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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:053
For a 400-year-old art form, peras had a bad fame: overweight actresses singing the words which are hard to understand in one of those romance(浪漫)languages you were supposed to learn in high school. And with tickets costing as much as $ 145 a perform-ance, opera goers also have a certain appear-ance in people's mind; ich, well-dressed and old.
But now opera companies around the country are loosening their ties and kicking off their shoes in an attempt to bring the opera to the audience it needs to keep it alive, he young and not-so-rich.
Opera producers have found that to attract this crowd, they need to make the opera closer to common people. That means no formal suits, old styled theatre or bank-breaking ticket prices. And because young people don't or won't come to the opera, companies are bringing the opera to them, giving perform-ances in such usual places as parks, libraries and public schools.
The Houston Grand Opera'S choice is the public library, where it performs “mobile operas”, shortened versions(劇本)of child-friendly operas. This summer's production is Hansel & Gretel. By performing smaller versions of large productions, producers are able to make people interested while keeping costs at a reasonable level. The San Francisco Opera, which will celebrate its 75th anniversary(周年紀念)this year, is staging Cinderella free of charge, keeping costs down by employing students from its Young Artists' Training Program.
(1)Which is the main idea of this text?
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A.Opera is famous for its long history.
B.Opera is only performed for rich people.
C.Young people are not interested in opera.
D.Opera companies are trying to keep opera alive.
(2)The underlined phrase “l(fā)oosening their ties and kicking off their shoes” (in Para-graph 2) means _____.
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A.a(chǎn)dvertising themselves
B.changing the formal suits
C.breaking up the old rules
D.making the audience at ease
(3)Opera companies prefer to perform short versions because ______.
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A.it is hard to find long versions
B.short versions are easy to perform
C.they can perform in public libraries
D.they can make people come to opera
(4)The San Francisco Opera employs student actors in order to ____.
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A.a(chǎn)ttract young people
B.reduce the cost
C.make Cinderella popular
D.celebrate its 75th anniversary
(5)From the text we can infer that
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A.the tickets for operas are very expensive
B.operas are performed in a difficult language
C.operas are not so popular an art form today
D.students enjoy performing operas very much
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