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Choose the correct words to feel the gaps
1 | a) enough | b) more | c) even | d) moreover |
2 | a) over | b) for | c) before | d) meanwhile |
3 | a) enormously | b) hugely | c) greatly | d) henceforth |
4 | a) reply | b) epitomize | c) represent | d) rebuild |
5 | a) after | b) before | c) moreover | d) afterwards |
6 | a) really | b) actually | c) hence | d) moreover |
7 | a) another | b) both | c) others | d) whole |
8 | a) realm | b) shape | c) format | d) scheme |
9 | a) elicit | b) merge | c) underline | d) link |
10 | a) unique | b) unprecedented | c) alone | d) ideal |
LONDON’S DESIGN MUSEUM TO EXPLORE STORY OF SURREALISM IN LANDMARK EXHIBITION
The story of the Surrealist movement and its impact on the world will be 1) __________ in an “eye-opening” exhibition at The Design Museum. The exhibition titled Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today will run from October 14 until February 19 and will explore how the Surrealist movement revolutionised art and design. Nearly 350 objects will go on display, 2) __________ work from Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Leonora Carrington and Man Ray alongside pieces by Dior, Bjork, Tim Walker and Sarah Lucas. It is the first time The Design Museum has explored the relationship 3) ___________ fine art and design in a major exhibition. The display will cover almost 100 years and will be split into four sections focusing on Surrealism’s influence on everyday objects, interior design, fashion and the body and mind. Dali’s Lobster Telephone and Ray’s The Gift will show how everyday objects were embraced by the movement, while Lucas’s Cigarette Tits pinpoints how the body can be used to 4) _________ stereotypes of female sexuality. The exhibition will also highlight Surrealism’s influence on fashion as many Surrealist artists worked as photographers, including Dali who created cover art for fashion magazine Vogue. Vintage magazines will be exhibited 5) _________ Surrealist-inspired photography for modern day magazines, such as Walker’s 2013 photoshoot with actress Tilda Swinton for W magazine. Tim Marlow, the Design Museum’s director, said: “From its very beginnings, Surrealism looked to design and everyday objects for inspiration, but few are aware of the movement’s decisive impact on design. This eye-opening exhibition will take visitors on a fascinating journey 6) ___________100 years of this radical relationship, and it will bring the story right up to the present day for the very first time. The exhibition is both a landmark in the history of Surrealism and design and part of a rich and ongoing story of London’s engagement with one of the great cultural movements of the last century. Curator Kathryn Johnson said: “If you think Surrealism fizzled out in the 1960s, think again. This exhibition will show that it is still alive and well and that it never really went 7) _______”. The early Surrealists were survivors of the First World War and the 1918 influenza pandemic, and their art was in part a reaction to those horrors. Today, in the context of dizzying technological 8) ________, war and another global pandemic, Surrealism’s spirit feels more alive than ever in contemporary design. Jul 18, 2022 By Jonathan |
Choose the correct words to feel the gaps
1. | a) shown | b) displayed | c) sold | d) removed |
2. | a) including | b) according | c) considering | d) explaining |
3. | a) among | b) under | c) between | d) amidst |
4. | a) show | b) provoke | c) expose | d) underline |
5. | a) near | b) next to | c) underneath | d) alongside |
6. | a) against | b) besides | c) through | d) prior |
7. | a) by | b) away | c) without | d) down |
8. | a) change | b) recession | c) decline | d) movement |
SCIENCE FICTION: VOYAGE TO THE EDGE OF IMAGINATION – LATEST BLOCKBUSTER EXHIBITION AT THE SCIENCE MUSEUM
This is the most 1) __________exhibition the Science Museum has ever staged. Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination places visitors at the heart of a genre-defying interactive science fiction story. Through over 70 objects, visitors uncover fascinating connections between significant scientific innovations and celebrated science fiction works, brought together in the UK for the first time. The exhibition is designed by BAFTA and Academy award-winning Creative Studio Framestore. The design plays with 2) _______ of how alien life forms might communicate with each other through innovative audio-visual design interventions in the space and gives visitors the sense of taking a journey off-world. It’s an immersive experience that invites us to boldly go and explore strange new worlds. Are you ready to go inside? Visitors embark on an adventure 3) _________ the cosmos travelling aboard an extra-terrestrial spaceship. You get to gaze over planet Earth from the observation deck and touch down on a mission to an unexplored world. You see visions of the future through science and science fiction and uncover connections 4) __________ significant scientific objects and authentic items. Science Fiction aims to inspire the next generation of scientists whether they like Doctor Who or Star Wars. It is about the conversations between science and science fiction, and also about storytelling with object-led stories. It’s 5) ________ how science has inspired science fiction and how science fiction has inspired science. It features an AI Guide and a new alien language created exclusively for the exhibition.
ALIEN LANGUAGE An alien language called Bhaux was developed especially for the exhibition. It looks mechanical, as if it were generated by a machine intelligence. It has a 6) _______ vocabulary of 4,000 words, and its grammar structure is unique to the exhibition. Bhaux phrases also feature in the soundscape for the exhibition and are woven throughout the design, enhancing the immersive feel of Science Fiction. So, let’s take a journey on Pan Galactic Starlines. WHAT TO EXPECT You enter in groups and start with an introduction video to meet the AI Guide A.L.A.N.N. It felt like an escape room at this stage so I was expecting to be set a task. In the next anteroom, there is more 7) _______ A.L.A.N.N. plus a Mondoshawan costume from The Fifth Element. (Film Directed by Luc Besson, 1997). I’ll admit, I didn’t know what it was so was grateful for the exhibit label. The interior set design (and it does feel theatrical) is very good. We then entered a large, quite dark space and it reminded me of 8) ______ I visited the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff years ago. For me, it was too dark to see the labels clearly but maybe I have old eyes. And there are voices 9) __________ from different screens and exhibits making it somewhat overwhelming. Again, that might be me being sensitive to noise but I mention it for awareness for others. WHAT’S ON DISPLAY? The exhibits are from celebrated science fiction movies, TV and books, as well as paintings, artworks, and photography. There’s classic literature that imagined and inspired new understandings of the world around us. There is so 10) ______ to see that it would be easy to miss the first edition of Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon by the entrance to the room. But I did see Lieutenant Nyota Uhura’s uniform worn in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). Nyota Uhura was the communications officer on board the U.S.S. Enterprise in the iconic franchise Star Trek. Her name comes from nyota, meaning ‘star’, and onuru, meaning ‘freedom’ in Swahili. Oct 13, 2022 By Laura Porter |
Choose the correct words to feel the gaps
1 | a) famous | b) ambitious | c) great | d) super |
2 | a) ideas | b) thoughts | c) treats | d) features |
3 | a) before | b) through | c) after | d) between |
4 | a) amidst | b) between | c) among | d) underneath |
5 | a) over | b) near | c) about | d) approximately |
6 | a) ideal | b) unique | c) one | d) alone |
7 | a) over | b) from | c) off | d) again |
8 | a) why | b) when | c) above | d) against |
9 | a) nowhere | b) everywhere | c) somewhere | d) anywhere |
10 | a) a lot | b) much | c) many | d) loads |
LONDON’S NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM CREATES GARDENS TO STUDY HOW WILDLIFE REACTS TO CLIMATE
The Natural History Museum (NHM) is creating hi-tech gardens full of sensors to look at how wildlife reacts to the climate, and how and why it is 1) _________. The gardens will also allow researchers to look at the kind of life that makes these gardens home, from insects and frogs to tiny microscopic organisms invisible to the human eye. Sensors installed 2) ________ the site will monitor conditions like temperature, humidity and sound. While there are some five acres of grounds surrounding the NHM site in London, for more than 25 years only one small corner has been a dedicated wildlife area. Scientists are now working to create a garden across the entire area as part of a living gallery, which will open to the public 3) __________ the end of next year. The gardens will tell the story of evolution of life on Earth, taking people through paleontology sciences as they move from east to west. Then as they move towards the west, just past the main entrance to the museum, the garden will reflect the modern day, 4) _________ on what can be done to protect nature. Working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the museum will also create a new data platform – the Data Ecosystem. This will help researchers build a deeper understanding of the UK’s urban biodiversity, including its composition, how it relates to environmental conditions, and how it responds to direct conservation action. Scientists will be able to study biodiversity data types, 5) ________ environmental data such as soil and atmospheric chemistry or noise pollution, rapidly and accurately. Combined with access to the NHM’s 27 years of historical wildlife data from its South Kensington gardens, this will build an increasingly detailed picture of the biodiversity in the museum’s gardens. Dr John Tweddle, head of the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, said: “We’re really trying to build as much information as we can around the richness of wildlife we have in our gardens so we can start to track how and why it’s changing. “And then use that in a really positive way to help 6) _________ this nature in towns and cities, whether that’s us or whether it’s individuals and community groups.” He added the museum’s scientists are “excited” to have the opportunity to “be at the cutting edge of ecology within and around our own site by bringing together these different methods and starting to look at how we can analyze very big, very different datasets to really explore these patterns in nature, and then apply it for conservation and communicate that to people visiting”. Researchers hope to observe as wide a diversity of life as possible, including common frogs, toads and smooth newts in the ponds, azure damselflies, willow emerald damselflies, bluebells, and birds like robins and goldfinches in the wooded 7) ________. Hundreds of pollinating insect and wildflower species in the meadow and chalk grassland, including up to 20 species of bumblebee, will also form part of the study. By building the Data Ecosystem on the AWS Cloud, the museum can capture, store, combine and compare data in a secure, resilient and scalable way. Darren Hardman, vice-president and general manager for the UK and Ireland at AWS, said: “Gaining access to a wide range of data is crucial for the museum’s scientists to build a better 8) ____________ of the UK’s urban biodiversity and help address the planetary emergency. “Cloud is an important enabler for this. For the first time, scientists will have a way to securely store and process research data using the Data Ecosystem, which can easily scale up as more and more data is collected over time.” Oct 3, 2022 By Londontopia Staff |
Choose the correct words to feel the gaps
1. | a) changing | b) evolving | c) developing | d) improving |
2. | a) underneath | b) across | c) above | d) through |
3. | a) near | b) onto | c) towards | d) down |
4. | a) focusing | b) regarding | c) considering | d) imagining |
5. | a) near | b) next | c) through | d) alongside |
6. | a) recover | b) improve | c) increase | d) erase |
7. | a) spots | b) scope | c) territory | d) areas |
8. | a) understanding | b)comprehension | c) action | d) development |
EXPLORING LEIGHTON HOUSE MUSEUM – LONDON’S PALACE OF ART The house was built in stages over thirty years. Leighton acquired the plot in 1864 and moved in by 1866 to an initially modest-sized house with six rooms. It expanded to ten rooms; the last addition 2) _______ the Silk Room, a gallery space lined with green silk to display the collection of contemporary paintings, including pictures by John Everett Millais, George Frederic Watts, and John Singer Sargent. It evolved into what he described as his ‘House Beautiful’ and became a place where he could live, work, entertain and display his art collections. ABOUT LORD LEIGHTON Although born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, Leighton spent much of his youth on the continent. As a child, Leighton and his family lived in Europe, spending time in Paris, Rome, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium and Germany. 3) ______ he was fifteen years old, the family settled in Frankfurt where Leighton received formal art training and studied the paintings of European Old Master artists. Leighton moved to London in 1859 and commissioned this building that year and went on to live here for the rest of his life. He travelled extensively, 4) ________ trips to North Africa and the Middle East, which were to have a significant impact on the design of his studio-home.
Leighton remained unmarried and little is known of his private life (although he did father a son by one of his models, Lily Mason). He was one of the 5) ______ famous Victorian artists of the day – Queen Victoria bought his first artwork and she even visited the house in 1869. He rose to the height of his profession, serving as President of the Royal Academy of Arts for over 18 years and enjoyed considerable wealth 6) ______ the sale of his works. Leighton is the only British artist to have been made a Lord; becoming Baron Leighton of Stretton shortly 7) ________ his death in 1896. (He died the following day making him the most short-lived peer in history.) He is buried at St. Paul’s Cathedral. AFTER HIS DEATH After his death, his two sisters, Alexandra and Augusta, tried to sell the house but wanted it to become a museum of his works. This made it hard to find a buyer and they then made the decision to sell all of the contents at auction in the summer of 1896. The house 8) ______ was retained and, with the assistance of Leighton’s neighbor and biographer Emilie Barrington, it was opened as a center for the arts around 1900. Attempts were made to preserve the house through the Leighton House Committee. It was not until 1926 that Kensington Borough Council purchased the freehold for £2,750 and with the support of the local Perrin family, a new wing was constructed to allow for temporary exhibitions. Over the next 50 years, the appreciation of Victorian art and architecture 9) _________ limited. The house was used as a children’s library, theatre museum, music venue and gallery space for local artists. Gradually much of the original decoration and finishes were lost but the Arab Hall and Narcissus Hall survived largely intact. Leighton fell out of fashion in the twentieth century. So much so that his masterpiece, Flaming June, disappeared off the radar, only to be found boxed in over a chimney in a Battersea home in the 1960s. Famously, a young Andrew Lloyd Webber once saw the painting in a shop on Chelsea’s King’s Road, but his grandmother refused to lend him the £50 asking price, calling it a piece of Victorian junk. 10) ________ 2008 and 2010 Leighton House was closed for extensive refurbishment and restoration to bring it close to the state it was in Leighton’s day. Many pieces of furniture and textiles have been reproduced and original paintings and pieces loaned back for 11) ________. Some 550 books of 23.5-carat gold leaf were needed to restore the dome in the Arab Room. It was after that refurbishment that I last visited so I was well overdue a return trip. MAJOR REDEVELOPMENT The Museum has recently completed a further major redevelopment. This has provided additional gallery 12) _________ and a new De Morgan Café. Both the restored wing and the historic house now have step-free access and are interconnected thanks to a lift and a spectacular helical staircase, decorated with a hand-painted contemporary mural. Leighton’s Winter Studio, an extension of the original house supported on cast iron columns and built at the end of the 1880s to allow him to work through the winter months, is now fully restored and integrated into the rest of the historic house interiors. There’s a new reception 13) _______ and a basement-level drawings gallery. The ground-floor De Morgan Café has floor-to-ceiling windows, exposed original brickwork and William de Morgan ceramics on display opposite the café counter. Nov 10, 2022 By Laura Porter Londontopia |
Leighton House Museum is the former home and studio of the leading Victorian artist, Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830–1896). When you arrive the formal red brick exterior leaves you unprepared for the ‘Palace of Art’ inside. Designed by his friend, the architect George Aitchison RA (1825–1910), this is the 1) _______ purpose-built studio-house open to the public in the UK. Leighton was highly ambitious and his home was used as a showcase for artistic taste and to entertain and impress the foremost artists, collectors and celebrities of the day.
Choose the correct words to feel the gaps
1 | a) never | b) only | c) also | d) meanwhile |
2 | a) having | b) going | c) being | d) making |
3 | a) how | b) when | c) although | d) if |
4 | a) as well | b) besides | c) including | d) together |
5 | a) more | b) most | c) bigger | d) stronger |
6 | a) after | b) from | c) never | d) while |
7 | a) after | b) whereas | c) before | d) afterwards |
8 | a) hence | b) itself | c) moreover | d) myself |
9 | a) stood | b) remained | c) stayed | d) became |
10 | a) Between | b) After | c) Amidst | d) Prior to |
11 | a) display | b) view | c) panorama | d) scenery |
12 | a) room | b) space | c) area | d) place |
13 | a) area | b) realm | c) scope | d) scheme |
Keys
1. PORTRAIT OF SHAKESPEARE SAID TO BE PAINTED WHILE BARD WAS ALIVE GOES ON DISPLAY IN LONDON: 1) с, 2) b, 3) c, 4) a, 5) b, 6) a, 7) b, 8) b
2. EXPLORING LEIGHTON HOUSE MUSEUM – LONDON’S PALACE OF ART:
1) c, 2) c, 3) b, 4) c, 5) b, 6) b, 7) c, 8) b, 9) b, 10) a, 11) a, 12) b, 13) a
3. TWO TURNER PAINTINGS TO RETURN TO BRITAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A CENTURY AT LONDON’S NATIONAL GALLERY
1) b, 2) b, 3) b, 4) c, 5) b, 6) b, 7) b, 8) c, 9) b, 10) b
4. SCIENCE FICTION: VOYAGE TO THE EDGE OF IMAGINATION – LATEST BLOCKBUSTER EXHIBITION AT THE SCIENCE MUSEUM
1) b, 2) a, 3) b, 4) b, 5) c, 6 b), 7) b, 8) b, 9) b, 10) b
5. LONDON’S DESIGN MUSEUM TO EXPLORE STORY OF SURREALISM IN LANDMARK EXHIBITION
1) b, 2) a, 3) c, 4) c, 5) d, 6) c, 7) b, 8) a
6. LONDON’S NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM CREATES GARDENS TO STUDY HOW WILDLIFE REACTS TO CLIMATE
1) a, 2) d, 3) a, 4) a, 5) d, 6) a, 7) d, 8) a
