英语听力精选进阶版 7108（在线收听）

Background: 泰山是个家喻户晓的名字，他频繁出现在书籍，电影和广播节目中。现在巴黎的一家博物馆决定为这位100年前虚构的丛林英雄举办一次特别的展览-泰山展。

He had the instincts of an animal and the intellect of a man and now Tarzan, the world's first adult jungle hero, has swung into his own exhibition at a Paris museum.

The loinclothed, muscled ape man is celebrated amid all the Western stereotypical views of Africa of the early twentieth century.

His creator, the American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, had never visited Africa, and unwittingly placed Tarzan in a jungle which was populated by tigers and which stretched from the Belgian Congo to Rhodesia.

The exhibition also traces the impact of Darwinism and evolutionary theory in the Tarzan story.

But for anyone looking for lighter relief, there's also an opportunity to practise your Tarzan jungle yell.

GLOSSARY 词汇表

instincts 直觉/天性/本能

intellect 才智

jungle hero 丛林英雄

swung 摇荡/大摇大摆

loinclothed 系着腰布的

ape man 猿人

stereotypical views 成见

unwittingly 无意的

traces 追寻

impact 影响/冲击

Darwinism 达尔文主义

evolutionary theory 进化论

lighter relief 轻松的娱乐

jungle yell 丛林呐喊

Questions and Answers

1. Was the fictional character Tarzan a hero or a villain?

Tarzan was a goodie, he was a heroic character.

2. What kind of clothing did Tarzan often wear?

Tarzan wore a loincloth.

3. Where did the writer, Edgar Rice Burroughs, set the Tarzan novels?

The Tarzan novels are mostly set in a jungle stretching from the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

4. What serious theories are reflected in this new Tarzan exhibition?