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热考素材 中华优秀传统文化 Mei Lanfang, whose ancestral home was Taizhou,Jiangsu Province, was a great Peking Opera master. He made great contributions to the 1. d of Peking Opera and the spread of Chinese theatre worldwide.
Mei was born into a theatrical family. When he was 2. y, people around him thought he had no talent for theatre because of his round face and slouchy eyes. However, he was very hard-working. He began 3. l Peking Opera as a child, made his first performance at 11, and became famous before 20.
Mei not only inherited the good traditions of Peking Opera but also improved it. Over 504. y on stage, he played over 100 roles, showing different female characters. He5. w the first to change the tradition of female characters focusing only on singing and dancing.
He also introduced the erhu into the Peking Opera orchestra. Today, the erhu is one of the6. m instruments in Peking Opera accompaniment. He also made changes in hairstyles and costume colours.
Mei was the pioneer in introducing Peking Opera to 7. f countries. He visited Japan three times. In 1919, he was 8. p as a "famous performer of the oriental art". In 1930, his troupe toured America. He was awarded a doctor's degree by South California University. He also met 9. f people like Charlie Chaplin and Paul Robeson. In 1935, he took Peking Opera to the Soviet Union.
After 1949, Mei held important positions in the Chinese opera field. His life 10. s and some articles have been published, as well as a collection of his well-known performing works.
——文章选自 China Story

1. development 他为京剧的发展和中国戏剧在世界的传播作出了巨大贡献。
2. young 年轻的时候，他周围的人认为他没有戏剧天赋。
3. learning 他从小就开始学习京剧。
4. years 此处指“在50多年的舞台生涯中”，前有数词50修饰，后接名词复数。
5. was 此处缺少谓语动词；描述过去情况，用一般过去时，故填 was。
6. main 如今，二胡是京剧伴奏的主要乐器之一。
7. foreign 由他三次访问日本可知，梅兰芳是把京剧引到国外的先驱者。
8. praised 1919年，他被誉为“东方艺术名家”。主语与谓语为被动关系，用被动语态，故填过去分词 praised。
9. famous 他还遇到了像查尔斯·卓别林和保罗·罗伯逊这样的名人。
10. story 他的生平故事和一些文章已经出版。