单选题 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 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.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】解析：此题主要考查数量number，amount，quantity的固定搭配。a large／considerable number of或numbers of接可数名词复数，在肯定句中可代替many；a large amount of通常与不可数名词连用；alarge／vast／small quantity或quantities of既可接可数名词，也可接不可数名词。考生要特别注意文中此句没有不定冠词，故正确答案是D。

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】解析：better than“比……更好”；instead of“而不是……，代替……”；as well as“和，以及”；rather than“与其……倒不如”。从下一句中的difficult to explain what is new or characteristicallyAmerican about them，可推测出此处句意为“……在国内外都很流行”。故正确答案为C。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】解析：此题主要考查对句子间连贯性的理解和过渡词的正确运用。therefore“因此，因而”，通常用于表示因果的逻辑关系中；yet“然而”，表转折关系的连接词；moreover“再者，此外”；thus“从而”，同therefore，但比therefore正式。空格前一句是说美国创作了流行国内外的音乐剧，其后一句则指出难以阐释音乐剧的新颖之处及美国的特色何在。很明显，两句间具有转折的关系。因而，正确答案为B。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】解析：此题考查词语的固定搭配。arise：出现，产生；arise out of：由……而产生，从……中产生；arise from：由……而产生；derive：源于，从……中得到；derive from：由……起源；raise：及物动词，举起，培育，通常与up连用，意为举起；originate：起源于；originate from意为来自……，源自……。