Directions:
You have 20 minutes to plan and write your response. Your response will be judged on the basis of the quality of your writing and on how well your response presents the points in the lecture and their relationship to the reading passage. Typically an effective response will be 150 to 225 words.
Question:Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they respond to the specific arguments made reading passage.
写作原文
Jane Austen (1775-1817) is one of the most famous of all English novelists, and today her novels are more popular than ever, with several recently adapted as Hollywood movies. But we do not have many records of what she looked like. For a long time, the only accepted image of Austen was an amateur sketch of an adult Austen made by her sister Cassandra. However recently a professionally painted, full-length portrait of a teenage girl owned by a member of the Austen family has come up for sale. Although the professional painting is not titled Jane Austen, there are good reasons to believe she is the subject.
First, in 1882, several decades after Austen's death, Austen's family gave permission to use the portrait as an illustration in an edition of her letters. Austen's family clearly recognized it as a portrait of the author. So, for over a century now, the Austen family itself has endorsed the claim that the girl in the portrait is Jane Austen.
Second, the face in the portrait clearly resembles the one in Cassandra's sketch, which we know depicts Austen. Though somewhat amateurish, the sketch communicates definite details about Austen's face. Even though the Cassandra sketch is of an adult Jane Austen, the features are still similar to those of the teenage girl in the painting. The eyebrows, nose, mouth, and overall shape of the face are very much like those in the full-length portrait.
Third, although the painting is unsigned and undated, there is evidence that it was painted when Austen was a teenager. The style links it to Ozias Humphrey, a society portrait painter who was the kind of professional the wealthy Austen family would hire. Humphrey was active in the late 1780s and early 1790s, exactly the period when Jane Austen was the age of the girl in the painting.
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总耗时: 22 m 09 s
word Count: 295
Both the reading and the listening sections discuss whether the portrait was for Jane Austin. While the author states that there are enough reasons to be convinced that a full-length teenage portrait owned by Austen's family members was Jane Austen. The lecturer, however, argues against this point and provides evidence to counterargument.
To begin with, the writer claims that Austen's family linked the portrait to Jane Austen as they were able to identify that the girl in the portrait was Jane Austen.
On the other hand, the professor asserts that the portrait is related to the extended family, as by the time Austen's family authorize using the portrait, Jane has been dead for more than 70 years. Because of that none of those relatives who were claiming that this portrait related to Jane were alive. so to speak, they have never seen her in real life.
Second, the passage shows that the face in the portrait looks like the one in the sketch image of Cassandra. In contrast, the speaker disagrees with this point by saying that the portrait was related to one of Jane's relatives, as she has many cousins who were teens around that time. In addition, this portrait might resemble her niece.
Third, the author illustrates that even though the portrait was unsigned and not dated, It used Humphery's style, who could be hired by Austen's family to paint it. In comparison, the lecturer casts doubt on this view by explaining that this painting could have used Humphery's style, but the stamp of black canvas that was sold by William did not start in London until Austen was around the age of 17 years old, which is older than the age of the girl in the portrait. that is why this point was questionable.
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