variant Task Questions Match the following headings (a-h) to the texts (Q1-Q7). Note

Q1. Colours can influence people in a different way.

Q2. You should think twice before painting your bedroom yellow.

Q3. Green and blue have the least soothing effect.

Q4. Birds and butterflies are the only ones to use bright colours for attracting mates.

Q5. All poisonous animals are extremely bright.

Q6. Some warning colours are the same in most countries.

Q7. White and red have the same meaning all over the world.

Q8. Brides in all countries follow the tradition of wearing something blue.

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Task 3

Read the questions 1-6 and match them with suitable answers from A-F. Use one

letter once only, you have one extra answer which is not used.
In which museum can a visitor see

1. precious stones?

2. modern European paintings?

3. original airplanes?

4. works of art from Asia?

5. portraits made by American artists?

6. old household things?

A	The National Air and Space Museum has aeronautical exhibits that include the original craft used by the Wright Brothers and the Mercury capsule in which astronaut John Glenn orbited the Earth.
B	The Cooper-Hewitt features examples of historical and contemporary design. Its collections include furniture, metalwork, glass, ceramics, jewelry, woodwork, embroidery’, woven and printed textiles, lace, wall coverings, and drawings and prints.
C	The National Museum of African Art was the first museum in the United States devoted exclusively to African art.
D	The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden contains notable paintings and sculptures by 19^th and 20^th century European and American artists.
E	The National Museum of Natural History is one of the world’s leading centres for research and learning about the natural world and humans' place in it. Its collections, which number more than 120 million specimens, are the foundation for research, exhibitions, and education. Highlights include the 45.5-carat Hope Diamond, the largest deep blue diamond in the world.
F	Another major art collection, the National Portrait Gallery, is in a building with the National Museum of American Art, which houses American paintings, sculptures, graphics, folk art, and photographs from the 18th century to the present.
G	The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery houses a permanent collection of art from China, South and Southeast Asia, ancient and Islamic Iran, and Japan. Changing exhibitions of Asian art are drawn from collections in the United States and abroad. The core of the collection was a gift American research physician and medical publisher Arthur M. Sackler.

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