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sovereignty монархия
accordance соответствие
insignia знаки различия
congregation община
realm власть
EXERCISES
I. Choose the correct definition to the following:
1. take up a) careful study or investigation, esp.in order to
discover nnew facts or information
due to sth or sb b)to become or make sth completely full
fill up c)to fill or occupy an amount of space or time
research on d)caused by sth,sb; because of sth,sb.
carry out e)to do sth,as required or specified; to fulfil sth.
Exercise II. Make all the changes necessary to produce five sentences:
/The collections/ are distributed/ and/ possessed/ by/ among/ departments/ over forty/ exhibition/ the museum/ its/ permanent/ seven/.
2. /An important/ the museum/ part/ is taken by/ collection/ among/ the numismatic/ possessions/.
3./The aquisitionn of complete/of individual works/ in the 19th/ the previous/ century/ period/ was continued/ but/ collections/ of art/ and/ on a more modest scale/ during/ than/.
/The Hermitage/ section/ of the very/ on the Continent/ contains/ for / pictures/ is/ which/ a special/ few/ English/ one/.
/Joshua Reynolds/ all/ in/ by/ is/ 1780s/ represented/ the/ canvases/ painted/ four/.
Exercise III.Fill in the blanks with the following pronouns:
in of from on by
The collection has no paintings William Hogarth, but some his prints selected _ a large and representative collection possessed the Museum are usually _ show.
The State Hermitage St Petersburg ranks among the world’s most outstanding art museums.
The Museum numbers among its treasures monuments ancient Greece and Rome and those the Greek settlements the North coast the Black Sea.
Most helpful the Museum’s research work is the Hermitage Library.
It is open to every student art.
A number 17th -18th century works are show too.
EXERCISES
Exercise I. Choose the correct sentence:
a/ The Tretiakov Gallery was founded by a Russian painter - Tretiakov.
b/The Tretiakov Gallery was founded by a Moscow merchant and art patron - Tretiakov.
a/The Gallery’s centenary was widely celebrated throughout Russia in June 1956.
b/The Gallery’s centenary was widely celebrated throughout Russia in May 1856.
a/The Gallery’s collection has grown considerably in the years since the Revolution.
b/The Gallery’s collection has not grown since the Revolution.
a/The early Russian Art department and the collections of sculpture and drawings were constant.
b/The early Rassian Art department and the collections of scylpture and drawings were enlarged.
a/Tretiakov spent his life collecting the works of Russian painters.
b/Tretiakov spent 10 years collecting the works of Russiann painters.
Exercise II. Read the informatuion about the Tretiakov Gallery and answer the following questions:
Is the Tretiakov Gallery one of the best-known picture galleries of the world? Why?
2.What do you know about the history of the Tretiakov Gallery?
3.Who was it founded by?
4.When and how did Tretiakov begin his collection?
5.Did he collect antique icons?
6.He was on friendly terms with many progressive, democratic Russian painters, wasn’t he?
7.Why did his collection grow rapidly?
8.What pictures do you know from the Tretiakov Gallery?
9.What do you know about the Tretiakov Gallery’s collection of «Peredvizniki»?
10.What were the first pictures of Tretiakov’s collection?
EXERCISES
Exercise I. Choose the correct word to complete the sentence:
Buckingham Palace is the official /residence,home/ of the Her Majesty The Queen.
The Queen’s House was gradually /ruined, modernised/.
John Nash had rightly /predicted,promised/ that the Palace would prove too small, but this was a fault capable of remedy.
In 1847 the architect Edward Blore /added, took away/ the East front.
It /isn’t, is/ the centre of a large office complex.
The business of monarchy /sometimes, never/ stops.
Buckingham Palace became the /administrative, juriditial/ centre of the monarchy.
Реферат опубликован: 11/01/2008