T y T english test

¿Dónde puedes ver este aviso?

• A. On a bottle of water.

• B. In a school corridor.

• C. On a desk.

• D. In the street

¿Dónde puedes ver esta señal?

• A. In a school library.

• B. On a birthday card.

• C. At the zoo

• D. At the transmilenio station

Completa la conversación:

• A. Good night!

• B. Hello.

• C. I am hungry.

• D. Everything is ok.

Completa la conversación:

• A. He is handsome

• B. He is 23

• C. He likes dancing

• D. He loves it!

The Mathematical Art of M.C. Escher

 

 Do you enjoy optical illusions? How about drawings of things that could never exist in real life? M.C. Escher (1898-1972) was famous for his pictures of stairs that go around buildings both upside down and right side up at the same time. He ________ work with tonal marks and angles to give us pictures that look realistic and accurate. Yet they also have a little fantasy.

•  A. use

• B. used to

• C. used

• D. uses

He went to a school for architects where he learnt _______ buildings. His teachers there told him he should study graphic arts instead. He used unique buildings, rooflines or other designs and wove them into the picture. He became a world famous artist _______ unusual works are easy to recognize.

• A. to design / whose

• B. designing / whom

• C. design / whose

• D. designing / who

Escher created unique and fascinating works of art that explore and exhibit a wide range of mathematical ideas. Some of them where his drawings of the tessellation (a tessellation is a kind of pattern that covers a plane with regular or irregular polygons) of geometric shapes. Escher _______ by every kind of tessellation – regular and irregular – and took special delight in what he called “metamorphoses,” in which the shapes changed and interacted with each other, and sometimes even broke free of the plane itself

• A. use

• B. using

• C. used

• D. use to

1. What is the author of the article trying to do?

• A. To describe the correct way to appreciate and enjoy a movie.

•  B. To stablish the way “goers” and “buffs” interact each other.

• C. To highlight some differences between two kinds of movie watchers.

2. After watching a movie, a “movie buff” would say:

• A. “I love the plot and the sceneries, but I expected more from that director”.

• B. “I only watch drama or horror movies, they are the best, I don’t like others”.

• C. “I’m not interested in analyzing the movie, I just want to have fun for a while”.

3. What kind of person would be interested in this article?

• A. Actors and actresses looking for an opportunity in the movies.

• B. Someone searching for reviews of recent movies.

• C. Someone who is learning English as a second language.