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OFFICIAL53 What does the man imply when he says this: (MALE STUDENT): [doubtful] I mean, there must be some original plays out here.

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[00:00.00]Narrator: Listen to a conversation between a student and his drama professor.
[00:05.54]Professor: Hi Robert. So how's your paper going?
[00:09.20]Robert: Pretty well. It's a lot of work, but I'm getting into it, so I don't mind. [00:13.06]I'll probably have some questions for you in the next week or so.
[00:15.99]Professor: Okay. Glad to hear you're progressing so well.
[00:18.65]Robert: Um… there was something you said at the end of the lecture on Tuesday, something about there're not really being any original plays.
[00:25.34]Professor: There's no such thing as an original play. [00:28.89]Yes. That's the direct quote from Charles Mee.
[00:31.66]Robert: Mee… that's with two "e"s, right?
[00:34.38]Professor: Yep. M-E-E. You'll probably be hearing a lot about him. [00:37.98]He's becoming a pretty famous playwright.
[00:39.91]Robert: Yeah,well, I've been thinking about his quote. [00:42.32]I mean there must be some original plays out there.
[00:45.24]Professor: I’ll grant that he's overstating things somewhat. [00:48.69]But the theater does have a long tradition of borrowing. [00:52.72]Take Shakespeare,like most writers of his day, he borrowed plots from other sources unabashedly. [00:58.57]And the ancient Greeks, all the plays they wrote were based on earlier plays, poems and myths.
[01:04.37]Robert: And borrowing applies to plays being written nowadays, too?
[01:07.81]Professor: To some extent, yes. [01:09.54]Mee, for example, he's made a career out of remaking plays, one of which we"ll be studying soon. [01:15.34]It's called Full Circle and Mee based it on an earlier play by a German playwright.
[01:20.41]Robert: Oh Full Circle… wasn't that based on the Caucasian Chalk Circle?
[01:24.84]Professor: That's right.
[01:25.63]Robert: I remember hearing about that play from my acting coach.
[01:28.66]Professor: Okay. Well, the Caucasian Chalk Circle was based on a play by yet another German playwright, someone who was fascinated by the ancient literatures of China, India and Persia and many of his works were adapted from those literatures, including his version of the Chalk Circle which was based on an early Chinese play.
[01:47.34]Robert: So this Full Circle play, by Charles Mee, the one we're going to study, it's like the third or fourth remake. [01:53.71]Wow… And we complain that Hollywood keeps making the same movies over and over again.
[01:58.26]Professor: Well, part of what Mee's trying to do is drive home the point that: One, theater's always a collaborative effort.
[02:05.13]Robert: Well, yeah, the playwright, the director and the actors, people have to work together to produce a play.
[02:09.91]Professor: Yes, of course. But Mee means historically. [02:12.94]The dramatic literature of early periods is hugely influential in shaping later dramatic works.
[02:18.32]Robert: So it's like when the playwright bases a play on a previous playwrights theme or message.[02:22.55]It's like they're talking to each other, collaborating. [02:25.37]Uh, just not at the same time right?
[02:27.36]Professor: Exactly. And the second point Mee's trying to make, I think, is that it's legitimate to retell an old story in a new way, in a way that's, uh… a more in line with contemporary concerns. [02:39.32]So when playwrights reinvent or update an earlier play it shouldn't be construed as a lack of imagination or an artistic failure.

5.What does the man imply when he says this: (MALE STUDENT): [doubtful] I mean, there must be some original plays out here.

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本题定位到原文:Robert: Yeah,well, I’ve been thinking about his quote. I mean there must be some original plays out there. 此处原文的大意是: 学生怀疑老师前面说过的原创戏剧几乎不存在的事情。 题干问的是学生为什么要这样说。 选项A的意思是他觉得教授错误理解了他的意思,选项B的意思是他自己写了一些原创戏剧,选项C的意思是他怀疑Mee说的内容的真实性,选项D的意思是他读过一些Mee的原创戏剧。选项C符合原文,其他三个选项均不符合。

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