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[00:09.09]Listen and check your answers.
[00:14.16]Conversation 1
[00:18.70]I went and saw an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery earlier in the week.
[00:25.36]Oh,did you?What was it?
[00:29.13]It was a collection of photos from the first lunar landing.
[00:34.38]Oh,readdy?It sounds quite interesting.What was it like?
[00:40.44]Quite good,actually,the photos were really great,quite amazing-some of them.
[00:47.60]So,you’d recommend it,then?
[00:51.15]Yes,you should go and see it.
[00:54.91]Conversation 2
[01:03.37]I went and saw that new exhibition at the National Gallery the other day.
[01:10.64]Oh,did you?Which one’s that again?
[01:15.31]Oh,it was this collection of Flemish paintings from the seventeenth century.
[01:21.37]Oh really?What was it like?
[01:25.63]Well,I didn’t think much of it myself.It was all a bit dull,you know.
[01:31.38]So,you wouldn’t recommend it,then?
[01:35.35]No,I’d give it a miss,if I were you-
[01:39.79]unless you really like that sort of thing,of course.
[01:43.86]Recommending expressions
[01:58.91]Listen and check your answers.Which expressions recommend an exhibition?
[02:08.05]Which do not?
[02:11.11]1.It’s OK if you’re into that sort of thing.
[02:16.46]2.It’s a must.
[02:23.12]3.I really recommend it.
[02:30.18]4.I’d give it a miss if I were you.
[02:37.15]5.It’s well worth a visit.
[02:43.81]6.It’s not worth the entrance fee.
[02:50.48]7.It’s not really my cup of tea.
[02:57.14]2. While you read  Art Attack
[03:13.18]It’s November,which means it’s the time of year
[03:18.74]when the papers are full of acticles by people who are shocked about art.
[03:24.59]This is because in November the Tate Gallery on London
[03:30.16]holds the annual Turner Prize exhibition of modern art.
[03:35.61]Each year four of the best British artists
[03:40.34]are selected from all those who have exhibited during the year
[03:45.10]and of these,one is chosen.
[03:49.56]For the most part,the shock journalists express is not moral outrage1,
[03:56.33]but more of the ’You call that art?!’variety.
[04:01.79]We are treated to string of the usual complaints and cliches:
[04:07.54]’Anyone could od that!’’My five-year-old daughter could do better than that.’
[04:14.01]’A bed in the middle of a room!Where’s the skill in that?’
[04:19.58]’Whatever happened to people just painting pictures?’
[04:25.14]’Fifty thousand pounds for that!You’re pulling my leg.’etc.etc.
[04:32.40]Well,personally,I’m sick of it-the journalists complaining,that is-not the art.
[04:39.56]The only thing which is predicable,boring,and money for nothing is their writing.
[04:47.82]These people just want art to be pretty pictures.
[04:53.77]For them,it’s just an extension of interior2 design
[04:59.23]-something which will match the sofa or look good in the bedroom.
[05:04.80]For me,the worst thing anyone could say about art is that it looks quite nice.
[05:12.35]Art should make you think.
[05:16.60]Art should be the result of artists thinking about the world
[05:22.38]they see and their reactions to it.
[05:26.74]It shouldn’t be about seeing something and saying,
[05:31.89]’Oh,that looks nice.I’ll paint that and make it look just like a photograph,
[05:38.65]and I’ll take ten years to do it,
[05:42.49]’which is what these journalists seem to think is required of art.
[05:47.95]I have made a selection3 of some of the previous Turner Prize entrants
[05:54.30]-I know journalists do not like to spend time doing research for themselves,
[06:00.33]so I’ve done it for them.
[06:03.96]Perhaps they could ask the question Wolfgang Tillmans,a previous winner,poses.
[06:10.81]’These scenarios5 might appear strange to some people,
[06:16.56]but I try to ask through them,what is so strange here,
[06:22.62]the scenario4 in the picture,the would around you,
[06:27.89]society,your ideas about beauty or my ideas about beauty?’
[06:35.15]Richard Long caused outrage with his work,
[06:41.71]which was a line of bricks laid on the floor of the gallery.
[06:46.96]He made a similar piece with bits of slate,a kind of grey stone,
[06:53.91]which he’d found on a walk in the countryside.
[06:58.17]Martin Creed6 won the prize with a piece which involved the audience
[07:04.65]walking into an empty gallery space and the lights suddenly being turned off
[07:10.99]and then sometime later turned back on again.
[07:15.57]Rachel Whiteread uses common objects as a mould.
[07:21.63]She fills the inside with concrete
[07:25.99]and exhibits the sculptures with the objects removed.
[07:30.74]She has used tables,chairs,bookcases and,most famously,a whole house.
[07:38.29]Simon Patterson,in a work called ’The Great Bear’,
[07:44.17]painted a replica7 of the London Underground map,
[07:49.03]but repplaced the names of the stations with the names of famous people from history.
[07:55.09]Chris Ofilli paints religious figures,
[08:00.44]and as well as paint uses other media such as mud and elephant dung.
[08:07.39]Mayor Giuliani in New York once tried to ban one of his works of the Virgin8 Mary
[08:14.55]because he said it was an insult to the Catholic9 religion.
[08:19.72]Tracy Emin was famous for making an installation
[08:25.47]of her slept-in bed in the middle of a gallery.
[08:29.91]She also made a tent and pinned on the inside the names of all the men she’d slept with.
[08:37.46]Douglas Gordon won for showing Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller,’Psycho’,
[08:44.23]which he slowed down so much that it took twenty-four hours to play instead of two.
[08:51.07]Personally,I don’t really care if you don’t like these pieces;
[08:57.91]that’s not the point.
[09:01.15]What should be absolutely clear,though,
[09:05.41]is that these ideas are not the work of five-year-olds,
[09:11.05]but of creative,intelligent adults.
[09:15.78]It’s a shame we can’t say the same of some journalists and critics!
[09:21.95]1. Oh,that reminds me!
[09:33.10]Listen and check your answers.
[09:37.85]1.I visited Alan in hospital last Friday to see how he was getting on.
[09:44.80]Oh,did you?I keep meaning to go and see him myself.How was he?
[09:51.28]2.I spent all day Sunday catching10 up on all my mail.
[10:00.53]Oh,that reminds me.I must send in my passport application.
[10:06.20]3.I went and saw that musical,Chicago,last week.
[10:14.84]Oh,I’ve been meaning to go and see that for ages.
[10:20.12]Was it as good as everybody says?
[10:24.38]4.I went round to Mike and Sue’s the other day to see
[10:32.11]that new car they’ve been telling everyone about.
[10:36.24]Oh,that reminds me.I must give them a call.
[10:41.52]I haven’t spoken to them for ages.
[10:45.46]5.I went down to Bristol for the weekend a couple of weeks ago.
[10:54.89]Oh,really.I’ve been thinking about having a weekend away myself.
[11:00.77]Were you camping or what?
[11:04.53]6.I just stayed in last night and watched TV.
[11:12.99]There’s a great thing on on Fridays at the moment about Antarctica.
[11:18.77]Oh,that reminds me.I must record that new thing on Channel Four tonight.
[11:24.62]It’s meant to be really funny.
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1 outrage hvOyI     
n.暴行,侮辱,愤怒;vt.凌辱,激怒
参考例句:
  • When he heard the news he reacted with a sense of outrage.他得悉此事时义愤填膺。
  • We should never forget the outrage committed by the Japanese invaders.我们永远都不应该忘记日本侵略者犯下的暴行。
2 interior 54gyR     
adj.在内的,内部的,内地的,国内的;n.内部
参考例句:
  • There is water in the interior of the cave.在山洞的内部有水。
  • They went into the interior room.他们进了内室。
3 selection EZ3xX     
n.选择,挑选,精选品,可选择的东西
参考例句:
  • We left the selection of the team to the captain.我们把挑选队员的工作交给了队长。
  • The shop has a fine selection of cheeses.那家商店有各种精美乳酪可供选购。
4 scenario lZoxm     
n.剧本,脚本;概要
参考例句:
  • But the birth scenario is not completely accurate.然而分娩脚本并非完全准确的。
  • This is a totally different scenario.这是完全不同的剧本。
5 scenarios f7c7eeee199dc0ef47fe322cc223be88     
n.[意]情节;剧本;事态;脚本
参考例句:
  • Further, graphite cores may be safer than non-graphite cores under some accident scenarios. 再者,根据一些事故解说,石墨堆芯可比非石墨堆芯更安全一些。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
  • Again, scenarios should make it clear which modes are acceptable to users in various contexts. 同样,我们可以运用场景剧本来搞清楚在不同情境下哪些模式可被用户接受。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
6 creed uoxzL     
n.信条;信念,纲领
参考例句:
  • They offended against every article of his creed.他们触犯了他的每一条戒律。
  • Our creed has always been that business is business.我们的信条一直是公私分明。
7 replica 9VoxN     
n.复制品
参考例句:
  • The original conservatory has been rebuilt in replica.温室已按原样重建。
  • The young artist made a replica of the famous painting.这位年轻的画家临摹了这幅著名的作品。
8 virgin phPwj     
n.处女,未婚女子;adj.未经使用的;未经开发的
参考例句:
  • Have you ever been to a virgin forest?你去过原始森林吗?
  • There are vast expanses of virgin land in the remote regions.在边远地区有大片大片未开垦的土地。
9 catholic irxzd     
adj.天主教的;n.天主教徒
参考例句:
  • The Pope is the supreme leader of the Roman Catholic Church.教皇是罗马天主教的最高领袖。
  • She was a devoutly Catholic.她是一个虔诚地天主教徒。
10 catching cwVztY     
adj.易传染的,有魅力的,迷人的,接住
参考例句:
  • There are those who think eczema is catching.有人就是认为湿疹会传染。
  • Enthusiasm is very catching.热情非常富有感染力。

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