Captain Phillips is an upcoming 2013 American biographical action thriller movie directed by Paul Greengrass based upon the book, A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous days at Sea, by Richard Phillips with Stephan Tatty, and starring Tom Hanks. It is produced by Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, and Michael De Luca. The movie tells a biopic of merchant mariner Captain Richard Phillips, who was taken hostage for several days by Somali Pirates when the container ship Maersk Alabama which sailed from southern Oman drown along the coast of Somalia and then to Kenya was hijacked in 2009.

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Captain Phillips is an upcoming 2013 American biographical action thriller movie directed by Paul Greengrass based upon the book, A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous days at Sea, by Richard Phillips with Stephan Tatty, and starring Tom Hanks. It is produced by Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, and Michael De Luca. The movie tells a biopic of merchant mariner Captain Richard Phillips, who was taken hostage for several days by Somali Pirates when the container ship Maersk Alabama which sailed from southern Oman drown along the coast of Somalia and then to Kenya was hijacked in 2009.

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• To entertain the readers about Captain Phillips movie

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  To criticize a movie entitled Captain Phillips

• To give information about movie of Captain Phillips

• To describe about Captain Phillips movie

The text is a review of ....

• Song

• Movie

• Book

• Painting

Based on the text, Captain Phillips ....

• Traveled from Somalia to Kenya to find a ship

• Hijacked a container ship

• Was a sailor in Southern Oman

• Was a hostage by Somalia pirates

The first paragraph is called ....

• Interpretative Recount

• Summary

• Orientation

• Evaluation

The second paragraph can be categorized as ....

• Summary

• Evaluation

• Interpretative Recount

• Orientation

As stated in paragraph 2, we know that Captain Phillips was _____ about his kids.

• Pleased

• Worried

• Doubt

• Afraid

The movie then cuts to Somalia, a land of dust and poverty, where the pirates are recruited for their mission as if they were migrant farm workers lining up to be chosen for that day's labor. (P.2)

The italic word has the same meaning as ...

• Wealth

• Prosperity

• Misery

• Opulence

The movie does not generate quite the same level of excruciating suspense as some of Greengrass' previous triumphs, but it nonetheless holds us hostage as it proceeds.

The underlined word can be replace with ....

• Certainty

• Rejoice

• Peace

• Tension

Greengrass doesn't have to fill in much about the violent, chaotic breakdown of Somalia to let us know that these men have little choice.

The word 'chaotic' has the opposite meaning with ....

• Messy

• Nasty

• Neat

• Disorderly