Thomas Gainsborough (to be) born in Suffolk. He (to be) the youngest of nine children in the family. He (to go) to school in his native town.
When he (to be) a boy, he (to be ) very good at drawing, and according to the story about him, he (to make) such a good portrait from memory of the thief whom he had seen robbing the garden, that the thief was caught.
Thomas (to succeed) as a portrait-painter. Among his most famous portraits (to be) the portrait of
Mrs. Siddons, the famous actress in a blue dress, and the portrait of his daughters. In his portrait of Mrs. Sheridan we (can) see a woman in a light blue. The definite artificiality in the Gainsborough’s painting constitutes his own style.
Gainsborough (to be) fond of painting landscapes. Even in the portrait painting he is an out-of-door painter. The famous ‘Blue Boy’ is placed against the open sky and the background of brown and green landscape. In Mrs. Sheridan’s portrait, the background is a wide sky and broad view into the valley.
He (to love) the countryside of his childhood and often (to say) that the Suffolk countryside had made him a painter.
Gainsborough (to live) in that period when landscape painting (to be) not in fashion. Rich people (to spend) not money on landscapes. So, it’s really remarkable that there (to be) more than 40 unsold landscapes in his studio at the time of his death.
The portraits (to be) painted in clear tones. His colour (to be) always tender and soft. Light tone scheme and use of light blues and yellows (to belong) essentially to his earlier period.
Later Gainsborough (to enrich) his palette, but he always (to tend) to cool scheme and his blues (to predominate) in his paintings.
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3) Find synonyms in the text.
1. home, domestic
2. well-known
3. create, establish
4. unusual, extraordinary
5. basically, importantly
6. improve, develop
7. scenery, surrounding
8. robber, pickpocket, cheat
9. infancy, immaturity
2 We haven't finished our homework yet.
3 Carol can't see very well. She has lost her glasses.
4 Where is the bus? We have been waiting for it for half an hour.
5 Has Ann visited her grandparents recently?
6 You have been cleaning the house since morning.
7 It's the most beautiful garden we have ever seen.
8 How long have you been studying English?
9 Sally and Tim have just got married.
10 Emma hasn't graduated yet; she's in her final year at college.
11 Danny has been looking for a new job the last two months.
12 Have you finished your project yet, Mike? No, I have been working on it all week, but I haven't finished it yet.
B: Sorry. I 2) (did not/hear) the bell. Come in, Tony.
A: 3) What. .(are you/planning) to do today?
B: Well, I 4) (have been thinking) of going for a picnic in the country, but the weather is awful so I 5) (have changed) my mind.
A: Oh dear. Well, yesterday Mary 6) (told) me that she 7) (had bought) two tickets to see the Rocking Stars, but she couldn't go to the concert. So 18) (bought) the tickets from her, because I 9) (thought) you'd like to go.
B: Tony, that's brilliant! I 10) (meant) to buy tickets for that concert, but they 11)..(had sold out) by the time I 12) (went) to the booking office.
A: Well, it's lucky I 13) (saw) Mary, then, isn't it?