2014考研英语复习：模拟试题之完型练习(六十二)
Section I Use of English
Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.( 10 points )
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 1 of musical plays that have been popular abroad 2 at home. 3, it is very difficult to explain 4 is new or 5 American about them, for the 6 are centuries old.
Perhaps the uniqueness of America's contribution to the 7 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 8 popularity in 1943. Broadway audience and critics were 9 by its 10, vitality and excitement. This "new" type of musical was 11 as kind of 12 theater in which the play, the music and lyrics, the dancing, and the scenic background were assembled not merely to provide entertainment and 13, but to 14in a single unifying whole to contribute to its unique feature. 15, it meant that the songs and dances should 16 naturally out of the situations of the story and play an important part in carrying the action 17. 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 18 in the choice of story on which a musical is based. Writers and composers began to abandon the sentimentally picturesque or aristocratic setting 19 more realistic stories in authentic social and cultural 20. Oklahoma was based on a "folk" whose story dealt not only with young love but also with the opening of the American West.
1 A number B amount C quantity D numbers
2 A better than B instead of C as well as D rather than
3 A Therefore B Yet C Moreover D Thus
4 A which B that C what D how
5 A characteristically B particularly C mainly D exactly
6 A factors B ingredients C composers D facts
7 A trait B feature C genre D style
8 A with B into C out into D in
9 A struck B touched C moved D hit
10 A vivacity B originality C creativity D dynamic
11 A conceived B thought C believed D perceived
12 A special B peculiar C gross D total
13 A variety B amusement C sundries D fun
14 A mix B join C put D share
15 A In other words B To sum up C On the contrary D Generally speaking
16 A arise B derive C raise D originate
17 A out B on C forward D through
18 A direction B way C method D epoch
19 A for B with C without D except
20 A circumstances B context C situation D surroundings
