托福综合写作优秀作文练习题：简·奥斯汀

　　托福综合写作听力材料：

　　The evidence linking this portrait to JaneAusten is not at all convincing. Sure, the painting has long been somewhatloosely connected to Austen’s extended family and their descendants, but this hardlyproves it’s a portrait of Jane Austen as a teenager. The reading’s argumentsthat the portrait is of Austen are questionable at best.

　　所有证明这幅画上人物是简·奥斯汀的证据都是不足信的。当然，这幅画长期以来同奥斯汀家族极其后代保持着某种意义上的联系。但是，这都不足以证明画中问人是少女简·奥斯汀。First, when the portrait was authorized for use in the 1882publication of her letters, Jane Austen had been dead for almost 70 years. So,the family members who asserted that the painting was Jane had never actuallyseen her themselves. They couldn’t have known for certain if the portrait wasof Austen or not.

　　首先，当奥斯汀家族在1882年授权在她书信集中使用这幅肖像画的时候，简·奥斯汀已经过时差不多70年了。所以，声称画中人物是简·奥斯汀的家庭成员其实从来没有见过她本人。他们其实不能确信这幅画是不是奥斯汀。

　　Second, the portrait could very well bethat of a relative of Austen’s, a fact that would explain the resemblancebetween its subject and that of Cassandra’s sketch. The extended Austen familywas very large and many of Jane Austen’s female cousins were teenagers in therelevant period or had children who were teenagers. And some of these teenagegirls could have resembled Jane Austen. In fact, many experts believe that thetrue subject of the portrait was one of those relatives, Marianne Kempian, whowas a distant niece of Austen’s

　　第二，至于为什么这幅画上人物同卡桑德拉画的那副长得很像，可以解释为这幅上上的任务是简·奥斯汀的一个亲人。奥斯汀家族非常庞大，在画作成画时期，很多简·奥斯汀的堂姐妹还是十几岁的年纪，或者她堂姐妹的孩子是十几岁。这些女孩子们很多跟简·奥斯汀长得很像。事实上，很多专家认为这幅画中的人物实际上是这些人之一。她叫玛丽安·凯佩恩，是简·奥斯汀的一个远方侄女。

　　Third, the painting has been attributed toHumphrey only because of the style. But other evidence points to a later date.A stamp on the back of the picture indicates that the blank canvas, you know theactual piece of cloth on which the picture was painted, was sold by a man namedWilliam Legg. Record showed that William Legg did not sell canvases in Londonwhen Jane Austen was a teenager. He only started selling canvases when she was27 years old. So, it looks like the canvas was used for the painting at a timewhen Austen was clearly older than the girl in the portrait.

　　第三，认为这幅画是汉弗里作品的根据仅仅是风格。但是，有其他证据证明这幅画的成画时间实际要稍晚一些。画布背面的印章表明这幅画的空白画布是一个叫威廉姆·莱格卖出的。记录表明简·奥斯汀少女时期，威廉姆·莱格并没有在伦敦卖画布。他开始卖画布的时候，简·奥斯汀已经27岁了。所以，这幅画完成的时候，简·奥斯汀本人的年纪是大于画中人物的。

　　托福综合写作听力笔记：

　　Main point: 这幅画中人物不是简·奥斯汀

　　Sub point one: 虽有家族人的背书，但是这些人都没有见过简·奥斯汀本人

　　Sub point two: 同简·奥斯汀面容相似的原因可能是画中人物是简·奥斯汀的亲人

　　Sub point three: 画布背面的印章表明这幅画成画时，简·奥斯汀年龄大于画中人物问题

　　提示：

　　- endorse背书。本意是指在支票后面签字，引申为赞同,认可,支持(意见,活动,某人等)。

　　本篇范文可以借鉴的模板是：

　　The reading passage suggests that threepieces of evidence provide support that_________.

　　However, the lecturer rejects such evidenceand argues that________________.

　　First, the lecturer argues that________________, suggesting that___________. Therefore, the fact that__________ does not necessarily prove that ___________.

　　Second, the lecturer argues that the_________could be explained by the hypothesis that ____________.

　　Finally, the lecturer argues that despite___________, which_________, the________ indicates that_______________.

　　托福综合写作范文(仅供参考)：

　　The reading passage suggests that threepieces of evidence provide support that a portrait recently put up for sale bya member of Jane Austen’s family is of Jane Austen herself when she was a teenager.However, the lecturer rejects such evidence and argues that the painting couldnot be a portrait of Jane Austen.

　　First, the lecturer argues that the portraitfirst appeared 70 years after Jane Austen’s death, suggesting that members ofher extended family might have commissioned the portrait without havingactually seen her in person. Therefore, the fact that the portrait had beencommissioned by her family members does not necessarily prove that it is aportrait of Jane Austen.

　　Second, the lecturer argues that theresemblance between the portrait and an authentic sketch of the adult JaneAusten could be explained by the hypothesis that the portrait is of a relativeof Jane Austen when the relative was a teenager.

　　Finally, the lecturer argues that despitethe style of the painting, which links it to the exact period when Jane Austenwas a teenager, the stamp on the back of the canvas indicates that the portraitwas painted at least 27 years after Jane Austen’s birth, indicating that theportrait was of someone else who was much younger than Jane Austen.