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 spoke 1 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 2 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 lighting 3 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.