2. 职称英语
  3. Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as "silen

Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as "silen

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问题     Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as "silent", the film has never been, in the full sense of the word, silent. From the very beginning, music was regarded as an (47)______ accompaniment; when the Lumiere films were shown at the first public film exhibition in the United States in February 1896, they were (48)______ by piano improvisations on popular tunes. At first, the music played (49)______ no special relationship to the films; an accompaniment of any kind was (50)______.Within a very short time, however, the incongruity(不协调) of playing lively music to a (51)______ film became apparent, and film pianists began to take some care in (52)______ their pieces to the mood of the film.
    As movie theaters grew in number and importance, a violinist, and perhaps a cellist, would be added to the pianist in certain (53)______, and in the larger movie theaters small orchestras were formed. For a number of years the selection of music for each film program (54)______ entirely in the hands of the conductor or leader of the orchestra, and very often the principal (55)______ for holding such a position was not skill or taste so much as the ownership of a large personal library of musical pieces. Since the conductor seldom saw the films until the night before they were to be shown (if indeed, the conductor was lucky enough to see them then), the musical arrangement was (56)______ improvised in the greatest hurry.

             Word Bank:
A. sufficient          I. bore
B. incredible          J. qualification
C. accompanied         K. solemn
D. comparatively       L. indispensable
E. matching            M. severe
F. rested              N. according
G. normally            O. cases
H. occasions [br]
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答案 A
解析 此处需要形容词，作表语修饰主语accompaniment。上文说到起初音乐与电影没有什么特别的关系，由此可推断这里指任一种伴奏音乐都可以，故选择sufficient。
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