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1、课时跟踪练(一) Introduction & Reading Pre reading.阅读理解AMichelangelo Buonarroti was born in Caprese, Italy on March 6,1475.He was still young when his family moved to Florence where Michelangelo grew up. His mother died when he was only six years old. Growing up in Florence during the Italian Renaissance w
2、as the perfect stage of young Michelangelos life. Even as a child all he wanted to do was painting and to be an artist.At the age of thirteen, he went to learn from Domenico Ghirlandaio, who was not only a painter but also an artist. Michelangelos talents became apparent as he worked for Domenico. W
3、ithin a year or so Domenico sent him to the powerful Medici family to continue his training under the sculptor (雕刻家) Bertoldo di Geovanni. Michelangelo was able to work with some of the finest artists and philosophers of the time. During the next few years, Michelangelo produced many famous sculptur
4、es including Madonna of the Steps, Battle of the Centaurs and Bacchus.In 1496 Michelangelo moved to Rome. A year later he was asked to make a sculpture called The Pieta. It would become one of the masterpieces of Renaissance art. Today this sculpture sits in St. Peters Basilica in the Vatican. It is
5、 the only piece of art that Michelangelo signed.Michelangelos fame (名声) as a great artist began to grow. He returned to Florence and was asked to create a large statue of David. It took him a couple of years to finish the giant statue. The piece of marble (大理石) he began with was very tall and thin.
6、Many people didnt think he could do much with it. He worked without letting anyone see it until it was finished. David became Michelangelos most famous work of art. It is thirteen feet tall and is the largest statue made since Ancient Rome. It is considered by many experts in art to be a nearly perf
7、ect sculpture. Today the statue sits at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy.语篇解读：米开朗基罗是意大利文艺复兴时期著名的艺术家，本文向我们介绍了一些他的生平事迹。1.What can we learn about Michelangelo as a young child?AHe lived a very hard life.BHe showed great interest in art.CHe wanted to go to Florence very much.DHe didnt have mu
8、ch time to learn painting.解析：选B推理判断题。根据第一段的“Even as a child all he wanted to do was painting and to be an artist”可推断，米开朗基罗小时候就对艺术很感兴趣。2Michelangelo was sent to work under the sculptor Bertoldo di Geovanni most probably because_.AMichelangelo had lost his interest in paintingBDomenico didnt think Mic
9、helangelo had a gift for paintingCBertoldo di Geovanni offered to show Michelangelo sculpturesDDomenico wanted Michelangelo to make better use of his gift there解析：选D推理判断题。根据第二段的“Michelangelos talents became apparent as he worked . the sculptor (雕刻家) Bertoldo di Geovanni.”可推断，Domenico 是为了米开朗基罗能更好地利用自
10、己的天赋才把他送到Bertoldo di Geovanni 那里去工作的。3What sculpture by Michelangelo will you see in St.Peters Basilica?ABacchus.BThe Pieta.CMadonna of the Steps.DBattle of the Centaurs.解析：选B细节理解题。根据第三段的“A year later he was asked to make a sculpture called The Pieta. It would become one of the masterpieces of Renai
11、ssance art. Today this sculpture sits in St. Peters Basilica in the Vatican.”可知，应选B。4When Michelangelo began his work on creating a large statue of David, many people_.Acouldnt wait to make fun of his workBthought he would finish it within monthsCknew it would be his most famous work of artDdidnt th
12、ink he would make good use of it解析：选D细节理解题。根据第四段的“Many people didnt think he could do much with it.”可知，一开始很多人认为那块大理石不适合雕刻那个作品。BLeonardo da Vinci, the son of a local lawyer, was born on 15 April 1452 near the Tuscan town of Vinci. He was apprenticed (做学徒) to the sculptor and painter Andrea del Verroc
13、chio in Florence and in 1478 became an independent master. In about 1483, he moved to Milan to work for the ruling (统治的) Sforza family as an engineer, sculptor, painter and architect. Leonardo was in Milan until the city was invaded by the French in 1499 and the Sforza family was forced to flee. He
14、may have visited Venice before returning to Florence. During his time in Florence, he painted several portraits, but the only one that survives is the famous portrait the Mona Lisa (15031506). In 1506, Leonardo returned to Milan, staying there until 1513.This was followed by three years living in Ro
15、me. In 1517, at the invitation of the French King Francis ， Leonardo moved to the Chateau of Cloux, near Amboise in France, where he died on 2 May, 1519. The fame of Leonardos surviving paintings means that he has been regarded primarily as an artist, but the thousands of surviving pages of his note
16、books show the most brilliant mind. He wrote and drew on subjects including geology, anatomy (解剖学), which he studied in order to paint the human form more exactly. He “invented” the bicycle, airplane, helicopter, and parachute some 500 years ahead of their time. If all these works had been published in an understandable form, Leonardos place as a pionee
