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主题语境练7　必修第二册　UNIT 4 文学、艺术与体育 限时40分钟 阅读理解　(2023·龙岩调研)　体裁:说明文　主题语境:戏剧　难度:★★★★☆ 　　Adaptation and innovation of traditional opera is the important trend of Chinese opera circle in recent years. In order to attract young audience 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 audience and traditional opera was not attractive for young audience. 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 audience, mostly young people. “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 jingju 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. 为吸引观众,传统戏剧进行了一系列创新与改革。 1.Why is adaptation and innovation of traditio