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Passage 1 － Uffizi to Double in Size

Italy is to try to turn the Uffizi gallery in Florence into Europes premier art museum, with an ambitious 56m euro ($69m) scheme to double its exhibition space. Giuliano Urbani, Italys culture minister, said the enlarged gallery would surpass even the Louvre. By the time work is completed, visitors to the extensively remodeled Uffizi will be able to see 800 new works, including many now confined to the gallerys storerooms for lack of space. The project – the outcome of nine months of intensive work by a team of architects, engineers and technicians is a centre piece of the cultural policy of Silvio Berlusconis government.

With refurbishment plans also afoot for the Accademia in Venice and the Brera in Milan,
Italy is bent on securing its share of market for cultural tourism that is threatened by the Louvre and by the arttriangle of Madrid, which takes in the Prado, the Thyssen collection and the Reina Sofia museum of art.

Schemes for the expansion of the Uffizis exhibition spaces tretch back almost 60 years. The latest was mooted in the 1990s. But the one adopted by the current government has reached far more advanced stage than any of its forerunners. Rober to Cecchi, the government official in charge of the project, said last month that all that remained to do was to tender for contracts. The target date for completion of the project is 2006.

But the first changes will be seen as early as this month when a collection of pictures by Caravaggio and his school, currently crammed into tiny room on the second floor, is to be moved to larger premises on the first.

Mr Cecchi said the biggest problem was inserting a museum into a building that is itself a monument. The horseshoe-shaped Palazzo degli Uffizi, begun in 1560, was designed by the artist and historian Giorgio Vasari.

The latest plans are bound to stir controversy, involving as they do the creation of new stairwells and lifts in the heart of the building. There has already been an outcry over one proposed element, a seven-storey, canopy-like structure for a new exit by the Japanese architect Arata Isozaki.

At the heart of the plan is the opening up of the first floor, which for decades was occupied by the local branch of the national archives. This will allow visitors to follow a more extensive, and ordered, itinerary that would turn the Uffizi into what Antonio Paolucci, Tuscanys top art official, called a textbook of art history.

As at present, visitors will be channeled to the second floor, where they will be able to
study early works by Cimabue and Giotto before moving on to admire the gallerys extraordinary collection of Renaissance masterpieces, including Botticellis Primavera. Asked if the expansion might increase the risk of inducing Stendhals syndrome -the disorientation, noted by the French novelist, in those who encounter dozens of Italian Renaissance masterpieces -Mr Cecchi replied fatalistically: Yes. Itll double it.

Adapted from an original article by John Hooper in The Guardian Weekly 20-03-04

Exercise Version 1

Questions 1 -15
Look at the statements below, which are all True as regards the text above. Each statement has a blank space and after each one there are four alternatives (a-d). Add each alternative in turn to the statement and decide what affect each one has on the sentence: is the information in the sentence now True/ False/ Not Given ?

Example
There are plans to increase__________the space for displaying art at the Uffizi.
(a) twofold (b) slightly (c) by 100% (d) with great care

(a)True. It says in the text: …to double….
(b) False. See (a).
(c)True. It says in the text: …to double…, which means an increase of 100%
(d)NotGiven. There is no mention of whether care or great care will be taken, even if we expect it to happen ourselves.


1. _____ works are not displayed, because there is not enough space in the gallery.
(a) About half of the Uffizi’s (b) Many of the Uffizi’s
(c) Large examples of the Uffizi’s (d) The majority of the Uffizi’s

2. Architects _____ have been working on the Uffizi project.
(a) as well as other professionals (b) engineers and technicians
(c) of international repute (d) from all over the world

3. Architects have been working on the Uffizi project _____.
(a) with great enthusiasm (b) with various other agencies
(c) for nine months (d) for more than nine months

4. __________ the plan to increase the space for displaying art at the Uffizi
gallery is ambitious.
(a)The writer feels that
(b) It is clear that the cultural minister does not feel
(c) To most Italians, (d) The writer does not feel

5. From the author’s point of view, the plan to increase the space for displaying
art at the Uffizi gallery is ____________ ambitious.
(a) not that (b) not at all
(c) fairly (d) clearly

6. Plans to increase exhibition space at the Uffizi go back __________ years.
(a) 60 (b) exactly 60
(c) nearly 60 (d) more than 60

7. The Uffizi scheme will __________ be finished by 2006.
(a) possibly (b) ,at all costs,
(c) definitely (d) have to

8. The present scheme will ___________ be controversial.
(a)possibly (b) definitely
(c) probably (d) not

9. The Palazzo degli Uffizi was designed by Giorgio Vasari, __________.
(a) who was an artist (b) who was an historian
(c) who was not a well-known historian
(d) who wrote many books on art history

10. A collection of pictures _____________ , now in a small room on the second floor, will soon be transferred to larger premises.
(a) by Caravaggio (b) by Caravaggio and other artists
(c) of international importance (d) by Caravaggio and his followers

11. One proposed seven-storey building at the Uffizi is ____________ disapproved of.
(a) not (b) very much
(c) widely (d) unfortunately

12. The first floor of the Uffizi gallery was occupied by the local branch of the national archives ____________.
(a) for a long time (b) for a few years
(c) which frustrated the Uffizi administration (d) for many years

13. Removing the national archives from the Uffizi will allow __________ visitors to follow a more extensive, and ordered, itinerary
(a) most but not all (b) all
(c) only some (d) the majority of

14. _________ the Renaissance masterpieces at the Uffizi, including Botticellis Primavera, are extraordinary.
(a) To all Italians, (b) The writer does not think
(c) To most people, (d) According to the author,

Exercise Version 2

Questions 1 -15
Look at the statements below which are all True as regards the text above. Each statement has a blank space and after each one there are several alternatives. Add each alternative in turn to the statement and decide what effect each one has on the sentence: is the information in the sentence now True/False/Not Given?

1. _____ works are not displayed, because there is not enough space in the gallery.
(a) About half of the Uffizi’s (b) Many of the Uffizi’s

2. Architects _____ have been working on the Uffizi project.
(a) as well as other professionals (b) engineers and technicians
(b) (c) of international repute

3. Architects have been working on the Uffizi project _____.
(a) with great enthusiasm (b) with other agencies
(c) for nine months

4. __________ the plan to increase the space for displaying art at the Uffizi
gallery is ambitious.
(a) The writer feels that (b) It is clear that the cultural minister does not feel
(c) To most Italians,

5. The plan to increase the space for displaying art at the Uffizi gallery is
____________ ambitious.
(a) not that (b) not at all

6. Plans to increase exhibition space at the Uffizi go back __________ years.
(a) 60 (b) exactly 60

7. The Uffizi scheme will __________ be finished by 2006.
(a) possibly (b) at all costs

8. The present scheme will ___________ be contentious.
(a) possibly (b) definitely

9. The Palazzo degli Uffizi was designed by Giorgio Vasari, __________.
(a) who was an artist (b) who was an historian
(c) who was not a well-known historian
(d) who wrote many books on art history

10. A collection of pictures _____________ now in a small room on the second
floor will soon be transferred to larger premises on the first.
(a) by Caravaggio (b) by Caravaggio and other artists
(c) of international importance

11. One proposed seven-storey building at the Uffizi is ____________ disapproved of.
(a) not (b) very much
(c) widely

12. The first floor of the Uffizi gallery was occupied by the local branch of the national archives ____________.
(a) for a long time (b) for a few years
(c) which frustrated the Uffizi administration

13. Removing the national archives will allow __________ visitors to follow a more extensive, and ordered, itinerary
(a) most but not all (b) all
(c) only some

14. _________ the Renaissance masterpieces at the Uffizi, including Botticellis
Primavera, are extraordinary.
(a) To all Italians, (b) The writer does not think
(c) To most people,

Key to Exercise 1 Versions 1 and 2

1. _____ works are not displayed, because there is not enough space in the gallery.
(a) Not Given. The text does not tell you the quantity, so you do not know whether it is more than fifty percent of the works.
(b) True.
(c) Not Given. The text does not tell you anything about the size of the works of art.
(d) Not Given. The text does not tell you the quantity, so you do not know whether it is more than fifty percent of the works.

2. Architects _____ have been working on the Uffizi project.
(a) True. Engineers and technicians are professionals.
(b) True.
(c) Not Given. The text does not tell you anything about the qualities of the architects
(d) Not Given. The text does not tell you anything about where the professionals came from.

3. Architects have been working on the Uffizi project _____.
(a) Not Given. The text does not tell you anything about whether the architects are enthusiastic about what they do.
(b) Not Given. The text does not tell you anything about whether the architects worked with other agencies.
(c) True. (d) False.

4. __________ the plan to increase the space for displaying art at the Uffizi gallery is ambitious.
(a) True. The word ambitious is a judgment word. It tells you what the writer thinks.
(b) False. It is clear what the cultural minister thinks.
(c) Not Given. The text does not tell you anything about whether the Italians think it is ambitious.
(d) False. See (a)

5. The plan to increase the space for displaying art at the Uffizi gallery is ____________ ambitious.
(a) False. (b) False. (c) False.
(b) Not Given. The writer does not say whether the plan is clearly ambitious or not. Only that it is ambitious.

6. Plans to increase exhibition space at the Uffizi go back __________ years.
(a) False. (b) False. (c) True. (d) False.

7. The Uffizi scheme will __________ be finished by 2006.
(a) True. (b) Not Given. (c) Not Given. (d) False.

8. The present scheme will ___________ be controversial.
(a) False. See ‘are bound to stir controversy in the second paragraph in the second column
(b) True. (c) False. (d) False.

9. The Palazzo degli Uffiz was designed by Giorgio Vasari, __________.
(a) True (b) True.
(c) Not Given. The text does not tell you anything about whether he was well-known or not.
(d) Not Given. The text does not tell you anything about whether he wrote many books on art or not.

10. A collection of pictures _____________ now in a small room on the second floor will soon be transferred to larger premises on the first.
(a) False. Note the paintings are by Caravaggio and others – not by Caravaggio alone. Compare 9 (a) and (b) where the statement is checking one piece of information at the time. If you say True here, it means Caravaggio painted all the paintings.
(b) True. Compare (a).
(c) Not Given. The text does not tell you anything about his reputation.
(d) True.

11. One proposed seven-storey building at the Uffizi is ____________disapproved of.
(a) False (b) True
(c) Not Given. We do not know how widespread the ‘outcry’
(d) Not Given

12. The first floor of the Uffizi gallery was occupied by the local branch of the national archives ____________.
(a) True. (b) False. (c) Not Given. (d) True.

13. Removing the national archives will allow __________ visitors to follow a more extensive, and ordered, itinerary
(a) False. The text means all visitors. (b) False.
(c) True. (d) False.

14. _________the Renaissance masterpieces at the Uffizi, including Botticellis Primavera, are extraordinary.
(a) Not Given. (b) False. “extraordinary’ is the writer’s word!
(c) Not Given. (d) True.

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