Вариант 1, страница 24 - гдз по английскому языку 8 класс подготовка к всероссийским проверочным работам (впр) Афанасьева, Михеева

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Вариант 1

Now we are ready to start.

Steve: Hello, Doris. How've you been?

Doris: Oh, Steve! Good to see you after all this time. I'm fine. And how are you doing?

Steve: Not so bad. Thank you.

Doris: What's brought you to this library, Steve? I come here quite often, but I've never seen you here before.

Steve: You see, I'm working on a project for my college. I've already found a lot of information I need on the Internet. But there's a book I haven't been able to read online. I hope this library has it.

Doris: I wish you good luck with it. What's your project devoted to?

Steve: We're working on the Renaissance art. I was asked to make a presentation on Michelangelo.

Doris: How interesting! Are you going to show slides of his sculptures?

Steve: Yes, by all means. His statues are fantastic and so lifelike.

Doris: And they're all very large, aren't they?

Steve: Not all of them, only those he made for streets and squares.

Doris: Like the statue of David, I suppose. I was in Florence last year with a school trip and saw that statue in one of the squares.

Steve: You're right, it's very big — four metres high. But what you saw is only a copy. The original is now housed for protection at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.

Doris: Oh, really? I had no idea. Are you going to speak about the sculptor's biography as well?

Steve: Yes, but not in detail. I'm going to concentrate mostly on his work. You've called him a sculptor, but in fact he was also a great painter and the chief architect of St Peter's Cathedral in Rome.

Doris: Oh, the most important cathedral in the Vatican City.

Steve: That's it. There, Michelangelo did a great job painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Doris: Is the ceiling very large?

Steve: It's massive. The artist spent four years and a half lying on his back only a few inches from the ceiling when he was painting it.

Doris: I'm sure it was hard work.

Steve: I bet! I'm not surprised that Renaissance artists are often called giants. Only giants can perform such hard tasks.

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This is the end of the Listening test.

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