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TEST   I

St. Paul’s Cathedral

            St. Paul’s Cathedral is situated in the City of London. It was designed by Sir Christopher Wren (1632s 1723) who was not only an architect but also one of the best geometers of his day, a mathematician and astronomer.

            It took Wren 35 years to build the Cathedral which is the greatest of English Churches. It is considered to be a fine specimen of Renaissance architecture.

            The Cathedral is 515 ft long and 180 ft wide. Its famous dome is the largest church dome in the world after St. Peter’s in Rome.

            The Cathedral is Gothic in plan but the details are classic Renaissance. In one of the twin baroque towers there is one of the largest bells in the world, Great Paul, weighting 17, 5 tons.

            Inside there is a wonderful mixture of architectural work, paintings, mosaics and statues which are monuments to generals and admirals who are buried there and among them admiral Nelson and the Duke of Wellington (under his command the army of the allies defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815).

            When Christopher Wren was 90 he was carried here once a year so that he could see his beautiful work. He himself is buried in the Cathedral. There is no monument to Christopher Wren but on his tomb in the centre of the Cathedral there is an inscription which reads: “If you seek a monument, look around”. The inscription is in Latin.

            St. Paul’s Cathedral was partly destroyed in 1941 by a direct hit from bombs. After the war it was restored.

I. The text is about …

            1) the interior of St. Paul’s Cathedral.

            2) Sir Christopher Wren.

            3) Renaissance architecture.

            4) Christopher Wren’s masterpiece.

II. Complete the sentence according to the text.

            In one of the towers of St. Paul’s Cathedral one can see …

1)      one of the largest bells in the world.

2)      the monument to Christopher Wren.

3)      the tombs of Nelson and Wellington.

4)      the largest church dome in the world.