Read Text 4C and answer the following questions.

1. What is Moscow famous for?

2. How many churches did Moscow have before the revolution of 1917?

3. What are the most popular museums in Moscow?

4. What does the Tretyakov Gallery house?

5. Where is Kremlin situated?

6. What does the word “Kremlin” mean?

7. When did Moscow cease to be a fortress?

8. What Towers of the Kremlin are mentioned in the Text?

9. What are those Towers noted for?

10. What is there outside the Kremlin wall?

13. Consider the following statements and say if you agree or disagree with them. The following phrases may be helpful:

Quite so. Exactly. It’s partly true. Just the opposite. I don’t think so. I can’t agree with you.

1. Moscow does not attract tourists from all over the world.

2. Some of the cathedrals and churches date from the fourteenth century.

3. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts only contains a vast collection of modern Russian painters.

4. A small settlement of Moscow became a Kremlin in 1156.

5. The Kremlin was burnt during the Tatar invasion in the tenth century.

6. Ten towers of the Kremlin wall were built in the end of the tenth century.

7. We can hear the chimes of the Spasskaya Tower on the radio.

8. The Uspensky Cathedral is the smallest one.

9. Moscow tsars held reception in honour of foreign ambassadors in Granovitaya Palata.

10. Tourists can see the Archangel Cathedral in the famous Red Square.

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