1. COMPLETE THE DIALOGUE USING WORDS FROM THE LIST.

EACH WORD IS USED ONLY

ONCE. WRITE YOUR ANSWERS IN A DIFFERENT COLOR ​OR HIGHLIGHT IT.

breakthrough faulty fixated frustrated impasse

in a flash insight mind stages wander

L​ ouis:​ I've finally convinced you to come to the Museum of Modern Art! I want you to forget how much you
hate modern art and try to look at the paintings with an open (6) _____mind_______________.

Nicola: ​I don't know how you got me to come. You know how (7) ______frustrated______________ I get
looking at this stuff and not being able to understand what I'm seeing.

Louis: ​That's exactly why we're here. I'm hoping you're going to experience a (8)
______breakthrought______________ today and come away with a whole new (9)
_______insight_____________ into what makes modern art interesting.

Nicola: ​I don't know, Louis. Modern art always makes me feel as though I've got a (10)
_______faulty_____________ brain. I don't get what I'm looking at!

Louis: ​That's because you expect understanding to happen (11) ______in a flash______________. You want it
to hit you immediately. But it doesn't happen that way. Sometimes you come to appreciate a painting in (12)
_________stages___________, a little at a time. If you are (13) ____fixated______________ on
understanding what a painting means, you miss out on how it makes you ​feel.​

Nicola: ​It makes me ​feel​ like I want to go home. I think we're at an (14) ____________impasse________. You
love modern art and I don't and neither one of us is going to change.

Louis: ​You're trying too hard. Just let your mind (15) ___wander_________________ wherever the art takes it.
Understanding will follow.

2. COMPLETE EACH MINI-DIALOGUE BY WRITING THE APPROPRIATE TAG QUESTION.

WRITE YOUR ANSWERS IN A DIFFERENT COLOR ​OR HIGHLIGHT IT

Ex: Student: It's a really funny play.

Teacher: It's a drama. You really haven't read it, have you?
21. Son: I can’t find my keys.

Mother: You left them on the table, ______do you______________?

22. Liam: That was the worst movie I've ever seen!

Cara: It was pretty bad, ____________________?

23. George: How long has this show been on television? I've never seen it before.

Anna: You don't watch much television, ____________________?

24. Bao: Let's get out of here. This guy is awful!

Chung: He's not a very good comedian, ____________________?

25. Student: My dog ate my homework

Teacher: You don’t think I am going to believe that, ____________________?

1. 3. WRITE THE LETTER OF THE PHRASE THAT BEST COMPLETES EACH SENTENCE. WRITE
YOUR ANSWERS IN A DIFFERENT COLOR ​OR HIGHLIGHT IT
a. Emperor Qin Shi Huang, who was China's first emperor,
b. whom I met in Beijing, took me to the tomb site
c. that were buried in 210 B.C. in the tomb of Emperor Qin
d. which was the longest trip I have ever taken
e. painted in brilliant colors
31. Last year I traveled to China, __d__.

32. My goal was to see the terra-cotta statues __e__.

33. My guide, __b__.

34. Unified China under a single dynasty ___a___.

35. Emperor Qin's tomb contains more than 8,000 life-sized terra-cotta warriors __c__.

4. WRITE THE WORD THAT BEST COMPLETES EACH SENTENCE. WRITE YOUR ANSWERS IN A
DIFFERENT COLOR ​OR HIGHLIGHT IT
delivery off-color shortcut to be kidding universal

36. The ______delivery______________ of a joke can determine whether it's funny or not.

37. It's said that laughter is a ____universal________________ language that all people understand.

38. I took my parents to see a comedian, but I forgot that he tells ______off-color______________ jokes. They hated
him!

39. If we take this _______shortcut_____________, we'll get there much quicker.

40. You've got ______to be kidding______________! That's the craziest idea I've ever heard!

5. WRITING. WRITE YOUR ANSWERS IN A DIFFERENT COLOR ​OR HIGHLIGHT IT

THINK OF A WORK OF ART THAT YOU KNOW. IT CAN BE A FAMOUS PAINTING OR SCULPTURE, OR IT CAN BE ONE
THAT IS NOT FAMOUS, SUCH AS A PIECE OF ART IN YOUR CITY OR SCHOOL. IN A SHORT ESSAY, DESCRIBE THE PIECE
OF ART, SAY WHETHER OR NOT IT IS ART IN YOUR OPINION, AND EXPLAIN WHY.