Key: What is the mystery behind the Mona Lisa?

 

EXAMEN RESUELTO

 

WHAT IS THE MISTERY 

BEHIND THE MONA LISA?

 

READING COMPREHENSION

ANSWER QUESTIONS 1-3 ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION GIVEN IN THE TEXT. USE YOUR OWN WORDS.

• 1. Who seems to be the lady in Leonardo’s painting according to most scholars? PAR. 2
• 2. Why is the lady’s smile mysterious? PAR. 3
• 3. Why did the thief steal the painting? PAR. 4

ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH THE PRECISE WORDS OR PHRASES FROM THE TEXT, OR USE YOUR OWN WORDS.

4. Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is unfinished.

• FALSE: The portrait took da Vinci four years to complete.

5. Perugia didn’t confess to stealing the portrait.

• FALSE: A man called Vincenzo Perugia was arrested (...). He admitted to the theft, explaining he didn’t believe that a painting by such an important Italian artist should be kept in France.

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6. GIVE A NOUN WITH THE SAME ROOT AS “music” (noun).

•  musician

7. FIND IN THE TEXT THE WORD WHICH HAS THE FOLLOWING DEFINITION: 

“To look at someone or something fixedly with wide-open eyes.”

•  stare

8. FILL IN THE GAP WITH A CORRECT PREPOSITION: 

• My friend is very bad at drawing.

9. FILL IN THE GAP WITH THE CORRECT OPTION: out / into / up / across

• They broke into the house and took all the money and jewels they found.

10. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO REPORTED SPEECH: 

She asked him: “Did you go to the museum yesterday?”

• She asked him if / whether he had gone to the museum the day before / the previous day.

11. FILL IN THE GAP WITH A CORRECT FORM OF THE VERB IN BRACKETS: 

• If you had seen that spider, you would have run away (run away*) as well.

12. JOIN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES USING A RELATIVE. MAKE CHANGES IF NECESSARY: 

This is the story of a man. His wife is losing her memory.

• This is the story of a man whose wife is losing her memory.

13. REWRITE THE SENTENCE WITHOUT CHANGING ITS MEANING. BEGIN AS INDICATED: 

Mona Lisa is the feminine version of Da Vinci himself.

• Mona Lisa is said to be the feminine version of Da Vinci himself.

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