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TOEFL Directory > TOEFL writing > TOEFL Reading Class Unit 1_Passage 15_Question 155-165
TOEFL Reading Class Unit 1_Passage 15_Question 155-165
You have about 15 minutes to finish this passage.
First,use about 3-4 minutes to read the passage, try to understand the main idea of this passage.
Don't read it so slowly or try to remember all details.You need to do "fast reading",and "scan" the passage.
Second, read questions 1-11, and with questions you go back the passage again and look for correct answers.
Questions 155-165
Passage 15
When the United States experienced a severe economic depression during the 1930's, painters, sculptors, and designers were given the opportunity to participate in a country-wide experiment known as the Federal Arts Projects (FAP). This program provided government funds to employ artists to participate in art projects all Americans could enjoy. The scale and purpose of the program were something new for the country. It brought together previously separate efforts to provide support for the arts. For more than a century such matters had been handled by ten different committees, officials, and departments, including the Civil Works Administration, and then by the Fine Arts Section of the Treasury Department. It was obvious by 1935 that no present plan could take care of the thousands of jobless writers, musicians, sculptors, painters, designers, photographers, and actors; and in the summer of that year the Federal Arts Projects of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) were established not only to give these people work and relief but, as one of the directors said, to feed the hunger of millions for music, books, plays, and pictures.
The structure of all the projects was essentially the same: a general policy with regional direction and a local administration in each of the states. The growing concentration of the arts in a few cities was to be reversed in the hope that art would become the possession of the population of the entire country. The states were instructed to set up local projects. As a result, towns that had never heard music firsthand listened to orchestras. Plays were produced for people to whom actors had been shadows on a screen. The nation's decorative arts, those arts other than painting, sculpture, and architecture, were recorded in thousands of drawings by the Index of American Design. In hundreds of villages there were new post offices, schools, and small art galleries with murals, sculptures, and paintings. Talented children received art instruction, and men and women learned how to plan homes and to weave, spin, and carve their own furnishings.
155. What is the passage mainly about?
a) Government restrictions on art
b) Government support for the arts
c) Government-sponsored schools to teach art
d) The cost of government art projects
156.
157. The word obvious in the passage is closest in meaning to
a) acceptable
b) clear
c) surprising
d) unfortunate
158.
159. A purpose of the Federal Arts Projects mentioned by the author in paragraph 1 was to
a) sell American artwork abroad
b) build a reputation for American artists
c) bring foreign artists to the United States to teach Americans
d) provide work for unemployed artists
160. The word feed in the passage is closest in meaning to
a) satisfy
b) understand
c) discover
d) survey
161. The purpose of the Index of American Design was to
a) list the nation's interior decorators
b) catalog the holdings of American museums
c) document American decorative arts
d) explain how to restore antiques
162.
163. According to information in paragraph 2, the Federal Arts Projects involved non-artists by
a) using them to paint buildings
b) encouraging them to buy American art
c) teaching them practical artistic skills
d) motivating them to perform in hometown dramatic productions
164. Which of the following is the main subject of paragraph 2 ?
a) The impact of the Federal Arts Projects on regional American life
b) How the Federal Arts Projects were financed
c) Famous artists who worked in Federal Arts Projects programs
d) The policies of local Federal Arts Projects administrators
165.
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