high tax rate contributing to the shrinking(收缩)number of traditional cinemas, however. Large costs and declining box office takings also make times tougher.
Mr Vidhani has run the New Excelsior Theatre in South Mumbai since 1974. Last week a screening of Bollywood movie Tanu Weds Manu sold just 71 tickets despite a capacity of more than 1,000. Whether it’s a full house or an empty screening, running costs are more or less the same. “Air conditioning, regular business — every expenditure (支出) is the same, but the income has stopped.”
The cricket (板球) World Cup is not helping matters, according to Mr Vidhani. “The World Cup is creating the biggest problem,” he says. “These people are crazy so far as the cricket is concerned. When India is playing, occupancy in the theatre is just 15%.”
Mumbai’s city centre is dotted with empty cinemas.
So after remaining empty for six years, the Novelty theatre is perhaps more fortunate than its neighbours: it is to be reborn as a four-screen multiplex cinema.
Over the last decade the number of multiplexes in India has risen sharply. Despite higher ticket prices, with more choice on offer and typically newer facilities they pose fierce competition to the traditional single-screen theatres.
“Competition from the multiplexes is really tough,” Mr Vidhani says. “Then there is competition from the movie window being narrow. Movies are being released much quicker on television than they used to be so people can pretty much watch movies for free at home.
“With rising incomes, everyone’s going out and buying DVD players or VCD players. Content is available for the asking whether it is official or pirated(盗版).”
Unless single-screen theatres can become special destinations in their own right, while also offering up-to-date facilities, Jehil Thakkar thinks the decline is a trend that will continue, especially as multiplex cinemas spread to smaller towns.
“They are large corporate chains,” he says. “They have the ability to spend money on branding and advertising, so to a large extent the small cinema guys are fighting a losing battle.”
Ticket tax fuels Indian cinema strike
The current (1) ▲ of cinema business in Mumbai
● Many single-screen cinemas are (2) ▲ .
The causes of the closing down of cinemas
Cinemas in Mumbai have to pay a tax (3) ▲ than any other places in India.
It costs a lot to (4) ▲ a cinema whether it’s a full house or an empty screening.
The occupancy is (5) ▲ by people’s enthusiasm for cricket.
Single-screen cinemas are (6) ▲ with competition from multiplex cinemas, which offer more choices and (7)▲ facilities.
A quicker release of movies on television is to (8) ▲ .
People prefer to watch DVD or VCD rather than go to the cinema.
The (9) ▲ of single-screen cinemas
The trend of decline will continue.
Single-screen cinemas are certain to (10) ▲ the battle.
situation/problem
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(答案→)situation/problem 解析:本文是一篇记叙文,记叙了电影票价征收税费所引起的电影行业的游行。【小题1】situation/problem 信息概括题。由文章第二段知,此处是指电影产业目前的现状。 【小题1】closing/folding/shutting信息转换题。由第三段 single-screen theatres will keep their shutters (百叶窗) down ,可知此处是指电影院“关门” 【小题1】 higher直接信息题。由第三段It’s the highest of all states across India.知,它比印度任何一个地方征收的税都要高。 【小题1】run/operate直接信息题。由第五段的 Whether it’s a full house or an empty screening, running costs are more or less the same.可知本题的答案。 【小题1】affected 信息转换题。由第六段可知,入座率是受人们对板球的热情影响。 【小题1】faced/confronted信息概括题。由第八段的they pose fierce competition to the traditional single-screen theatres.可知multiplex cinemas对single-screen施加了压力,自然single-screen就面临着来自multiplex cinemas的竞争压力。 【小题1】newer 直接信息题。 由第八段的 with more choice on offer and typically newer facilities可知。【小题1】 blame。信息概括题。由第九段的Movies are being released much quicker on television than they used to be so people can pretty much watch movies for free at home.电视也要为电影业的萧条负责任。 【小题1】 future 信息概括题。由又表的知识点解读知,此处讲的是single-screen cinemas的未来前景。 【小题1】 lose直接信息题。由最后一段 so to a large extent the small cinema guys are fighting a losing battle.”可知。
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