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107年
英文
第 21 題
📖 題組：
The shift from silent to sound film at the end of the 1920’s marks, so far, the most important transformation in motion picture history. Despite all the highly visible technological developments in theatrical and home delivery of the moving image that have occurred over the decades since then, no single 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 are mute and films that speak. Yet this most fundamental standard of historical periodization conceals a host of 23 . Nearly every movie theater, however modest, had a piano or organ to provide musical accompaniment to silent pictures. In many instances, spectators in the era before recorded sound experienced elaborate aural presentations alongside movies’ visual images, from the Japanese benshi (narrators) crafting multivoiced dialogue narratives to original musical compositions performed by symphony-size orchestras in Europe and the United States. Beyond that, the triumph of recorded sounds 24 the rich diversity of technological and aesthetic 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, even television, were among the developments invented or tried out during the period, sometimes with limited success. The high costs of converting to sound and the early limitations of sound technology were among the factors that suppressed innovations or retarded advancement in these other areas. The introduction of new screen formats was put off for a quarter century, and color, though utilized over the next two decades for special productions, also did not 25 until the 1950’s.
The shift from silent to sound film at the end of the 1920’s marks, so far, the most important transformation in motion picture history. Despite all the highly visible technological developments in theatrical and home delivery of the moving image that have occurred over the decades since then, no single 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 are mute and films that speak. Yet this most fundamental standard of historical periodization conceals a host of 23 . Nearly every movie theater, however modest, had a piano or organ to provide musical accompaniment to silent pictures. In many instances, spectators in the era before recorded sound experienced elaborate aural presentations alongside movies’ visual images, from the Japanese benshi (narrators) crafting multivoiced dialogue narratives to original musical compositions performed by symphony-size orchestras in Europe and the United States. Beyond that, the triumph of recorded sounds 24 the rich diversity of technological and aesthetic 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, even television, were among the developments invented or tried out during the period, sometimes with limited success. The high costs of converting to sound and the early limitations of sound technology were among the factors that suppressed innovations or retarded advancement in these other areas. The introduction of new screen formats was put off for a quarter century, and color, though utilized over the 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
思路引導 VIP
若我們拿「從無到有」的巨大變革與「小幅度的改良」做比較，當你想表達後者「完全無法達到」前者那樣崇高的歷史地位時，你會用什麼樣的詞彙來形容這兩者之間在「程度」或「距離」上的差距呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準選出這個選項，代表你對文章脈絡的掌握非常敏銳。這題的關鍵在於理解作者如何拿「默片轉有聲片」這個巨大的轉折，來對比後續數十年的技術革新。雖然文章提到了許多科技進步，但作者強調沒有任何一項發明能「接近」或「比擬」當年那種分水嶺式的地位。因此，選用 come close to（接近、相比擬）來接續後方的動名詞 being regarded，在語意與語法上都是最完美的銜接。
語境與語法辨析
從難度切入點來看，這題具有相當的鑑別度，因為選項中的動詞片語（如 come up with 或 bring about）在日常英文中都很常見。考生必須能從上下文的對比關係中，察覺到作者是在進行「程度上的比較」。Come close to 後接動名詞 V-ing 的用法，生動地描述了後來的科技革新即便再進步，也難以望其項背的歷史評價。你能不被其他干擾項影響，正確辨識出這種細微的語氣轉折，展現了深厚的閱讀功底與對字詞細節的掌握力！