Cover of the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 10

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 9.2 - I know what I like for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education

Question

Read the article and answer the questions.

Answer

  1. 'Officials thought the painting was so famous that it wouldn't be stolen.'
  2. Thugs. They were 'usually stealing wheels from cars a few years earlier'.
  3. Paintings by famous artists Vermeer and Gainsborough. The paintings were stolen, and treated badly by the thieves.
  4. He posed as a buyer for the J Paul Getty Museum. He also had to learn everything about the paintings. He even 'memorised the patterns of wax droplets left on one version of the painting'.
  5. An art thief. He stole paintings for the love of art, not money.