Text interpretation: "Art in our life"

The activities on the text “Art in our life” are intended for 1st year high school students.

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Read this text and then answer the proposed questions:

the art in our life

Jô Oliveira and Lucília Garcez

You might think that you don't know art, that you don't live with artistic objects, but we are all very close to art. Our life is surrounded by it on all sides.
When you wake up in the morning and look at the clock to know the time, you have the first contact of the day with art. The watch, whatever its design, went through a production process that required visual planning. Specialists studied and applied notions of art. The shape of your watch is the result of a long history of human imagination and preferences. The color, shape, volume, material chosen are witnessing time and the transformation of taste and technique. When you look at it, you realize that it's an ancient or modern object, you recognize that whoever drew it preferred curved or straight shapes, or even gilded, and even shiny pebbles.

Who chooses a watch to buy, decides based on their personal preferences. Some prefer the more elaborate ones, others prefer the simpler ones. It is personal taste that predominates, and this can vary infinitely. It varies because it receives influences according to age, time, the social environment in which the person lives. And, as popular wisdom tells us: “taste is not disputed”. But, who knows, we can discuss the taste?
In other objects in your room and in your daily life, you can observe the presence of art: in the pattern on your sheet, in the design of your bed, in the shape of the your toothbrush, the design of the bathroom faucet and sink, the cup you drink milk in, the cutlery, the model of the car, the shape of the phone. In all objects there is some applied art.
This effort to produce beautiful objects, pleasing to the eye, attractive and harmonious, is in all cultures, in all civilizations. And in our daily lives.

Questions:

1. What is the purpose of the text?

2. Identify the referents of the highlighted words in:

a) “Our life is surrounded her on all sides.”.
b) “By observingit, you realize that it is an ancient object […]”.
c) “[…] and This one can vary infinitely.”.
d) “[…] on what the person lives.”.

3. Indicate one word that could replace the verb "chosen" in: "The color, the shape, the volume, the material that were selected are witnessing time and the transformation of taste and technique.”

4. In “[…], which does not coexist with artistic objects, but we are all very close to art.”, the highlighted word could be replaced by:

a) that's why

b) why

c) however

d) since

5. Explain why the use of the quotation mark in “like is not disputed”.

By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

At answers are in the link above the header.

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