2.02 Задание 11. Задание на понимание структурно-смысловых связей в прочитанном тексте

Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски А-F частями предложений, обозначенными цифрами 1-7. Одна из частей в списке 1-7 лишняя. Запишите ответ в виде последовательности цифр, где первая цифра - часть предложения для пропуска A, а последняя цифра - часть предложения для пропуска F.

Hermitage Museum

One of Russia's crowning achievements is the Hermitage Museum, a complex of large and impressive neoclassical buildings located in St Petersburg. The museum was created in 1764 by Catherine the Great and it contains over 3 million items A__________.  

As well as housing the Hermitage Museum, the imperial family of Russia made their home on the complex, in the Winter Palace, from 1732 to 1917. It was from this location that the emperors of Russia ruled over lands B__________.  

The museum's massive collection of paintings was started by Catherine the Great, when she purchased either 225 or 317 paintings (sources do not agree) from a merchant in Germany C__________. The paintings included works by Rembrandt, Rubens, van Dyck and Raphael. 

The operation of the museum during its early years consisted of hundreds of people employed by the Russian monarchy. The complex was also the location of several important events and festivals held by the Russian royal family D__________. Together with the large collection of art, the complex became a symbol of Russian pride. 

The ownership of the Hermitage Museum, its contents and its buildings passed to the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution of 1917. While some of its possessions were sold secretly, most of the collection remained intact E__________. Many works were shipped off for protection during the Second World War. 

In the 1990s it was revealed that the Hermitage Museum held collections from Germany that had been confiscated by the Red Army They are an important collection of French Impressionist and post-Impressionist artwork F__________. In 1995 they were displayed for the first time since the war ended. 

1. who had compiled a collection initially intended for the king of Prussia
2. and attended by the various nobility of the country
3. including the largest number of paintings of any museum in the world
4. who managed to hide much of the art from invading armies
5. originating from private collections taken during the war
6. and the Soviet government maintained the complex a public museum
7. that spanned almost one sixth of the Earth's surface area