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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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2019-06-10
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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 【C1】______ of musical plays that have been popular abroad 【C2】______ at home.【C3】______, it is very difficult to explain 【C4】______ is new or 【C5】______ American about them, for the 【C6】______ are centuries old.
Perhaps the uniqueness of America’s contribution to the 【C7】______ 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 【C8】______ popularity in 1943. Broadway audience and critics were【C9】______by its【C10】______, vitality and excitement. This "new" type of musical was【C11】______as kind of【C12】______theater in which the play, the music and lyrics, the dancing, and the scenic background were assembled not merely to provide entertainment and【C13】______, but to【C14】______in a single unifying whole to contribute to its unique feature.【C15】______, it meant that the songs and dances should【C16】______naturally out of the situations of the story and play an important part in carrying the action【C17】______. 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【C18】______in the choice of story on which a musical is based. Writers and composers began to abandon the sentimentally picturesque or aristocratic setting【C19】______more realistic stories in authentic social and cultural【C20】______. Oklahoma was based on a "folk" whose story dealt not only with young love but also with the opening of the American West.
【C20】
选项
A、circumstances
B、context
C、situation
D、surroundings
答案
B
解析
考查名词辨析。circumstances意为“环境,情况”;context意为“某一事件发生的环境,背景”;situation意为“位置,形势”;surroundings意为“周围的事物,环境”。原文是说社会和文化背景,相比之下,context更合适,故答案为B。
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考研英语一
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