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It is acknowledged that the modern musical show is America’s most original a
It is acknowledged that the modern musical show is America’s most original a
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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. [br] 【C20】
选项
A、circumstances
B、context
C、situation
D、surroundings
答案
B
解析
词汇类试题;上下文类试题。circumstances意思是“环境,情况”;context意思是“某一事件发生的环境,背景”;situation意思是“位置,形势”;surroundings意思是“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。
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