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The American Character Leonard Da Vinci
Leonard da Vinci was a painter, a sculptor, anarchitect, a musician, an engineer, and a was a man of many talents, a Renaissance man1in the true sense of the word.
Leonard was born at a small town near Florence,where he was apprenticed to2 a painter. But he soonsurpassed his masters in uniting precision of linewith rhythm of movement, and in finding new ways to show light and shade.
Although Leonard is generally known as a painter, his actual output was very small. In facttoday only about twelve paintings are looked upon as3 having been done by him. This isbecause his diverse interest, his far-ranging curiosity in nature and his endless scientificexperiments and designings. To understand the man one has therefore , to read the 5, 000notebooks in which he put down his observations in life and his sketch4 drawings.
Nevertheless, Leonard had profound understandings of art, which exerted5 great influenceamong the painters of his own generation and generations to follow. In painting he stressed theexpression of emotional states, which , to him were, the heart of painting:
"A good painter has two chief objects — to paint man and the intention of his soul. The formeris easy, the latter hard, for it must be expressed by gestures and the movement of the limbs. .. A painting will only be wonderful for the beholder by making that which is not so raised anddetached from the wall."
His major works: Last Supper, many European art masters have painted on the same none of their versions has been as impressive as da Vinci's. And none has the enduringvalue in the art world as his.
Mona Lisa, if Last Supper is the most famous of religious pictures, then Mona Lisa probably isthe world's most famous portrait. Mona Lisa had as its model wife of a banker. The quietlyfolded hands, the gaze that is directed at the observer, the ambiguity of the“smile”togetherhelp to create a curious effect and a secret effect.
阅读自测
Ⅰ. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words :
Leonard da Vinci is first known as a________ , and he is also a________ , an________ , a________ , an________ , and a ________ . The amount of da Vinci's paintings is very e are only about________ paintings. For da Vinci, a good painter has two chief objects —to paint ________ and the ________ of his soul. In his famous work Mona Lisa , thequietly________ hands, the________ that is directed at the observer, the ambiguity of the"________ " together help to create a curious effect and a secret effect.
Ⅱ. Question :
What are da Vinci's famous paintings?
参考答案:
Ⅰ. painter / sculptor / architect / musician /engineer / scientist / 12 / man / intention / folded /gaze / smile
Ⅱ. Last Supper and Mona Lisa .
拓展阅读：2016年12月英语六级阅读答题十条技巧
1、 选词填空最后完成，一定要优先完成你百分百确认词性的空格。
2、 选词填空一定要优先考虑固定搭配，比如：make contribution to; have an impact/effect on这样的高频词组考过多次。
3、 段落信息匹配题先看题目后看文章。看题目时，关键词的选择很重要，直接决定你能否快速找到，找对段落。不要只选择一个关键词定位;要选择特殊词汇定位(大写，数字，连字符等);不要选择文章的核心词作为第一关键词定位。
4、 注意段落信息匹配题的题干中经常把数字写成英文的`形式，而非阿拉伯数字，这样来形成干扰。请考生务必看清。比如：2013年12月的题目中用的是half，原文给的是50%;题目中用的是one tenth，原文写的是10%。
5、 段落信息匹配题中，题目与原文出现同义替换时，正确几率最高。在某段出现某题干的原词时，不要贸然选择，关注一下其他信息有没有在该段落出现。
6、 仔细阅读定位是关键。根据出题顺序与行文顺序一致的原则，确定大体段落。较难题目中会出现题干与原文同义替换的情况，那么该同义替换的句子可能就是定位的句子。
7、 段落推断题中(含有infer/conclude/imply/indicate/learn的题目)，答案一般在转折处或者在段落末句。
8、 当在两个选项间徘徊不定时，重新审题，比对两个选项与对应句信息，同义替换的选项或与原文主旨一致的选项可能是正确答案。
9、 含有绝对性词汇的选项错误几率较高。如：no, all, only, must, little, always, none。
10、仔细阅读要重点注意转折处(but/however/yet)信息以及递进关系(moreover/also/furthermore/in addition)信息。
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