托福tpo64听力conversation1 grand narrative

托福tpo64听力conversation1 grand narrative，今天中国教育在线就来为大家分析这个问题。

grand narrative托福听力原文翻译及问题答案

一、grand narrative托福听力原文：

Listen to a conversation between a student and a philosophy professor.

Male Professor:Hi,Melissa,you're rough draft for your paper is looking very promising so far.

Female Student:Thanks.I still have some reading to do.Post-modernism is pretty challenging.so...

Male Professor:well，you're off to a good start.So anything else about the class or post-modernism since we have a few minutes before my next appointment?

Female Student:Well,actually in class,you talked about a French philosopher.Uh,Lyotard.You said he didn't believe in stories or something like that,that stories were invalid.

Male Professor:Okay.I think I see,uh,first of all,you understand what he um,remember what Lyotard said about the uh.the grand narrative?

Female Student:Not really.

Male Professor:Okay，have a seat.

Female Student:All right.

Male Professor:It's not quite the same way you're thinking of narratives,not stories.Lyotard,meant narrative as in a way of understanding the world.

Female Student:Um.I uh.

Male Professor:How can I explain this uh,grand narrative...It's...It's like an idea that that helps people make sense of history.Like when you picture the early middle ages in Europe,but what do you think?

Female Student:Okay,like,um,there weren't a lot of cultural achievements then,lots of wars,but not a lot of important art or books or anything,like it was the Dark Ages.

Male Professor:All right that that's a simple explanation of a time in history,right?Something that tends to be accepted or understood by most people.That makes it a grand narrative.Here's a more recent one.Scientific progress.

Female Student:Ah,ha.

Male Professor:People look at important inventions throughout history,light bulbs,cars,computers.And we generally believe that there's an underlying universal truth,that modern technology makes the world better.It's been the belief for so long that people accept it as being true.We don't even think of it much.We just accept that modern technology has that effect.

Female Student:Well.it does make our lives better.

Male Professor:All right.This is where Lyotard comes in.He believed we have to be careful about accepting ideas like that.He said these beliefs really oversimplify things and that we should think more critically.Are there times when technology would not be considered progressive where it doesn't bring improvement?

Female Student:Oh.I don't know,uh,pollution,but I…

Male Professor:No,no,that's good.It would be hard to say pollution was a form of improving the world.

Female Student:But isn't pollution just a side effect of...?Oh!So it kind of goes against the grand narrative about technology.It complicates things.

Male Professor:Yeah.And that's a basic idea behind post-modernism,that we should be skeptical of grand narratives,because there's a good chance they are not completely true.

Female Student:You mean?

Male Professor:Well，not to say there's no truth in grand narratives.Of course.It's just that nothing is as simple and straightforward as it seems.We should look critically at the things we assume.

Female Student:Okay.I....I think I get it.Thanks.

二、grand narrative托福听力中文翻译：

听学生和哲学教授之间的对话。

男教授：嗨，梅丽莎，你的论文初稿很粗糙，到目前为止看起来很有希望。

女学生：谢谢。我还有一些书要读。后现代主义极具挑战性。所以

男教授：嗯，你有了一个好的开始。那么，在我下一次约会前几分钟，我们还有关于课堂或后现代主义的其他事情吗？

女学生：嗯，实际上在课堂上，你谈到了一位法国哲学家。利奥塔。你说他不相信故事之类的，故事是无效的。

男教授：好的。我想我看到了，呃，首先，你明白他，呃，记得利奥塔关于这个的话。大叙事？

女学生：不是真的。

男教授：好的，请坐。

女学生：好的。

男教授：这和你思考故事的方式不太一样，不是故事。利奥塔，意思是叙述，作为一种理解世界的方式。

女学生：嗯。我，呃。

男教授：我该如何解释这个宏大的叙事……它就像一个帮助人们理解历史的想法。比如当你想象欧洲中世纪早期的时候，你会怎么想？

女学生：好吧，就像，嗯，当时没有很多文化成就，很多战争，但没有很多重要的艺术或书籍或其他东西，就像是黑暗时代。

男教授：好吧，这是对历史上某个时期的简单解释，对吧？被大多数人接受或理解的事物。这使它成为一个宏大的故事。这是最近的一个。科学进步。

女学生：啊，哈。

男教授：人们关注历史上的重要发明，比如灯泡、汽车和电脑。我们普遍认为，有一个普遍的基本真理，即现代技术使世界变得更美好。这一信念由来已久，人们都认为这是真的。我们甚至不怎么想它。我们只是接受现代技术具有这种效果。

女学生：嗯。它确实让我们的生活更美好。

男教授：好的。这就是利奥塔的用武之地。他认为我们在接受这样的想法时必须小心。他说，这些信念真的把事情简单化了，我们应该更批判性地思考。有没有过这样的时候，技术不会被认为是进步的，因为它不会带来进步？

女学生：哦。我不知道，呃，污染，但我…

男教授：不，不，那很好。很难说污染是改善世界的一种方式。

女学生：但污染不只是…的副作用吗。。。？哦所以这有点违背了关于科技的宏大叙事。这会使事情复杂化。

男教授：是的。这是后现代主义背后的一个基本理念，我们应该对宏大的叙事持怀疑态度，因为它们很可能不是完全正确的。

女学生：你是说？

男教授：嗯，这并不是说宏大的叙事中没有真理。当然只是没有什么事情像看上去那么简单和直接。我们应该批判地看待我们假设的事情。

女学生：好的。一、…我想我明白了。谢谢

三、grand narrative托福听力问题：

Q1:What are the speakers mainly discussing?

A.A paper the woman is writing about a philosopher

B.A disagreement between two philosophers about a term

C.The interpretation of a term used in a philosopher’s work

D.The professor’s opinion about a philosopher

Q2:Why does the professor ask the woman about the early Middle Ages?

A.To elicit an example of a grand narrative

B.To make a point about changes in technology

C.To encourage her to compare two grand narratives

D.To present an example that contradicts Lyotard’s idea

Q3:What points does the professor make about scientific progress?[Click on 2 answers.]

A.Historically,people have believed that it improves the world.

B.According to Lyotard,it has caused more harm than good.

C.It is part of a grand narrative that has changed over time.

D.According to Lyotard,its benefits should be questioned.

Q4:Why does the woman mention pollution?

A.To demonstrate the problem with Lyotard’s claim

B.To ask how important it is in Lyotard’s argument

C.To illustrate the negative effects of technology

D.To introduce another grand narrative

Q5:What does the professor mean when he says this:

A.He is going to change the topic of the conversation.

B.He is going to challenge the woman’s belief.

C.He wants to clarify the time period in question.

D.He wants to correct a statement he made earlier.

四、grand narrative托福听力答案：

A1:正确答案：C

A2:正确答案：A

A3:正确答案：AD

A4:正确答案：C

A5:正确答案：B