托福TPO听力文本1-15.doc

TPO 01 – Listening PartSection 1ConversationNarratorListen to part of a conversation between a student and a librarian.StudentHi, um…, I really hope you can help me.LibrarianThat’s why I’m here. What can I do for you?StudentI’m supposed to do a literature review for my psychology course, but um… having a hard timefinding articles. I don’t even know where to start looking.LibrarianYou said this is for your psychology course, right? So your focus is on …StudentDream Interpretation.LibrarianWell, you have a focus, so that’s already a good start. Hmmm… well, there’re a few things… ohwait… have you checked to see if your professor put any material for you to look at on reserve?StudentAha, that’s one thing I did know to do. I just copied an article, but I still need three more on mytopic from three different journals.LibrarianLet’s get you going on looking for those then. We have printed versions of twenty psychologyjournals in the Reference Section. These are the ones published within the last year. Then I thinkabout it… there’s a journal named Sleep and Dream.StudentOh, yeah, the article I just copied is from that journal, so I’ve got to look at other sources.LibrarianOk, actually, most of our materials are available electronically now. You can access psychologydatabases or electronic journals and articles through the library’s computers, and if you want tosearch by title with the word ‘dream’ for example, just type it in and all the articles with ‘dream’in the title will come up on the screen.StudentCool, that’s great! Too bad I cannot do this from home.LibrarianBut you can. All of the library’s databases and electronic sources can be accessed through anycomputer connected to the university network.StudentReally?! I can’t believe I didn’t know that. It still sounds like it’s going to take a while though, youknow, going through all of that information, all of those sources.LibrarianMaybe, but you already narrow your search down to articles on Dream Interpretation, so itshouldn’t be too bad. And you probably notice that there’s an abstract or summary at the top ofthe first page of the article you copied. When you go into the databases and electronic sources,you have the option to display the abstracts on the computer screen, skimming those to decidewhether or not you want to read the whole article should cut down some time.StudentRight, abstracts! They’ll definitely make the project more durable. I guess I should try out theelectronic search while I’m still here then, you know, just in case.LibrarianSure, er… that computer’s free over there, and I’ll be here till five this afternoon.StudentThanks, I feel a lot better about this assignment now.LectureNarratorListen to part of a lecture in a contemporary art class.ProfessorOk, I’m going to begin this lecture by giving you your next assignment. Remember I said that atsome point during this semester I wanted you to attend an exhibit at the Fairy Street Gallery andthen write about it? Well, the exhibit that I want you to attend is coming up. It’s already startedin fact, but it’ll be at the gallery for the next month, which should give you plenty of time tocomplete this assignment.The name of the artist exhibiting there is Rose Frantzen. Frantzen’s work may be unfamiliar toyou since she’s a relatively young artist. But she’s got a very unusual style, compared to some ofthe artists we’ve looked at this term. But anyway, Frantzen’s style is what she herself callsRealistic Impressionism. So you’ve probably studied both of these movements separately,separate movements, Realism and Impressionism, in some of your art history courses. So whocan just sum these up?StudentWell, Impressionism started in the late 19th century. Um…the basic impressionist style was verydifferent from earlier styles. It didn’t depict scenes or models exactly as they looked. Um…Impressionist painters tended to apply paint really thickly, and in big brushstrokes, so the textureof the canvas was rough.ProfessorGood. What else? What were the subjects?StudentWell, a lot of impressionist artists painted everyday scenes, like people on the streets and incafes, lots of nature scenes, especially landscapes.ProfessorGood. So when you go to the exhibit, I really want you to take a close look at a certain painting.It’s a farm scene. And you will see it right as you enter the gallery. The reason I think this paintingis so important is that it stresses the impressionist aspect of Frantzen’s style. It’s an outdoorscene, an everyday scene. It’s kind of bleak, which you can really see those broad brushstrokesand the blurry lines. The colors aren’t quite realistic. The sky is kind of, well, in a natural… pinkishyellow. And the fence in the foreground is blue, but somehow the overall scene gives animpression of a cold, bleak, winter day on a farm. So that’s the impressionist side of her work.Oh, and speaking about farms, that reminds me. One interesting thing I read about Franzten isthat when she first moved back。