2015英语六级考试口语练习(10)：音乐的语言

　　The Language of Music

　　A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great responsibilities, for the composer is utterly dependent on them. A student of music needs as long and as arduous a training to become a performer as a medical student needs to become a doctor. Most training is concerned with technique, for musicians have to have the muscular proficiency of an athlete or a ballet dancer. Singers practice breathing every day, as their vocal chords would be inadequate without controlled muscular support. String players practice moving the fingers of the left hand up and down, while drawing the bow to and fro with the right arm—two entirely different movements.

　　Singers and instruments have to be able to get every note perfectly in tune. Pianists are spared this particular anxiety, for the notes are already there, waiting for them, and it is the piano tuner’s responsibility to tune the instrument for them. But they have their own difficulties; the hammers that hit the string have to be coaxed not to sound like percussion, and each overlapping tone has to sound clear.

　　This problem of getting clear texture is one that confronts student conductors: they have to learn to know every note of the music and how it should sound, and they have to aim at controlling these sound with fanatical but selfless authority.

　　Technique is of no use unless it is combined with musical knowledge and understanding. Great artists are those who are so thoroughly at home in the language of music that they can enjoy performing works written in any century.

　　我们这次要讲的方法与英语文章有关,也许你会疑惑的,大家常说的锻炼英语六级口语的方法,大部分都是让大家去多说、多听,和读文章有什么关系?这你就不知道了。我们想要练口语,其实也就是想练习口头表述的能力,反述文章就是十分有效的方法。

　　那么什么样的文章是你应该练习英语六级口语反述的第一篇文章呢,就是那种一看就懂,但看完了用英语却怎么也说不出来的最简单的文章,就从这篇文章开始吧!

　　第一步:大量背诵原汁原味的单句、对话、生活习语。

　　第二步:把每天背诵过的素材反复消化,借助想像力,身临其境把它们表演出来。

　　第三步:写日记。这个习惯看上去练习的是写作,其实它更是练习口语的妙法。用英文进行思维是高级的口语训练方法。

　　第四步:大量阅读报刊、杂志及各种故事、杂文,之后将它们复述出来。(超级提示:是"复述"而非"背诵"。)同一篇文章的复述工作应该反复滚动。

　　在这个有关反述的英语六级口语训练方法中,我们反复强调的就是要复述而不是背诵。这个就有点像你像别人讲述你看过的电视剧的情节,你是不可能将剧中所有的对话重复的,你要做的是一个在加工,这样才能真正的锻炼你的口头能力。