VI. Fill the text below with the appropriate form of the verbs in brackets. You will need different past ten One of the
and perfect forms.
She had a
collecting
tens of th
dolls from
Last week I
......(go) to an exhibition of paintings in the Barbican Arts Centre. I'm not really a great art lover, b
(read) good reviews of that exhibition and I was keen to see it. When I ............ (arrive), lots of people.
(already/queue) in front of the doors. I ............ (join) the queue and, when the doors
that ...
(open), I
(stand) in the queue for more than half an hour. I
. (hope) it was worth it. But, once I was insie comple
many of the paintings..... (disappoint) me.......... (never/see) such nonsense before. Most of the paint
(seem) upside down to me. Though I (spend) a lot of time looking carefully at each one, I had difficu
understanding what the artist. (mean). Finally, ast... (look) rather stupidly at one of the paintings, and they
gentleman. (stop) behind me and............ (begin) to explain the whole thing to me. He kindly.....
. (look) at his watch and
all of my questions and we ............ (talk) for over an hour when he
had to leave.. We ............
........ (shake) hands and said "good bye". For me it was as if someone.
.............(give) me a pair
magic glasses. Now L.............(find) that all the paintings were really beautiful.
