Part B Listening Comprehension
Directions: In this part of the test there will be some short talks and conversations. After each one, you will be asked some questions. The talks, conversations and questions will be spoken ONLY ONCE. Now listen carefully and choose the right answer to each question you have heard and write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.
听力原文：M: Have you seen that new film of Oliver Twist, Kathy？
W: Yes, I went last night. How about you？
M: Saw it Monday. Good, isn't it？
W: Mm, it made me want to read the novel again.
M: Me too, but there were so many actors I knew, I couldn't forget who they really were.
W: I know what you mean, but I can't say that worried me. I thought it was great seeing all those famous people.
M: Still, it really brought the world of the novel to life.
W: Yes, there are so many films based on novels which end up falling between two stools, neither a good version of the novel nor something original.
M: You know, it's interesting how, if you look at some 1930s and 1940s films of 192 century novels, they're really rooted in the period they were made, in the way people behaved and related to each other then.
W: Mm, I suppose so.
M: And in the last few years, there's much more effort made to be authentic. Like how people walk. 19th-century clothes are so different from modern ones that people had to walk differently, and women were expected to take small steps. But in some old films the actors moved around as though they were wearing their own clothes. At least that doesn't happen so much these days.
W: But maybe if we saw today's films again in 20 years' time, they'd seem just as dated. It's because we're so close to them that we can't see that they're just as much reflections of our own time as the 1930s films were of theirs. Maybe they actually show more about us and our values than about the novel that they're based on.
M: Oh, surely directors and actors now are aware of the danger, so they actually try to get inside the minds of 19th-century people.
W: Well, we'll see. But you know what disturbs me sometimes is when I know the novel and have a clear picture of a character, and the actor is just wrong for the part.
M: Like when the hero's supposed to be good-looking and you can't imagine anyone falling for him.
W: There was one film I had to walk out of, because the heroine was played as neurotic, and there wasn't a hint of that in the book.
M: Mm. That sort of thing's taking artistic license too far—if you're going to adapt a novel, you shouldn't make any major changes to the characters or the plot.
W: Actually, another thing that struck me is that in films I usually miss the author's voice.
M: But he's sometimes there as an unseen narrator.
W: Mm, but in the novels the writer's there all the time, in little comments, and in films they either don't appear at all, or hardly.
M: Do we need him at all？ People make up their own minds about the characters. They don't need to be nudged in a particular direction by the author.
W: Do you think that's really possible？ After all, the author's created the character and what they do, so we're manipulated into reacting to them in the way he wants us to.
M: Look—suppose he approves of corporal punishment, say, and you don't. You'd judge a father beating his son differently from the way the author would.
W: Mm, but maybe it doesn't matter. Because usually we watch these films as escapism, don't we？ Not as something to take too seriously.
Questions:
1.According to the man, which of the following statements is true about films made in 1930s and 1940s？
2.Kathy mentions that maybe in 20 years' time, today's films would seem just as dated. Why？
3.What does the man mean by suggesting "that sort of thing's taking artistic license too far"？
4.Kathy says she usually misses the author's voice. What does she

Actors in the 1930s and 1940s films pay more attention to the way of walking.
B. Films made in the 1930s and 1940s reflect their own time.
C. In the 1930s and 1940s films, people were wearing their own clothes.
D. Films adaptations of the 1930s and 1940s were more original.