Question

Seeing an Exhibition

Last week I went to an exhibition at the Tale Gallery in London. I'm not really a great __36__ lover but I'd read some __37__ reviews of the exhibition in both Time Out and the Sunday Times which made me very keen to see it. I __38__ some time before it was due to __39__ but there were already plenty of people waiting __40__ for the doors to open. Most of the people waiting were young; __41__ in fact there didn't seem to be any middle-aged people there __42__. All of them were waiting __43__ and I __44__ them in the queue. In the end we were allowed to enter. Now, I must be __45__ and say that the exhibition was disappointing to me. Although I spent a lot of time looking __46__ at each picture, I had some difficulty in understanding what the __47__ was getting at. Finally, as I was looking rather stupidly at one of the paintings and trying to__48__ if it was the right way up or not, an old gentleman came up behind me and started to __49__ the whole thing to me. He __50__ answered all of my questions and we talked for over an hour. Then he said he had an appointment and had to go, __51__ we shook hands and said goodbye. I went round the gallery once more and I found that I now __52__ everything much better and some of the paintings seemed really __53__. It was __54__ as I was leaving the gallery that I __55__ the gentleman I had been talking to was the artist himself.

36.A. book                   B. sport                       C. science                    D. art
37.A. bad                     B. good                       C. real                         D. poor
38.A. left                     B. arrived                     C. got                          D. reached
39.A. serve                  B. open                        C. close                       D. shut
40.A. outside                B. inside                      C. in                            D. out
41.A. or                       B. but                          C. so                           D. and
42.A. at all                   B. above all                  C. all over                    D. all along
43.A. patiently              B. restlessly                 C. angrily                     D. impatiently
44.A. took                   B. joined                      C. brought                   D. carried
45.A. pleased                      B. honest                     C. glad                        D. afraid
46.A. carefully             B. excitedly                  C. completely               D. warmly
47.A. writer                 B. actor                       C. designer                  D. artist
48.A. decide                B. demand                   C. require                    D. order
49.A. smile                  B. explain                     C. express                   D. suggest
50.A. mainly                B. friendly                    C. kindly                      D. easily
51.A. so                             B. however                  C. but                          D. and
52.A. saw                    B. drew                       C. knew                             D. thought
53.A. foolish                B. beautiful                  C. funny                      D. proper
54.A. just                     B. last                          C. always                    D. rather
55.A. looked out           B. found out                 C. brought out              D. pointed out

Answer 1

36—40 DBBBA             41—45 DAABB             46—50 ADABC             51—55 ACBAB