Student's Ideas About The Class Assignment托福听力原文翻译及问题答案

Student's Ideas About The Class Assignment托福听力原文翻译及问题答案

一、Student's Ideas About The Class Assignment托福听力原文：

NARRATOR:Listen to a conversation between a student and his art history professor.FEMALE PROFESSOR:How was the museum?

MALE STUDENT:Great.I hadn't been there for a few years.FEMALE PROFESSOR:Did you enjoy the Van Gogh painting?MALE STUDENT:That's the thing.Looks like I have to change my topic....FEMALE PROFESSOR:Hmm...we are getting close to the deadline....You were writing about the theme of night in the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh?It's a wonderful topic......MALE STUDENT:I know...People don't usually think of Van Gogh as an artist of nocturnal themes.They think of brightness,sunshine,all that yellow and orange.FEMALE PROFESSOR:You are right of course about the intense light associated with his daytime paintings.But his night paintings don't exactly lack brightness.MALE STUDENT:That's the paradox that I really like,the paradox of painting a nighttime scene using so much color and light.So I was planning to focus mostly on his painting Starry Night.FEMALE PROFESSOR:But?MALE STUDENT:When I went to the museum to look at the actual painting,like you told me to.It wasn't there.FEMALE PROFESSOR:Really?Isn't it part of the permanent collection?

MALE STUDENT:Yes.But it's on loan right now to a museum in Europe.FEMALE PROFESSOR:Ah,I see.Well,I am strict about having students write about paintings they can observe firsthand.MALE STUDENT:Well,I found another painting I could study instead.

FEMALE PROFESSOR:OK.MALE STUDENT:I read that there are two paintings called Starry Night.The first one was done by the French realist painter Millet.It may have been the inspiration for Van Gogh's painting.Millet's painting is located near my family's house in Connecticut.And I am going there this weekend and could study it then.I made sure it's not out on loan.

FEMALE PROFESSOR:That definitely would work then.Van Gogh copied many of Millet's compositions.We know that he really admired Millet's work.And a lot of us think Van Gogh saw this particular painting by Millet in Paris in the late 1700s.MALE STUDENT:Yeah.Although Millet was a realist painter,and Van Gogh a post-impressionist,the two paintings still share lots of features,not just the name.The most striking shared feature has got to be the amazing light effects.I am excited to go see it.But one other thing...FEMALE PROFESSOR:Uh-huh?MALE STUDENT:I was thinking about getting a head start on my next assignment while I am at the gallery in Connecticut,the assignment on miniatures.They have a lot of miniature portraits of children as part of their permanent collection...FEMALE PROFESSOR:American miniatures?MALE STUDENT:Yeah.So I figured I could also get started on that essay,study a few while I am there.I'd focus on the meaning of the objects that some of the children are holding,some are holding flowers,one child has a rattle,another a toy violin...FEMALE PROFESSOR:That would be fine.Uh,those objects—we call them attributes.The attributes chosen to be included in a particular miniature was often meant to communicate parents'hopes and dreams for their child.So I think you'll learn a lot about how people viewed children at the time the miniature paintings were done.

二、Student's Ideas About The Class Assignment托福听力中文翻译：

旁白：听一位学生和他的艺术史教授的对话。女教授：博物馆怎么样？

男学生：太好了。我已经几年没去了。女教授：你喜欢梵高的画吗？男学生：就是这样。看来我得换个话题了...女教授：嗯……我们快到最后期限了...你在文森特·梵高的画中写的是夜晚的主题？这是一个很好的话题...男学生：我知道...人们通常不认为梵高是一位夜间题材的艺术家。他们想到的是明亮，阳光，所有的黄色和橙色。女教授：当然，你对他白天绘画中的强光是正确的。但他的夜间绘画并不完全缺乏亮度。学生：这就是我真正喜欢的悖论，用如此多的颜色和光线来描绘夜间场景的悖论。所以我打算主要关注他的画作《星夜》。女教授：但是？男学生：当我去博物馆看真实的绘画时，就像你告诉我的那样。它不在那里。女教授：真的吗？这不是永久收藏的一部分吗？

男学生：是的。但它现在被借给了欧洲的一家博物馆。女教授：啊，我明白了。嗯，我严格要求学生写他们可以第一手观察到的画。男学生：嗯，我找到了另一幅我可以学习的画。

女教授：好的。男学生：我读到有两幅画叫《星夜》。第一幅由法国现实主义画家米莱完成。这可能是梵高绘画的灵感来源。米莱的画位于康涅狄格州我家附近。我这个周末要去那里，然后可以研究它。我确保它不是借出去的。

女教授：那肯定行得通。梵高复制了米莱的许多作品。我们知道他非常欣赏米莱的作品。我们中的很多人认为梵高在17世纪末在巴黎看到了米莱的这幅画。尽管米莱是一位现实主义画家，梵高是一位后印象派画家，但这两幅画仍然有很多共同之处，不仅仅是名字。最引人注目的共同特点是惊人的灯光效果。我很高兴去看它。但还有一件事...女教授：嗯？男学生：当我在康涅狄格州的画廊时，我正在考虑在我的下一个任务上取得领先，这是一个关于微缩模型的任务。他们有很多儿童的微型肖像作为他们永久收藏的一部分...女教授：美国微缩模型？男学生：是的。所以我想我也可以开始写这篇文章，在那里学习一些。我会关注一些孩子拿着的东西的含义，一些孩子拿花，一个孩子拿拨浪鼓，另一个孩子玩玩具小提琴...女教授：那就好了。呃，我们称这些对象为属性。选择包含在一个特定的缩影中的属性通常是为了传达父母对孩子的希望和梦想。所以我想你会学到很多关于微型画制作时人们如何看待孩子的知识。

三、Student's Ideas About The Class Assignment托福听力问题：

Q1:1.What are the speakers mainly discussing?

A.The student's idea about his class assignment

B.The influence of one painter on another

C.The student's recent visit to museum in Connecticut

D.The challenges associated with painting at night

Q2:2.Why is the student unable to write about the painting by Van Gogh?

A.It is not on the list of approved paintings that the professor provided.

B.It is not available for the student to study in person.

C.The student does not have enough background knowledge to write about it.

D.Another student has already chosen to write about it.

Q3:3.What does the student say about the painting by Millet?

A.It seemed brighter than he expected.

B.It is on loan to a distant museum.

C.It is his favorite painting.

D.It is located near his family's house.

Q4:4.According to the speakers,what two features do the Van Gogh painting and the Millet painting have in common?[Click on 2 answers.]

A.They have the same name.

B.They exemplify Postimpressionist style.

C.They depict a nighttime scene with a lot of light.

D.They depict the same star constellation.

Q5:5.What does the professor imply about the objects held by children in some American miniature portraits?

A.They increase the value of the portraits.

B.They reveal historical attitudes.

C.They are difficult to analyze.

D.They were often depicted larger than their actual size.

四、Student's Ideas About The Class Assignment托福听力答案：

A1:正确答案：A

A2:正确答案：B

A3:正确答案：D

A4:正确答案：AC

A5:正确答案：B