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GRAMMAR

Read the text and choose the correct words.

Lost Pissarro paintings discovered!

Two paintings by the famous 19th-century French artist Camille Pissarro ¹                      [are discovered, have discovered, have been discovered]in a secret room under an old house in Magdeburg, Germany. They ²                [were found, had them found, were finding] while building work ³                [has been done, is done, was being done] on the house.

‘I wanted a new kitchen, and I ⁴                    [was being made, was having it made, have it made] at the time,’ said the owner, Wolfgang Brandt. ‘But after the old stones on the kitchen floor ⁵                   [are removed, have removed, have been removed] we found stairs down to a secret room. That’s where we found the paintings,’ Mr Brandt told reporters.

Camille Pissarro lived in France, but he escaped to England during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870−71. He had to leave 1,500 of his paintings in France. Most of these paintings ⁶                    [had them destroyed, were destroyed, are destroyed] by Prussian soldiers, but some disappeared. And they ⁷                       [are not found, have never been found, never had found] found − until now.

At the moment, the paintings ⁸                  [are being looked, are looking, have looked] after by a museum in Berlin. But after they ⁹              [have cleaned, are cleaning, are cleaned] , they ¹⁰                [will be sent, are sent, have them sent] back to France.

Complete the sentences with reflexive pronouns, or the correct form of the words in brackets.

1. You’re very good at drawing, Mark. Did you study it at college or teach          to do it?

2. Your sister’s getting married next weekend! That’s great. Where                           (the wedding / hold)?

3. Mum and Dad are very angry with my brother. He                   (his / hair / dye) bright red last weekend.

4. I’m not going to work here any more. I                    (not / pay) for the last two months!

5. Sally does her hair at home. She                      (not / it / cut) by a hairdresser.

6. Nobody helped me to compose the song. I wrote it all        .

7. Do you like our photography book? We took all the photos, then we                      (the book / print) in London.

8. Mum and Dad are away this weekend, so we have to look after           .

9. It was a surprise party, so Joshua              (not / tell) about it before he came home.

10. Rich people have chefs to cook for them. They don’t cook anything            .

VOCABULARY

Match the quotes with the words.

Choose the correct words to complete the sentences.

1. Helen has her nails       [done , dyed] every weekend.

2. I don’t like the words of this song at all, but the music is good − it’s got a really nice         [chorus , melody].

3. We went to an 18th-century         [opera, musical] by Mozart last weekend.

4. Someone          [hacked , pierced]into Mike’s email account last week.

5. It’s the second book by this           [director, novelist]. His first was a science fiction story.

6. You really need a computer to make good        [techno, jazz] music.

Complete the sentences with the words from the list.

1. Tessa wore a dark blue dress to the party on Friday, but her clothes are usually much more                        [brightly coloured, foolish, lethargic, norm, peers, piano recital, tree trunk].

2. It was nice to sit in the concert hall and listen to the                   [brightly coloured, foolish, lethargic, norm, peers, piano recital, tree trunk].

3. Ben is only seven years old, but he’s a very serious boy so he seems much older than his                   [brightly coloured, foolish, lethargic, norm, peers, piano recital, tree trunk].

4. You seem very                   [brightly coloured, foolish, lethargic, norm, peers, piano recital, tree trunk]today. What’s wrong? Are you ill?

5. I’m sorry for driving so fast. It was a                   [brightly coloured, foolish, lethargic, norm, peers, piano recital, tree trunk]thing to do.

6. Smartphones are really expensive: £200 is the                   [brightly coloured, foolish, lethargic, norm, peers, piano recital, tree trunk]these days for a good one.

7. Jessica climbed up the                   [brightly coloured, foolish, lethargic, norm, peers, piano recital, tree trunk]and sat on one of the branches.

READING

Read the text and choose the correct answers.

This month in Art Around the World, Fiona Hitchens visits China

My first introduction to Chinese art was an early morning walk in Beihai Park in Beijing. There, I saw elderly people writing on the pavement with paintbrushes which were a metre long! I soon learned that they were doing water calligraphy − writing in water. The words have meanings, but they are also art. The calligraphy quickly disappears, of course. But tomorrow, the old people will be back.

Temporary art like this is very popular in China. Every winter, Harbin, in northern China, is visited by sculptors and tourists from around the world. They come for the Harbin Ice Festival, when the city has huge sculptures made out of ice. The sculptures are bigger than houses, and they take weeks to make. Harbin’s freezing winter temperatures make it very difficult for the artists to work outside. But the weather also means that the sculptures will be protected until the spring.

A few days later in Tibet, western China, I watched artists make sand paintings. The pictures are full of symbols, and they have important religious meanings for Tibetan people. They look amazing, but the paintings are soon destroyed by the artists who make them. It is important for Tibetan culture to make these paintings, then have them destroyed.

Of course, not all Chinese art is temporary − some of it has been around for a very long time! Near the city of Xi’an, I visited the amazing terracotta warriors, or soldiers. In 200 BCE, 8,000 statues of soldiers were made by sculptors out of a material called terracotta. They are as big as real people and they all have different faces. An important king had the statues produced to protect his body after he died. They stayed under the ground with the dead king for over 2,000 years, until they were discovered by a farmer in 1974.

At the China Art Museum, in Shanghai, I saw wonderful 16th-century Chinese paintings of tall mountains, trees and cliffs. The paintings were beautiful, but they didn’t look very realistic to me at the time. ‘Mountains aren’t like that,’ I thought. But that was before the last stop on my trip: the mountains of Zhangjiajie National Park.

These mountains were used by film director James Cameron in his sci-fi film Avatar because they look like something from another planet. On my last weekend in China, I took a cable car up into the mountains there. Trees grew on the sides of hundred-metre cliffs, and strange towers of rock appeared out of the morning fog. It looked just like the pictures in the China Art Museum. For a moment, I felt like I was inside a Chinese painting!

What does the writer say about the people she saw in Beihai Park?

READING

Read the text and choose the correct answers.

This month in Art Around the World, Fiona Hitchens visits China

My first introduction to Chinese art was an early morning walk in Beihai Park in Beijing. There, I saw elderly people writing on the pavement with paintbrushes which were a metre long! I soon learned that they were doing water calligraphy − writing in water. The words have meanings, but they are also art. The calligraphy quickly disappears, of course. But tomorrow, the old people will be back.

Temporary art like this is very popular in China. Every winter, Harbin, in northern China, is visited by sculptors and tourists from around the world. They come for the Harbin Ice Festival, when the city has huge sculptures made out of ice. The sculptures are bigger than houses, and they take weeks to make. Harbin’s freezing winter temperatures make it very difficult for the artists to work outside. But the weather also means that the sculptures will be protected until the spring.

A few days later in Tibet, western China, I watched artists make sand paintings. The pictures are full of symbols, and they have important religious meanings for Tibetan people. They look amazing, but the paintings are soon destroyed by the artists who make them. It is important for Tibetan culture to make these paintings, then have them destroyed.

Of course, not all Chinese art is temporary − some of it has been around for a very long time! Near the city of Xi’an, I visited the amazing terracotta warriors, or soldiers. In 200 BCE, 8,000 statues of soldiers were made by sculptors out of a material called terracotta. They are as big as real people and they all have different faces. An important king had the statues produced to protect his body after he died. They stayed under the ground with the dead king for over 2,000 years, until they were discovered by a farmer in 1974.

At the China Art Museum, in Shanghai, I saw wonderful 16th-century Chinese paintings of tall mountains, trees and cliffs. The paintings were beautiful, but they didn’t look very realistic to me at the time. ‘Mountains aren’t like that,’ I thought. But that was before the last stop on my trip: the mountains of Zhangjiajie National Park.

These mountains were used by film director James Cameron in his sci-fi film Avatar because they look like something from another planet. On my last weekend in China, I took a cable car up into the mountains there. Trees grew on the sides of hundred-metre cliffs, and strange towers of rock appeared out of the morning fog. It looked just like the pictures in the China Art Museum. For a moment, I felt like I was inside a Chinese painting!

The cold weather in Harbin

READING

Read the text and choose the correct answers.

This month in Art Around the World, Fiona Hitchens visits China

My first introduction to Chinese art was an early morning walk in Beihai Park in Beijing. There, I saw elderly people writing on the pavement with paintbrushes which were a metre long! I soon learned that they were doing water calligraphy − writing in water. The words have meanings, but they are also art. The calligraphy quickly disappears, of course. But tomorrow, the old people will be back.

Temporary art like this is very popular in China. Every winter, Harbin, in northern China, is visited by sculptors and tourists from around the world. They come for the Harbin Ice Festival, when the city has huge sculptures made out of ice. The sculptures are bigger than houses, and they take weeks to make. Harbin’s freezing winter temperatures make it very difficult for the artists to work outside. But the weather also means that the sculptures will be protected until the spring.

A few days later in Tibet, western China, I watched artists make sand paintings. The pictures are full of symbols, and they have important religious meanings for Tibetan people. They look amazing, but the paintings are soon destroyed by the artists who make them. It is important for Tibetan culture to make these paintings, then have them destroyed.

Of course, not all Chinese art is temporary − some of it has been around for a very long time! Near the city of Xi’an, I visited the amazing terracotta warriors, or soldiers. In 200 BCE, 8,000 statues of soldiers were made by sculptors out of a material called terracotta. They are as big as real people and they all have different faces. An important king had the statues produced to protect his body after he died. They stayed under the ground with the dead king for over 2,000 years, until they were discovered by a farmer in 1974.

At the China Art Museum, in Shanghai, I saw wonderful 16th-century Chinese paintings of tall mountains, trees and cliffs. The paintings were beautiful, but they didn’t look very realistic to me at the time. ‘Mountains aren’t like that,’ I thought. But that was before the last stop on my trip: the mountains of Zhangjiajie National Park.

These mountains were used by film director James Cameron in his sci-fi film Avatar because they look like something from another planet. On my last weekend in China, I took a cable car up into the mountains there. Trees grew on the sides of hundred-metre cliffs, and strange towers of rock appeared out of the morning fog. It looked just like the pictures in the China Art Museum. For a moment, I felt like I was inside a Chinese painting!

Which is true about Tibetan sand paintings?

READING

Read the text and choose the correct answers.

This month in Art Around the World, Fiona Hitchens visits China

My first introduction to Chinese art was an early morning walk in Beihai Park in Beijing. There, I saw elderly people writing on the pavement with paintbrushes which were a metre long! I soon learned that they were doing water calligraphy − writing in water. The words have meanings, but they are also art. The calligraphy quickly disappears, of course. But tomorrow, the old people will be back.

Temporary art like this is very popular in China. Every winter, Harbin, in northern China, is visited by sculptors and tourists from around the world. They come for the Harbin Ice Festival, when the city has huge sculptures made out of ice. The sculptures are bigger than houses, and they take weeks to make. Harbin’s freezing winter temperatures make it very difficult for the artists to work outside. But the weather also means that the sculptures will be protected until the spring.

A few days later in Tibet, western China, I watched artists make sand paintings. The pictures are full of symbols, and they have important religious meanings for Tibetan people. They look amazing, but the paintings are soon destroyed by the artists who make them. It is important for Tibetan culture to make these paintings, then have them destroyed.

Of course, not all Chinese art is temporary − some of it has been around for a very long time! Near the city of Xi’an, I visited the amazing terracotta warriors, or soldiers. In 200 BCE, 8,000 statues of soldiers were made by sculptors out of a material called terracotta. They are as big as real people and they all have different faces. An important king had the statues produced to protect his body after he died. They stayed under the ground with the dead king for over 2,000 years, until they were discovered by a farmer in 1974.

At the China Art Museum, in Shanghai, I saw wonderful 16th-century Chinese paintings of tall mountains, trees and cliffs. The paintings were beautiful, but they didn’t look very realistic to me at the time. ‘Mountains aren’t like that,’ I thought. But that was before the last stop on my trip: the mountains of Zhangjiajie National Park.

These mountains were used by film director James Cameron in his sci-fi film Avatar because they look like something from another planet. On my last weekend in China, I took a cable car up into the mountains there. Trees grew on the sides of hundred-metre cliffs, and strange towers of rock appeared out of the morning fog. It looked just like the pictures in the China Art Museum. For a moment, I felt like I was inside a Chinese painting!

Why was the author’s visit to Zhangjiajie important?

READING

Read the text and choose the correct answers.

This month in Art Around the World, Fiona Hitchens visits China

My first introduction to Chinese art was an early morning walk in Beihai Park in Beijing. There, I saw elderly people writing on the pavement with paintbrushes which were a metre long! I soon learned that they were doing water calligraphy − writing in water. The words have meanings, but they are also art. The calligraphy quickly disappears, of course. But tomorrow, the old people will be back.

Temporary art like this is very popular in China. Every winter, Harbin, in northern China, is visited by sculptors and tourists from around the world. They come for the Harbin Ice Festival, when the city has huge sculptures made out of ice. The sculptures are bigger than houses, and they take weeks to make. Harbin’s freezing winter temperatures make it very difficult for the artists to work outside. But the weather also means that the sculptures will be protected until the spring.

A few days later in Tibet, western China, I watched artists make sand paintings. The pictures are full of symbols, and they have important religious meanings for Tibetan people. They look amazing, but the paintings are soon destroyed by the artists who make them. It is important for Tibetan culture to make these paintings, then have them destroyed.

Of course, not all Chinese art is temporary − some of it has been around for a very long time! Near the city of Xi’an, I visited the amazing terracotta warriors, or soldiers. In 200 BCE, 8,000 statues of soldiers were made by sculptors out of a material called terracotta. They are as big as real people and they all have different faces. An important king had the statues produced to protect his body after he died. They stayed under the ground with the dead king for over 2,000 years, until they were discovered by a farmer in 1974.

At the China Art Museum, in Shanghai, I saw wonderful 16th-century Chinese paintings of tall mountains, trees and cliffs. The paintings were beautiful, but they didn’t look very realistic to me at the time. ‘Mountains aren’t like that,’ I thought. But that was before the last stop on my trip: the mountains of Zhangjiajie National Park.

These mountains were used by film director James Cameron in his sci-fi film Avatar because they look like something from another planet. On my last weekend in China, I took a cable car up into the mountains there. Trees grew on the sides of hundred-metre cliffs, and strange towers of rock appeared out of the morning fog. It looked just like the pictures in the China Art Museum. For a moment, I felt like I was inside a Chinese painting!

What overall message does the article give about Chinese art?