Read the passage and complete the chart.
name
address
Which centuries?
What countries?
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Contemporar
Avenue
y(mainly art
Tourists and art gallery visitors.
Careful reading
Henry Clay Frick
The Frick Collection 弗里克收藏馆
What can you do in this art gallery?
see… pre-twentieth century western paintings explore… Frick’s beautiful house visit… the garden
2. Metropolitan Museum of Art introduces you to ancient ways of living. T
3. The admission price of Museum of Modern Art is nv_oe_t_r_cy_h__ce_ah_p_e_/a_e_px_paennsdiviet is often crowded. F
(near 75th by living
St.)
artists)
America
Museum of Modern Art
53th St.
late 19th
(between 5th century to
and 6th
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art 现代艺术博物馆
Read and answer.
1. In which museum can we find Chinese art?
Metropolitan Museum of Art. A Ming garden
4. Metropolitan Museum of Art covers more than 5000 years of civilization from many parts of the world including China. T
Whitney Museum of American Art
2. Where can we find the works of Van Gogh, Picasso or Matisse?
Museum of Modern Art.
True or False?
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高二人教新课标版选修六
Unit 1 Art
Using language
Pre-reading
1. Do you know any western art galleries? 2. Have you ever been to any western
galleries before? If so, describe your visit.
Guggenheim Museum
Fill in the blanks.
Guggenheim Museum owns _5,_0_0_0_ modern paintings, sculptures and drawings. The exhibition in it is always _ch_a_n_g_i_n_g. The largest part of the collection is the _i_m_p_r_e_ss_i_on_i_s_t and _p_o_st_-i_m_p_r_e_s_si_o_n_is_t section. The best way to see the paintings is to start from the _t_o_p_ floor and walk down to the _b_o_t_to_m_. The museum also has an excellent _r_es_t_a_u_ra_n_t_.
5 Museum of Modern Art
street avenue
Fast reading
1. What’s the main idea of this passage?
The passage introduces some best art galleries of Manhattan.
2. Who do you think the text was written for?
945 Madison Avenue
Match the numbers on the map with the museums.
1 Guggenheim Museum
2 Metropolitan Museum of Art
3 Whitney Museum of American Art 4
The Frick Collection
Guggenheim Museum; 5th Avenue & 88th street 5th Avenue & 82nd
Metropolitan Museum of Art; Street
Museum ofห้องสมุดไป่ตู้Modern Art; 53rd Street
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Best of Manhattan’s Art Galleries
Scanning
How many art galleries are introduced in the passage? What and where are they?
Five
The Frick Collection; 5th & Madison Avenues