2016年12月大学英语四级新闻听力练习(42)

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　　自2016年6月英语四级考试起，四级听力新添加了短篇新闻。相对的，听力的难度也有所增加。但是再难的题目也禁不住多多的练习！文都教育提醒各位考生，要打起精神来迎战12月四六级考试，万不可轻敌松懈~唯有地基牢固才有摩天大楼，以下是小编为各位考生们准备的四级新闻听力练习，各位赶紧get起来吧!
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　　Vivian Maier was a children's nanny from Chicago.She died 5 years ago, an 83-year old with no heirsand barely a dollar to her name. She was also ahoarder. And inside hundreds of boxes were over150,000 undeveloped negatives from a camera shecarried everywhere. Now discovered, the imagesmake up a vast archive of street photography and portraits. And Vivian Maier is becomingregarded as a great American photographer of the 20th century. Her story has beendocumented by the film maker Charlie Siskel.
　　Well, Vivian was a nanny. She was a babysitter and sometimes a maid and at other points in herlife to care of the elderly. But that was her public self. Privately, she was a brilliant artist whoyear after year, decade after decade was creating over 150,000 incredible images.
　　What struck you most in terms of what she shot and what she was interested in and what kindof stories she was telling?
　　She had a particular knack for capturing street life, in particular a seedier side of life, peopleon the fringes of society. And I think Vivian felt like an outsider. And I think she had a naturalempathy for those people who like herself were forgotten and a bit invisible. Because she wasan outsider, I mean here she is living with these families, and yet she is not part of the family.So I think she really trained herself as a kind of spy. She described herself as the mysterywoman and really cultivated her ability to see people as they really are. She was a force ofnature. She was very engaged in the world. And she was a kind of guerilla journalist both interms of photo journalism, her photography and audio recordings where she would interviewpeople. She kept all of these things to herself. She kept things very much to herself. She didn'tover share as many of us do now. Especially in terms of photography, you know, she kept herphotographs private whereas the rest of us post every photograph of every meal we eat andevery sunset we see on Facebook and Instagram. So the film when I began working on it, Ithought that it was a story of a nanny who somehow happened to take these incrediblephotographs.
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　　薇薇安•迈尔生前是芝加哥的一位保姆。五年前，薇薇安去世，享年83岁，没有子女，没有遗产。她同时也是一个收藏家，随身携带照相机拍照，因此她的几百个盒子中有超过15万个未冲洗的底片。这些照片构成了街拍和人物肖像照的大资料库。薇薇安•迈尔被逐渐公认为20世纪伟大的摄影师。电影制片人Charlie Siskel记录了她的故事。
　　薇薇安是一位保姆，大部分工作是照顾小孩，有时也做些家务，还有一段时间伺候老人。但这只是她在大家眼里的形象。其实她在私底下是一名有才气的艺术家。日复一日，年复一年，她拍摄出超过15万张极佳的照片。
　　就她的拍摄作品，她的兴趣点以及她所讲述的故事来说，哪一点最能打动你？
　　她对拍摄街头生活，特别是社会底层、社会边缘人们的生活有独到的技巧。我觉得薇薇安把自己当作一个局外人。她对于那些像她一样被遗忘和忽视的人有天然的同情心。因为她就是个局外人，她在美国和主人家住在一起，却不是家庭的一份子。所以我认为她在有意把自己培养为暗中观察的人。她把自己定义为神秘女人，培养自己对人的洞察力。她做这件事的动机是很自然的，她很积极地参与世事，就像一个流动工作的记者，无论是在摄影方面，还是在采访录音方面。她的作品只有自己能看到，没有对外公开。她不像现在的我们一样时刻都在分享。特别是摄影方面，她的作品都是给自己看的，相反，我们把无论是吃饭的照片还是日落的照片都发在Facebook和Instagram上面。所以，当我开始拍摄这部电影时，我就认为这是一个保姆恰好有天分拍摄绝佳照片的故事。