Art lovers around the world have thought about this question for so many years: what is the secret behind the Mona Lisa’s smile?
However, they can ask Mona Lisa herself in the interactive exhibition (交互式展览) in Beijing. This exhibition brings the 500-year-old painting to life.
Now Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting can move her head and wave (挥舞) her hand in 3D, and even answer questions. She can answer the questions about her life, her age and so on. But when she talks she doesn’t speak Italian but Chinese like: “Da jia hao, wo jiao Mengna Lisha. Hen gao xing jian dao ni men.”
The new, digital (数码的) picture of Mona Lisa is the center piece of the World Classic Interactive Arts Exhibition in Beijing. You can also see other world-famous paintings such as Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper. Last Supper is another picture that they made alive with 3D. In this picture, Jesus (基督耶稣) can walk and talk with his believers (信徒).
It took the organizer Wang Hui and over 400 digital artists in South Korea two years to make the picture, at a cost of around 50 million yuan.
He says, “What’s special about it is that it’s the first time to use computer technology (技术) to make her speak and move.”
So what does the Mona Lisa say if you ask her why she is smiling?
【小题1】 From the passage we know that Mona Lisa is ________.

The picture show eighteen – year- old Katy Ross in Nepal, small country in north India．Katy left school 8 months ago and soon she will go to university. She loves travelling and decides to visit Asia before she goes to university.

Katy is living with a family in the capital of Nepal. She has learnt a lot about the country since she arrived 4 months ago. The family has two children but many uncles and cousins live with them in their big house. They have taken Katy to many parties.

Katy teaches for four hours a day at a small school. All the classes are in English and the pupils have spoken English since the age of six. The older children speak English very well. Katy has taught writing, grammar and art, all in English. She enjoys art most. And she thinks the children like the lessons best, too.

Katy has not a lot of time to see Nepal, but soon she will stop teaching and travel around Nepal with a friend．“After that,” Katy says, “we will visit more countries in Asia．We’re not sure which ones yet.”

根据短文内容，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳答案。

1．Why is Katy in Nepal?

A．She is studying there.                   B．She wants to take some pictures there.

C．She wants to learn more about the country.  D．She is an exchange student

2．Which of the following is TRUE about the family Katy is living with?

A．They are friendly.         B．There are three people in their house.    

C．They are strange.          D．They have never taken Katy to the parties.

3．How long has Katy been in Nepal?

A．eight months     B．six months     C．four months    D．one moth

4．When did the children begin to speak English?

A．When they are 5 years old．       B．When they are 6 years old．

C．When they are 7 years old．       D．When they are 8 years old．

5．According to the passage, Katy __________________.

A．likes travelling very much              B．doesn’t want to live with a family

C．only teaches writing in English             D．will go back to school after she leaves Nepal

The Aborigines (澳洲土著) have lived in Australia for about 60,000 years. They painted pictures inside caves, and these are the rock paintings that have given us so much information about Aboriginal life. For example, some of the paintings that are about 10,000 years old show men with boomerangs. From this we know that the Aborigines started using boomerangs for hunting at that time. Other pictures show kangaroos, so we know that there were kangaroos at that time.
The Aborigines believed that spirits made people, animals and plants, and that these spirits still live in the earth. For Aborigines, no one can own the earth—the earth belongs to the spirits.
In 1700, there were many Aboriginal groups with a population of 750,000 all over Australia, and there were probably more than 240 different Aboriginal languages. The groups did not have a leader. Instead, things were decided by the older men in a group. People from different groups often travelled hundreds of miles to meet each other.
Aboriginal life changed when an English boat arrived in Australia in 1770. Many Aborigines were killed in the wars that they had with the English. More Europeans came, and they started taking land from the Aborigines. The Europeans also brought new illnesses that killed the Aborigines. The result is that today there are only about 300,000 Aborigines in Australia.
【小题1】The Aborigines painted pictures       .