为了帮助大家更好的备考新托福考试，特地带来新托福听力题目:罗丹的雕塑The Burghers of Calais。

　　新托福听力题考试日期

　　2017年7月08日

　　结构：对比信息

　　But this wasn’t what the town council of Calais had in mind, when they commissioned Rodin to commemorate the event, they wanted Rodin to portray burghers at an earlier stage of the narrative, where they still wore fine garments. They expected the man to look determined and brave like proud heroes, which was the traditional approach to commemorative sculptures. Rodin, however, wanted the sculpture to be more realistic, I mean, I think Rodin was trying to make a valuable point, shouldn’t the men look weak and vulnerable like any ordinary human being would look like at such circumstances.

　　注意信号词和容易听错的词，其中vulnerable解释为，容易受到伤害的。

　　内容：艺术家的创作理念

　　First of all, the hands and feet of the figures were disproportionately large compared to the rest of their bodies. Rodin literally waved the men down to show that they were burdened by their decisions, that they were questioning whether they all have the strength to go through with it.

　　罗丹的创作理念是他把手脚雕的比例和正常比例不一样(disproportionately)，这样就能感到他们burdened(这个词很多人没有听出来)by their decisions.

　　But this wasn’t the only way Rodin departed from convention. It was typical in Rodin’s time to portray a group of people in a hierarchical arrangement with a most prominent figure in the highest position. Rodin didn’t do that for The Burghers of Calais, choosing instead to have all six figures stand on the same level.Actually, it’s difficult to distinguish who the most important person is, or even if there is one, this sets viewers’ concentrate on the individual figures. In fact, Rodin forces viewers to look at the individual figures.

　　罗丹的创作理念是，不要把一群人分成三六九等(hierarchical很多人听不出来)，而是要把每个人都被人注意到。

　　评价

　　However, Rodin worked definitely points in a different direction for sculpture. The Burghers of Calais is a clear departure from the cold, impersonal smothernessof the classical tradition. It had a strong influence on other sculptors of Rodin’s time, and I think it’s fair to say that it helped to determine the trend of modern sculpture.

　　这个评价其实不好懂，容易走偏，注意，里面的impersonal不是什么个人主义，这种意思，而是没有人情味的，这种 impersonal smotherness 是对当时雕塑风格的描述，罗丹远离这样的风格，其实也是能够唤起人们内心对于现代雕塑内容的真正追求。

　　选项和答案

　　What does the professor mainly discuss?

　　Rodin’s approach to the creation of a historical monument.

　　According to the professor, why did Rodin show the burghers dressed in plain clothes instead of fine garments?

　　To communicate a sense of the burghers’ powerlessness.

　　What does the professor imply about the town council members who commissioned the sculpture?

　　They wanted a sculpture made in the conventional style.

　　Why did Rodin exaggerate the size of the hands and feet of the men in his sculpture?

　　To portray the difficulty of the men’s decision.

　　Why did Rodin choose to have the figures in his sculpture looking in different directions?

　　To encourage viewers to look at the sculpture from all sides,

　　According to the professor, in what way was Rodin’s sculpture The Burghers of Calais typical for Rodin’s time?

　　It attempted to elicit an emotional reaction in viewers.

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