Questions 1 through 5 refer to the following survey results and article.

What do students consider to be “art”? According to the World Arts Council, most students who were asked this question considered art to be painting. Almost seventy percent of students age 15 through 18 said that painting was art. This takes into account all manner of painting from watercolor to pastels, oils, and acrylics. A much smaller number, twenty percent, said that sculpture was art. This number includes students who said that sculpture included wood and clay. Eight percent said that stone sculpture was art. Only two percent of the students surveyed thought that working with wood was art. “I think that paintings are artistic,” one student said, “but sculpture isn’t”. According to Liza Metter, art director at Bandas University, students tend to associate art with color; things that lack color aren’t considered art. This research will be used in the future to help better develop high school and university art curriculums.

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Newspaper clipping

Local high-school teacher communicates with blind students via sculpture. Matt Creaborne, an art teacher at Crestview High-School, recently began using sculpture to assist blind students with such subjects as math and geometry. He got the idea by watching the great Spanish sculptor Rigo Rossi use his hands to count off measurements as he sculpted. “By using their hands, students can feel things like distances and spatial relationships,” Mr Creaborne said. “This allows them to think abstractly, just like in geometry.” Mr. Creaborne’s technique will be tried in several other schools this fall including three high schools for blind learners. According to Jim Miller, director for assisted student learning, Mr. Creaborne’s methods should help visually impaired students match non-visually impaired students in terms of their test scores in mathematics. “We are looking forward to big improvements in test scores in the next few years,” Mr. Miller said.

Questions 6 through 10 refer to the following graph and article.

Summer is once again approaching, and although nowadays ice cream is a treat enjoyed by most people throughout the year, its sales soar in the summer months. When we were young, the choices were simple: vanilla, chocolate or strawberry. However, nowadays the variety of ice cream flavors is almost limitless. Here at Food and Drink Monthly we decide to find out just what kinds of ice cream young people enjoyed these days. We got together with well-known ice cream manufacturer “Dairy Delights” to do some research.

A survey was made of one hundred thirteen year old: 50 boys and 50 girls. They are asked to taste six kinds of ice cream and then choose their favorite flavor. The choices were vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, raspberry, green tea and chocolate chip. The taste test participants were blindfolded so that they could not see any of the ice cream. Every participant was given a glass of water to rinse out his or her mouth between tastings.

The results showed that few of the participants liked green tea ice cream. Some of them said it tasted bitter. Most participants chose vanilla as their favorite flavor, followed by chocolate. The two fruit flavors, strawberry and raspberry were next, chosen by almost equal numbers of people. It seems that despite all the different flavors available nowadays, the old classic is still number one.

Food and Drink Monthly would like to thank “Dairy Delights” for providing the ice cream for the tastings, and “Quick’s Surveys and Polls” for their assistance in monitoring the survey. “Dairy Delights” ice cream can be found in all major supermarkets.