1 . Adaptation and innovation(创新) of traditional opera is the important trend of Chinese opera circle in recent years. In order to attract young audiences of new generation and catch up with the time, traditional opera circle makes efforts to create new works. In recent years, traditional opera came across the change of time and society. They gradually lost the main elderly audiences and traditional opera was not attractive for young audiences.

In order to find new opportunities, using modern sound, light and digital stage effects, China’s traditional Peking Opera is appealing to young people in a fashionable and innovative way, as the classic art faces an aging audience.

The centuries-old Tianleyuan Theater in Beijing has introduced fashionable performances of Peking Opera. The opera combines instrumental music, vocal performance, mime(哑剧表演), dance and acrobatics(杂技).

Tianleyuan has a jingju art experience section and fashionable performances. It has attracted more than 2,000 audiences members, mostly young people, according to theater staff.

“Good art should keep pace with the times, so does jingju,” said Zhang Zishang, a 22-year-old performer of The Drunken Beauty, one of the classic jingju plays performed in the theater. “I feel today’s performance is very special,” Zhang said. She was born into a family of jingju performers and has had 10 years of stage experience, “Innovation is good, but we must also carry on the basic elements of jingju,” another young performer Deng said.

According to Deng, innovation is perhaps the best way for jingiju to deal with the problem of an aging audience. It has made successful attempts to combine jingju with local opera forms such as ballet when organizing performances abroad. “Innovation can help traditional arts go further. We are happy to see many young faces, and some of them even come twice to experience the ‘new’ art,” she added.

1. Why is adaptation and innovation of traditional opera important?

A．To run after fashion.	B．To attract the young audiences.
C．To improve digital stage effects.	D．To change the traditional opera circle.

2. Which of the following can best describe Tianleyuan Theater?

A．A destroyer of Peking Opera.	B．An objector of modern opera.
C．A pioneer of innovative opera.	D．A defender of traditional opera.

3. How does Deng feel about the innovation of jingju?

A．Helpful.

B．Unreliable.

C．Worthless.

D．Conservative.

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．The traditional opera is dying out

B．The future of the traditional opera is promising

C．Traditional opera circle is innovating to attract young audiences

D．The performers of the traditional opera are supporting jingju

2 . Do Historical Films Need to Be Accurate?

Historical inaccuracies can be found in many films.     1    , or much bigger, such as changing whether someone was good or bad.

Historic films give us a glimpse (一瞥) into the past. Yet some criticize that there are fictional details in them.     2    ?

Yes — otherwise they’re misleading

There are so many great people from history and interesting events to learn about the past, particularly when you find the subject boring at school. Yet if films aren’t being completely accurate, then people will be misinformed, and it may mean that historical figures are remembered in the wrong way.     3    . However, in real life he actually helped to rescue a lot of people. For his family, and the families of other people in such films, that might be very upsetting. History is interesting enough as it is; there is no reason for filmmakers to make things up.

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The cinema is not a classroom. If the audience learns something while watching a film, that’s great. But filmmakers are just trying to make something entertaining and dramatic. They should be allowed to change facts to create the best experience. After all, certain events in real life might have taken place over several years, but in order to be shown in a film, they may need to be packed into less than two hours. Some changes will have to be made for that to work.     5    . Writers and directors have no choice but to imagine what might have happened, and fill in the gaps.

A．Yes — films help us learn from the past

B．Besides, not all historical films can be completely accurate

C．So should film makers be sticking more closely to the truth in their films

D．No — films are meant to be creative

E．So should films transport viewers into a world of make-believe

F．For example, in the film Titanic, a man on the ship was shown as a selfish one

G．They can be small, like changing a location