Read the following passage from the speech, ‘Art that Heals’ and answer
the questions that follow:
One of my parents’ deepest fears, I suspect, was that society would not properly
value me as a musician, that I wouldn’t be appreciated. I had very good grades
in high school, I was good in science and math, and they imagined that as a
doctor or a research chemist or an engineer, I might be more appreciated than
I would be as a musician. On some level, I think, my parents were not sure
themselves what the value of music was, what its purpose was. And they
loved music, they listened to classical music all the time. They just weren’t
really clear about its function. We live in a society that puts music in the ‘arts
and entertainment’ section of the newspaper. Serious music, the kind your
kids are about to engage in, has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with
entertainment. In fact it’s the opposite of entertainment. Let me talk a little bit
about music, and how it works.
1. Who is the ‘I’ referred to in the passage above?
2. What was the fear that his parents had?
3. Pick out a sentence from the passage that suggests that Karl was very
studious.
4. Did Karl’s parents love music? Find out the expression from the passage
that supports your view.
5. Find the word from the passage that means ‘to recognize the good qualities
of somebody’.
6. What is the attitude of the society towards music?
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