The world of Painting

Read and choose the correct tense form.

Dear Diary,

This morning my exam results finally came. I                    [had been expecting, had expected]them for the last week. I was still nervous as I            [opened, had opened] the envelope. Before I                  [had had a chance, had a chance]to look at them, my sister had run up and pulled them out of my hand! She read them out one by one.

“English A, Maths A, Biology A, French A…” This was the

news I                  [had been waiting, waited]for. When Mum and

Dad           [hear, had heard]the news, they immediately started shouting with joy. By the time I                   [had had breakfast, had breakfast] Mum had already called Grandma and Grandpa.

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MUSEUM OF ART AFTER BOHDAN AND VARVARA KHANENKO

Museum of Art was founded in 1919 on the basis of the private             [masterpiece, contains, exhibits, piece, collection, paintings, icons] of Kyiv archeologist Bohdan Khanenko. The Green Cabinet features the collection of Medieval Art, the Golden Cabinet             [masterpiece, contains, exhibits, piece, collection, paintings, icons] objects of Rococo epoch and in the Red Cabinet you can find             [masterpiece, contains, exhibits, piece, collection, paintings, icons] of Renaissance period.

There are 17,000             [masterpiece, contains, exhibits, piece, collection, paintings, icons] in the museum funds. Among the exhibits are the paintings of Bellini, Hals, Reynolds, Rubens, the             [masterpiece, contains, exhibits, piece, collection, paintings, icons] … ‘Infant Margaret’ by Velazquez and unique Byzantine//Sinai             [masterpiece, contains, exhibits, piece, collection, paintings, icons] of the 6th-7th centuries written with wax paint. Interesting exhibits are presented at the Department of Oriental Art:             [masterpiece, contains, exhibits, piece, collection, paintings, icons] of Coptic fabric with the picture of horseman (5th-6th centuries), ritual Chinese bell (1st century BC), excellent Chinese paintings on the scrolls (15th-20th centuries) and Japanese paintings.

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