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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452—May 2, 1519) , widely     1     (consider) to be one of the greatest painters of all time, and perhaps the most intelligent and capable man to ever have lived, was an Italian painter. Born and raised in Vinci, Italy, Leonardo is famous for his     2     (real) paintings, such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, as well as for influential drawings such as the Vitruvian Man. Of his works, only a few paintings survive, together with his notebooks     3     (contain) drawings. It was said     4     when Leonardo Da Vinci first came to his master's workshop, he was told to draw eggs. His master made him observe and sketch an egg     5     (repeat). Day     6     day, Da Vinci was told to draw eggs all the time. One day, Da Vinci finally got tired of it.     7    , he came to his master and complained about that task. His master gave a patient     8     (explain) to him that repetition was the key to perfection. After that, Da Vinci followed his master's advice with an open mind. He kept on drawing eggs for three years,     9     laid the foundation for him.     10     it not been for his master, he would not have become one of the greatest artists in the world.

2 . It has been more than 500 years since Leonardo da Vinci died. He was so ahead of his time that people are still talking about how smart he was.

The inventor, painter, scientist, mathematician, musician, writer and thinker painted the most famous artworks in the world, including Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. He also invented a robot, a helicopter and a diving suit and thought about catching solar energy, besides, he planned a clean, healthy and modern city and made dozens of important discoveries about the human body.

Leonardo lived from 1452 to 1519. He was Italian, born in a village near Vinci. From the age of 14 he was a trainee to a painter and goldsmith. This studio in Florence, Italy, was a busy place with lots of thinkers, artists and skilled businessmen working around him. Though he spent years doing jobs such as tidying up and mixing paints, he could listen to all the things everyone discussed and start forming his own ideas about drawing.

Leonardo’s earliest surviving drawing is a pen and ink sketch of the nearby Amo River. And though this wasn’t drawn until 1473, when he was about 21, he probably he probably sketched scenes and ideas long before this.

Mona Lisa is one of the world’s most famous paintings. It is regarded as the portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo. People have always been attracted by how Leonardo made his subject’s face so interesting: Is she smiling or smirking; happy or sad? Like humans in real life, no one really knows how she was feeling.

Leonardo had permission from hospitals to study the bodies of people who had recently died. He made more than 240 detailed drawings of the human bodies. He wrote more than 13, 000 words on the subject. Unfortunately, Leonardo didn’t publish this work and took many years for the rest of the world to discover what Leonardo knew.

1. What can we infer about Leonardo da Vinci from Paragraph 2?

A．He caught solar energy.

B．He created a modern city.

C．He was the most famous artist.

D．He was a man with many talents.

2. When did Leonardo start his own idea about drawing?

A．When running his own studio.

B．When working as a trainee

C．After inventing a robot.

D．After discussing with businessmen.

3. What’s the text mainly about?

A．Leonardo da Vinci’s early drawing life.

B．Lisa Gherardini, a mysterious woman.

C．Leonardo da Vinci, a man ahead of his time.

D．Mona Lisa, one of the world’s most famous painting.

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After participating in the reality TV show Idol Producer, the singer-songwriter, Cai Xukun, rose to fame overnight. Since then, Cai     1     (top) Chinese music charts with multiple singles. On July 26, KUN released his latest single Young,     2     reached a million sales within just 20 seconds.

A reviewer wrote on QQ Music: “When    3     (listen) to the song，I just seemed to go back to youth again.” “My works     4     (be) like my children and I have put my best effort into them，” KUN told the Global Times. “And I always get     5     (inspire) when it’s quiet，deep into     6     night,” he once said. “Sometimes，I can write songs with a melody 1 heard in a dream.”

To nurture his introspection (自省），KUN attends various musical     7     (perform). “I just like to do everything，all for my music，all for my art.” he told i-D.     8     KUN loves performing onstage, when the lights go down, he prefers to fall back into his world. With such talent and devotion     9     music，it seems that KUN will continue to make his mark in the     10     (compete) Chinese music industry.

4 . The exact location from where Vincent van Gogh is likely to have painted his final masterpiece, perhaps just hours before his death, has been determined with the help of a postcard.

The scene in Tree Roots, a painting of trunks (树干）and roots growing on a hillside, was first spotted on a card dating from 1900 to 1910 by Van der Veen, the scientific director of the Institute Van Gogh. Following a comparative study of the painting, the postcard and the current condition of the hillside, researchers concluded that it was highly possible that the place where Van Gogh made his final brushstrokes had been unearthed.

The main trunk in the painting has survived the 130 years since the Dutch master’s death. It has long been believed that Van Gogh had been working on Tree Roots shortly before he took his own life with a shot to the chest. Andries Bonger, the brother-in-law of Van Gough's brother Theo, had described in a letter how the “morning before his death” Van Gogh had “painted a forest scene, full of sun and life” Van der Veen said, t4The sunlight painted by Van Gogh suggests that the last brushstrokes were painted towards the end of the afternoon.”

Teio Meedendorp, a senior researcher at the Van Gogh Museum, said the spot, some 150 meters from the hotel where Van Gogh had stayed the last 70 days of his life, would likely have been passed on a number of occasions by him. “The scene on the postcard shows very clear similarities to the shape of the roots on Van Gogh’s painting,” he said. “He must often have passed by the location when going to the fields behind the castle of Auvers, where he painted several times during the last week of his life and where he would take his own life.”

1. What is Tree Roots?

A．A trunk.

B．A hillside.

C．A drawing.

D．A postcard.

2. What do we know about Van Gogh according to the text?

A．He had a close relationship with his brother.

B．What he drew in his paintings all came from real life.

C．He was working on his artwork shortly before killing himself.

D．He was so sick in his last days that he spent all the time in a hotel.

3. Where did Van Gogh kill himself according to Teio Meedendorp?

A．In the fields.	B．In a local hotel.
C．In the castle of Auvers.	D．In the scene on the postcard.

4. What’s the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A．To remember a famous painter. Van Gogh.

B．To introduce Van Gogh's life and his works.

C．To describe the influence of Van Gogh in art.

D．To tell the place in Van Gogh’s last painting.

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Mozart showed musical gifts at    1    early age, composing at five and performing in public only a year later.    2    (drive) by the thirst for wealth, his father took him on a performance tour around the French and English royal families,     3     he made a deep    4    (impress) on everyone with his     striking skills. During the tour, he also had his first music    5    (publish) and wrote his    6    (early) symphonies. After the family’s returning home late in 1766, he began his bittersweet life    7    a musician. Mozart died when still young. Throughout his short life, he studied, taught, wrote and played music. Even by working hard, he found    8    challenging to make ends meet(使生活收支平衡), borrowing money from his friends at times.    9    , his music made him happy and for more than two hundred years his   music     10    (make)others happy as well.