Unit 4 Stage and Screen 课文语法填空（知识点总复习）-2023-2024学年高一英语外研版（2019）必修第二册

新外研必修二 Unit 4 Stage and screen Understanding ideas When Hamlet Meets Peking Opera I thought I knew a lot about Hamlet. As a high school student with English literature as one of my main ____________ (subject), I have to! Shakespeare’s Hamlet is ____________ (probable) the most important play ____________ the most important writer in English. Almost everybody knows “To be, or not to be”, right? ____________ (see) quite a few productions of Hamlet and read the play many times, I was full of ____________ (confident) — until the Peking Opera came to town! ____________ (date) back to the 18th century, Peking Opera has over two hundred years of history. Does this mean it’s easier than a Shakespeare play ____________ (understand)? ____________ (find) out the answer, I just had to go and see The Revenge of Prince Zidan — the Peking Opera version of Hamlet. Starting with an orchestra playing traditional Chinese instruments, the opera ____________ (bring) a completely new sound to my Western ears. At first, I thought ____________ I heard was a violin, but later I learnt that it was an instrument with two strings called jinghu. Then, ____________ (see) the main characters come on stage, I was surprised! The costumes and masks were amazing. The performers of course ____________ (sing) in Chinese, but the music, exaggerated movements and mime helped get the meanings across ____________ the audience. The voices themselves sounded really unique — some of the female voices were so high ____________ I was sure they could break glass! And the stage was really simple: a ____________ (decorate) whip represented a horse, and a screen with Chinese characters, a study. ____________ (use) such techniques, the opera had transformed a small stage into the whole universe. My favourite part of the show was ____________ the characters moved on stage. I had never seen Prince Hamlet do a backflip before! That was ____________ (simple) incredible. It was so dazzling and __________ (energy) that