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单选题 It can be concluded from the passage that great words

A．may be less influential as time passes by
B．may improve people's life
C．can change the world
D．can change time

B。本题的出题点在段落中心句处。文章第八段提到人们可能因为接触了好的、有益的话语而使生活由穷到富，由不健康到健康，可见话语可以改善人的生活质量，故8正确。第七段说伟大的话语可以流芳百世，A与其意义相反，故排除；作者虽然指出伟大的话语影响深远，但并不是说这些话可以“改变时间”，由此排除D。C原文未提及。

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1 Better choice of words can do all of the following EXCEPT ___

A．shaping reality
B．making life better
C．bringing about positive change
D．fulfilling dreams

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2根据以下资料回答：
　　"When I direct Shakespeare," theatrical innovator Peter Sellars once said, "the first thing I do is go to the text for cuts. I go through to find the passages that are real heavy, that really are not needed, places where the language has become obscure, places where there is a bizarre detour. And then I take those moments, thoseelements, and I make them the centerpiece, the core of the production."
　　In the sober matter of staging Shakespeare, such audaciousness is hard to resist--though a lot of Chicago theatre-goers have been able to. Typically, a third of the people who have been showing up at the Goodman Theatre to see Sellars' ingenious reworking of The Merchant of Venice have been walking out before the evening is over. It's no mystery, why? The evening isn,t over for nearly four hours. Beyond that, the production pretty much upends everything the audience has come to expect from one of Shakespeare's most troubling but reliable entertaining comedies.
　　The play has been transplanted from the teeming, multicultural world of 15th century Venice, Italy, to the teeming, multicultural world of 1994 Venice Beach, California, where Sellars lives when he isn't setting Don Giovanni in Spanish Harlem, putting King Lear in a Lincoln Continental or deconstructing other classic plays and operas. Shylock, along with the play's other Jews, is black. Antonio, the merchant of the title, and his kinsmen are Latinos. Portia, the wealthy maiden being wooed by Antonio's friend Bassanio, is Asian. But the racial shuffling is just one of Sellars' liberties. The stage is furnished with little but office furniture, while video screens simulcast the actors in dose-up during their monologues, (and, in between, display seemingly unrelated Southern California scene, from gardens and swimming pools to the L. A. riots). Cries of anguish come from the clowns, and the
playfully romantic final scene, in which Portia teases Bassanio for giving away her ring to the lawyer she played in disguise, is re-imagined as the darkest, most poisonously unsettling passage in the play.
　　Some of this seems to be sheer perversity, but the real shock of Sellars' production is how well it works both theatrically and thematically. The racial casting, for instance, is a brilliant way of defusing the play's anti- Semitism--tuming it into a metaphor for prejudice and materialism in all its forms. Paul Butler is a hardhearted ghetto businessman who, even when he is humiliated at the end, never loses his cool or stoops for pity.
　　Wrongheaded and tortuous as this Merchant sometimes is, the updating is witty and apt. The "news of the Rialto" becomes fodder for a pair of gossip reporters on a happy-talk TV newscast. Shylock's trial is presided over by a mumbling, superannuated judge who could have stepped right out of Court TV. With a few exceptions- Elaine Tse's overwrought Portia, for instance---the actors strike a nice balance between Shakespeare's poetry and Sellars' stunt driving. For the rest of us, it's a wild ride.

What's the main topic of the passage?

A．The Merchant of Venice adapted by Sellars
B．Success of the newly performed The Merchant of Venice
C．Peter Sellars's artistic style
D．The shooting of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

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3 When directing Shakespeare, Sellars usually___ the original texts.

A．selects the key moments in
B．abridges
C．completely changes
D．keeps

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