高考英语外刊时文精读精练5
Where did the “Mona Lisa” smile?
“蒙娜丽莎”是在哪微笑的？
主题语境：人与社会 主题语境内容：艺术
【外刊原文】（斜体单词为超纲词汇，认识即可；下划线单词为课标词汇，需熟记。）
For centuries, two of the most interesting questions about Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” were “Who?” and “When?” A discovery made at Heidelberg University in 2005 pretty much answered both. A note written in a manuscript (手稿) in the library confirmed the account of da Vinci’s first biographer, Giorgio Vasari: that the sitter was a merchant’s wife, Lisa Gherardini. The note also helped date the masterpiece to between 1503 and 1506.
A third question—“Where?”—is still in dispute. But on June 3rd a French engineer,Pascal Cotte, declared that he and a partner had identified the landscape in the background of the painting. Arguments had previously been made for views of countryside in the Marche region and between Milan and Genoa. During a presentation in Vinci, near Florence, Mr Cotte said that the artist was more likely describing a part of his native Tuscany—one that keenly interested him at the time. According to this theory, da Vinci represented the area not as it was, but as, in an unrealised scheme, he intended it to be.
Mr Cotte, who was asked by the Louvre (where the “Mona Lisa” hangs) to create a digital image of the painting, is the inventor of the multispectral camera（多光谱相机）: a device that can detect not only the drawing below the surface of an oil painting, but also, where they exist, intermediate layers of work. It was among these, under what appears to be a pointed rock, that he found a preparatory sketch showing that da Vinci intended it to represent a castellated （城堡式）tower.
The landscape of the “Mona Lisa” also includes a huge overhanging cliff. That is similar to one that da Vinci included in a sketch of a fortress（堡垒） contested by Pisa and Florence in the war in 1503. The fortress with the nearby cliff—and a tower, known as the Caprona tower—all overlook the river Arno as it snakes from Florence to Pisa. All three also feature in drawings made by da Vinci to illustrate a plan about which, says Mr Cotte, he became “obsessive”.
This involved diverting the Arno to cut off Pisa’s water supply and give Florence an outlet to the Mediterranean. In the early 1500s, with the two city-states at war, the idea was under active consideration. Mr Cotte argues that a channel winding through countryside at the right of the “Mona Lisa” is too wide to be a road, as some have guessed, and is instead the dried-up bed of the Arno as da Vinci pictured it once his plan had been adopted.
It never was. But if Mr Cotte’s theory is right, it might just explain why Gherardini, a Florentine, wears such a contented, if inscrutable(难以捉摸的), smile.
【课标词汇精练】
根据语境，从上面的“课标词汇”和“重点短语”中选用合适的单词及其正确形式将句子补充完整。
1.I think it's time to a different strategy in my dealings with him.我觉得在和他的交往中该采用一种不同的策略了。
2.She was gazing at him with a soft, smile on her face.她注视着他，脸上带着温柔而满足的微笑。
3.The river through some of the most spectacular countryside in France.这条河蜿蜒穿过法国一些最美丽的乡村地区。
4.The lecturer his point with a diagram on the blackboard.讲师在黑板上用图表来说明自己的观点。
5.She declared her intention to the presidency.她宣布她打算竞选总统。
6.Our hotel room the harbour.从我们饭店的房间可眺望港口。
7.After some , we've decided to sell the house.一番斟酌之后，我们决定卖掉房子。
8.The owner of the house had built an extension on the back.这栋房子以前的主人对房子后部进行了扩建。
9.They were very to start work as soon as possible.他们渴望尽早开始工作。
10.Six people that they will be attending and ten haven't replied yet.有六人已确认将参加，还有十人尚未答覆。
11.Mary Shelley was just 18 when she wrote the horror 'Frankenstein'.玛丽·雪莱 创作《科学怪人》这部恐怖小说名作时年仅 18 岁。
12.They have been unable to settle/resolve the over working conditions.他们无法解决工作条件方面的争端。
13.Even the smallest baby can its mother by her voice.就连年龄最小的婴儿也能根据声音分辨出自己的母亲。
14.We to go to Australia next year.我们打算明年去澳大利亚。
15.Some sounds cannot by the human ear.有些声音是人的耳朵无法察觉到的。
16.My mother made a (pencil) of my brother reading a book.我母亲画了一张我弟弟在读书的（铅笔）素描。
17.Try to yourself lying on a beach in the hot sun.设想一下自己在炙热的阳光下躺在海滩上。
18.I try to stay fit, but I'm not about it. 我努力保持健康，但并不过分苛求。
19.Traffic will through the side streets while the main road is resurfaced.这条主干道重铺路面时，车辆行人将被分流到小路通行。
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