Тест для 9 класса

Use of English

Read the text and choose the right form from the variants below.

The Tretyakov Gallery

There is a museum in Moscow that is one of the greatest museums in the world. It has (1)______best collection of Russian art and painters. The museum was given the name of the person who founded it.

The Gallery was founded in the year 1865 when Pavel Tretyakov (2)________his famous collection. He wrote four years later, “I’d like to leave a national gallery, that is, a gallery with paintings of Russian painters”. The years passed, and in 1892, when the collection (3)______contained about 2,000 works, Pavel Tretyakov gave it to Moscow. .Together with Pavel Tretyakov’s collection, Moscow got the collection of Western European art of his brother Sergei, who had died long before the (4)_____was opened. Today these works are in the collections of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and in the Hermitage.

Pavel Tretyakov was an outstanding person: a successful businessman and a philanthropist. “…since I was a child I wanted (5)______a lot of money and to give it back to the people in the form of (6)_______ useful institutions. This idea was with (7)______ all my life”. And he started a wonderful monument to the idea – the Gallery and he helped many needy painters.

The Tretyakov Gallery is in Lavrushinsky Lane now and its wonderful building(8)______ one of the most famous Moscow sights. Thousands of tourists come(9)_______ the Gallery every day (except Monday) and enjoy its masterpieces.

Now the collection of the Gallery has more than 100,000 (10)__________ about 50,000 of which can be seen in the Gallery.

1. a) the b) a c) –

2. a) begins b) was started c) started

3. a) ago b) already c) often

4. a) theatre b) shop c) gallery

5. a) to make b) make c) do

6. a) any b) some c) no

7. a) I b) him c) me

8. a) has b) are c) is

9. a) in b) to c) at

10. a) works b) toys c) tourists

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Страноведение. 1-c, 2-d, 3-h, 4-g, 5-a, 6-b, 7-e (f- лишний вариант)