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3.
number c.
national
4.
objects
d.
inexpensive
5.
modernism
e.
conventional
6.
years
f.
domestic
7.
approach
g.
high-style
8.
values
h.
mass-produced
9.
strictures
i.
growing
10.
influences
j.
postwar
Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
1. Complete the following.
1. The war ended, leaving a new … .
2. New materials and technologies, many of which had been developed … .
3. The most marked changes occurred in … .
4. Italian designers made a self-conscious effort to establish themselves as …
.
5. Scandinavian designers preferred to combine … .
6. Japanese designers strove to create a balance … .
7. An alternative group of artist-designers were interested in keeping alive
the time-honored practices of … .
8. Some architects and designers chose to conform to the previously estab-
lished intellectual strictures of modernism, seeking … .
9. Others used the design of objects as a means to … .
10. In the century's last decade, the environment became a major concern for
designers offering … .
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