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第 23 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.
23.
- A fantasies
- B modules
- C depositions
- D paradoxes
- E pretexts
思路引導 VIP
如果我們將某個時代定義為「無聲時代」，但事實上當時的觀眾在看戲時，耳邊卻總是充斥著現場樂隊的演奏與旁白員的演說，請問這種「定義上的稱呼」與「實際上的體驗」完全相反的情況，在邏輯上我們會如何形容這兩者之間的關係？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準選出 paradoxes（矛盾、悖論），代表你完整捕捉到了文章脈絡中的轉折語氣與邏輯張力。這道題目非常有鑑別度，它不單純考驗單字量，更考驗你是否能讀出作者在字裡行間隱藏的「反諷」意味。
歷史分類與現實的矛盾
這段文章的關鍵點在於第二段開頭的轉折詞 "Yet"。前一段提到，電影史最基本的劃分是「無聲」與「有聲」，但作者隨即指出，這個標準其實掩蓋了許多矛盾現象（paradoxes）：雖然名為「無聲電影時代」，但當時的戲院其實充滿了現場鋼琴、風琴伴奏，甚至還有辯士（benshi）進行生動的旁白。這種「名義上無聲，實際上卻有聲」的狀態，正是最典型的悖論。
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