III Essay Writing

My future profession.

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EXAM CARD IV

I Reading

THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: HISTORY OF CONSTRUCTION

On March 17, 1941, the National Gallery of Art was dedicated to the nation. Located in the heart of the nation's capital, the building was designed by architect John Russell Pope to implement a dream long held by its donor, the financier and art collector Andrew W. Mellon. He had started to collect paintings early in life, and as he planned for a National Gallery of Art, he brought together a superb collection of art to serve as the nucleus of a great national collection.

Andrew Mellon selected John Russell Pope to design the building of the National Gallery of Art. The proposal came as early as 1935, and the architect set out to create a building that would be monumental yet practical, classical in appearance yet thoroughly modern in structure and as comfortable as possible for visitors and staff alike.

Andrew Mellon and John Russell Pope both died in August 1937 within twenty-four hours of each other. The overall plan and exterior design for the National Gallery had been finalized by them, but the layout and decoration of the interior spaces was left to Pope's successors.

Construction of the National Gallery of Art was completed before the end of 1940. The new museum was opened on March 17, 1941. On behalf of the people of the United States of America, President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted the completed building and the collection which Andrew W. Mellon promised to the nation in 1937.

The building is one of the largest marble structures in the world, measuring 785 feet in length and containing more than 100,000 square feet of exhibition space.

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II Grammar

1. Tom ..... breakfast this morning because he didn’t have any time

wasn’t eating

hadn’t eaten

didn’t eat

hadn’t been eating

2. I was ..... hospital in March.

in

at

on

3. The secretary ..... to her new boss yesterday.

introduced

was introduced

is introduced

4. Our plan ..... by the members of the committee.

considers

is being considered

is considered

5. I don't know his address, but I ..... it for you, if you want it.

will get

will be getting

am getting

will have got

6. My husband ___ new glasses. We have to go to the eye doctor tomorrow.

needs

need

seems

thinks

7 ... chair the meeting.

John was decided to

There was decided that John should

It was decided that John should

John had been decided to

8. Their engagement ... in the local paper.

was announced

has been announcing

is being announced

had announced

9 You _____ a lot about American history if you _____ the exhibition.

will learn; visit

would learn; visit

had learnt; will visit

10 Why did you say that Paul ..... a careful driver?

isn't

wasn't

hadn't been

III Essay Writing

Computers in our life.

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EXAM CARD V

I Reading

John Russel Pope

By 1929, when he accepted Andrew Mellon's invitation to work on the Federal Triangle project, John Russell Pope was one of America's most famous architects. He had graduated from Columbia College (later Columbia University) in New York in 1894 and had received fellowships for study at the American Academy in Rome and for travel in Italy and Greece, where he was able to examine the remains of antiquity and the Italian Renaissance. He then studied architecture in Paris for two years, graduating in 1900.

Pope developed a successful architectural practice in the United States, designing elegant residences, university campuses, churches, mausoleums, and other monuments. His work in Washington included many outstanding projects among which is the National Gallery of Art, the National Archives and the Jefferson Memorial.

Pope also became well known as a museum architect. He had designed the Baltimore Museum of Art and new galleries or additions for the British Museum and the Tate Gallery in London, as well as the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Pope was an eclectic designer, able to work in a range of historic styles as the occasion required. Yet like many architects of his generation, he was convinced that the architecture of ancient Greece and Rome was the best possible expression of the American national ideal of democracy and humanism, and his monumental designs were nearly always classical.

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