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高级口译0303听力原文汇总合集（5）

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　　2010秋季上海口译考试报名通知

　　中级口译考试介绍：

　　具有大学英语四级和同等英语能力水平的考生可以报考。

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　　上海中级口译的笔试和口试虽然是分开进行的，但其笔试的证书在社会上却有很高的认可度。现在中国受金融风暴的影响，各大公司纷纷裁员，但中高级口译等高等专业人才仍存在很大的缺口。

　　为了方便广大口译考生备战秋季的考试，新东方在线口译频道特别汇总整理了近九年来的中级口译听力原文，供考生复习备考。

　　高级口译0303听力原文汇总合集（5）

　　Questions 16 to 20

　　The second of the two great Florentine artists, who make the art of the Italian 16th century so famous, was, of course, Michelangelo Buonarroti, who was born in 1475 and died in 1564. Michelangelo was 23 years younger than Leonardo, and outlived him by 45 years. When he was 13, he was apprenticed for 3 years to the busy workshop of the late 15th century. However, Michelangelo did not particularly enjoy his time in this rather traditional workshop. His ideas about art were rather different. Instead of absorbing the fossil manner of Ghirlandajo, he went out to study the work of the great masters of the past: Giotto Donatello, and the Greek and Roman sculptors who knew how to represent every detail of the human body in movement. Like Leonardo Da Vinci, he was not content with learning the laws of the anatomy secondhand, and made his own research by dissecting bodies and drawing from living models until the human body held no secrets for him. But unlike Leonardo Da Vinci, for whom man was only one of the fascinating puzzles of the nature, Michelangelo strove with incredible singleness of purpose to master this one problem as fully as possible. His power of concentration and retentive memory must have been so great that soon there was no posture or movement which he could not draw. By the age of 30, he was acknowledged as one of the outstanding masters of the age, equal in his way to the genius of Leonardo Da Vinci. Most of us know his famous sculpture David. However, his greatest work was the ceiling of Sistine Chapel commissioned by Pope Julius II. It was something Michelangelo tried to evade by saying he was a sculptor, not a painter. He started work on the modest design, but suddenly changed his mind, shutting himself up in the chapel, let no one come near him, and started the work on the plan which would, as he said, amaze the world. It is very difficult for us to imagine how one human being could achieve what Michelangelo achieved in nearly four years of lonely work on the scaffoldings in the Papal chapel. The physical exertion of preparing the scenes in elaborate detail and painting this huge fresco while lying on his back a few inches from the surface of the ceiling and looking upwards all the time is amazing. But this is nothing compared to the intellectual and artistic achievement. The riches of new inventions, the mastery of execution in every detail, and above all, the grandeur of the visions which Michelangelo revealed to those who came after him have given mankind quite a new idea of the power of genius. So let’s now look at our first slide, which is probably the most famous detail from the ceiling: The creation of Adam. Most of us, of course, have seen it so often on postcards, in books, even on CD covers that it is difficult to see it with fresh eyes. But we must try to forget what we know.

　　16. In this lecture, to whom is Michelangelo constantly compared?

　　17. Why didn’t Michelangelo particularly enjoy his time in the workshop where he was an apprentice?

　　18. Which of the following is the greatest work of Michelangelo according to the lecture?

　　19. For approximately how long did he work on this great work?

　　20. According to the lecturer, why is it difficult for us to see Michelangelo’s greatest work with the fresh eyes?

　　本文选自新东方口译名师裴晓栋的blog,blog链接地址：http://blog.hjenglish.com/peixiaodong