Art. Listening

1. Raphael painted in three different rooms at the Vatican.       [True, False]

2. The paintings are in a room that was used by popes in the Renaissance.       [True, False]

3. The paintings represent a man and a woman.       [True, False]

4. Raphael used the traditional fresco technique for these paintings.       [True, False]

5. These were probably the last paintings Raphael did before he died.       [True, False]

6. The existence of the two paintings was documented in a history book.       [True, False]

7. The restoration of the paintings will not finish until 2020.       [True, False]

You are going to hear two recordings. Questions 1-3 refer to recording 1, while questions 4-6 refer to recording 2. Answer the questions according to what you hear.

Recording 1

1 Why does the customer complain to the manager?                                          [The author never arrived at the bookshop, The author left the bookshop early., The customer was the last in the queue.]

2 Which is true about Tom?                                          [He wrote to ask Jessie for an autograph., He likes Jessie Harrington's books., He's easily disappointed.]

3 At the end of the conversation, the manager ...                                          [accepts that she has made a mistake., regrets that there is nothing she can do, offers the customer a free gift.]

4 As a teenager, Jane Austen ...                                     [published several poems., disliked living in a small village., began to develop her talents.]

5 Two of Jane Austen's works ...                                          [were never finished., had unexpected endings., had a different style to her other novel]

6 The speaker is talking about ...                                          [what English society was lik in the 19th, how an author's writing career developed, how today's writers compare with Austin.]

You are going to hear four people talking about problems they had. Match the statements to the speakers. There is one extra statement.