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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 halls, 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.  
Which of the following best summarizes the main idea of the text?
选项 A、We should regard such entertainment as an important part of our cultural heritage.
B、Entertainment was much better in the past than today.
C、We should never underestimate the skills used to deceive.
D、We need to make more people aware of this unique form of entertainment.
答案A
解析 属主旨思想题。本文详细介绍了十九世纪美国的休闲娱乐业，在最后一段得出结论，指出这些艺术承载了那个时期的文化内涵，表明其应在美国文化史上占有一席之地，A项正是这句话的同义改写。
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