Контрольная работа по теме «Собор Святого Павла»

Электросталь, Московская область.
2011 год

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St. Paul's:
675
1087
1561
2 July 1668
21 June 1675
1697
1723
1958
1965
1981

How do the following figures

refer to St. Paul’s :
175 m
111 m
32 m
65,000 tons
17,5 tons
35 years
259 steps
6 feet
85 m
28 thousand

place of many celebrations because
a)it is the largest church in

the UK.
b) It is the official church of the Monarch.
c) The Cathedral is the main church of London.
d) It is just a tradition to celebrate all important events here.
2. In one of the towers of St. Paul’s Cathedral one can see …
a) one of the largest bells in the world.
b) the monument to Christopher Wren.
c) the tombs of Nelson and Wellington.
d) the largest church dome in the world.
3. What explains the inscription: “If you seek a monument, look around”?
a)Christopher Wren needed no monument
but his beautiful work - St. Paul’s Cathedral.
b)Christopher Wren is buried there
(there is a grave of his in St. Paul’s Cathedral).
c) There are many remarkable things in the
Cathedral to look at.
d) In the Cathedral there are many
monuments to famous people.

to be rebuilt in the 14th century
The construction of the

present cathedral began
Christopher Wren was invited to design the cathedral
Although the church was completed in the 18th century

a) the mosaic decorations were added 100 years later .
b) because he was the most famous architect at that time.
c) because it was destroyed by fire in 1136

d) after the previous church burnt down in 1666.

These are galleries above the cathedral:
Golden gallery
Stone gallery
War gallery
Whispering gallery
3.

Christopher Wren was …..
Professor of Mathematics,
an astronomer
an architect
the president of the Royal Academy

III. Find the wrong answer:

been a cathedral on this site for……
……..was built in 604

but ………in 1136.
The building was reconstructed in….and became the largest church in…..
In …….of 1666 St. Paul’s Cathedral was….
Wren began to ….. St. Paul in 1675 and …… it only in 1710.
In the Whispering Gallery you can clearly hear the words that…..
St. Paul’s Cathedral is a place for many………Every year a special service is held…….

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