Unit 8 Test: Listening Language Focus

Unit 8 test
Listening Language focus

1 1.09 Listen to the tour. Then answer the 4 Write the present passive sentences. (10 marks)
questions. (10 marks)
a Culture Festival / every year (celebrate)
1 According to the guide, what are the people A Culture Festival is celebrated every year.
standing in front of? 1 this painting / by / many critics (dislike)
___________________________________________ ___________________________________________
2 What happened to the painting after it was first 2 the sculptures / by / thousands of people (see)
exhibited? ___________________________________________
___________________________________________ 3 masterpieces / every year (not paint)
3 What do the colours represent? ___________________________________________
___________________________________________ 4 the work / by / many people (not understand)

___________________________________________
4 Why do some people think the artist painted a
5 the artist’s / real identity (not know)
light bulb? (Give two reasons.)
___________________________________________
It might symbolize____________________________
It might be___________________________________ 5 Rewrite the active sentences using the past
passive. (10 marks)
Van Gogh painted Starry Night.
Vocabulary
Starry Night was painted by Van Gogh.
2 Complete the dialogue. Use suitable art nouns. 1 Moreau taught Matisse.
(10 marks)
___________________________________________
Mo There’s a Goya (1) ______________ on at the 2 They didn’t make these statues in France.
Tate Modern in London. Do you want to go? ___________________________________________
Lou Oh yes. I love that (2) ______________. It’s so 3 Their provocative paintings shocked critics.
light and there’s a nice café. ___________________________________________
Mo OK. The Goya display has received really good 4 They didn’t sell the sculpture yesterday.
reviews. The art (3) ______________ love it. It ___________________________________________
includes some of his (4) ______________ of the 5 Surrealism influenced Cubism.
influential people of the time, and Goya’s best ___________________________________________
work, The Second of May. It’s his
6 Write the passive questions. (12 marks)
(5) ______________!
Question Answer
3 Write synonyms for the words in bold. (10 marks) The Scream / paint Munch
1 That sculpture is really funny – it makes me 1 the Colosseum / build Rome
laugh. _______________ 2 The Lord of the Rings films / New Zealand
make
2 I think modern art is really silly – I could paint
3 brushes and paint / use for painting
that! _______________
4 the Louvre / open 1793
3 That painting is very bright – it’s got reds,
5 novels / write / by novelists
yellows and greens! ______________
6 speak / in Japan Japanese
4 That painting is a bit boring – there’s nothing
Who was The Scream painted by?
new about it. _______________
1 ____________________________________________
5 That painting is very controversial – it really 2 ____________________________________________
makes you think. _______________
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Unit 8 test
3 ____________________________________________ ___________________________________________
4 ____________________________________________ 6 Some people pretended to be Sharbat.
5 ____________________________________________ ___________________________________________
6 ____________________________________________ 7 Sharbat was in the magazine more than once.
___________________________________________
7 Write two passive quiz questions about art,
8 The magazine helps children in Sharbat’s home
books or films. Then write full-sentence
answers. Use your own ideas. (8 marks) country. ___________________________________
9 Sharbat’s day begins late.
Who were the Twilight books written by?
___________________________________________
They were written by Stephanie Meyer.
10 Sharbat hasn’t got a family.
1 ___________________________________________?
____________________________________________ ___________________________________________
2 ___________________________________________?
____________________________________________ Communication
9 Complete the sentences. Write one word in each
Reading gap. (10 marks)
8 Read the text. Then write true or false. Correct 1 It reminds me ________ a Frida Kahlo painting.
the false sentences. (10 marks) 2 It doesn’t look ________ a Bosch painting.
3 What ________ earth is that?
SHARBAT GULA 4 I’m not sure ________ this painting.
Sharbat is famous because she appeared on the cover of National
Geographic magazine, and the world was amazed by her beautiful green
5 She looks as ________ she’s smiling.
eyes. She was photographed in 1985 at the age of thirteen by journalist
Steve McCurry. She lived in Afghanistan and was forced to leave her
home in Afghanistan during the war with Russia. For seventeen years Writing
nobody knew her name and she was known simply as ‘the Afghan Girl’. 10 Read the information. Then write a description.
For many people she symbolized the war.
Use the ideas to help you. (10 marks)
The journalist tried to find her during the 90s, but he couldn’t. In 2002 a
team from National Geographic looked for her. A few women said they
were Sharbat and a few men said they were her husband! They finally
found her. Her identity was confirmed using modern technology which
NOTES ON MONA LISA
matched her eyes to the photo.
(Leonardo da Vinci)
● painted in the sixteenth century
Sharbat didn’t know that she was famous. She was photographed again ● a portrait of a woman, beautiful, mysterious smile
and her story was written and published in the April 2002 magazine.
Modern pictures of her were printed and a television documentary was
● one of the most famous paintings in the world
made. ● Renaissance, Europe. Artists experimented with
perspectives and a realistic style of painting.
Today her life is quite normal. She gets up before sunrise and collects
● exhibited in the Louvre museum in Paris, 1793
water from the stream. She cooks, cleans, does the washing and looks
after her three children. ● stolen in 1911, returned after two years
● in the Louvre today
1 Sharbat looks very ordinary.
_______________________________________
2 A man took her photo when she was a teenager.
___________________________________________
Total marks: Listening _______ / 10 Vocabulary _______ / 20 Language focus _______ / 40

Reading _______ / 10 Communication _______ / 10 Writing _______ / 10 TOTAL _______ / 100
3 Sharbat has lived in Afghanistan all her life.
___________________________________________
4 Sharbat’s name was famous.
___________________________________________
5 People found Sharbat twenty-seven years later.
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Total marks: Listening _______ / 10 Vocabulary_______ / 20 Language focus_______ / 40
Reading _______ / 10 Communication _______ / 10 Writing_______ / 10 TOTAL_______ / 100

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___________________________________________ 4 the work / by / many people (not understand)

Total marks: Listening ___ / 10 Vocabulary _ / 20 Language focus _____ / 40

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