TPO66阅读原文+题目+答案下载：The Actor and the Audience

TPO66阅读原文+题目+答案：The Actor and the Audience

Actors, even when they are well rehearsed, can never fully anticipate how well they will perform before an actual audience. The actor who has been brilliant in rehearsal can crumble before an audience and completely lose the "edge" of his or her performance in the face of stage fright and apprehension. The presence of an audience can affect performance in other ways as well. Or-and this is more likely-an actor who seemed fairly unexciting at rehearsal can suddenly take fire and dazzle the audience with unexpected energy, subtlety, and depth. One celebrated example of this phenomenon was achieved by Lee J Cobb in the original production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, in which Cobb had the title role. The presence of an audience can affect performance in other ways as well. Roles rehearsed in all solemnity can suddenly turn comical in performance; conversely, roles developed for comic potential in rehearsal may be received soberly by an audience and lose their comedic aspect entirely.

1. (单选题) The word "celebrated" in the passage is closest 1n meaning to Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information

A . typical

B. specific

C. unusual

D. famous

2. (单选题) Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 1 about Lee J Cobb's performance in Death of a Salesman?

A. His performance showed that an actor can change the nature of a role intended to be serious to a comic role

B. His performance before the live audience probably would have been different if there had been more time spent on rehearsal

C. Those who had observed his acting of the part in rehearsal were unprepared for the quality of his performance before a live audience

D. His way of presenting the main character in the original production of the play became the usual way that character was portrayed in later productions

3. (单选题) The author uses the word "conversely" to indicate that what follows the word is

A. in addition to what was stated before this word

B. the reverse of what was stated before this word

C. worse than what was stated before this word

D. another example of what was stated before this word

Sudden and dramatic change, however, is not the norm as the performance phase replaces rehearsal: most actors cross over from final dress rehearsal to opening night with only the slightest shift: indeed, this is generally thought to be the goal of a disciplined and professional rehearsal schedule. Holding back until opening night, the once-popular acting practice of restraining emotional display until opening night, is universally disavowed today, and opening night recklessness is viewed as a sure sign of the amateur, who relies primarily on guts and adrenaline to get through the performance. Deliberate revision of a role in performance, in response to the first waves of laughter or applause, is similarly frowned upon in all but the most inartistic of theaters today.

Nevertheless, a fundamental shift does occur in the actor's awareness between rehearsal and performance, and this cannot and should not be denied: indeed, it is essential to the creation of theater art. This shift is set up by an elementary feedback: the actor is inevitably aware, with at least a portion of his or her mind, of the audience's reaction to his or her own performance and that of the other players; there is always, in any acting performance, a subtle adjustment to the audience that sees it. The outward manifestations of this adjustment are usually all but imperceptible: the split-second hold for a laugh to die down, the slight special projection of a certain line to make sure that it reaches the back row, the quick turn of a head to make a characterization or plot transition extra clear.

4. (单选题) Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage?

A. Actors always devote some portion of their minds to establishing an elementary feedback between their own performance and the reactions of others to it

B. An elementary feedback makes actors aware of changes in the reactions of the other actors and of the audience

C. On some level, actors are always aware of the audience's reactions both to them and to the other actors and make slight changes in response to them

D. During a performance, actors inevitably shift their focus from the reactions of the other actors to the reactions of the audience
 

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