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常錯題：

3. Why does the professor mention Jack Vance?

• A.To encourage the man to write a paper about Planet of Adventure

• B.To support her point that some authors should be researched more

• C.To indicate a way for the man to begin looking for a suitable topic

• D.To demonstrate that science fiction is gaining attention from scholars

B出現(xiàn)在對話開始，不在答題區(qū)間。

聽力原文：

Listen to a conversation between a student and a literature professor.

Student: How was that conference last weekend, Professor Miles?

Professor: Great! I heard some really terrific presentations, refreshing topics too that obviously you don’t usually hear too much about.?

Student: Why not?

Professor: Oh, well, you know, it’s a funny thing about?academia, you’d think scholars would do research about every topic imaginable, but actually some authors, some genres, are not respected very much, so not very much is written about them,?Gothic?literature, detective novels...

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academia?/??k??di?mi?/ 學(xué)術(shù)界

Gothic?/?ɡɑ?θ?k/?哥特的

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Student: But that’s what the conference was about?

【這里打斷老師有點不禮貌誒，說明心里有事兒啊~

“教授您能別BB了么，咱聊點別的？”】

Professor: Yeah, pretty much. It was kind of?subversive?I guess, but there is a?whole?wealth of?knowledge out there just waiting to be explored. I find that really exciting.?

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subversive 顛覆性的

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Student: Sure. Yeah.

Professor: Ah, anyway, you wanted to ask me about the final paper?

Student: Yeah, which I see now ties into the theme of that conference since we are supposed to write about a book from one of those lesser genres, I was wondering…What about science fiction?

Professor: Sure. Though it’s a genre that’s actually getting more and more respect within academia. There was even a talk at the conference about Jack Vance.

Student: Oh, he wrote Planet of Adventure, right?

Professor: Yeah, he is a well-researched, respected science-fiction writer. If you are interested in science fiction, you could look him up, that’d lead you to lots of other authors and lots of possibilities for your paper.?

Student: Great. Well, I’m relieved you think that’s a good genre to study. I’ll find a book that interests me and do the paper on that. It seems like most people assume that science fiction is kind of like, I don’t know, junk literature.?

Professor: Yes, a lot of people do.?

Student: Yeah but, I’ve read some things and I think that some of it is really well written and it takes so much imagination to write sci-fi.

Professor: Well, careful though, there’s a difference between science fiction and sci-fi.

Student: What do you mean?

Professor: Sci-fi, that’s what you tend to see in films. It has all the spaceships and robots and it focuses on exotic technology, you know, wow factor, like special effects, at the expense of a well-written story. I think a lot of people don’t realize this and tend not to make a distinction.

Student: Okay.

Professor: But true science fiction is much more intellectual than that. The story is very important. And even though it might take place in an imaginary world, and it might have exotic gadgets, the focus is on the plot. Science fiction creates metaphors about our world, and well, what it means to be human. It’s meant to get people to think about real things like history and human behavior. That’s worthy of your time, but not sci-fi.

Student: Great. Well, can I let you know next week which book I want to write about?

【教授苦口婆心之后，學(xué)生這里有點敷衍啊~】

Professor: Sure.

教授最后兩段關(guān)于science fiction和sci-fi之間的區(qū)別，同樣是獨立口語很好的答題語料。

背景拓展：

Jack Vance

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杰克?萬斯（Jack Vance）是最偉大的科幻小說家之一。他筆耕不輟六十余年。

要用三言兩語來介紹杰克?萬斯可不容易。今天距離他的第一本書《瀕死的地球》出版已經(jīng)有55年了，這位游離在科幻與奇幻邊緣，置身于主流之外的作者一般被歸類于科幻奇幻作家，可是據(jù)說他本人不但不承認(rèn)，還表示痛恨科幻類型文學(xué)。

他寫的書已經(jīng)超過了六十本，《凡斯大全集》（Vance Integral Edition）以年代為線收錄了他平生絕大部分作品。其中大部分都是系列故事，而最有名的恐怕就是《瀕死的地球》系列。這是后來許多作者競相模仿的杰作。巔峰之作是有五部的《惡魔王子》系列，此外還有《冒險星球》系列；《德丹》（Durdane）三部曲，兩本的《大行星》（Big Planet）,《里昂尼斯》三部曲（Lyonesse fantasy trilogy）等等。他的很多作品都得到了非常高的評價，使他獲得過許多獎項。

1992年，弗羅里達州奧蘭多授予他貴賓榮譽（Guest of Honor）。1997年，美國科幻作家協(xié)會授予他大師（Grand Master）的榮譽。他創(chuàng)作了數(shù)十部科幻與幻想小說，包括贏得世界幻想文學(xué)獎（ the World Fantasy Award）的萊昂納斯系列、贏得雨果獎和星云獎（the Hugo and Nebula Award）的《最后的城堡》（THE LAST CASTLE）。2009年，《紐約時報雜志》（New York Times Magazine）稱他為“美國文學(xué)最獨特、最受低估的聲音”。

Planet of Adventure

Planet of Adventure?is a series of four?science fiction?novels by?Jack Vance, published between 1968 and 1970. The novels relate the adventures of the scout Adam Reith, the sole survivor of an Earth ship investigating a signal from the distant planet?Tschai.

Tschai?is a planet orbiting the star Carina 4269, 212 light-years from Earth. It is populated by various sentient alien species. The native Pnume have been subjected to invasions by three species. In addition, there are humans, captured and brought to the planet long ago by one of the spacefaring species; some of them live as slaves or servants of each of the alien races, while others have managed to create their own societies. Each of the four novels relates Reith's adventures with one of the species, and is named after that species. In order, the books are:

• City of the Chasch

• Servants of the Wankh

• The Dirdir

• The Pnume

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_Adventure