Тематичне оцінювання "The World of Painting"

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John                  [played, had played, had been playing] the guitar for about 12 years. Many years ago, his father                  [played, had played, had been playing] the guitar in a school band. He taught John how to play the guitar when the boy was just 10 years old. John                     [was practising, had practised, had been practising] the guitar ever since. He                     [organized, had oragnized, had been organizing]more than forty home concerts for his friends and family before he became famous.

Last night, John                  [played, had played, had been playing] his guitar on a television show. He                  [wanted, had wanted, had been wanting] to be on this show since he first saw it on television 3 years ago. He played in front of a live studio audience. The audience cheered and clapped for John.

John was sure he was good because he                     [was performing, performed, had been performing]in our local karaoke club for a long time. After the show everyone in our town knew that John          [is, was, has been] a good guitar player.

Kharkiv Art Museum.

One of the most important museums in Ukraine.         [Founded, Closed, Finded] in 1920, it has been reorganized and renamed several times since then. At first known as the Kharkiv Museum of Church History, it consisted basically of the antiquarian             [collections, pieces, masterpiece] of Kharkiv eparchy and Volhynia eparchy and the art collection of Kharkiv University. Its holdings were enriched with precious religious          [article, exhibits, thing] that were acquired in the course of registering historical objects belonging to the churches and monasteries of the Kharkiv region. In 1922 the museum was           [recalled, rewritten, renamed] the Kharkiv Museum of Ukrainian Art. It consisted of three             [parts, departments, places]: architecture, sculpture, and painting. The last encompassed medieval mural paintings, 16th-19th-century icons, portraits, folk paintings, and 19th-20th-century paintings. In 1931 the plastic          [arts, painting, pictures] collection was separated from the museum to form the National Ukrainian Painting Gallery. During the 1930s the museum was closed to the         [church, public, schools]. After the war it resumed operations in 1944.

The exhibits, which        [occupy, take, place]25 halls, are divided into five sections: prerevolutionary Ukrainian and Russian art, Soviet art, foreign art, and decorative and applied art. The works of noted Ukrainian         [masters, paint, person] such as Volodymyr Borovykovsky, Dmytro H. Levytsky, Antin Losenko, and Ivan Aivazovsky are           [put, displayed, portrayed] in the Russian art section. A collection of Serhii Vasylkivsky's works, as well as paintings by Dmytro Bezperchy, Petro Levchenko, Porfyrii Martynovych, Mykhailo Berkos, Mykhailo Tkachenko, and Taras Shevchenko (a self-portrait), forms an important part of the Ukrainian art section. A separate hall is         [devoted, given, shown] to Illia Repin's works, including one version of his famous painting The Zaporozhian Cossacks Writing a Letter to the Sultan. Artists from different countries are exhibited side by side, including such noted Ukrainian artists as Mykola Samokysh, Mykola Burachek, Opanas Slastion, Fedir Krychevsky, Oleksander Murashko, Mykhailo Derehus, Ivan Izhakevych, Heorhii Narbut, Mykola Pymonenko, and Tetiana Yablonska. In the 1980s, the museum possessed nearly 20,000 art works. The Kharkiv Art Museum organizes one-man, thematic, and touring             [tours, exhibitions, viewing]. The museum building was designed by Oleksii Beketov. An album of the museum with the text in three languages was published in 1983.

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When are the pupils going to London?