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  3. Over the last twenty years, scholarly and popular writers have analyzed and celebrated the worlds of leisure and entertainment i

Over the last twenty years, scholarly and popular writers have analyzed and celebrated the worlds of leisure and entertainment i

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问题     Over the last twenty years, scholarly and popular writers have analyzed and celebrated the worlds of leisure and entertainment in the burgeoning cities of mid-nineteenth-century America, greatly expanding the literature on these subjects. They have found an enthusiastic readership by offering glimpses of modes of leisure, performance, and charlatanism that passed from the scene in the early 20th century, indicating how lively they were and how comparatively impoverished our own entertainment choices have become in an era dominated by corporate electronic media.
    Many scholars have been lured into a fascination with the extinct demimonde of dime museums, exhibition hails, saloons, and industrial exhibitions. During this period entertainment relied upon artful deception, comparable in importance to such contemporary forms of amusement as minstrelsy and melodrama. The cultural activities were forms of representational play in which spectators are caused to doubt their perceptions and judgment. Entertainments that tricked, or duped the paying public flourished in America’s cities in the 19th century. What distinguished these cohorts of entertainers, was not their ability to perpetrate fraud but that they understood the dynamics of a new urban audience that enjoyed distinguishing the genuine from the fake and the authentic from the concocted. The willing audience for artful deceptions maintained a double consciousness in which it simultaneously marveled at the qualities of the object or action displayed while enjoying the act of appraising the quality, audacity, and performance of the deception.
    By offering semiotic analyses of a range of Victorian performances, we learn there was more to these exhibitions than appeared at first viewing. The tricks and lures of these entertainers deserve a more than marginal position in American cultural history.
选项 A、it doesn’t have enough charlatanism.
B、it is controlled by corporate electronic media.
C、there is a lack of vigor in current entertainment.
D、people’s tastes have changed for the worse.
答案B
解析 细节题。文章第一段最后一句指出，我们现在的娱乐相对贫乏；我们所处的时代是商业化电子媒体主宰的时代。这两个部分是暗含的因果关系，所以"我们的娱乐取向为电子媒体所左右"符合文意。"它没有足够的骗术"，"当前的娱乐业缺乏活力"和"人们的品味已经变得更糟了"均不是作者指明的原因。
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