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Test 3 FB.convyThe[ELTSFOCUS, Zale 0847705973 READING PASSAGE 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 7 below. Henry Moore (1898-1986) The British sculptor Henry Moore was a leading figure in the 20th-century art world Henry Moore was born in Castleford, a small town near Leeds in the north of England. Ue was the seventh child of Raymond Moore and his wife Mary Raker. He studied at Castleford Grammar School from 1909 to 1915, where his carly interest in art was encouraged by his teacher Alice Gostick. After leaving school, Moore hoped to become a sculptor, but instcad he complied with his father’s wish that he train as a schoolicachor. He had to abandon his training in 1917 when he was sent to France to fight in the First World War. Afler the war, Moore enrolled at the Leeds School of Art, where he studied for two years. In his first year, he spent most of his time drawing. Although he wanted to study sculpture, no teacher was appointed until his second year. At the end of that year, he passed the sculpture examination and was awarded a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London. In September 1921, he moved to London and began three years of advanced study in sculpture. Alongside the instruction he received at the Royal College, Moore visited many of the London museums, particularly the British Museum, which had a wide-ranging collection of ancient sculpture. During these visits, he discovered the power and beauty of ancient Egyptian and African sculpture. As he became increasingly interested in these ‘primitive’ forms of art, he turned away from European sculptural traditions. After graduating, Moore spent the first six months of 1925 travelling in France. When he visited the Trocadero Museum in Paris, he was impressed by a cast ofa Mayan" sculpture of the rain spirit. It was a male reclining figure with its knees drawn up together, and its head at a right angle lo its body. Moore became fascinated with this stone sculpture, which he thought had a power and originality that no other stone sculpture possessed. He himself started carving a variety of subjects in stone, including depictions of reclining women, mother-and-child groups, and masks. Moore’s exeeptional talent soon gained recognition, and in 1926 he started work as a sculpture instructor at the Royal College. In 1933, he became a member of a group of young artists called Unit One. The aim of the group was to convince the English public of the merits of the emerging international movement in modern art and architecture. “Mayan: belonging to an ancient civilisation that inhabited parts of current-day Mexico, Gualemmla, Be izc, Et Salvador and Honduras, 58 
