2013年12月大学英语四级听力真题第2套+答案+原文+评析_大学英语听力

2013年12月大学英语四级听力真题第2套+答案+原文+评析

　　20. What does the speaker think residents in an apartment building need to be?

　　21. What started a battle of letters in the laundry C) room?

　　22.What does the speaker think might be a better way to resolve the problem?

　　Passage Three

　　In todays class, well discuss Toni Morrisons novel Beloved. As Im sure you all know, (23)Morrison is both a popular and highly respected author and its not easy to be both. Bornin 1931, Morrison has written some of the most touching and intelligent works on the African-American experience ever written by anyone. And yet to call her an African-American writerdoesnt seem to do her justice. In many ways, shes simply an American writer and certainly oneof the best. Beloved is a truly remarkable work. It was recommended for nearly every natureliterary class, including the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, andit in fact won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988. (24) Morrison herself is distinguished forhaving won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993. What makes Beloved unique is the skillfulsure way in which Morrison blends intensely personal storytelling and American history, racialthemes and gender themes, the experience of blacks with the experience of all peopleeverywhere, the down-to-earth reality of slavery with the sense of mysterious spirituality. Wewill be paying special attention to these themes as we discuss this work and Im particularlyinterested in your views on the relative importance of grace and gender in this book. (25)Is itmore important that Sethe, the main character is black, or that she is a woman? Whichcontributes more to her being? What does Morrison tell us about both?