Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions 24 to 31. Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452, in the small Tuscan town of Vinci, near Florence. Leonardo was the son of a wealthy Florentine public official and a peasant woman. In the mid- 1460s, the family settled in Florence, where Leonardo was given the best education that Florence could offer. He rapidly advanced socially and intellectually. He...
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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions 24 to 31.
Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452, in the small Tuscan town of Vinci, near Florence. Leonardo was the son of a wealthy Florentine public official and a peasant woman. In the mid- 1460s, the family settled in Florence, where Leonardo was given the best education that Florence could offer. He rapidly advanced socially and intellectually. He was handsome, persuasive in conversation and a fine musician and improviser. About in 1466, he apprenticed as a studio boy to Andrea Del Verrocchio. In Verrocchio’s workshop, Leonardo was introduced to many activities, from the painting of altarpieces and panel pictures to the creation of large sculptural projects. In 1472, he was entered in the painter’s guild of Florence, and in 1476, he was still mentioned as Verrocchio’s assistant. In Verrocchio’s Baptism of Christ, the kneeling angel at the left of the painting is by Leonardo.
In 1478, Leonardo became an independent master. His first commission, to paint an altarpiece for the chapel of the Palazzo Vecchino, the Florentine town hall, was never executed. His first large painting, The Adoration of the Magi, left unfinished, was ordered in 1481 for the Monastery of San Donato a Scopeto, Florence. Other works ascribed to his youth are the so-called Benois Madonna, the portrait Ginerva de' Benci, and the unfinished Saint Jerome.
In 1482, Leonardo's career moved into high gear when he entered the service of the duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, having written the duke an astonishing letter in which he stated that he could build portable bridges; that he knew the techniques of constructing bombardments and of making cannons; that he could build ships as well as armored vehicles, catapults, and other war machines; and that he could execute sculpture in marble, bronze, and clay. He served as a principal engineer in the duke’s numerous military enterprises and was so active also as an architect. In addition, he assisted the Italian mathematician Luca Pacioli in the celebrated work Divina Proportione.
Evidence indicates that Leonardo had apprentices and pupils in Milan, for whom he probably wrote the various texts later compiled as Treatise on Painting. The most important of his own paintings during the early Milan period was The Virgin of the Rocks, two versions of which exist; he worked on the compositions for a long time, as was his custom, seemingly unwilling to finish what he had begun
What is NOT mentioned about the young Leonardo da Vinci?
A. He was gifted in many fields of art
B. He was a talented speaker
C. He was physically attractive
D. He was well-connected
Earnest Hemingway was born in Oak park, a small twon in the state of Illinois. As a boy he was often taken on frequently hunting and fishing trips by hia father to Michigan, the locale of many his stories, and that he soon got acquanited with the life of the Indians and such virtues as courage and endurance,(1) were later revealed in his fiction. After school Hemingway(2) as a newspaper reporter and then joined a volunteer ambulance unit(3) in World War I. After the war he came home(4) a hero. He lived for several years in Paris after that. He joined a group of expatriated American writers who considered(5) a lost generation. In Paris he published "Tree Stories and Ten Poems" (1923) and "In Our Time" (19240 (6) his own experiences of life are revealed, and which brought him (7) immediately.
(1) A.That B. which C. who D. it
(2)A.works B.was working C. has worked D.worked
(3)A.taking part B.take part C.to take part D.took part
(4)A.an B.like C.as D.the
(5)A.They B.them C.their D.themselves
(6)A.in which B.in that C.where D.at which
(7)A.famous B.fame C.famed D.famously
***Read the following pasage and chooseA,B,C orD to fill in the gaps:
Earnest Hemingway was born in Oak park, a small twon in the state of Illinois. As a boy he was often taken on frequently hunting and fishing trips by hia father to Michigan, the locale of many his stories, and that he soon got acquanited with the life of the Indians and such virtues as courage and endurance,(1) were later revealed in his fiction. After school Hemingway(2) as a newspaper reporter and then joined a volunteer ambulance unit(3) in World War I. After the war he came home(4) a hero. He lived for several years in Paris after that. He joined a group of expatriated American writers who considered(5) a lost generation. In Paris he published "Tree Stories and Ten Poems" (1923) and "In Our Time" (19240 (6) his own experiences of life are revealed, and which brought him (7) immediately.
(1) A.That B. which C. who D. it
(2)A.works B.was working C. has worked D.worked
(3)A.taking part B.take part C.to take part D.took part
(4)A.an B.like C.as D.the
(5)A.They B.them C.their D.themselves
(6)A.in which B.in that C.where D.at which
(7)A.famous B.fame C.famed D.famously