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Part A Part A Part A Part B Part B Part B Part B Part B Leading-in Dialogues Reading Further Reading Section 4: Chinese Opera Leading-in unlike the classical grand opera in the west, Chinese opera is a popular folk art, which was once like village fairs or like a circus. the opera is a mixture of folk songs, acrobatics, dance, clowning, comedy and drama, rather like a street theatre. Today, opera has the same basic forms as then. People of any country can understand it because there is so much action, mime and song in it. Think carefully and try to answer the following questions: 1. How many types of Chinese theaters do you know? 2. Do you some classical operas? Part Ⅰ reading Useful Words and Phrases Comedy 喜剧 Clown 丑角 Costume 戏装 Boast 拥有 Tune 曲调Dialect 方言 Routine 　习惯；程式 Mistress 　夫人；情人 Puppet 　　木偶 Ballad 　　民谣 Respectable 受人尊重的 Baritone 　　　男中音　　　　　　　　　　　　　High-pitched　 尖厉 Falsetto 　　假声 Part Ⅰ reading Useful Words and Phrases Puppet shows 皮影戏 Acrobatic shows 杂技表演 Ballad singing 民谣 Circus 马戏表演 Story-telling 评书；说书 Amusing talk 　　　　　　　　 Cross talk 对口相声 Operas 歌剧 Mime 哑剧 witty skits 　　　　　　 小品 Chinese theatre Beijing opera 京剧 Guangdong opera 粤剧 Henan opera 豫剧；梆子 Huangmei opera 黄梅戏 Sichuan Opera 　川剧　　　　 Chinese Opera The opera is a mixture of folk songs, acrobatics, dance, clowning, comedy and drama. People of any country can understand it because there is so much action in it. China boasts more than 300 forms of traditional opera,