Test One, страница 4 - гдз по английскому языку 10 класс контрольные задания Афанасьева, Михеева

Unit one. Il. Reading Tests - страница 4.

Условие.

II. Reading Tests

NEF Test One. Read the descriptions of paintings (A-F) and match them with the statements (1-7). There is one statement you don't have to use.

1. This portrait was painted very much against the sitter's will.

2. The artist seems to have foreseen his sitter's fate.

3. The artist worked on this portrait after the painting had been finished.

4. This portrait is supposed to show the artist's relative.

5. You can see more than one portrait of this person in one and the same place.

6. The sitter in this famous portrait doesn't belong to the nobility.

7. This portrait is supposed to have been inspired by the artist's relatives.

A. The picture may be a portrait of Hendrikje Stoffels with whom Rembrandt lived after the death of his first wife Saskia and who bore him a daughter in 1654. In Rembrandt's little picture she appears to have lost something in a dark and shallow pool and is cautiously looking for it. Her face and pose seem to express quiet amusement.

B. She, who was born Margaretha de Geer, was the wife of Jacob Trip, a merchant from Dordrecht. They had been married in 1630 and had at least twelve children. Another head and shoulders portrait of Mrs Trip by Rembrandt is in the National Gallery and is dated 1661. The two larger portraits were probably painted in the same year.

C. Charles I became King of Great Britain and Ireland in 1625. He ruled without Parliament from 1629 to 1640, and his rule led to civil war and his own subsequent execution. He made an important collection of paintings, patronized Rubens and appointed Van Dyck as his court painter. Van Dyck's portrait of Charles I on Horseback is believed to show a sense of sadness and melancholy in the King's facial expression. How could the King be aware of his gloomy future? And how could a court painter take the liberty of portraying his Sovereign as doomed?

D. Murillo's self-portrait was probably painted when the artist was in his fifties. The painting was probably produced, according to the inscription, "to fulfill the wishes and prayers of his children" (of which he had nine). Murillo worked most of his life in Seville. His religious pictures were much copied and reproduced in the 19th century.

E. This brilliant portrait was painted by Lawrence in 1789 when the artist was just twenty, Queen Charlotte forty-five. She was the wife of George III and when the artist was first introduced to her, her Majesty didn't like the idea of sitting to him, saying that "she had not recovered sufficiently from all the trouble and anxiety she had gone through". In the previous year the King had become ill for the first time; he was later declared insane. The Queen refused a final sitting for the portrait and the positions of the bracelets and scarf were modelled by another woman. The picture was painted at Windsor, in the background is Eton College Chapel.

F. This portrait depicts the first Duke of Wellington who defeated Joseph Bonaparte at the Battle of Vittoria in 1813. Goya painted the portrait in August 1812 when Wellington entered Madrid after winning the battle of Salamanca; but two years later the Duke returned the portrait to the artist to have his most recently awarded decorations included. Goya made the required alterations, so the new decorations – military orders and crosses – can be seen on the Duke's costume.

Paintings	A	B	C	D	E	F
Statements

Решение.

Решение 2.

Прочитайте описания картин (A–F) и соотнесите их с утверждениями (1–7). Одно утверждение лишнее.

Ответ:

Paintings	A	B	C	D	E	F
Statements	4	5	2	7	1	3

Statement 6 is the extra one you don't have to use. / Утверждение 6 — лишнее, которое не нужно использовать.