Unit 1

Using Language

The Best of Manhattan’s Art Galleries

Have you ever been to any galleries before?

Do you think visiting galleries is interesting?

Visiting galleries can not only bring people wonderful feelings but also teach them many things.

Fast reading Read the passage quickly, then answer the foll

owing questions:

1. How many galleries mentioned in this text?

What are they?

2. What is the passage mainly about?

3.Who do you think the text was written for?

4. Where might you see such a text?

Fast reading

Answer the following questions:

1. How many galleries mentioned in this text?

What are they?

Five

The Frick Collection

弗里克收藏馆

Henry Clay Frick

Guggenheim Museum古根海姆博物馆

Metropolitan Museum Of Art

大都会博物馆

Museum of Modern Art 现代艺术博物馆

Monet

Matisse

French painter

Whitney Museum of American Art

惠特尼美国艺术博物馆

Match the numbers on the map with the names of the museums.

1

2

3

4

5

The Frick Collection

Guggenheim Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Museum of Modern Art

Whitney Museum of American Art

street

avenue

match the numbers on the map with the museums.match the numbers on the map with the museums.

Fast reading

2. What is the passage mainly about?

A.A. art museums in New York and their art museums in New York and their collections and exhibitionscollections and exhibitions

B. different artists in New YorkC. different art works displayed at the

same time in New YorkD. general introduction to the history of

art in New York

A

3.Who do you think the text was written for?

4. Where might you see such a text?

Tourists, art gallery visitors.

A.Possibly in a guide book.B.On a newspaper.C.A novelD.A magazine

A

1.You must walk all the way instead of taking a lift if you visit _____ .

2. If you want to see Van Gogh’s paintings, you may go to ___

3. You can expect to see videos in_____ .

4. If you want to know how people lived 5,000 years ago, you should visit ___ .

5. Which museum does number 4 in the map stand for?

6.Where can we enjoy a special exhibition of new art by living artists?

7. _____ is the best place for people who love Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings.

8. ____ contributed all his possession to the country and the museum was thus named after him.

4. Where might you see such a text?

Read the text again and try to find the answers of following questions

1. You must walk all the way instead of taking a lift if you visit _____ .

A. Metropolitan Museum of Art

B. Whitney Museum of American Art

C. Museum of Modern Art

D. Guggenheim Museum

2. If you want to see Van Gogh’s paintings, you may go to _____ .

A. The Frick Collection

B. Guggenheim Museum

C. Museum of Modern Art

D. Metropolitan Museum of Art

3. You can expect to see videos in_____.

A. Metropolitan Museum of Art

B. Museum of Modern Art

C. The Frick Collection

D. Whitney Museum of American Art

4. If you want to know how people lived 5,000 years ago, you should visit ___ .

A. Metropolitan Museum of Art

B. Whitney Museum of American Art

C. Museum of Modern Art

D. Guggenheim Museum

5. Which museum does number 4 in the map stand for?

A. Metropolitan Museum of Art

B. The Frick Collection

C. Museum of Modern Art

D. Whitney Museum of American Art

6. Where can we enjoy a special exhibition of new art by living artists?A. Whitney Museum of American Art.B. Museum of Modern Art.C. Metropolitan Museum of Art.D. The Frick Collection.

7. _____ is the best place for people who love Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings.

A. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

B. Museum of Modern Art.

C. Whitney Museum of American Art.

D. Guggenheim Museum.

A

D

8. ____ contributed all his possession to the country and the museum was thus named after him.

• A. Metropolitan

• B. Whitney

• C. Frick

• D. Picasso

C

• 1. would rather• 2. have a preference for• 3. be well worth a visit• 4. appeal to• 5. feel as if• 6. lie in• 7. the variety of its are collection• 8. more than 5000 years of civilization• 9. a typical room• 10. It is amazing that …• 11. art works• 12. admission price• 13. contemporary American painting • 14. all the time

• 1. 宁可• 2.偏爱• 3.很值得一看• 4.吸引，呼吁• 5. 感到好像• 6.在于• 7. 多样的艺术收藏品• 8.五千多年的文明史 • 9.一个典型的房间• 10.令人惊讶的是• 11.艺术作品• 12.票价• 13.当代美国绘画• 14.一直

• 15. all the time• 16. every two years• 17. hold a special

echibition• 18. living artists

• 15. 一直• 16.每两年• 17. 举行一次特别• 的展览• 18.活着的艺术家

Enjoy the following pictures and discuss.

Which of the five galleries would you choose to visit? Why?

Discussion

Enjoy the following pictures and discuss.

Which of the five galleries would you choose to visit? Why?

Guggenheim Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Whitney Museum of American Art

The Frick Collection

Museum of Modern Art

Complete the chart with the information from the reading passage.

Name Address

Type of Art

Which centuries?

What countries?

20th-21st centuries America

945 Madison Avenue, near 75thStreet

Whitney Museum of AmericanArt

Name Address

Type of Art

Which

centuries?

What

countries?

Museum

of

Modern

Art

19th-21st

centuries

Western

countries

53rd Street,

between

5th and 6th

Avenues

Name Address

Type of Art

Which centuries?

What countries?

from

ancient

to modern

times

all over the world

Metro-politan Museum of Art

5th Avenue and 82nd Street

Name Address

Type of Art

Which centuries?

What countries?

Guggen-heimMuseum

Western countries

20th-21st centuries

5th Avenue and 88th Street

Name Address

Type of Art

Which centuries?

What countries?

The Frick Museum

pre-20th century

Western countries

5th Avenue and E. 70thStreet