The Simple Perfect – in journalism – part 2 – an exercise
Can you complete this journalist’s report?
Controversy continues over "carpet of light"
The Mayor of Venice …………… (a) a controversial new bridge over the Grand Canal as Italy’s "most important contemporary architectural achievement of recent decades" yesterday, despite complaints that it …………… (b) unnecessary, unsuitable and …………… (c) four times over budget. Critics …………… (d) that the bridge …………… (e) access for the disabled. Planners …………… (f) at the beginning of the project that the disabled would use the existing ferryboat across the canal. Vittorio Sgarbi, the art critic, …………… (g) that the bridge …………… (h) like a lobster and …………… (i) the Venice skyline from Piazzale Roma. Plans for a grand inauguration of the bridge (dubbed by admirers the "carpet of light") …………… (j) following an earlier controversy.
Adapted from an article by Richard Owen in the Times, 28.8.08