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21. The passage is mainly about ______.
A. the relationship between the national economy and the environment.
B. the importance of manufactured goods in the improvement of the standard of living.
C. the unreliability of national income per head as the only indicator of the standard of
living.
D. the need to adjust the distribution of income
between rich and poor
Benjamin Britten (1913-76) did as much as anyone to establish English music on the forefront
of the international stage. Much of his music seems to have an immediate
appeal to large
audiences and definitely his many stage works earned him a quite exceptional prestige both at
home and abroad. Peter Grimes (1945), Bill Budd (1951). Gloriana (1953), and A Midsummer
Night's Dream (1960) all show his mastery of stage technique and the
first two are also moving
human documents. On a smaller scale he has achieved as much with his chamber operas as such
as The Rape of Lucretia (1946), Albert Herring (1947), The Turn of the Screw (1954). His
operatic output was crowned by Death in Venice (1973). If he had written nothing else, these
dramatic works would have marked him out as a composer of outstanding imaginative gifts.
22. The writer implies that the reputation of English music abroad _______.
A. is related to the piece
of music in drama
B. rests solely on Britten's chamber operas
C. continued to rise up to the
time of Britten
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