新标准大学英语3第三单元课后答案

Unit 3 Art for Art’s Sake

Active reading (1)

Reading and understanding

2 Choose the best answer to the questions.

1 Why does the writer divide listening to music into three types of experience

(a) It is important to keep the different types of experience separate.

(b) It makes it easier to understand what is happening when we listen to music.

(c) It is the traditional way of referring to the experience of listening.

(d) Different people listen on different planes, according to the type of person they are.

2 What is the main characteristic of the sensuous plane

(a) It is the sort of feeling we get when listening to music on the radio.

(b) It can only be experienced by people who aren’t musicians.

(c) It is a reaction we have which is generated by the sound of the music.

(d) It does not give us any real sense of pleasure. (It does give us pleasure.)

3 What is the main characteristic of the expressive plane

(a) It can only be experienced by intelligent people.

(b) It is when we believe the composer is communicating something to us.

(c) It is a controversial concept; some composers don’t think it exists.

(d) It is most obviously apparent in the music of Stravinsky.

4 What is the main characteristic of the musical plane

(a) It can only be experienced by people who have studied to read music.

(b) It is the ability to experience different musical elements.

(c) It is the plane that we experience instinctively, without realizing it.

(d) It is the easiest of the three planes to appreciate.

5 How do most people usually listen to music

(a) On only one plane at any given moment.

(b) On all three planes at the same time.

(c) Without paying enough attention.

(d) Without understanding what they are doing.

6 Why does the writer end the passage by referring to the theatre

(a) The theatre also offers three types of experience.

(b) Composers are like the characters in a play.

(c) Theatre is the form of art which is most similar to music.

(d) The audience in a theatre are like musicians in an orchestra.

3 Match the listeners’ activities with the planes they are on.

1 They understand the way the composer is thinking.

(c) musical plane

2 They are doing something else at the same time.

(a) sensuous plane

3 They recognize different elements in the music.

(c) musical plane

4 They just want to escape from everyday reality.

(a) sensuous plane

5 They feel sad or happy because of the music.

(b) expressive plane

6 They think the music they are listening to has a meaning.

(b) expressive plane