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The reading and listening are talking about whether the teenage in a professional painting is Jane Austen. The reading material points out three reasons which support its opinion that the girl is Austen. The listening passage believes the girl is not actual Jane Austen.

First, the reading indicates Austen's family claimed that the girl in the portrait was Austen. However, the listening points that the permission was given seventy years after Austen's death. The Austen's family never saw Austen herself. They did not know what Austen looked like.

Second, the reading passage mentions that the face in the portrait looks like the one in Cassandra's sketch. But the listening shows that Austen's family was large at that time and Jane Austen had many cousins and other relatives who were also teenagers. They resembled Jane Austen very much. Someone even claims that the girl in the portrait is actually one of Jane Austen’s relatives.

At last, the reading material maintains its opinion by saying that the painting style links to a painter called Ozias Humphrey who would be hired by Austen family. The listening points out that evidence show a late date about the painting. The canvas used in the portrait was sold by a man named William. But when Jane Austen was a teenage, the man did not sell canvases in London. This proves that when the portrait was painted, Austen was more than a teenager.

TOEFL listening lectures: A lecture from a social science class

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