单选题
Itzik Galili really is an artist of the floating world.
Born in Israel in 1961, he moved to Amsterdam when he was 30 and is shaping up
as one of Europe's most idiosyncratic choreographers.
Mr.Galili holds dual Israeli and Dutch citizenship. He has three children in
Israel and visits them every ten days. In addition to his native Hebrew, he also
speaks good English and Dutch. Mr.Galili is highly regarded in
the Netherlands. Marking the tenth anniversary of the founding of his company,
Galili Dance, a new show, "Heads or Tales", has been receiving enthusiastic
reviews as it tours the country. Fiercely contemporary, "Heads or Tales" is full
of gorgeous imagery, compelling ensemble work and arresting solos. One thing it
is not, though, is balletic. Scenes include a naked man being showered with bits
of paper, men doing the pogo, and a man and woman engaged in tentative ballet
while conducting a dialogue about genocide. Mr.Galili's
artistic style is confrontational: athletic, unsentimental and often witty. He
claims not to be specifically political, believing that politics and
choreography rarely sit well together. But in "For Heaven's Sake", a powerful
piece that he first staged in 2001 and which he revised last year, the images of
occupation — conjuring up the Israelis in Palestine, perhaps, or the Americans
in Iraq — could not be mistaken for anything else. Ten years
ago, Mr.Galili moved from Amsterdam to the northern town of Groningen. A friend
had called, urging him to apply for a position there as director of dance.
Mr.Galili got the job. Groningen is a pleasant place, with an old university,
but its claims to lame do not extend too much beyond the industrial processing
of sugar-beet and a glorious 15th- century tower. "Who would want to go to
Groningen?" asks Mr.Galili with an ironic smile. Yet in many
respects it was a shrewd move. For such a small country, the Netherlands has an
unusual quantity of world-class dance troupes, including the Dutch National
Ballet, based in Amsterdam, and the more experimental Netherlands Dance Theatre
(NDT) in The Hague. Both fill theatres across the globe. In
Groningen, though, Mr.Galili is dance's top dog. That allows him to work with a
freedom and intensity that he might not be permitted were he competing with a
bigger troupe in a major urban centre. One measure of Galili Dance's status is
the number of young hopefuls who want to join. The full tally of its performing
employees amounts to only ten people. Yet once or, at most, twice a year,
Mr.Galili sees between 350 and 500 applicants over three days each
time. Small, for Mr.Galili, is clearly beautiful. His thinking
about dance is correspondingly original. Talent, even if discernible from an
early stage, develops only slowly. Almost everything begins in improvisation,
and his aim is never merely to make an audience laugh or cry. There must always
be a journey "within", he says. Mr.Galili knew nothing about
dance until he was in his early 20s. He had had a disrupted childhood, with his
parents divorcing and his mother suffering a breakdown. He and two other
siblings were fostered by three different families, and Mr.Galili recalls with
evident pain that he grew up in 17 different places between the ages of five and
18. After doing his military service in Israel in the early 1980s, he caught the
dance bug when watching five men dancing to a Greek folk tune; he had always
loved Greek music.
单选题
"Choreographers" in the first paragraph can be best replaced by
A. language teachers.
B. movie directors.
C. photographers.
D. directors of dance.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 语义理解题。浏览选项可知choreographers是表示职业的词，由第二、三段对其作品的描述可以推测加利利是个舞蹈编导，由第四段第二、三句，他的朋友催他去申请director of dance一职，并申请成功，从而进一步证实了猜测，可见D正确。
单选题
Galili's dances can be described as all of the following EXCEPT