【正确答案】正确答案： Soap Operas A soap opera is a serial on television or radio / where each episode links to the next episode. / So you're always left at the end of one short episode / wondering what's going to happen next / Soap opera is generally about neighbours, friends, family. / There may be controversial subjects like drug taking, or violence, divorce. / So it would cover all the things that you could imagine possibly happening in people's lives. / The term soap opera comes from the 1950s, / when radio in America started advertising soap products / and they devised little stories to sell these soap products and they called them soap operas. /