Darmowe konto pozwoli wrócić do niego później.

"Sir William doesn't approve of that," said a resolutely doleful voice.

"I fail to account for your presence here, Jones. You have already been drafted, and your place, as usual, is in Stores. The real danger point is the approach to the tomb," the DDS added in a louder voice; "That's been agreed, both with you and higher up." [3] The first public day of the Museum's winter exhibition of the Golden Child had begun. It was the dreaded Primary Schools Day. To mark out the route to follow, the courtyard had been partitioned by the darkly gleaming posters announcing the Exhibition. The queue wound up and down like a giant serpent: five or six thousand children, mostly dressed in navy blue cotton trousers and flimsy plastic jackets, which made them half unconscious with cold; having long since eaten the sandwiches which were intended for several hours later, more or less under the control of numbed teachers, insistent, single-minded, determined to see and to have seen. Like pilgrims of a former day, they were earning their salvation by reaching the end of a journey. At one point in the courtyard a faint steam or smoke, like that of a camp-fire, rose above the cloud of breath from the swarming red-and-blue-nosed children. It was the field kitchen of the Women's Voluntary Service with tea boilers at the simmer, strategically placed to help those who might otherwise collapse before they reached the steps. [4] Here they all paused a moment, drank an inch of hot tea, sweetened at too early a stage for any choice to be made, threw down their plastic cups on the frozen ground and then advanced towards the entrance over what soon became a carpet of plastic.

For questions 4.1.–4.4., choose the answer that best matches the text and circle the appropriate letter (A, B, C or D).

4.1. Look at the spaces marked 1–4 in the text and decide where the following sentence fits best in the passage.

And at that very moment, the bronze hand jumped the last minute, both inside and on the public face outside the building, and the wave of human beings, with the movement of a natural disaster, lapped up the steps and entered the hall.

A. In the space marked [1].

B. In the space marked [2].

C. In the space marked [3].

D. In the space marked [4].

4.2. In the first paragraph, the author mentions

A. the rebellious behaviour of the crowd outside the museum.

B. the gratitude displayed by the DDS towards his employees.

C. the inadequacy of the security measures taken by the museum.

D. the discontent of some employees with the decision made by their superiors.

4.3. It can be concluded that the children queuing to enter the museum were

A. preoccupied with planning how to flee from the courtyard.

B. attempting to push their way ahead of their schoolmates.

C. inappropriately attired for the conditions outside.

D. reassured by their teachers' presence.

4.4. From the last paragraph, we learn that

A. visitors were provided with a range of hot beverages.

B. the posters advertising the exhibition served a practical purpose.

C. the Women's Voluntary Service was responsible for medical assistance.

D. in the courtyard there was an open fire where visitors could warm themselves.

Text 2

PORTRAIT OF A LADY: STOLEN KLIMT MYSTERY SOLVED

In January 2020 two men confessed to stealing, and then returning, a painting by Gustav Klimt, Portrait of a Lady. The picture was found concealed in a wall of the Ricci Oddi modern art gallery, the same gallery in Piacenza from which it had gone missing in 1997. The two men declared themselves the guilty parties in a letter to Ermanno Mariani, a journalist for the local newspaper, Libertà. Mariani received the letter soon after gardeners had discovered the stolen painting while they were clearing ivy on an exterior wall of the gallery. They spotted a metal panel behind which there was a cavity with the painting inside.

The thieves claimed they had returned the painting "as a gift to the city" four years before it was discovered. Mariani said, "They have been obscure about the details but have always maintained that the painting was not in the cavity all of that time. I'm not a technical expert, but it would have been damaged if it had been there for all those years."

While the intricacies of the crime are unclear, the motives for confessing are more transparent. The thieves made their first confession over 20 years after the theft, meaning they would avoid prosecution, as the statute of limitations for the crime had expired. Mariani said the theft bore similar traits to some of their past crimes, for example the robbery of 300 illuminated manuscripts from Passerini-Landi Library in Piacenza.

Portrait of a Lady went missing during preparations for an exhibition in Piacenza aimed at showing it off after the revelation that it was the only "double" Klimt known to the art world. The discovery was made by an art student, Claudia Maga, who realized that it had been painted over another Klimt piece previously believed to be lost, Portrait of a Young Woman. The next surprise was the story behind the original painting. Klimt had fallen madly in love with a young girl from Vienna who had quickly become his muse. When she suddenly passed away, to forget the pain of his loss, he painted over her portrait.

Based on the text, complete sentences 4.5.–4.8.

4.5. In the letter to Ermanno Mariani, the thieves ___________________________________ ___________________________________ the painting.

4.6. Based on the painting's condition, Mariani concluded that it ______________________ _______________________________________________ for the entire period it had been missing.

4.7. From the third paragraph, we learn that there was no chance of ___________________ ___________________________________________________.

4.8. Klimt decided to cover one painting with another after ____________________________ ___________________________________________ unexpectedly.