第二篇：49-50 題為單選題；47-48 題為複選題）
    Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎駿) is by far Japan’s most famous animator—in fact, he’s one of the country’s mostrecognizable living people. Animators and live-action filmmakers around the world acknowledge his influence. His talentshave even been described by fans as “godlike.”
    Miyazaki’s last film in the Showa (昭和) Era had been 1988’s My Neighbor Totoro. These days, it’s considered aclassic, but the film had underperformed at the box office—as had the director’s previous film, 1986’s Castle in the Sky.Without a hit, it was unclear whether Ghibli, the animation studio that Miyazaki had co-founded just a few years earlier,would survive. But seven months after Emperor Akihito’s ascent, a young woman on a broom swept in to save the day.Kiki’s Delivery Service, Miyazaki’s adaptation of a novel about a witch who leaves home for the big city and learns how tobe independent, was a massive hit, ultimately becoming Japan’s highest-grossing film of 1989. Since then, all of thedirector’s films — including Princess Mononoke (1997), Spirited Away (2001), Ponyo (2008) and The Wind Rises(2013)—have seen enormous critical and financial success, transforming Miyazaki into one of the country’s mostcelebrated directors in any medium, both at home and abroad.
     While Miyazaki became one of Japan’s most celebrated figures in the Heisei (平成) Era, many of the director’ssignature themes came out of his experiences in the Showa Era. Miyazaki was born in 1941, just months before Japan andthe United States went to war. His father and uncle owned a factory that produced parts used in Mitsubishi’s A6M Zerofighter planes, giving the family a relatively high standard of living even as the country began to ration food and otherresources. One incident from this period had an especially profound impact on the director. As the Miyazaki family wasfleeing the American firebombing of the capital in their car— another sign of their privilege—a mother holding a babybegged to be let on. Miyazaki’s father and uncle said, “No, we don’t have enough room,” and drove off. Miyazaki keptthinking about this, saying to himself, “I should’ve told my father to stop. Why didn’t I? They could have helped.” Thisincident marked the instant many of Miyazaki’s main characters—children who have the moral high ground, children whoare mature, thoughtful and highly resilient—were born.
46. What is the passage mainly about?
(A) What makes Hayao Miyazaki so popular
(B) The life and works of Hayao Miyazaki
(C) The film that brought Hayao Miyazaki success
(D) The early works of Hayao Miyazaki