Reading comprehension – Multiple-choice questions
Read the article ‘Words, Words’ about idioms connected with art on pages 18-19 of
English Now
No. 118. Then look at these questions and decide which of the three answers is correct.
1. If something is attractive, you say it is
a. As petty as a picture.
b. As pretty as a picture.
c. As perfect as a picture.
2. If historical facts are changed in a book, this is called
a. artistic licence.
b. artistic likeness.
c. artistic lies.
3. If you are talking about something that has happened that is very like something from a book, film or picture, you say it is
a. airport music.
b. life imitating art.
c. life inviting art.
4. Something that uses the latest technology is
a. top of the art.
b. sort of the art.
c. state of the art.
5. Something that can be filled with new things or ideas is
a. a blank canvas.
b. an empty canvas.
c. an unfilled canvas.
6. If you know how to do something, because you have done it so often, you say you have it
a. down to a fresh art.
b. down to a full art.
c. down to a fine art.
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