Question

Lost Pissarro paintings discovered! Two paintings by the famous 19th-century French artist Camille Pissarro 1)_____ in a secret room under an old house in Magdeburg, Germany. They 2)_____ while building work 3)_____ on the house. ‘I wanted a new kitchen, and I 4)_____ at the time,’ said the owner, Wolfgang Brandt. ‘But after the old stones on the kitchen floor 5)_____ , we found stairs down to a secret room. That’s where we found the paintings,’ Mr Brandt told reporters. Camille Pissarro lived in France, but he escaped to England during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870−71. He had to leave 1,500 of his paintings in France. Most of these paintings 6)_____ by Prussian soldiers, but some disappeared. And they 7)_____ found − until now. At the moment, the paintings 8)_____ after by a museum in Berlin. But after they 9)_____ , they 10)_____ back to France.

Answer 1

1) were discovered
2) were found
3) was being carried out
4) I was renovating
5) were removed
6)were confiscated by
7)weren’t
8)are being sought
9)are authenticated
10)will likely be returned

Answer 2

1) were discovered 2) were found 3) being carried out 4) was not aware 5) were removed 6) were confiscated 7) were not 8) are being looked 9) are authenticated 10) will be returned