Listening Comprehension

 

 

While listening to the text put numbers before the words one after another.

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso was born on 25 October, 1881 in Malaga, Spain. He was one of the 20th century’s greatest painters.
He showed his truly 1________ talent from a very young age. He learned to draw before he could talk. He was the only son in the family. He 2_________ school and often refused to go to school.
But he had great love for art, and when his father, an 3__________ artist, got a job as a drawing teacher at a college, Pablo went with him to the college. He often watched his father paint and sometimes was allowed to help.
One evening his father was painting a picture of his 4___________ when he had to leave the room. He 5__________ and found that Pablo had 6__________ the picture, and it was so beautiful and 7__________ that he gave his son his own palette and brushes and never painted again. Pablo was just 13.
From then onwards there was no stopping him. Many people realized that he was a 8__________ but he did not become a traditional painter. He always 9__________ the rules of artistic tradition and shocked the public with his strange but 10__________ pictures.
He is probably best known for his “Cubist” pictures, where he used only simple 11__________ shapes.
His works changed our ideas about art. Now to millions of people Modern art means the work of Pablo Picasso. “Guernica” which recorded the bombing of a little Basque town during the Spanish Civil War is undisputedly one of the 12__________ of modern painting.
Picasso 13__________ over 6000 paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Today a Picasso 14__________ several million pounds.

Key: 1. exceptional; 2. hated; 3. amateur; 4. pigeons; 5. returned; 6. completed; 7. lifelike; 8. genius; 9. broke; 10. powerful; 11. geometric; 12. masterpieces; 13. created; 14. costs