(1). The amber which    1     had a beautiful yellow-brown color like honey. The design of the room was in the     2     popular in those days. It was also a treasure     3     gold and jewels, which took the country’s best artists about ten years to make.

(2). I have become very important in communication,     4     and trade. I have also been put into robots and used to make mobile phones     5     help with medical operations....Anyhow, my     6     is to provide humans with a life of high quality…

(3). “What are you doing?” asked Daisy. “I’m protecting myself     7     mosquitoes,” it replied. When I find a millipede insect, I rub it over my body. It     8     a powerful drug which     9     mosquitoes. You should pay more attention to the rainforest where I live and     10     how the animals live together. No rainforest, no animals, no drugs.”

The Renaissance (from the 14th to the 17th century)

New ideas and values gradually replaced old ones from the Middle Ages. As a result, painters c    1     less on religious themes. They began to a    2     a more humanistic attitude to life. An important b    3     during this period was the use of perspective by Masaccio. I    4     painters such as Leonardo da Vince, Michelangelo, and Raphael built upon Giotto and Masaccio’s innovations to produce some of the greatest art that Europe had ever seen.

Another innovation was the use of oil paints. With their deep colors and realism, some of the best oil paintings look like photographs. While painters as early as Da Vinci had used oil, this technique reached its h    5     with Rembrandt, who gained a r    6     as a master of shadow and light.

In subject matter, the emphasis increasingly s    7     from religious themes to people and the world around us. Kings, n    8    , and people of high rank wanted to p    9     accurate pictures of themselves and the people they loved. Others wanted paintings showing important historical events or stories from mythology. Finally, most c    10     wanted paintings that were beautiful and interesting to look at.

In a way, Pompeii is like a “time capsule”     1     . Before the eruption occurred,     2     with temples, markets, restaurants, and theatres. Now as you walk along the streets of the city, time rewinds. You can admire the ancient architecture, statues, decorated walls and     3     However, much more than buildings and objects, it is the forms of the people who were caught in the disaster that have     4    .