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Text 2 One meaning of the Greek word “

Text 2 One meaning of the Greek word “dran” is to accomplish, and in this meaning lies a further key to the structure of drama. A play concerns a human agent attempting to accomplish some purpose. In tragedy his attempt is, in personal terms at least, unsuccessful; in comedy it is successful; in the problem play final accomplishment is often either ambiguous or doubtful.

AThis action, from the beginning to the end of a movement toward a purposed goal, must also have a middle; it must proceed through a number of steps, the succession of incidents which make up the plot. Because the dramatist is concerned with the meaning and logic of events rather than with their casual relationship in time, he will probably select his material and order it on a basis of the operation, in human affairs, of laws of cause and effect. It is in this causal relationship of incidents that the element of conflict, present in virtually all plays, appears.
BThe central figure of the play—the protagonist—encounters difficulties; his purpose or purposes conflict with events or circumstances, with purposes of other characters in the play, or with cross-purposes which exist within his own thoughts and desires. These difficulties threaten the protagonist’s accomplishment; in other words, they present complications, and his success or failure in dealing with these complications determines the outcome. Normally, complications build through the play in order of increasing difficulty; one complication may be added to another, or one may grow out of the solution of a preceding one. At some point in this chain of complication and solution, achieved or attempted, the protagonist performs an act or makes a decision which irrevocably commits him to a further course, points toward certain general consequences. This point is usually called the crisis; the complications and solutions which follow work out the logical steps from crisis to final resolution, or denouement.
C第26题：According to the first paragraph of the text, a dramatist________.
D［A］ seldom believes what he writes about
E［B］ portrays what he experiences in the drama
F［C］ concerns himself with the results of human effort
G［D］ tries to convince his audience of what he believes

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参考解析：

本题考查推理引申。第一段第二句提到，一部戏剧和一个试图达到某种目的的人文动作者（human agent）有关。接下来该段分别讲述了在悲剧、喜剧和问题剧中动作者的目的的实现情况。由此可知，动作者指的是“对推动戏剧情节起很大作用的人物”，戏剧就是该人物实现其目的的过程，不同的结果决定了戏剧的性质。因此，［C］是一部戏剧或剧作家所关注的，其他项都无从推知。

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