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  3. It is acknowledged that the modern musical show is America’ s most original and dynamic contribution toward theater. In the last

It is acknowledged that the modern musical show is America’ s most original and dynamic contribution toward theater. In the last

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问题     It is acknowledged that the modern musical show is America’ s most original and dynamic contribution toward theater. In the last quarter of a century, America has produced large 【B1】______ of musical plays that have been popular abroad 【B2】______ at home.【B3】______, it is very difficult to explain 【B4】______ is new or 【B5】______ American about them, for the 【B6】______ are centuries old.
    Perhaps the uniqueness of America’s contribution to the 【B7】______ can best be characterized through brief descriptions of several of the most important and best-known musicals. One of these is surely Oklahoma by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hamerstein. It burst 【B8】______ popularity in 1943. Broadway audience and critics were【B9】______by its【B10】______, vitality and excitement. This "new" type of musical was【B11】______as kind of【B12】______theater in which the play, the music and lyrics, the dancing, and the scenic background were assembled not merely to provide entertainment and【B13】______, but to【B14】______in a single unifying whole to contribute to its unique feature.【B15】______, it meant that the songs and dances should【B16】______naturally out of the situations of the story and play an important part in carrying the action【B17】______. In Oklahoma, an American folk-dance style was organically combined with classical ballet and modern dance. It is right to say that the musical was a brilliantly integrated performance by the talented dancers and singing actors.
    Oklahoma also marked a new【B18】______in the choice of story on which a musical is based. Writers and composers began to abandon the sentimentally picturesque or aristocratic setting【B19】______more realistic stories in authentic social and cultural【B20】______. Oklahoma was based on a "folk" whose story dealt not only with young love but also with the opening of the American West.
【B1】
选项 A、number
B、amount
C、quantity
D、numbers
答案D
解析 考查名词辨析。四个选项都可表示“许多”“大量”的意思，但用法不同。a number of只修饰可数名词；a large amount of只修饰不可数名词；a quantity of，large quantities of既可修饰可数名词，又可修饰不可数名词。large numbers of只修饰可数名词。故答案为D．numbers。
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