Drawing with Scissors - Test 1

B2 First · Word Formation · Cambridge B2 First 4, Cambridge University Press

For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning.

VARY

INNOVATE

BLIND

EXPERIMENT

ASSIST

ARRANGE

MEMORY

FORGET

Frenchman Henri Matisse was among the most (0) ___ artists of the twentieth century. He produced masterpieces in a wide (17) ___ of media including painting, sculpture and printmaking, but some consider his most (18) ___ work to be from his later years, when he suffered from partial (19) ___ and was confined to his bed and a wheelchair. Because of this, he used an (20) ___ method he called 'drawing with scissors'. He cut brightly-painted sheets of paper into large shapes. Under his guidance these paper cut-outs were attached to the walls of his studio. He then directed his (21) ___ to move the pieces into the precise (22) ___ he had in mind. The inspiration for some of the most remarkable scissor drawings was (23) ___ places Matisse had previously visited but, because of his age, could no longer return to, such as two works he made in 1946 based on an (24) ___ trip he had made to Tahiti many years before.

Drawing with scissors

INFLUENCE

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