42 B2 | 7. Klasse | Unit 08: Culture vulture Read the text about a famous graffiti artist. Some words are missing. Choose the correct word (A–R) for each gap (1–15). There are two extra words that you should not use. Write your answers in the boxes provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. LANGUAGE IN USE 2 Banksy The British street artist Banksy is the unofficial king of the graffiti world. Celebrities, (0) them Justin Bieber and Drake, pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for his work. He is the creator of (1) images such as the 2002 Balloon Girl. Supposedly, his art is a form of (2) against modern society. His true (3) is a mystery, and nobody knows his real name. Personally, I’m (4) that the art community is willing to idealise Banksy. For the average person, there is nothing (5) or unique about graffiti at all. It’s just a (6) that has to be cleaned up by someone. Banksy may have developed his own artistic style, but the (7) graffiti ‘artist’ is just a feckless youth who takes (8) in defacing every available surface for the sheer hell of it. There is nothing special about most graffiti in our cities – rather, we are confronted with (9) words and imagery that makes no (10) . And most of it is just terribly (11) and boring. Cities all over the world are forced to spend hundreds of thousands of euros a year cleaning graffiti off their (12) buildings. We should no longer (13) this nonsense. The art world is to blame for the legitimisation of graffiti as a valid form of expression. Let’s instead call it what it is: a (14) . Note to Banksy: graffiti is not art, it is (15) . It has to stop. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 101112131415 A A among G historic M rebellion B artificial H iconic N sense C arty I identity O swear D average J irritated P tolerate E crime K mess Q infamous F delight L predictable R vandalism Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy ODE3MDE=