Контроль екстернат І семестр Full Blast 2
I went to a restaurant ______ foot.
Don't eat that meat! It's__________ .
The ______ to the museum was interesting.
Well, I almost fell into the sea _______ of a kid!
The food _______(be) fantastic and we ______ (be)very happy.
They _______ (not can) use the chopsticks when they were six years old.
My parents _______ abroad in the past, but now they do.
Kevin ________ horse riding every weekend. Now he doesn't have time.
I always go to bed ________ on Saturdays.
We've got a new PE teacher at school. We all like ____ .
I took a lot of pictures on our holiday. Would you like to see _______ ?
Choose the correect answer:
Is that Jane’s new ________?
Choose the correect answer:
A: What’s ________?
B: It’s my new mobile phone. Now I ________ two mobile phones.
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This isn’t my cap. It’s_______.
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Kevin: Hey, Jenny. Can you ride a horse?
Jenny: No, I____.
My mother watched a 3D film and _______ really enjoyed it.
I’m not going on a three-week voyage with _____!
The History of Graffiti
The first drawings on walls appeared in caves thousands of years ago. Later the Ancient Romans and Greeks wrote their names and protest poems on buildings. Modern graffiti seems to have appeared in Philadelphia in the early 1960s, and by the late sixties it had reached New York. The new art form really took off in the 1970s, when people began writing their names, or ‘tags’, on buildings all over the city. In the mid seventies it was sometimes hard to see out of a subway car window, because the trains were completely covered in spray paintings known as ‘masterpieces’.
1. Why was the seventies an important decade in the history of graffiti?
The term ‘graffiti’ was first used by The New York Times and the novelist Norman Mailer. Art galleries in New York began buying graffiti in the early seventies.
2. Who coined the phrase 'graffiti'?
But at the same time that it began to be regarded as an art form, John Lindsay, the mayor of New York, declared the first war on graffiti. By the 1980s it became much harder to write on subway trains without being caught, and instead many of the more established graffiti artists began using roofs of buildings or canvases.
3. How did things change after the first war on graffiti?
The debate over whether graffiti is art or vandalism is still going on. Peter Vallone, a New York city councillor, thinks that graffiti done with permission can be art, but if it is on someone else’s property it becomes a crime. ‘I have a message for the graffiti vandals out there,’ he said recently. ‘Your freedom of expression ends where my property begins.’
4. What does New York city councillor Peter Vallone say about graffiti?
On the other hand, Felix, a member of the Berlin-based group Reclaim Your City, says that artists are reclaiming cities for the public from advertisers, and that graffiti represents freedom and makes cities more vibrant.
5. What do the Berlin-based group Reclaim Your City say about graffiti?
For decades graffiti has been a springboard to international fame for a few. Jean-Michel Basquiat began spraying on the street in the 1970s before becoming a respected artist in the ’80s. The Frenchman Blek le Rat and the British artist Banksy have achieved international fame by producing complex works with stencils, often making political or humorous points. Works by Banksy have been sold for over £100,000. Graffiti is now sometimes big business.
6. What is the author's final point?
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