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On the north side of Trafalgar, famous for its Admiral Nelson,its fountains and its hordes of pigeons,there stands a long Jow building in classic style. This is the National Gallery. (1)_______ contains Britain's best-known collection of pictures. The collection was (2)_______ in 1824, with the purchase of thirty-eight pictures that (3)_______ Horgarth's satirical series and Titian's "Venus and Adonis”.
The National Gallery is rich (4)_______ paintings by Italian masters such as Raphael and Veronese»and it contains pictures representative of ail European schools of art. Many visitors are especially attracted to Leonardo da Vinci s "Virgin of the Rocks".
On sunny days,students and (5)_______ young people are often to be seen (6)_______ a sandwich lunch on the portico (门廊)of the Gallery overlooking Trafalgar Square. (7)_______ to the Gallery is free,as is the case (8)_______ other British national galleries and museums, which are maintained by money voted by Parliament. Bequests of pictures have been made to the galleries, at times (9)_______ a generous scale,by private individuals.
Just behind the National Gallery stands the National Portrait Gallery, in which the visitors can see portraits of British monarchs (10)_______ the reign of Richards II ( 1377—1399), and of historical celebrities such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Cromwell. Many of the pictures are by well-known artists.
(From London Art Gallery )(P81)