最新版英语听力教程 Model Test6-part a

　　[00:03.58]Section I  Listening Comprehension
[00:07.94]Part A  Directions:
[00:11.99]For Questions 1-5,you'll hear a discussion on the Survival of Ballet
[00:18.26]Listen to it and fill out the table with the information you've heard.
[00:23.72]Some of the information has been given to you in the table.
[00:28.87]Write only 1 word or number in each numbered box.
[00:34.19]You now have 25 seconds to read the table below.
[00:39.47]W:The world of ballet is a world of beauty and fantasy.
[00:46.50]It is an escape from the real world.
[00:50.76]But ballet exists in the real world and
[00:55.43]in the real world everything needs money
[01:00.40]The money we can afford for art is getting more and more scarce.
[01:07.24]Can ballet and other expensive arts survive
[01:12.10]I spoke¹ to Tony Barlow who used to be a ballet dancer and is now
[01:19.36]Press Officer for the London Festival Ballet
[01:24.40]M:We must sell ourselves.
[01:28.27]We have to do this in the modern world.
[01:32.21]Art must compete in the market-place,
[01:36.47]W:You make art sound like business.  M:Well,in some ways we're a business
[01:43.03]Today we have posters leaflets andadvertisements.
[01:48.49]We have to use these in order to survive.
[01:52.88]W:But can art pay for itself?
[01:57.00]M:No.We must pay our orchestras and our seventy dancers.
[02:03.45]We have to buy scenery and
[02:07.24]costumes and the cost of travelling and administration is very high.
[02:12.81]Even when the theatres are full,the money we get is not enough.
[02:17.67]So,we're given money by the Arts Council and the Greater London Council.
[02:24.22]W:How much?  M:About 1,875,300 pounds.
[02:31.17]W:So how much does a ballet ticket really cost the public?
[02:37.62]M:The cheapest tickets is `2.
[02:42.30]But if we didn't get a subsidy<sup>2</sup> it would cost from `20 to `25.
[02:48.96]The Royal Opera is already charging `37 and that's with the subsidy.
[02:56.22]W:But art is "truth and beauty".
[03:00.98]Does truth and beauty really need so much money?
[03:06.44]M:Yes.This is spectacular art.
[03:11.01]Ballets such as "Sleeping Beauty"and "Swan Lake"
[03:15.37]were made in a time of splendour
[03:19.52]We're not in a time of splendour now,but people still want to see these ballets.
[03:25.90]However,if we find that we can't do ballets in the traditional way,
[03:31.96]we find other ways.
[03:35.51]You can do a lot with lighting³ and cheap materials.
[03:40.26]Also,we're looking for the ballet which don't need such expensive costumes and scenery
[03:47.63]We are training our dancers to do more than dance.
[03:52.39]They are taught acting,make-up and stage-lighting.
[03:57.43]Ballet is becoming more a part of the theatre.

1 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

2 subsidy   

n.补助金，津贴

参考例句：

• The university will receive a subsidy for research in artificial intelligence.那个大学将得到一笔人工智能研究的补助费。
• The living subsidy for senior expert's family is included in the remuneration.报酬已包含高级专家家人的生活补贴。

3 lighting   

n.照明，光线的明暗，舞台灯光

参考例句：

• The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替。
• The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.那个餐馆照明柔和而且浪漫。