Контрольна робота за темою "Speaking About Art"

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Variant 1

I. Read the text and write answers to the questions below it. (1,5)

Following the artist Marcel Duchamp who painted Mona Lisa with a beard, the American artist Karen Eland also used coffee to create a kind of Mocha Lisa, the funny but truly creative art caused strong reaction. If you think the Mocha Lisa’s bright spot lies in mocha coffee in Mona Lisa’s hand, you would be wrong, in fact, this picture is completely painted with coffee. Karen spent nearly seven months painting the Mocha Lisa. She uses fresh-baked coffee to mix with water as the paint, painting different shades of shadow. Mocha Lisa is not the first time that Karen painted with coffee, she has also produced a number of «coffee version» world famous paintings, including the engagement portrait of Prince William and Kate; as her coffee art has been sold at 15,000 dollars, she is confident in the future market. Karen Eland said she has been a coffee lover, her using coffee as a pigment in painting was inspired by an experience in 1998. At that time she was creating watercolour in a coffee shop cup in Tulsa, Oklahoma City. Different shades of the colour of coffee excited her, and so coffee art was born.

1) What substance did the American artist Karen Eland use to create a kind of Mocha Lisa portrait?

2) How long did it take Karen to paint the Mocha Lisa?

3) What kind of coffee did she use?

4) Why is Karen confident in the «future market»?

5) When was Karen’s coffee art born?

II. Read carefully and match the correct text to each word.(1,5)

III.Translate into English. (3)

Word Bank: arrangement, striking, meaningless, significant, fiction.

1. Вона дуже вражаюча жінка.
2. Цей фільм варто переглянути.
3. Було неможливо передати словами той зворушливий сюжет
4. Ця картина змусила його затамувати подих.

IV. Complete the sentences by changing the verb in brackets into participle. (3)

1. The book (write) by him is not very interesting.
2. I don’t like the video (buy) yesterday.
3. The question (discuss) at the meeting was very important.
4. The translation (do) by me was very easy.
5. (live) in Kyiv, he was able to see all the ancient monuments.

V. Describe your favourite film. (3)

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                               Variant 2

I. 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.

1) Who destroyed a priceless work of art in the museum in Dortmund, Germany?

2) What is the amount of insurance for that work of art?

3) What does the white substance in the small black basin represent?

4) How did the museum’s curator feel about the incident?

5) What explanation do some people find for the cleaner’s misdeed?

II. Read carefully and match the correct text to each word.

III. Fill in the correct word to the blank using the Word Bank.

Word Bank: heartwarming, approval, striking, recognition, shadow.

1. Режисер відчув клубок в горлі коли почув схвалення його фільму.
2. Більшість ліричних пісень по суті безглузді.
3. Він завжди зосереджено вивчає тінь на кожній картині з задоволенням.
4. Глядачі визнають сучасні вистави дуже популярними.

 IV. Complete the sentences by changing the verb in brackets into participle. (3 points)

1. You make mistake (judge) people by their appearance.
2. (be) a woman of taste she always dresses well.
3. (translate) into a foreign language the story lost all its charm.
4. He walked down the road (sing).
5. (put) on the coat, she ran out of the house.

V. Describe your favourite  picture. (3 points)