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[00:00.00]NARRATOR: Listen to a conversation between a student and his creative writing professor.[00:07.00]FEMALE PROFESSOR: John, listen, I can clearly see that you put a lot of time into your response paper...[00:12.25]MALE STUDENT: I did! It took me forever. [00:14.20]I rewrote it a dozen times.[00:16.03]FEMALE PROFESSOR: And your hard work shows.[00:18.20] Unfortunately…it's a week late.[00:20.83]MALE STUDENT: I know, sorry. [00:22.70] I just got a little behind—y’know, sports and homework…[00:26.10] But I’m on top of things now.
[00:27.70]FEMALE PROFESSOR: Glad to hear it. [00:29.10] Now, as for our meeting today… I like to talk to all of my creative writing students one-on-one at least once during the term and see how they’re doing.
[00:37.20]MALE STUDENT: I think I'm doing OK. Busy, you know, but other than that…[00:41.10]FEMALE PROFESSOR: Well, I've found through the years that some of my assignments can be pretty tough for first year students like yourself. Like the response paper you just did—the explication of a Pablo Neruda poem. [00:52.00] Uh, by the way, why did you choose “The Lemon”? [00:55.00] It's an… unusual choice.[00:57.60]MALE STUDENT: It was my favorite in a book of Neruda’s poems. [01:00.20]All the poems are about everyday objects and, y’know, simple pleasures.[01:04.20]FEMALE PROFESSOR: Right. Elemental Odes. One of my favorites.
[01:07.30]MALE STUDENT: I liked how Neruda took things like fruit and vegetables and... socks... and used metaphors and similes to describe them as these wonderful, mysterious things. Like in “The Lemon,” [01:17.80]he describes a lemon falling to Earth from the stars! And he compares a slice of lemon to a stained-glass window. [01:24.40]It’s so original.[01:25.70]FEMALE PROFESSOR: Beautiful images, aren’t they? [01:27.70]Neruda didn’t win the Nobel Prize for literature by accident.
[01:31.15]MALE STUDENT: No, he didn't.
[01:32.70]FEMALE PROFESSOR: Now, as you know, the paper was only the first half of the assignment… and I'm concerned about your ability to complete the second part on time considering how much time the first part took you.[01:43.70]MALE STUDENT: Actually,.. I finished it just before I came here.[01:47.00]FEMALE PROFESSOR: Excellent![01:48.40]MALE STUDENT: It was tricky, too—[01:49.70]you know, having to write a poem inspired by “The Lemon”—but in a completely different style.
[01:54.70]FEMALE PROFESSOR: Right.[01:55.70]MALE STUDENT: In order to do that, I really had to study Neruda's style and read a lot of his stuff—which was great. But... “The Lemon” is free verse. [02:04.10]So to do the assignment, I decided to use a strict meter—iambic pentameter —to be as different as possible.[02:11.10]FEMALE PROFESSOR: So each line of your poem has ten syllables, and every other syllable is stressed…[02:17.05]Interesting choice. [02:18.40] Iambic pentameter is certainly different from free verse! [02:21.50]MALE STUDENT: It was hard for me, though, because usually when I write a poem, I choose my own topic and—I just write, [02:27.83] I don’t worry about counting syllables or anything. [02:30.60]So... I'm kinda hoping we won’t have more assignments like this.
[02:34.60]FEMALE PROFESSOR: Sorry to disappoint you, but these assignments are designed to get you out of your comfort zone…to get you reading and writing a wide variety of poetic styles.

5.What does the professor mean when she says this:

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此题原文中出处是: “Professor: Beautiful images, aren’t they? Neruda didn’t win the Nobel Prize for literature by accident. John: No, he didn’t.” 本题为句子功能题。教授这句话说:聂鲁达并不是碰巧才获得诺贝尔文学奖的。在教授说这句话之前,学生说了一大段关于赞赏聂鲁达新颖的诗歌风格的话。所以教授这句话的意思其实是说,聂鲁达的诗歌风格非常新颖有趣,所以他获得诺贝尔文学奖,是必然的、是实至名归的。“by accident”的意思是“碰巧的,偶然的”,那么“不是碰巧的”意思也就是“是必然的”。故A选项正确。 B选项错误,因为教授这句话是褒义,不是贬义,她的意思并不是说聂鲁达不应该得诺贝尔文学奖。 C选项错误,因为教授并没有对聂鲁达的诗歌没那么出名感到惊奇。 D选项错误,因为聂鲁达确实是获得过诺贝尔文学奖。

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