“對話”達·芬奇

江西 江海連

文明因交流而精彩，文明因互鑒而豐富。國畫作品開展文明對話交流互鑒活動，為推動構建人類命運共同體提供精神力量，不斷書寫人類文明發展的新華章。

主題語境：人與社會 篇幅：352詞 建議用時：7分鐘

1It has only been a little over 100 years since oil paintings were introduced to China, which was dominated (在……中占主要地位) by its own traditional paintings. The famous Chinese painter Xu Li's creative practice follows the artistic path of realism.His works have been collected by China's top museums,overseas celebrities and renowned collectors.

2The world today is experiencing great changes in the political and economic areas, a new chapter in which Eastern and Western cultures exchange.Civilizations (文明)are colorful due to exchanges and are enriched due to mutual (相互的) learning. Most of Xu Li's works confirm this fact.Xu Li combines the mountains and rivers in Leonardo da Vinci's paintings with traditional Chinese landscapes in a single painting, and engages in an artistic dialogue between the East and the West.

3In his work calledDui Hua(Dialogue), the mountains and rivers in Leonardo da Vinci's 23-year-old sketch(素描)become the landscape on the left in Xu Li's creation.The two cleverly combine to form a landscape with Chinese culture and aesthetic (美學的) interest. The works were collected and displayed in the Leonardo da Vinci Museum in Italy in 2019. Here, the 500-year gap in time seems to have disappeared, leaving only a fascinating wonderland.

4The oil paintingJia Yuan(Homeland) he created in 2013 was inspired by a subtle mountain village. It shows that Western artistic methods can be absorbed into the ancient Chinese visual language, and the language of Western oil paintings can be used to express Eastern culture meaning.

5In addition, he also created a huge oil paintingXin Hui Huang(New Glory) for the Beijing Daxing International Airport,showing the vitality(生命力)of the new era to important guests entering and leaving the airport.

6As early as the 1990s,Xu Li had inspected the Silk Road many times.While he was shocked by the glorious historical relics created by the collision(碰撞)of Eastern and Western civilizations, the sacred mountains in the snowy plateau, were already deeply in his heart.In his workSnow Mountain,all the scenes are from his life.

Reading Check

1.What can be inferred about Xu Li's works?

A.They are mainly sketches.

B.They are well-known at home and abroad.

C.They're rarely related to Western art.

D.They're mostly about mountains and rivers.

2.What does the underlined part“this fact”in paragraph 2 refer to?

A.Cultural exchanges are unnecessary.

B.The world is experiencing political changes.

C.The world is experiencing economic changes.

D.Mutual learning makes civilizations more colorful.

3.Which of the following works was inspired by a mountain village?

A.Dui Hua.

B.Jia Yuan.

C.Xin Hui Huang.

D.Snow Mountain.

4.Where is the text probably from?

A.A culture website.

B.A science magazine.

C.A book review.

D.A business report.

Language Study

Ⅰ.Useful expressions

be introduced to 被介紹到……

oil paintings 油畫

be dominated by 被……主導

be collected by 被……收藏

renowned collectors 著名的收藏家

combine...with 把……和……結合在一起

be absorbed into 被融入……

the collision of Eastern and Western civilizations 東方和西方文化的碰撞

Ⅱ.Difficult sentence

Xu Li combines the mountains and rivers in Leonardo da Vinci's paintings with traditional Chinese landscapes in a single painting, and engages in an artistic dialogue between the East and the West.徐里將列奧納多·達·芬奇畫作中的山水與中國傳統風景畫結合在一幅畫中，使東西方產生了一次藝術性的隔空對話。

【點石成金】該句為一個簡單句，and連接兩個并列謂語combines和engages。