Раздел 3. Грамматика и лексика

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Nearly 20 years ago a valuable portrait __________ in bizarre circumstances from a gallery in the northern Italian city of Piacenza.

STOLE

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Until recently there appeared to be little prospect of it ever being recovered - but then police received some perplexing new information, and they now think it ___________ back in the city within weeks or months.

BE

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Carabiniere Salvatore Cavallaro was on a ladder ___________ out on to the roof of Piacenza's Ricci-Oddi gallery through a partially open skylight.

LOOK

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"It doesn't fit," he shouted to his colleagues below, as he compared the size of a heavy gilded frame on the roof beside the skylight with the narrow opening (it was much _________ than the police expected). "No way the thief could have fished the painting from up here."

BIG

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Ten months before the Portrait of a Lady ______________ in a drama of a different kind, thanks to a sharp-eyed 18-year-old art student, Claudia Maga.

While flipping through The Complete works of Gustav Klimt she had noticed a strong resemblance between The Lady and another Klimt painting, Portrait of a Young Lady, that had not been seen since 1912.

INVOLVE

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Maga got the gallery's former director, Ferdinando Arisi, interested in her theory. A few weeks ____________ he picked her up from art school, drove her to the gallery, and removed the portrait from its frame. After they had wrapped it in brown paper they headed for the local hospital, where sure enough a series of X-rays revealed the dim shadow of the earlier work beneath the surface.

LATE

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The story behind the painting was the next surprise. Klimt had fallen madly in love with a young girl from Vienna, it was said, who had quickly become his muse. Then, when she suddenly, he painted over _________portrait to forget the pain of his loss.

SHE

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Food was once seen as a source of sustenance and _____________ 

PLEASE

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Today, the dinner table can instead begin to feel like a minefield. Is the bacon on your plate culinary asbestos, and will the wheat in your toast give you “grain brain”? Even the bubbles of gas in your fizzy drinks have been considered _____________

HAZARD

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Worse still, the advice changes continually.  As TV-cook Nigella Lawson __________ put it: “You can guarantee that what people think will be good for you this year, they won’t next year.”

RECENT

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This may be somewhat inevitable: evidence-based health advice should be constantly updated as new studies explore the nuances of what we eat and the effects the meals have on our bodies. But when the media (and ill-informed health gurus) exaggerate the results of a study without providing the context, it can lead to ____________ fears that may, ironically, push you towards less healthy choices.

NECESSARY

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We’ve tried to cut through the ___________ by weighing up all the available evidence to date. You may be pleased to learn that many of your favourite foods are not the ticking time bomb you have been led to believe.

CONFUSE

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Artificial __________ may be the lesser of two evils – they may carry some risks, but are still healthier than the full-sugar alternatives.

SWEET

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