For a 400-year-old art form, opera had a bad fame: overweight actresses singing the words which were hard to understand in one of those romantic languages you were supposed to learn in high school. And with tickets costing as much as $145 a performance, operagoers also had a certain appearance in people’s mind: rich, well-dressed and old.
But now opera companies around the country are loosening their ties and kicking off their shoes in an attempt to keep opera alive and take it to a younger and not so wealthy audience.
Opera producers have found that to attract this crowd, they need to associate opera with the common people. That means no formal suits, old-styled theatre or bank-breaking ticket prices. And because young people don’t or won’t come to the opera, companies are bringing the opera to them, giving performances in such usual places as parks, libraries and public schools.
The Houston Grand Opera’s choice is the public library, where it performs “mobile operas”, shortened versions of child-friendly operas. This summer’s production is Hansel & Gretel. By performing smaller versions of large productions, producers are able to make people interested while keeping costs at a reasonable level. The San Francisco Opera, which will be celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, is staging Cinderella free of charge, keeping costs down by employing students from its Young Artists’ Training Program.
【小題1】Which is the main idea of this passage?

A．Opera is famous for its long history.
B．Opera is only performed for rich people.
C．Opera companies are trying to keep opera alive.
D．Young people are not interested in opera.
【小題2】The underlined phrase in the second paragraph means _________.
A．breaking up the old rulesB．changing the dresses
C．making the audience at easeD．advertising themselves
【小題3】Opera companies prefer to perform short versions because _________.
A．they can be performed in public libraries
B．short versions are easy to perform
C．it is hard to find long versions
D．they can make people interested
【小題4】The San Francisco Opera employs students in order to _________.
A．celebrate its 75th anniversary
B．reduce the cost
C．attract young people
D．make Cinderella popular
【小題5】 From the passage we can infer that _________.
A．the tickets for opera are very expensive
B．opera is performed in a difficult language
C．opera is not so popular an art form today
D．students enjoy performing opera very much


【小題1】C
【小題1】A
【小題1】D
【小題1】B
【小題1】C

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