READ THE TEXT BELOW AND DECIDE WHICH ANSWER A, B, C OR D BEST FITS EACH SPACE TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS

4. Read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each space to the following questions. The mystery of the Mona Lisa The paintings of Leonardo da Vinci have always attracted (1) ____________. Only 14 works have ever been attributed to him and experts have (2) ____________ the authenticity of several. Not even the Mona Lisa is a above (3) ____________. The painting is neither signed nor dated and no (4)____________ of payment to Leonardo has ever been found. Believed to be the portrait of the wife of Florentine merchant Francesco del Gioconda dating from 1502, it has been on public (5) ____________ in the Louvre since 1804. Now housed in a bullet-(6) ____________ glass case, it has always been surrounded by (7) ____________ security. Even so, on 24th August 1911, it was (8) ____________. Initial leads came to nothing and no (9) ____________ to the thief's motives or the (10) ____________ of the picture materialised for 15 months. In November 1913, Florentine art dealer Alfredo Geri received a letter from someone (11) ____________ they had the Mona Lisa and were prepared to sell it back to Italy for 500,000 lire. Geri contacted the director of the Uffizi museum who arranged a meeting with the alleged vendor. He turned out to be an Italian carpenter Vincenzo Peruggia, who made the painting's (12)____________ wooden box for the Louvre and was able to steal it because he knew the museum's (13) ____________. The Mona Lisa he produced was proclaimed genuine by the Uffizi and sent back to Paris. But a British conman, Jack Dean, later insisted that he had helped Peruggia steal the painting but (14) ____________ a copy before Peruggia took it to Italy. Could it be that the painting seen by thousands of visitors every day in the Louvre museum is a total (15) ____________.