Special because of the balance between the (7) in the

Background and the figures in the foreground. There are also excellent

Examples of the work of Gauguin, one of which had never been seen in

(8) before.

However, not all the paintings are the masterpieces the Russians

First thought they were. Several of the works have been discovered to

Be (9). One Toulouse-Lautrec was almost put into an exhibition

At the Hermitage before an expert worked out that it was an excellent,

But (10), copy.

3 Comment on the following issues.

Imagine that you are being given an opportunity to write a book and

Have it published worldwide.

• Think what it would be about and how you would call it.

• Describe what the cover of your book would look like.

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VARIANT 29

1 Read the text and mark () the following statements «True» or «False».

There was a millionaire who was bothered by severe eye pain. He consulted

So many physicians and was getting his treatment done. But the

Ache was even more severe than before. At last a monk who was supposed

To be an expert in treating such patients was called for by the millionaire.

The monk understood his problem and said that for some time

He should concentrate only on green colours and to let his eyes fall on

Any other colours.

The millionaire got together a group of painters and purchased barrels

Of green colour and directed that every object his eye was likely to

Fall on be painted in green colour just as the monk had directed.

When the monk came to visit him after a few days, the millionaire’s

Servans ran with buckets of green paint and poured on him since he was

In red dress lest their master see any other colour and his eye ache come

back. Hearing this, the monk laughed and said, ≪If only you had purchased

A pair of green spectacles, you could have saved these walls and

Trees and pots and all other articles and also could have saved a large

share of his fortune. You cannot paint the world green.≫ Let us change

Our vision and the world will appear accordingly. It is foolish to shape

The world, let us shape ourselves first.

True False

The millionaire in this story was blind.

He didn’t do what doctors told him to.

At last he asked the monk as a medical expert.

The monk’s advice was to look at green objects.

The millionaire invited painters to paint the

House in different colours.

The monk came to the millionaire wearing

Green.

The monk poured green paint on the servant.

The monk said he didn’t actually mean to paint

Everything green.

The millionaire bought a pair of green

Spectacles in order to see the world green.

According to the moral of the story, the world

Starts changing after our attitude to a situation

Is changed.

Variant 29

2 Complete the text with the words from the table.

Cultures are divided into ≪low-context≫ and ≪high-context≫. In

Low-context cultures (1) as North America, Britain, Sweden and

Germany, people say things very plainly, and rely on clear verbal communication.

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