Who（1） the first helicopter？Who painted （2）pictures in the world？Who knew more about the human body than most people？There is an answer （3） all these questions--Leonardo da Vinci.
    Leonardo may have been the greatest genius in the world.He was （4）Italian painter，inventor，and scientist around the year 1，500，but many of his（5） looked modern to us today.For example，one of his notebooks has drawings of a helicopter.Of course，he couldn't （6） a helicopter with the things he had.Scientists say his idea was great.
    （7），Leonardo wasn't just an inventor.He was one of the greatest artists of his day.By the time he was twenty years old，people called him a master （大師） painter. （8）he got older，he became （9）more famous.
    Many of Leonardo's excellent paintings are still with （10）today.You may know one of his most famous paintings the （11） woman -- Mona Lisa.
    It was painted sometime between 1503（12）1519，when Leonardo was living in Florence，and it now hangs in the Louvre Museum，Paris.The painting presents a woman in half-body portrait，which has as a backdrop a distant landscape.Every year， （13）visitors go to the museum and appreciate the painting.It is（14）precious that it is well protected.However，the painting was stolen on August 21^st，1911.Since then，the museum has ordered more guards （15）it.

（1）	A.paint	B.paints	C.painted	D.painting
（2）	A.famous.	B.more famous	C.most famous	D.the most famous
（3）	A.to	B.of	C.for	D.from
（4）	A.a	B.the	C.an	D./
（5）	A.invention	B.inventions	C.invent	D.invented
（6）	A.makes	B.to make	C.made	D.make
（7）	A.However	B.But	C.Or	D.Because
（8）	A.Before	B.Since	C.As	D.After
（9）	A.very	B.much	C.hardly	D.little
（10）	A.we	B.us	C.our	D.ours
（11）	A.smile	B.smiled	C.smiling	D.smiles
（12）	A.and	B.to	C.in	D.into
（13）	A.a million of	B.million of	C.millions of	D.a millions of
（14）	A.very	B.so	C.quite	D.such
（15）	A.protected	B.to protect	C.protect	D.protecting

【考點(diǎn)】記敘文；杰出人物．

【答案】C；D；A；C；B；D；A；C；B；B；C；A；C；B；B