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Questions 21-25The shift from silent to sound film at the end of the 1920’s marks, so far, the most importanttransformation in motion picture history. Despite all the highly visible technological developments intheatrical and home delivery of the moving image that have occurred over the decades since then, nosingle innovation has 21 being regarded as a similar kind of watershed. In nearly every language, 22 the words are phrased, the most basic division in cinema history lies between films that aremute and films that speak.Yet this most fundamental standard of historical periodization conceals a host of 23 . Nearlyevery movie theater, however modest, had a piano or organ to provide musical accompaniment tosilent pictures. In many instances, spectators in the era before recorded sound experienced elaborateaural presentations alongside movies’ visual images, from the Japanese benshi (narrators) craftingmultivoiced dialogue narratives to original musical compositions performed by symphony-sizeorchestras in Europe and the United States.Beyond that, the triumph of recorded sounds 24 the rich diversity of technological andaesthetic experiments with the visual image that were going forward simultaneously in the 1920’s.New color process, larger or differently shaped screen sizes, multiple-screen projections, eventelevision, were among the developments invented or tried out during the period, sometimes withlimited success. The high costs of converting to sound and the early limitations of sound technologywere among the factors that suppressed innovations or retarded advancement in these other areas. Theintroduction of new screen formats was put off for a quarter century, and color, though utilized overthe next two decades for special productions, also did not 25 until the 1950’s.
21.
(A) come up with
(B) brought about
(C) come close to
(D) called forth
(E) caught on

參考答案

答案：C
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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