听力试题

Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed，listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings，the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase，with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through your work once more.

Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET ONE.

Cartoon Artist

答案详解

【听力原文】

In a good cartoon, /the artist can tell in a few lines / as much as a writer can tell in half a dozen paragraphs. The cartoon artist not only tells a story/but he also tries persuade the reader to his way of thinking. /He has great influence on public opinion. /In a political campaign，he plays an important part. /Controversial issues in Congress or at meetings of the United Nations /may keep the cartoon artist well-supplied with Current materials. /A clever cartoon artist may cause laughter/ because he often uses humor in his drawings. /If he is sketching a famous person, /he takes a prominent feature and exaggerates it. /Cartoon artists, for instance, /like lengthen an already long nose and to widen an already broad grin. /The artist uses such exaggeration to put his message across.

【核心词汇】

campaign n.运动；战役

controversial a.引起争论的，有争议的

exaggerate v.夸张；扩大

prominent a.卓越的，杰出的

sketch v.素描；速写；草拟

cartoon artist 漫画家