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TOEFL Listening Class Unit 2 Passage 17
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Second, in the course of listening, just pay attention on what you know, if you missed something, just let it go . don't try to figure out what you missed .
Finally, after finishing the passage, don't go answers immediately. use about 5 seconds to review the passage specially last two sentence. then go answers one by one. don't saty in one question for a long time.
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1. What is the talk mainly about?
The lifestyles of Dutch artists
Famous still-life artists
Art in the United States during the Civil War
A type of art in the United States
2. What is an example of a painting that a seventeenth-
century Dutch artist of still lifes might paint?
A large basket of fruit on a kitchen table
Young children playing outside of a farmhouse
Old army boots in the corner of a room
Writing utensils on a desk in an office
3. What do the still lifes by United States artists of the first
half of the nineteenth century reveal about many Americans
during this period?
They supported themselves by farming.
They were wealthy.
They were well educated.
They did not appreciate nature.
4. What do old, worn-out objects in still lifes after the Civil War
symbolize?
Difficult times for the country
An appreciation of tradition
Warm memories of previous generations
A lack of respect for art
5. What will the students probably do next?
Paint a still life
Arrange some objects on a table
Analyze some paintings
Look at slides of the Civil War
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