問題詳情

The 29 films Ismail Merchant made with director James Ivory in 44 years—they shared a line in the GuinnessBook of World Records for the most 36 movie partnership—were stately endeavors. But Merchant’s death inLondon last week at 68 was a shock to the international film community. A genial friend had left life’s banquet muchtoo early. Born in Bombay, he met Ivory in 1961 in Manhattan. The Merchant-Ivory brand won wide 37 withtheir first collaborations, The Householder and Shakespeare Wallah, both written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. In thesefables about a 38 —rather, a gentle jostling—of cultures old and new, imperial and 39 , the team had foundtheir enduring theme. Their excellent productions seem to indicate the noble lineage of stiff-upper literature was nowwholly in the care of the boy from Bombay, the kid from Oregon and the Polish-German lady who had married anIndian. Merchant, Ivory and Prawer Jhabvala were like the servants who had been 40 a ducal castle just as itsramparts were crumbling, its halls haunted, by the ghosts of the glory days.
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(A) insistent
(B) intertwined
(C) enduring
(D) irresistible

參考答案

答案：C
難度：適中0.4
統計：A(1),B(2),C(4),D(1),E(0)

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