The underlined word “shorts”…——2008 高考英语第 58 题答案解析

【答案】C

【解析】词义猜测题。由第三段“This year the festival will include films not only from Wingspan but also from other city organizations and one from a middle school in Arlington,

Virginia”和shorts后面的关键词“to

shown”,可判断出有很多部各种题材的电影将在此次电影节上上映，其中的九个shorts，应该是九个短片电影。