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Horror movies are more than a genre produced for commercial and entertaining reasons. There are good and bad
horror movies, and a good horror movie is easily distinguished from a bad one. A good horror movie, first of all, has both
male and female victims. Both sexes suffer terrible fates at the hands of monsters and maniacs. Therefore, everyone in the
audience has a chance to identify with the victim. Bad horror movies, on the other hand, tend to concentrate on women,
especially half-dressed ones. These movies are obviously prejudiced against half the human race. Second, a good horror
movie inspires compassion for its characters. For example, the audience will feel sympathy for the Wolfman’s victims and
also for the Wolfman, who is shown to be a sad victim of fate. In contrast, a bad horror movie encourages feelings of
aggression and violence in viewers. For instance, in the Halloween films, the murder scenes use the murderer’s point of
view. The effect is that the audience stalks the victims along with the killer and feels the same thrill he does. Finally, every
good horror movie has a sense of humor. In Dracula, the Count says meaningfully at dinner, “I don’t drink wine,” as he
stares at a young woman’s juicy neck. Humor provides relief from the horror and makes the characters more human. A
bad horror movie, though, is humorless and boring. One murder is piled on top of another, and the characters are just
cardboard figures. Bad horror movies may provide cheap thrills, but the good ones touch our emotions and live forever.
44 What is this passage mainly about?
45 How would the audience feel when watching a good horror movie?
46 According to this passage, who tends to be the victims in a bad horror movie?
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The lesson of comparative advantage is that while anything we do is worth doing well, not everything we do well is
worth doing. A CEO who is a great cook still orders take-out, even take-out that is not as good as what the CEO can make.
The cost of cooking is not just the grocery bill. 47
Consider Jane Galt, the pseudonym of an accomplished journalist who blogs on economics and policy. 48 She
recently blogged on the best kitchen gadgets. Her descriptions made us want to buy all of them—Jane writes very well
and her passion for cool stuff is contagious. A visitor to the site commented, perhaps tongue-in-cheek, that the failure of
Jane to be hired as a copywriter for a kitchenware catalog was proof that markets do not work well. 49 Jane remains a
journalist precisely because markets do work well—as good as she is at writing catalog copy, she is even better at
journalism. For Jane to become a copywriter for a catalog would be very costly even though she is very good at it. I
presume the kitchenware makers cannot pay her enough to bid her away from her day job as a journalist.
50 Just because America could make fabulous televisions does not mean we should have a television industry. The
cost of producing televisions means less of something else. It might be better to make that something else and trade with
foreigners for televisions. Letting people outside the United States sell us televisions and cars and watches and steel and
shoes frees up resources that allow us to make more of other things we value.
47 provide.
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productive use of one’s time depends on the skills that others can provide.
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roductive use of one’s time depends on the skills that others can provide.
50
t the opposite is true.