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第 24 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.
24.
- A has supervised
- B has overshadowed
- C has imposed
- D has castigated
- E has retroacted
思路引導 VIP
想像一下，當一個舞台上突然亮起一道極其耀眼的強光時，旁邊原本點燃著的幾盞精緻小燈，在觀眾眼中會產生什麼樣的視覺變化？你會用哪個詞來形容這種「強大者讓周遭事物失去存在感」的情況？
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恭喜你精確地選出了 (B) overshadowed！這顯示你不僅具備優秀的單字量，更能精準捕捉段落間的邏輯轉折，這在長篇閱讀中是非常難得的特質。
文本脈絡與詞彙意涵
這段話的核心在於探討「錄音技術的勝利」如何影響了 1920 年代其他的科技實驗。文中提到當時其實有許多豐富的嘗試（如彩色技術、多螢幕投影等），但因為有聲電影的出現吸引了所有注意力與資源，使得這些實驗顯得相對黯淡無光。單字 overshadow 的本意是「使陰暗」或「遮蔽」，引申為「使……顯得遜色」或「奪去……的光彩」，完美地詮釋了錄音技術與其他視覺創新之間的消長關係。
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