11B Art

1. Where would you find the Imperial War Museum North?            [Leeds, Manchester]

2. Where is the Beatles Museum?           [Liverpool, London]

3. Where is Old Trafford?            [Manchester, Newcastle]

4. Where would you find the largest private art collection in the world?         [Glasgow, Bristol]

5. Where would you find a living rainforest in the heart of the city?            [Bristol, Manchester]

Read the text and write answers to the questions below it.

In Germany a cleaner in the museum ≪very carefully≫ cleaned a little bit dirty bowl having destroyed a priceless work of art, the amount of insurance of which is 80 million euros. The bowl was placed in the central hall of a museum in Dortmund, Germany. Its author is the modern German artist Mading. The work itself is a wooden structure, about 2.5 metres tall, a black bowl below a wooden frame, with white powder in the bowl. The work’s theme is ≪when the roof began to drip≫.

That white substance in the small black basin represents the scene of the liquid dripping down from the roof. However, the museum cleaner did not treat it as part of an artistic creation, but took it for dust, so she wiped the basin clean. The museum’s curator, Professor Victoria Tengger, is both embarrassed and angry about the accident because the cleaning staff was not allowed to clean the exhibits, and they were even prohibited to touch them. It is not clear who will pay the amount of insurance, and what responsibility the cleaner will take. But this incident has caused the German people’s hot discussion. Many people think that the cleaner’s attitude showed that such ≪masterpiece≫ as a dirty bowl cannot be understood by the general public. And if in some people’s eyes, it is a masterpiece, however, for the majority it is just some dust.

Answer the questions:

1) Who destroyed a priceless work of art in the museum in Dortmund, Germany?                      [the museum’s curator, a cleaner, many people, an expert]

2) What is the amount of insurance for that work of art?                  [2.5 metres tall, priceless, not stand, 80 million euros]

3) What does the white substance in the small black basin represent?                                          [the scene of the liquid, the scene of the liquid dripping down fr, the scene of durt, not stand]

4) How did the museum’s curator feel about the incident?                        [disappointed and angry, angry and aggressive, confused and angry, not stand]

5) What explanation do some people find for the cleaner’s misdeed?                         [not stand, must be punished, it is great loss in art, it is only dust]

Choose the correct one: