题目内容
Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15,1452 in Italy.
He is best known as an artist today. One of his famous paintings
is called Mona Lisa. However, Leonardo had many other natural
abilities. He was also a great inventor. Many of his inventions
have become important in modern day life.
Although Leonardo hated war, he invented many different machines used for war. His most special invention was the machine gun, which was produced and used in war many years later.
By watching the way birds fly, Leonardo tried to find out the secret of flying. Among his sketched(素描)we can see several objects. We consider them as modern flying machines.
Leonardo spent many hours thinking about how to make good use of time. He developed ideas for labor-saving machines like cutting machines.
Leonardo was a strange man. He didn't eat any meat, which was unusual in those times. He never published(发表) his ideas and scientific discoveries. He usually used mirror writing, which looks like writing in a mirror, starting from the right side of the page and moving to the left.
We have very little of his work today. Leonardo finished only a few of his paintings. He left many unfinished because he thought they were not perfect. No one in his life time knew how great Leonardo was. We now believe, however, that he was one of the cleverest men the world has ever known.
( )71. According to the passage, Leonardo is not only an artist but also .
A. an inventor B. an engineer C. a writer D. a musician
( )72. was Leonardo's most special invention.
A. The mirror writing B. The cutting machine
C. The machine gun D. The flying machine
( )73. Leonardo was strange, for example, .
A.he didn't eat any vegetables B. he usually used mirror writing
C. he liked to publish his discoveries D. he enjoyed drawing flying machines
( )74. Leonardo invented some machines to .
.stop the war B. help paint pictures
C. watch the birds D. make good use of time
( )75. From the passage, we can learn that Leonardo was very .
A. humorous B. serious C. clever D. lonely
ACBDC
Leonardo da Vinci began painting the Mona Lisa in 1503. He was working on an important painting for a church at the time, but the church painting was not going well. An Italian businessman asked da Vinci to paint a picture of the businessman’s second wife. This is the woman who can be seen in the Mona Lisa.
All in all, the Mona Lisa is a very good example of da Vinci’s work. Da Vinci uses darkness and light in a clever way in the painting.
Da Vinci loved science and math. Right away a person can see that there is a lot of geometry (几何) in the Mona Lisa. The face of Mona Lisa is made of many circles and round shapes like balls. Even her smile can be seen as a small part of a large circle.
The woman in the painting is sitting on a balcony, and mountains can be seen behind her. Da Vinci loved to study rocks and mountains, so these can be seen over and over again in his other paintings.
The woman is sitting with her knees to the side. Her head is turned to look out of the painting. Her hands are held together in front of her. This way of sitting is now used by many artists when they are painting a picture of a man or woman today.
【小题1】Who painted the Mona Lisa?
A.A businessman. | B.The second wife. | C.A man in the church. | D.Da Vinci. |
A.standing in a garden | B.sitting on a balcony |
C.standing in front of her house | D.at the foot of a mountain |
A.the way people sit | B.science and math | C.mountains | D.rocks |