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