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Unit 7
Task 1
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1) In a mental asylum.
2) He was a member of a mittee which went vinced, but wanted to humour her.
The first editor he approached shared his lack of enthusiasm. "Whoever would want to see a picture of a cat?" he asked, and Louis Wain put the drawings away. A year or two later he showed them to the editor of The Illustrated London News, who suggested a picture of a cats' Christmas party across two full pages. Using his old sketches of Peter, Louis Wain produced a picture containing about a hundred and fifty cats, each one different from the rest. It took him a few days to draw, and it made him world famous.
For the next twenty-eight years he drew nothing but cats. He filled his house with them, and sketched them in all their moods. There was nothing subtle about his work. Its humour simply lay in showing cats performing human activities; they followed every new fashion from sea bathing to motoring. He was recognized, somewhat flatteringly, as the leading authority on the feline species. He became President of the National Cat Club and was eagerly sought after as a judge at cat shows.
Louis Wain's career ended abruptly in 1914, when he was seriously injured in a bus accident and became mentally ill. Finally, he was certified insane and put in an asylum for paupers.
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After Dan Rider found him, appeals were launched and exhibitions of his work arranged, and he spent the rest of his life in fort. He continued to draw cats, but they became increasingly strange as his mental illness progressed. Psychiatrists found them more fascinating than anything he had done when he was sane.
Task 2
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1) Because he was always trying new things and new ways of doing things just like a young painter.
2) It didn’t look like her.
3) It was the only picture she knew that showed her as she really was.
4) People from the poorer parts of Paris, who were thin, hungry, tired, and sick.
B. 1) F