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TPO 12 WORD: 323 TIME: 完成用时30分钟。花费了30分钟修改。(有点越改越不成一体的赶脚~)
In the reading passage, the author cites three pieces of evidence in support to the argument that the teenage girl in the portrait which recently comes out for sale is exactly Jane Austen as a teenager. According to the lecture, however, the argument in the reading passage is open to doubt and the subject may not be the portrait of Jane Austen.
First and foremost, in 1882, when her family permitted the use of the portrait, Jane Austen had been dead for around 70 years. Almost none of those family members had the opportunity to see Jane Austen by themselves. Thus nobody can prove the young girl in the portrait to be Austen with certainty, and thus the lecturer believes the first evidence cited in the reading passage is poorly sounded.
Second, the lecturer refutes the reasoning in the reading passage that the young girl in the painting is sure to be Jane Austen because she resembles adult Jane Austen. In fact, even though the teenage girl in the picture looks similar to Jane Austen, she might be a relative of Austen, such as her cousins. In the big family of Jane Austen, there are sure to be girls who resemble Austen. Without more convincing evidence to eliminate this possibility, the reading passage seems to be poorly sounded.
Furthermore, the author in the reading passage claims that the portrait was painted in the period when Jane Austen was a teenager, and this claim is simply based on the style of the painting. On the contrast, the lecturer points out that it’s impossible for the portrait to be painted when Jane Austen was so young, instead, it was not painted until Austen was over 27 years old, when the canvas of the portrait started selling. According to the lecturer, the reading passage apparently fails to take into account other factors such as the dates of the canvas, thus making mistakes in dating the portrait.
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