大连海事大学《考研英语》unit 8 Listening 1.docVIP

Unit Eight Literature and Art Part One Warm-up Listening Literature and Life Task One We care for literature primarily on account of its deep and lasting human significance. A great book grows directly out of life: in reading it, we are brought into large, close, and fresh relations with life; and in that fact lies the final explanation of its power. Literature is a vital record of what men have seen in life, what they have experienced of it, what they have thought and felt about those aspects of it which have the most immediate and enduring interest for all of us. It is thus fundamentally an expression of life through the medium of language. Such expression is fashioned into the various forms of literary art. But it is important to understand, to begin with, that literature lives by virtue of the life which it embodies. By remembering this, we shall be saved from the besetting danger of confounding the study of literature with the study of philology, rhetoric, and even literary technique. Notes: care for: like多用于疑问句和否定句中 primarily: mainly, chiefly on account of: because of vital: very necessary, important immediate: direct enduring: lasting fashion: v. shape, make literary art: 文艺 by virtue of: as a result of; by means of embody: express beset: trouble confound: confuse philology: linguistics语言学，语文学 rhetoric: 修辞学 literary technique: 文学写作技巧 Part Two Focus Listening Mona Lisa Task One It’s too small. It is this smile which has made the painting celebrated It is set behind bullet-proof glass and protected constantly by a guard and a stout railing It is enough that they have glimpsed it, that they have been in the same room, that they have made their pilgrimage. The mystery conveyed by the ambiguous smile which allows everyone to find something special for themselves in the obscure, smoky image. Task Two Mona Lisa: It is an oil on a panel, 77 centimetres tall by 53 centimetres wide, and shows an Italian noblewoman sitting posed, looking at the viewer. The b