Isadora Duncan's masterly writings on the dance reveal the depth of her determination to create a lyric form of the art which was free of characterization, storytelling, and the theatrical exhibition of skills. She wished to discard the traditional methods and established vocabularies of such dance forms as ballet and to explore the internal sources of human expressiveness. She shunned bodily ornamentation and strove to use only the natural movements of her body, undistorted by acrobatic exaggeration and stimulated only by internal compulsion. In her recitals Duncan danced to the music of Beethoven, Wagner, and Gluck, among others, but, contrary to popular belief, she made no attempt to visualize or to interpret the music; rather, she simply relied on it to provide the inspiration for expressing inner feelings through movement.
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10. Select the sentence in the passage that implies the argumentative function which the author mentions
Duncan‘s reliance on music in her recitals to serve.
18. The author implies that Duncan relied on music in her recitals in order to
(A) interpret musical works solely by means of natural body movements
(B) foster the illusion that music serves as an inspiration for the dance
(C) inspire the expression of inner feeling when she danced
(D) validate the public belief that music inspires the expression of feeling through movement
(E) counter the public belief that she made no attempt to visualize music
感觉这个题目读不太通,我对题面的理解是,作者提到邓肯在舞蹈时对音乐的依赖是为了论证哪句句子所暗示的内容。
我估计这个改编答案的想法是来自于答案中的“expression of inner feeling”。作为答案的句子里提到:她的舞蹈抛弃了外在的身体动作的修饰。而这句话正“暗示”了:她的舞蹈完全表达了内心的感受。