III. Fill in the Blank: (每格 1 分,共 10 分) Modern drama begins in a sense with the witty drawing-room comedies of Oscar Wilde:
yet Wilde founded no dramatic school. His wit was personal and ___31__ of paradoxes for
their own sake, unlike the wit of Restoration comedy, which __32__ an attitude to the relation
between the sexes which was part of a view of society held by a __33__ social class. Bernard
Shaw brought still __34__ kind of wit into drama—not Wilde’s light-hearted sparkle nor yet
the __35__ sophistication of the Restoration dramatists, but the __36__ paradox that was
meant to tease and disturb, to challenge the __37__ of the audience. Shaw’s discussions plays
were given dramatic life through the mastery of theatrical __38__ which he learned during his
years as a dramatic __39__.In his general attitudes he __40__ the anti-Victorianism of the late
Victorians. In fact, his first—and some of his best—plays belong to the nineties.
(A)complacency
(B)generative
(C)techniques
(D)critic
(E) absurd
(AB)reflected (BC)represents (CD) whole (DE) another (AC)provocative
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