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The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Reading comprehension 9 for the textbook Step Up Gold Exam Trainer with authors Philippa Bowen e Denis Delaney from Oxford University Press

Question

Ascolta e leggi il brano. Scegli la risposta corretta (A-C) per le domande 1-3. Poi scrivi le risposte alle domande 4-8.

Answer

  1. C) 1789
  2. B) At Lake Geneva
  3. B) Shelley
  4. Italy was popular with the Romantics because of its landscape, architecture, and links to Roman civilization.
  5. The years 1818 to 1822 were unhappy for the Shelleys because two of their children died as babies, and Mary was often ill during that period.
  6. Keats and Shelley's tombs are in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.
  7. Alessandro Manzoni, Giuseppe Verdi, Francesco Hayez
  8. Manzoni's "The Betrothed" (I Promessi Sposi), Verdi's operas like "La Traviata" and "Rigoletto," Hayez's painting "The Kiss.