2007年英语专业八级考试听力真题（附mp3及答案）

2007年英语专业八级考试听力真题（附mp3及答案）

ECTION A Mini-lecture 听力试题

　　In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You willhear the lecture once only. While listening, takenotes on the important points. You notes will not be marked, but you will need them tocomplete a gap-filling task for after the mini-lecture. When the lecture is over, you will be giventwo minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task onAnswer sheet one. Use the blank sheet for note-tanking.

　　What Can We Learn from Art?

　　I. Introduction

　　A. Differences between general history and art history

　　— Focus:

　　— general history: (1)_____

　　— art history: political values, emotions, everyday life, etc.

　　B. Significance of study

　　More information and better understanding of human society and civilization

　　II. Types of information

　　A. Information in history books is (2)_____

　　— facts, but no opinions

　　B. Information in art history is subjective

　　— (3)_____ and opinions

　　e.g. — Spanish painter's works: misuse of governmental power

　　— Mexican artists' works: attitudes towards social problems

　　III. Art as a reflection of religious beliefs

　　A. Europe: (4)_____ in pictures in churches

　　B. Middle East: pictures of flowers and patterns in mosques, palaces

　　Reason: human and (5)_____ are not seen as holy

　　C. Africa and the Pacific Islands: masks, headdresses and costumes in special ceremonies

　　Purpose: to seek the help of (6)_____ to protect crops, animals and people.

　　IV. Perceptions of Art

　　How people see art is related to their cultural background.

　　A. Europeans and Americans

　　— (7)_____

　　— expression of ideas

　　B. People in other places

　　— part of everyday life

　　— (8)_____ use

　　V. Art as a reflection of social changes

　　A. Cause of changes: (9)_____ of different cultures.

　　B. Changes

　　— tribal people: effects of (10)_____ on art forms

　　— European artists: influence of African traditional art in their works

　　— American and Canadian artists: study of Japanese painting

　　SECTION A MNNI-LECTURE听力原文

　　In this section you will hear a mini-lecture.You willhear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening, takenotes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them tocomplete a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture.When the lecture is over, you will be given twominutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task onANSWER SHEET ONE.Use the blank sheet for note-taking.

　　Now listen to the Mini-lecture.

　　Good morning, today’s lecture is the very first of a series of lectures on art history, so I’d liketo spend some time discussing with you the following topic: Why do we need to study arthistory? And what can we learn from it?

　　First of all, I’d say, if you study art history, this might be a good way to learn more about aculture than it’s possible to learn in general history classes. You know, most typical historycourses concentrate on politics,economics and war, but art history focuses on much morethan this. Because art reflects not only the political values of a people, but also their religiousbeliefs, emotions etc. In addition, information about the daily activities of our ancestors can beprovided by art, like what people did for a living, what kind of dress they wore, what ceremoniesthey held etc. In short, art can express the essential qualities of a time and a place, and thestudy of it clearly offers us a deeper understanding than can be found in most history booksand enables us to learn more things about human society and civilization.

　　The second point I’d like to make is about the type of information. In history books, informationis objective, that is facts about political economic life of a country are given,but opinions arenot expressed.Art, on the other hand, is subjective.It reflects personal emotions andopinions. For example, Francisco Goya was a great Spanish painter and also perhaps the firsttruly political artist. In his famous painting, The Third of May 1808, he showed soldiers shootinga group of simple people. His description of soldiers and their victims has become a symbol ofthe enormous power or the misuse of this power that the government can have over itspeople. Over 100 years later, on another continent, the powerful paintings of Mexican artistsdepicted their deep anger and sadness about social problems.In summary, through art youcan find a personal and emotional view of history.

　　Thirdly, art can reflect a culture’s religious beliefs. For hundreds of years in Europe, religiousart was almost the only type of art that existed. Churches and other religious buildings werefilled with paintings that showed people and stories from the Bible. By contrast, one of themain characteristics of art in the Middle East was (and still is), its absence of human andanimal images. This reflects the Islamic belief that these images are unholy. Thus, on palaces,mosques and other buildings, Islamic artists have created unique decoration of great beautywith images of flowers of geometric forms, for example, circles, squares and triangles. The sameis true of other places, like Africa and Pacific Islands. Art also reflects the religious beliefs oftraditional cultures in these places. As a matter of fact, religion is the purpose for this art andit’s, therefore, absolutely essential to it. Traditional art in Africa and Pacific Islands is differentfrom Christian art. Christian art influences people’s religious feelings towards God. But the goalof traditional art in Africa and Pacific Islands is the influence of spiritual powers, That is godsto enter people’s lives. Each tribe or village there had special ceremonies with songs and dancesto make sure that crops, animals and people are healthy and increasing in number. The dancersin the ceremonies wear masks， Head dresses and costumes that they believe are necessary toinfluence gods. So these masks, head dresses themselves, are revelry part of the art. As wesaid, art depends on culture, different forms of art result from different cultures. Similarly, theway that people view art also depends on their cultural background. This is my fourth point. Formost Europeans and Americans, art is mainly for decoration. It is something on a museum wallor in a glass case. It makes their homes more attractive. People look at it and admire it: "Oh,what a beautiful painting!" Besides, ideas are expressed in this art. This is a wonderful statue,and admiring it,I might say: "It makes such a strong anti-war statement." But in other places,art is not considered to be separated from everyday existence. It has a function, it has apractical role to play in people’s lives. A person in a tribal society might look at a mask and say: "Oh, this is a good mask. It would keep my house safe." In brief, the way in which people enjoyor appreciate art depends on their culture. To conclude my lecture, we can say that art is areflection of various cultures. But at the same time, we have to remember that art also reflectsthe changes in society that take place when different cultures influence one another. As peoplefrom tribal societies move to urban areas, their values and beliefs change accordingly and theirtraditional art forms begin to lose their function. At the same time, urban artists begin tolearn a lot from traditional art. For example, African masks and figures had a great influence onPicasso’s works. And many American and Canadian artists study the simplicity of Japanesepainting. The result is that as the world gets smaller, the art of each culture becomes moreinternational.

　　OK, this brings us to the end of our lecture. I hope that after today’s lecture, you’llunderstand better the significance of the study of art history. Art enables us to know moreabout human history, for example,people’s views and opinions about certain historical events,and what’s more important, about different cultures, their religious beliefs, perception of artetc.

　　Now you have 2 minutes to check your notes. And then please complete the gap-filling task onAnswer Sheet 1 in 10 minutes.

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