Part 1. Reading (10 point Task 1. You are going to read a tost. For questions 1-10, choose the answer (A, BC REEGRE which you think its the gap best according to the text. Mark…

Part 1. Reading (10 point Task 1. You are going to read a tost. For questions 1-10, choose the answer (A, BC REEGRE which you think its the gap best according to the text. Mark ywar answers on the separate answer sheet. There it une catrs answer. 10 points Ancient Russian architecture In early times, wooden structures were favoured in Rossia, and in the "wooden age she originated and developed certain busiems (13. In the larger centes wooden and memory achitecture developed side by side, one stimulating anul gratifying the love for verticality and slendermes, the other sansfying a yearning for massiveness, monumentality, and lavish decoranon. We know relatively little af Russin's architects, especially the ancient wowdes structures. The few remaining examples of them (now in Rostov, Kizhi and alte in the museums of wooden buildings in Novgorod, Komoma and Suzdal, testily to the skill and taste of her builders is the composition arid grouping of the architectural masses, the koen sense of proportion, expressiveness and silhouene (2) One of the best kneen Russian church buildings in the northem style is the Church of the Intercession on the Nerli (Pokrova na Nerli). According to archeologists, it was mich bigger in the twelfth century 13). Surrounded by an open gallery and mounted on a high knoll, it had a broad staircase leading up from the water. Today it stands alme in the midst of low, green meadows, the small iske below (4). In the 800 years of its existence, it has undergone other changes. The old beffiy is gone, the helmet-shaped dome has heen replaced by a bulbous cupola, and in the process of repain, the rest of the roof was altered (5) was covered over with sheet metal. And yet this chuch, in its serene natural setting, is one of the most poetic creations ever to come down to us out of the past It is not a large church, and fairly simple in plan, with the cubical basic structure usual for the North. But the familiar shapes have a new look, not so austere as the earfier Novgorod churches, nor yet so proud and imposing (6). It is light and graceful, and this is due in large part to the change in proportions. Each facade is made up of three sections divided vertically by slender columns, and horizontally connected by a decorative band of blind area made of the same white stone (7). This was the arrangement in Novgorod and Vladimir as well, but because the walls here lean very slightly inward, because the pillars, both those separating the wall sections and those in the frieze, are close together, because the horizontals in every part of the facade are visually 1