Демонстрационный вариант
Английский язык
10 класс, 1 полугодие
Темы для аттестации: Painting and Artists; Religions.
Read the text and fill in gaps 1-7 with phrases A-H. There is one phrase you don’t
need to use. Fill in the table after the text.
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to a design by Victor Vasnetsov
through additions from private collections and other museums
painters of the first half of the 19th centure
who collected pictures not only by Russians
by that time already famous
who was the first to appreciate the new trends in Russian painting at the end
of the 19th centure
G. who then curated the Gallery
H. devoiting separate rooms to the works of major Russian painters
The Tretyakov Gallery dates from 1856, when the young, wealthy
Moscowmerchant, Pavel Tretyakov, started collecting paintings. Soon it became
clear that is was to be a collection of Russian art. Pavel Tretyakov acquired the
very best from contemporary painters in Moscow and St. Peterburg. Such painters
as Ivan Kramskoi and IlyaRepin, the critic Vladimir Stasov often took part in the
selection of pictures. Thus.Tretyakov's collection turned into a veritable centre of
Russia's artistic life. Tretyakov, 1. _______, started acquiring the works of then
young and still little-known artists. Later he began buy and commission portraits of
Russian cultural figures, thich was highly appreciated by the Russian public.
The collector's brother, Sergei Tretyakov, was also a connoisseur of art 2. ______,
but also by French and Dutch painters. The Tretyakov brothers' mansion in
Lavrushinsky Lane had to be expanded to accommodate the two collections.
Subsequently rebuilding had to be undertaken five times. The facade of the Gallery
was added to the mansion in 1902 3. ______.
The collection of Pavel and Sergei Tretyakov was opened to the public in 1874 as a
private museum and rapidly became very popular. In 1892 Pavel Tretyakov
presented his collection, 4. ______, to the city of Moscow, but remained the
Gallery's lifelong Curator.
In 1913 Igor Grabar, 5. ______, insisted that the so-called carpet hanging of
pictures in the order of their acquisition was replaced by the historicalchronological principle, 6. ______. According to Grabar this work "converted a
privately owned collection into museum of European standards".
In 1917 the collection numbering over 4000 items, was nationalised and
transformed into a state museum. Gradually it was enlarged 7. ______ . At the
same time Western European paintings were transferred to what is today the
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts.
The Gallery's collection in the soviet period increased more than tenfold. Today it
is a depository of some 47000 works of art, and the average annual number of
visitors is 1 700 000.
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Нормы оценки тестовой работы:
100 – 90% - оценка «5» (25 – 23 правильных ответов)
89 – 70% - «4» (22 – 18 правильных ответов)
69 – 50% - «3» (17 – 13 правильных ответов)
Менее 50% «2» (12 и менее правильных ответов)