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TEST 10 – Art Artists Liars Reading Passage has six paragraphs,
A-F. Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below.
List of Headings
i Unsuccessful deceit
ii Biological basis between liars and artists
iii How to lie in an artistic way
iv Confabulations and the exemplifiers
v The distinction between artists and common liars
vi The fine line between liars and artists
vii The definition of confabulation
viii Creativity when people lie
A. Shortly before his death, Marlon Brando was working on a series of
instructional videos about acting, to
he called "Lying for a living”. On the
surviving footage, Brando can he seen dispensing gnomic advice on
his craft to
a group of enthusiastic, if somewhat bemused, Hollywood stars, including
Leonardo Di Caprio
and Sean Penn. Brando also recruited random people from
the Los Angeles street and persuaded them to
improvise (the footage is said
to include a memorable scene featuring two dwarves and a giant Samoan). "If
you can lie, you can act." Brando told Jod Kaftan, a writer for Rolling Stone and one of the few people to
have viewed the footage. “Are you good at lying?” asked Kaftan. "Jesus." said Brando, “I'm fabulous at it".
B. Brando was not the first person to note that the line between an artist and a
liar is a line one. If art is a
kind of lying, then lying is a form of art, albeit of a
lower order-as Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain have
observed. Indeed, lying and
