La tourette monastery

Great architecture has never been dependent on the

(0) expenditure of vast sums of money. One of the greatest SPEND

buildings of all time is the monastery of Sainte-Marie de

la Tourette near Lyon, consecrated in 1960 and built cheaply

from that most (1) ……….. of building materials – concrete. PRETEND

Yet here is a building that is at once as poor and as rich as

the mendicant monks for whom it was designed

and built. Poor in terms of cost and the materials used to

build it, rich in ideas and (2) ………….. . SPIRIT

Today, much new architecture is slick and polished, erected

by teams of (3) ………… working to design through very CONTRACT

(4) ………… computer programs. The buildings, whether office RELY

blocks, shopping malls or schools, are (5) …………… in COST

absolute terms, yet generally good value for money. Most,

however, are (6) ………………… or even cynical. SOUL

La Tourette, by contrast, is a tour de force. Set high on a

ridge (7) ………….. the vineyards of Beaujolais country, LOOK

this college and monastery was (8) …………. from the MISSION

great architect Le Corbusier in 1953. La Tourette marked

a profound change in Le Corbusier's approach to architecture;

a move away from the severe, white geometry of his pre-war years.

It also (9) …………. a new architecture for a church trying to PRESENT

come to terms with a world of (10) ………….. and progress. MODERN

Task 3

For Questions 1-15, read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a plus (+) by the number. If a line has a word which should not be there, write the word on the line. There are two examples at the beginning (0 and 00). Explain your choice.

Moving house

0 My family and I had recently moved from London to a suburb and we had

00 are still not used to it. We miss our old neighbours and keep + +

1 getting lost when we go visit to the shops. My father thought it ____

2 would be a good idea to move out of the city, and live in a most ____

3 cleaner and less polluted area. The pace of life here is much more ____

4 slower. There are lots of trees, traditional houses and there is a park ____

5 down of the street, which has a children’s playground, a lake, a ____

6 bandstand and a coffee shop. There is also a swimming pool ____

7 nearby and an ice skating rink, so we will have plenty to do ____

8 when we have been finished unpacking and settled down. I ____

9 used to get home from the work at six thirty, but now I get home ____

10 one half an hour later. It also means I have to get up earlier in the ____

11 mornings to get to the office on time and I feel tired by the end of ____

12 the day. My father does not himself work, as he has retired, so ____

13 it is not a problem for him. He spends his time either by helping my ____

14 mother, gardening, or getting to know how the area. I think we will ____

15 soon grow fond of the place and enjoy living in the countryside. ____