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Progress Tests B Answer keys

Photocopiable © Oxford University Press Intermediate Progress Tests B 1

Unit 1 Progress Test B

Grammar

1

1 asks

2 don’t fly

3 is meeting

4 hardly ever goes out

5 starts

6 Do you fancy

7 never wears

2

1 forget

2 imagine

3 do they want

4 are studying

5 am wearing

6 belongs

3

1 to buy

2 listening

3 to wear

4 crying

5 having

6 meeting

7 to try





Vocabulary

4

1 trendy

2 fluffy

3 smart

4 flowery

5 high-heeled

5

1 unable

2 irresponsible

3 inseparable

4 incredible

5 uncomfortable

6

1 nylon

2 full-length

3 leather

4 tight

5 matching

6 in

7 if

8 beautiful

9 like

10 –

Translation7

1 Kasia looks just like

2 I can’t keep working

3 What time does the concert finish

4 Do you believe

5 Please drop me a line





Listening

8

1 D

2 F

3 E

4 B

5 A

Transcript

1 CCTV cameras are a small price to pay if you want to reduce crime. I don’t mind sacrificing a bit of privacy for a safer life – what matters most is that you feel safe, not being caught on camera when y ou’re

out shopping!2 I think CCTV cameras are wrong. I mean, what’s next? The government recording your every move and

telling you how to live your life? We should be free to do what we want without feeling like we’re beingwatched or somehow under control. They make me uncomfortable.

3 I’m not really a fan of having cameras everywhere. I guess they’re OK in shops and public offices,

though, or in places where security is important – you know, airports and underground stations wherethere are lots of people. Then it’s better to be safe than sorry.

4 They’re watching us all the time! At work, on public transport, in shops, in the street … Soon they’ll be

watching us in our homes. I can’t stand it. But there’s nowhere to hide … Cameras are everywhere thesedays, it’s too much!

5 I think the police are lazy. We need more police on the street; that’s the way to prevent crime. But they

prefer sitting in their comfortable offices, nice and warm, watching us on TV screens. How do they thinkthey’re going to catch any criminals if they’re not where crime happens?

Reading

9

1 b

2 d

3 a

4 b5 d

Writing

10

Students’ own answers.






Grammar

1

1 did he study

2 had passed

3 rained / had rained

4 were you listening

5 had changed

6 happened

7 sat

8 was shining

9 went

10 had gone

2

1 Did this café used to be

2 Did you use to go

3 didn’t use to have

4 used to play

5 used to do

3

1 That

2 How

3 What a

4 What

5 That





Vocabulary

4

1 of

2 about

3 of

4 about

5 about

6 with

7 about

8 of

9 with

5

1 solve

2 recognise

3 doubt

4 memorise

5 realise

6 remind

6

1 frightening

2 shocked

3 exciting

4 worried

5 confusing

Translation7

1 were getting on a bus

2 At first they were shocked

3 had never seen

4 What games did you use to play

5 What a nightmare





Listening

8

1 c

2 c

3 c

4 b

5 b

Transcript

Interviewer … with us in the studio is psychologist Dr Stephen Willard. He’s here to talk to us aboutmemory. Good evening, Dr Willard.

Dr Willard Good evening.

Interviewer Now, what do psychologists mean by memory?

Dr Willard Well, ‘memory’ is the ability to store and recall information and experiences. This involves threesteps. First, we register the information – that is, we change it into a form that the brain canunderstand. Next, we store it in our mind. Finally, we retrieve it – or recall it, in other words.

Interviewer How much can the average person remember?

Dr Willard That’s a complicated question. You see, there are different types of memory. There is short-termmemory, for example, which we use to store a small amount of information for a short time.Imagine we ask for a person’s phone number, and then pick up our own phone to dial thenumber. Most of us find it difficult to remember the number. We tend to repeat the numbers overand over until we have finished dialling. However, we can improve our short-term capacity by‘chunking’. It’s easier to memorise a ten-digit phone number if we break it down into chunks – say, three numbers, then another three, then the final four numbers – than it is to memorise thenumbers one by one.

Interviewer How can we remember things for longer?

Dr Willard Lots of things can help us store information in our long-term memory. Repetition is one. Themore often we use information, the easier it is to recall it. Using a logically organised system isalso helpful. We can recall related information more easily than random bits of information.Emotions also have a powerful impact – we remember emotionally positive or negative eventsmore clearly and in more detail than neutral events. Finally, we know that sleep is important

because it helps our brain to arrange the information we collected during the day for easier recalllater on.

Interviewer So it’s better to read your notes carefully before an exam and go to sleep than to keep studyingthrough the night?

Dr Willard Yes, that’s exactly how it works … [fade]





Reading

9

1 E

2 F

3 B

4 A

5 C

Writing

10







Grammar

1

1 Victoria, whose parents are from Argentina, speaks Spanish fluently.

2 which

3 Thomas, who works in a coal mine, is badly paid.

4 where

5 which

6 My job, which is quite well paid, involves working a 40-hour week.

7 who

2

1 Rosie and Alex, who got married last summer, live in Newcastle.

2 My aunt is a police officer, which is a stressful job.

3 Six people, who were all very enthusiastic, applied for the job.

4 I got a job in the supermarket last year, where I worked part-time.

5 I saw Bruce, whose shop is in our street, at the football match yesterday.

6 I have to do a lot of paperwork, which I find really tedious.

7 Crown Plaza, where my father works, is in the centre of the city.

3

1 don’t you

2 will he

3 hasn’t he

4 were they

5 didn’t he

6 do you





Vocabulary

4

1 deal

2 be

3 earn

4 answer

5 do

6 supervise

7 use

8 serve

5

1 dental assistant

2 air-traffic controller

3 actress

4 labourer

5 flight attendant

6

1 b

2 b

3 c

4 b

5 b

6 a

7 c

Translation7

1 shift work

2 To my mind

3 I am enclosing a CV

4 I am available for an interview

5 who supervise workers





Listening

8

1 E

2 A

3 B

4 F

5 C

Transcript

1 I work in the coffee bar of a rock concert venue. It’s not a really badly- paid job, but my salary still isn’thigh. I work long hours, too. Sometimes the music is terrible although I enjoy listening to some of the

bands. I work in a team, and my job involves dealing with the public. Sometimes it’s stressful, but I’m a positive person, so that’s OK.

2 I’m a phone sales representative and I work in a call centre to try and sell people banking products. I doshift work – sometimes mornings, sometimes afternoons or evenings. We actually do a lot of business inthe evenings when people are at home. The job’s stressful and people can be rude when they answer the

phone, but it’s important to remain polite. I don’t like what I do, but the salary’s good, so that’ssomething.

3 I’m a refuse collector. I work in a team and the three of us are good friends. Mornings are very busy when

we collect the rubbish from bins around the city. Then in the afternoons we work at the refuse collectioncentre. It’s menial work, but it’s never really stressful. I work five days a week, seven hours a day, and

then I go home, take a bath and relax.

4 I’m a lorry driver, so I spend a lot of time on the road. I don’t work nine-to-five and I often spend thenights away from home. A lorry driver must be reliable and trustworthy because we often transport

valuable things. You also have to enjoy your own company because, well, there’s no one else around toentertain you!

5 My wife and I own a small gym. We’re both fitness instructors, so we need to keep very fit. I’m in chargeof managing the other trainers and my wife does the paperwork. We have a lot of customers so we’realways very busy, but we find the work rewarding. I wouldn’t think about doing anything else now.

Reading

9

1 F

2 F

3 T

4 T

5 F

Writing

10







Grammar

1

1 haven't eaten

2 has been

3 have just heard

4 haven’t seen

5 have enjoyed

6 has gone

7 did you start

8 met

9 played

10 haven’t introduced

2

1 has been watching

2 has read

3 has liked

4 has passed

5 have been jogging

6 have been practising

7 has it been raining

8 have had

9 have you decided

10 have loved





Vocabulary

3

1 b

2 a

3 c

4 a

5 c

6 b

7 b

4

1 awareness

2 right

3 issue

4 campaign

5 tax

6 law

5

1 upset

2 blocked up

3 stiff

4 swollen

5 itchy

6 allergic

7 dislocated

Translation6

1 How long have you been feeling

2 You mustn’t go out

3 If I were you

4 You don’t need to twist my arm

5 You should keep your head





Listening

7

1 F

2 T

3 F

4 F

5 T

Transcript

Mark I started yoga two years ago. My girlfriend at the time did yoga regularly and she kept invitingme along, but I didn’t feel it was for me, so I didn’t go. Then, about a month after we split up, I

thought about joining a yoga class. It had nothing to with being fit and healthy; it was because Ithought it would be a good way of meeting some new people.

I expected the atmosphere to be, you know, spiritual, but it wasn’t anything like that. The teachermade me feel welcome and the course was very relaxed. I thought I’d be the only boy in theclass, but there were three others, and about twelve girls – all in their late teens, like myself.

Everyone was really friendly.

The first time I went, I made a silly mistake. I didn’t take off my shoes. It took me a few minutesto realise that everyone else was barefoot. I always remember to take them off now. People sit

and lie on the floor, you see, so it’s unhygienic to walk around in street shoes.

The postures were easier than I thought. When you see pictures of yoga classes, you always see

people in impossible poses which look painful. But there are simpler variations of the poses if

you find the more complex ones too tricky.Yoga isn’t just about exercise, of course. It’s also about meditation: forgetting the outside world

and focusing inside yourself. And it’s also about breathing techniques. I’ve never regrettedstarting yoga. I go a couple of times every week, and whenever I can I do breathing exercises andmeditate when I get home from school. It makes doing homework much easier, and I sleep better,too. Going to yoga has also meant I’ve made lots of good friends, and we often meet up at theweekend.

Reading

8

1 b

2 a

3 d

4 c

5 b

Writing

9







Grammar

1

1 may / might visit

2 will probably get married

3 will definitely replace

4 continue

5 could / may / might discover

6 will probably reach

7 could / may / might become

2

1 will be lying

2 Will people be sharing

3 will have forgotten

4 will have done

5 will be getting

6 will be spending

7 will have used up

8 won’t have finished

3

1 to buy

2 I’ll go

3 to go

4 to study

5 you’ll be





Vocabulary

4

1 social-networking

2 USB

3 app

4 autocomplete

5 link

6 GB

7 file-sharing

8 Wi-Fi

5

1 toothbrush

2 alarm clock

3 baseball

4 can opener / tin opener

5 lipstick

6 tape measure

6

1 reduce

2 provide

3 make

4 treat

5 suffer

6 start

Translation7

1 I don’t really fancy

2 will pass my exams

3 Shall we go shopping

4 Yes, that sounds fun

5 Yes, I’d be up for that.





Listening

8

1 D

2 F

3 C

4 E

5 B

Transcript

1 Why are we spending billions on trying to get people to Mars? There are still plenty of places on Earththat we haven’t explored: the bottom of the oceans, for example. Why don’t we invest in looking for

natural resources there, or for ways to start a colony under the sea? These possibilities are just as excitingas anything we might do in space.

2 I think people have forgotten what’s really important. Scientists used to make discoveries that made ourlives safer or healthier, and our work easier and more productive. These days it’s all about new forms ofentertainment, new ways of wasting time … I’m thinking of things like digital TV, smartphones,

computer games. We were perfectly happy without these, and we’ll still be happy if we stop making themone day.

3 I think the potential of space is really exciting. It’s not just about visiting new places; space exploration

can help us change our ideas. Scientists can carry out experiments in space that would impossible onEarth. The modern space projects promote co-operation between nations, too – think about the

International Space Station, for example. Russia, Europe, Japan and the United States are all building it

together. Just thirty years ago it would have been impossible. Would I say yes if anyone asked me to gointo space? Definitely!

4 Technology develops so fast, it’s difficult to keep up. By the time you buy a new smartphone or an mp3 player, it’s already out of date. I love that! I spend a lot of my free time on the Internet looking for news

a bout new gadgets. It’s just a shame I don’t have the money to buy everything I like.

5 I think technology is changing relationships between people. Social-networking sites make it easier tomaintain friendships that you don’t have the time for in real life, mobile phones mean we can goanywhere and still keep in touch with people who are important to us, and Wi-Fi hotspots allow us towork and communicate from almost anywhere. We aren’t tied to one way of doing things any more. Ithink it’s brilliant, and I can’t imagine living without it now.

Reading9

1 F

2 F

3 T

4 T

5 F





Writing

10







Grammar

1

1 Fred told Sheila (that) he would never forget her.

2 The kids said (that) their grandparents were thinking of moving to a village the following year.

3 Emily said (that) Steve didn’t know her surname.

4 Last Saturday, Sean told Hannah (that) he couldn’t go to the cinema with her that evening

5 The workers told their boss (that) they wouldn’t be able to finish the work on time.

6 The detective said (that) he/she had never come across any mysteries he/she couldn’t solve.

7 Kelly said (that) she was buying a present for herself that day.

8 Mr and Mrs McCormick told us (that) they had visited Exeter the week before / the previous

week.

9 Helen told Luke (that) she doubted he'd be able to live in a remote mountain village for very long.

10 Mary told reporters (that) she had just seen an alien spacecraft.

2

1 Harry asked Dave whether/if they were going to the football game that Saturday.

2 My teacher asked me whether/if I would go to university after I left school.

3 The policeman asked Mr and Mrs Willis where they had been at the time of the robbery.

4 I asked the inspector whether/if he/she had interviewed the neighbours about the incident.

5 Nick asked his girlfriend when she was going to come home.

6 The police officer asked Mrs Phillips whether/if anyone had phoned her that morning.

7 The reporter asked the woman whether/if she could tell him/her what had happened the night

before/the previous night.

8 I asked Michelle where her boyfriend worked.

9 The doctor asked Mike what he had seen when the UFO landed.

10 Jason asked his parents why their guests had had to leave so early.





Vocabulary

3

1 curtain rail

2 windowsill

3 keyhole

4 floorboards

5 table lamp

6 flowerbeds

7 coffee table

8 bookshelf

9 ashtrays

10 rocking chair

4

1 china

2 glass

3 leather

4 marble

5 fabric

5

1 across

2 on

3 for

4 over

5 into

Translation6

1 Could you tell me

2 No way

3 They might have met

4 I’d appreciate it if you could tell

5 is on the run from





Listening

7

1 b

2 c

3 b

4 a

5 c

Transcript

Molly When people talk about mysteries, they often think about places like the Bermuda Triangle orLoch Ness. The place I visited is less mysterious, but the experience had a huge effect on me.

A couple of years ago my friend Kate persuaded me to go on holiday to Malta with her. Iexpected the usual sort of summer holiday, but instead of lying on the beach or clubbing all night,Kate’s plan was to explore the island’s history, culture and traditions – far more interesting than beaches, clubs and bars!

We visited several of the island’s many churches. We saw the Mosta Dome, the third largest

dome in the world, and learned what happened during the Second World War on the 9th of April1942. A bomb fell on the church, landed in the middle of the 300 people there … and didn’t gooff. Everyone survived unharmed.

On the nearby island of Gozo we saw another church which has a dome that is larger than the oneat St Paul’s Cathedral in London. The church can hold 3,000 people, which means the whole

village can go to church at the same time! We also saw old temples built in the Stone Age, about

6,000 years ago. I loved the sense of time that they give you. The really intriguing thing aboutthem, though, is that the civilisation that built these temples used them for a thousand years – and

then simply disappeared!

But the strangest thing we saw was a rock formation. There are marks in the rock that look liketrain tracks, forming an enormous network. It looks like an unused train station, and anEnglishman named it Clapham Junction – after the railway station in London. Some people saythe rock is soft and that carts with wooden wheels must have left their mark in the rock. Otherssay the tracks may have been canals used to transport water. It’s definitely one of the mostcurious things I’ve ever seen in my life.

Reading

8

1 F

2 B

3 E

4 C

5 A

Writing

9







Grammar

1

1 longer, longer

2 less

3 the most interesting

4 harder

5 the most carefully

6 more quickly / quicker

7 the most successful

2

1 A working holiday is the least difficult way to get work experience.

2 Bill has less free time than Tom.

3 That was/is the least helpful advice I’ve ever heard.

4 English is the least difficult subject at school.

5 Kate dances less gracefully than Joanna.

31 didn’t spend

2 would ask

3 would you do

4 didn’t tidy

5 knew

6 had

7 stay

8 would be





Vocabulary

4

1 fell out

2 married

3 fancy

4 chat

5 up

6 back

7 with

5

1 b

2 c

3 b

4 c

5 c

6 a

7 b

6

1 to

2 in

3 for

4 of

5 of

6 with

Translation7

1 To sum up

2 the better I understand her

3 Nevertheless

4 Some people argue that

5 It is true that





Listening

8

1 A

2 A

3 R

4 R

5 A

Transcript

Presenter In our Valentine’s Day special, I’m talking to Angie and Rob, an eighteen-year-old couple fromBristol. So, what was your first date like?

Rob Our first date was about two years ago …

Angie [interrupts] No, it wasn’t. It was two years, ten months ago yesterday.

Presenter How did it all start?

Angie We met at a party and got on well. Afterwards, I friended Rob on Facebook, and we chatted afew times on there too. I waited for a month for him to ask me out – but he never did. I thoughthe fancied me!

Rob She’s right. Angie asked me out. She sent me a message on Facebook, saying ‘Do you want to goon a date?’

Presenter Were you afraid he’d say no, Angie?

Angie No, I wasn’t. I was sure we’d get on well together as a couple. And he accepted immediately. I

got his message back the same day.Presenter What did you do on your first date?

Rob We went to the cinema.

Presenter Which film did you see? And who chose it?

Angie He did. It was some stupid action movie, I think. I don’t really remember what it was.

Rob It was Fast Five … and yes, it was stupid, but I love action films. I realise now I should havetaken Angie to a romantic comedy instead.

Angie You can say that again! Anyway, we had a good time, and Rob took me to a pizza restaurantafterwards.

Presenter Have you ever fallen out?

Rob Once – for a few hours.

Angie It was a misunderstanding. I overheard two friends of mine saying that Rob wanted to split upwith his girlfriend. I was really angry. I rang up Rob and we had a big row.

Rob Yes, she shouted at me, but I didn’t know what she was talking about.

Angie Then I found out my friends were talking about another Rob, not my Rob, and I apologised.

Rob And she took me to another action movie to make up with me.

Angie But of course I chose one that he’d already seen …

Rob Well, it’s the thought that counts.

Angie And we’ve been happy together ever since!

Presenter Thanks, Angie and Rob.





Reading

9

1 F

2 A

3 E

4 C

5 D

Writing

10







Grammar

1

1 have existed

2 is not allowed

3 was made

4 is being watched

5 had been eaten

6 visited

7 will be built

8 have walked

9 is being held

10 doesn’t close

2

1 everybody

2 anyone

3 something

4 anything

5 nothing

6 somewhere

3

1 It doesn’t matter what you think.

2 It was wet and windy today.

3 It was easy to learn the pronunciation of these words.

4 It takes about an hour to travel from Brighton to London.





Vocabulary

4

1 office

2 reclaim

3 waiting

4 class

5 hand

6 hall

7 petrol

8 seat

5

1 remote

2 historic

3 intrepid

4 gruelling

5 notorious

6 unsuccessful

7 wooded

6

1 switched on

2 ASAP

3 grief

4 folks

5 wobbly

Translation7

1 I’m really not happy about

2 something needs to be done

3 It’s a disgrace

4 That’s just not acceptable

5 I must apologise for





Listening

8

1 C

2 E

3 F

4 B

5 A

Transcript

1 We didn’t take the car because there are always traffic jams on the motorway on Friday afternoons, andwe thought the train would be better. We bought tickets – they were expensive – and waited for three

hours before they told us the train was cancelled. We were furious and wrote a letter to complain aboutthe terrible service.

2 Last year we booked a package holiday. It was a late night flight, but that was OK, and we were able tosleep on the plane. But the hotel was so noisy! And the rooms were dirty, and the view was disappointing.We made a fuss and contacted the travel agency and they took us to a better hotel. We had to pay extra

though, which is a disgrace.

3 I travel a lot for business, and I usually fly with the same airline. I wanted a business class ticket becauseI had to work during the flight, so I needed plenty of space. But the plane only had economy class. At the

check-in desk, they promised I could board the plane first to choose the most suitable place to work, but Istill ended up next to a crying baby!

4 My grandparents live in a remote village in the north of England and I wanted to visit them for their

wedding anniversary. No trains or coaches go there, so I asked my girlfriend to drive me. The first part ofthe journey was OK, but outside Birmingham there was an accident and we spent hours in a traffic jam.

We got to my grandparents’ house after midnight, and we had to wake them up.

5 I had a job interview in Bristol last week, so I took a fast train from Oxford. I got my ticket, and tenminutes later, they announced my train to Bristol. Soon I was in Reading – which is in the wrongdirection! I complained to the ticket controller there. He was really unhelpful and made me buy a newticket from Reading to Bristol. Needless to say, I didn’t get to my interview on time and I didn’t get the job.

Reading

91 F

2 T

3 F

4 F

5 F

Writing

10Students’ own answers.






Grammar

1

1 had my handbag stolen

2 had it painted

3 have our car fixed

4 Have you had a tattoo done

5 have his eyes checked

6 did Jade have her hair dyed

2

1 ourselves

2 myself

3 yourselves

4 herself

5 themselves

6 himself

31 I wouldn’t have been angry if my dad hadn’t forgotten my birthday.

2 If Jake had studied hard(er), he would have passed the exam.

3 If Norman hadn’t driven too fast, he wouldn’t have had an accident.

4 We would have caught the bus if we hadn’t left home too late.

5 If Alex hadn’t forgotten Sarah’s email address, he would have sent her an email.

6 If Paul hadn’t lied to Joanna, they wouldn’t have had a big row.

7 I could/would have bought a new camera if I had had enough money.

8 My boyfriend and I wouldn’t have split up if we hadn’t argued all the time.





Vocabulary

4

1 cash

2 sale

3 change

4 bargain

5 receipt

6 stock

7 till

8 refund

5

1 on

2 around

3 out

4 on

5 up

6 back

7 for

8 in

6

1 for

2 on

3 in

4 in

Translation7

1 It’s difficult to say

2 I doubt that

3 Furthermore

4 As I see it

5 It certainly looks like





Listening

8

1 F

2 T

3 F

4 T

5 T

Reading

9

1 c2 b

3 d

4 c

5 d

Writing

10







Grammar

1

1 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, belonging to the city of New York, opened in 1872.

2 The plane, carrying 1,000 passengers, is going to be the largest passenger aircraft in the world.

3 They are staying in a small hotel located near the old part of town.

4 The photo hanging on the wall in the living room was taken by my sister.

5 Glastonbury Festival, changed into a rock festival in the 1970s, had originally been a festival of

classical music.

6 Audrey Hepburn, born in Belgium, became one of the best-loved actors of all time.

7 The students taking part in the maths competition must solve some very difficult problems.

2

1 a little

2 Each

3 much

4 None

5 most

6 some

7 few

3

1 such

2 so

3 so

4 such a

5 so

6 such





Vocabulary

4

1 b

2 b

3 c

4 b

5 b

6 a

7 c

5

1 Europe

2 goers

3 up

4 acts

5 site

6 bus

7 music

6

1 paintings

2 sketches

3 sculptures

4 illustrations

5 drawing

6 exhibitions

Translation7

1 I really identified with the hero

2 I wouldn’t say I was a real fan

3 she isn’t particularly interested in football

4 a twist at the end

5 It should be really entertaining





Listening

8 8

1 c

2 b

3 a

4 b

5 a

Transcript

Man So, what was the most interesting art exhibition you’ve ever seen?

Woman Probably one I saw in London a few years ago. I spent my summer holiday there, and one rainy

day I visited the National Gallery. What amazed me most was that almost all the paintings werefakes. They weren’t genuine.

Man So why did the gallery show them?

Woman Well, they thought it would be interesting to have an exhibition about the role of science inunderstanding art. And it is. It’s fascinating to see some of the mistakes museums made beforethe development of sophisticated scientific methods. Nowadays, of course, experts examineworks of art they want to buy scientifically, and this helps them decide whether the price is rightand whether they’re dealing with the real thing at all.

Man Do they ever make mistakes?

Woman Yes, expensive mistakes! And this exhibition showed some of the worst mistakes the gallery hadmade in the past. One mistake in 1845 cost the keeper – that’s the person in charge of the gallery – his job. The gallery paid a lot of money for a painting they thought was by Hans Holbein, butactually, it was painted at least seventeen years after the artist had died!

Man How embarrassing! What about other big mistakes?

Woman Well, on one occasion they bought what they thought were two paintings by Botticelli. They paid

about 1,000 pounds for one of them – a lot of money at the time – and more than 1,600 for theother one. It turns out that the cheaper one is genuine, but the more expensive one probably isn’t.

Man Any other nasty surprises?

Woman Well, there are some long-running disputes! The most well-known is probably the story of TheMadonna of the Pinks. It was bought by the gallery in 2004. The seller had always thought the picture was a copy of a painting by Raphael, but the expert from the gallery disagreed. He

thought it was a genuine Raphael. However, the painting was going to be sold to an Americancollector and the gallery was very keen to keep it in Britain. They had to raise a lot of money to be able to buy it for the National Gallery. In fact, they paid over £22 million for it. A lot of people criticised the museum’s expert for wasting the National Gallery’s money on a copy, but hewas sure that the painting was genuine and that it was worth every penny they paid for it! Thedebate continues to this day.




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