阅读理解 She is widely seen as proof that good looks can last forever．But, at nearly 500 years of age, time is catching up with the Mona Lisa． The health of the famous picture, painted by Leonardo da V 题目和参考答案——青夏教育精英家教网—

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　　She is widely seen as proof that good looks can last forever．But, at nearly 500 years of age, time is catching up with the Mona Lisa．

　　The health of the famous picture, painted by Leonardo da Vinci(莱昂纳多·达·芬奇)in 1505, is getting worse by the year, according to the Louvre Museum(罗浮宫博物馆)where it is housed．

　　“The thin, wooden panel on which the Mona Lisa is painted in oil has changed shape since experts checked it two years ago,” the museum said．Visitors have noticed the changes but repairing the world’s most famous painting is not easy．Experts are not sure about the materials the Italian artist used and their current(现在的)chemical state．

　　Nearly 6 million people go to see the Mona Lisa every year, many attracted by the mystery of her smile．“It is very interesting that when you’re not looking at her, she seems to be smiling, and then you look at her and she stops,” said Professor Margaret Livingstone of Harvard University．“It’s because direct vision(视觉)is excellent at picking up detail, but less suited to looking at shadows．Da Vinci painted the smile in shadows．”

　　However, the actual history of the Mona Lisa is just as mysterious as the smile．Da Vinci himself loved it so much that he always carried it with him, until it was eventually sold to France’s King Francis I in 1519．

　　In 1911, the painting was stolen from the Louvre by a former employee, who took it out of the museum hidden under his coat．He said he planned to return it to Italy．The painting was sent back to France two years later．

　　During World War Ⅱ, French hid the painting in small towns to keep it out of the hands of German forces．

　　Like many old ladies, the Mona Lisa has some interesting stories to tell．

(1)

The underlined sentence in the first paragraph means the Mona Lisa ________．
[　　]
A．	is losing its value
B．	is being damaged after so many years
C．	is getting more valuable with years passing
D．	will rot away

(2)

Experts haven’t any repairs on the Mona Lisa because ________．
[　　]
A．	it is now in a poor chemical state
B．	they don’t know how to replace the wooden panel
C．	they don’t have the materials Da Vinci used
D．	they are afraid it’ll be done further damage

(3)

The smile of the Mona Lisa can only be seen ________．
[　　]
A．	by indirect vision
B．	at a distance
C．	by direct vision
D．	in shadows

(4)

From the last paragraph, we can infer that ________．
[　　]
A．	many interesting stories have been written about the Mona Lisa
B．	people are interested in the stories about the Mona Lisa
C．	some mysteries still remain to be solved about the Mona Lisa
D．	many more stories will be told about the Mona Lisa

答案：1．B;2．D;3．A;4．C;
提示：

(1)	句意理解题。首先，由转折词but判断，本句的意思应和文章前面所说的“美貌是永恒的”意义相反。后面又介绍说《蒙娜丽莎》的健康状况随着岁月的流逝在恶化，画板已变形，因此断定此处的意思是指随着岁月的流逝，名画《蒙娜丽莎》已受到了损坏。
(2)	推理判断题。文章第三段介绍专家们对名画《蒙娜丽莎》也不敢轻举妄动，原因是他们也不清楚当时达·芬奇绘画所使用的颜料以及这幅画现在的化学状况，因此可推断出他们没有对画做修复是因为怕弄巧成拙，进一步损害这幅名画。
(3)	细节理解题。文章第四段提到，人们“正视”时，往往看不到“蒙娜丽莎”的微笑，原因是当时达·芬奇是在暗处作的画，因此只有人们“不正视”时，才能看到她的微笑。
(4)	推理判断题。文章前面提到《蒙娜丽莎》的历史像她的微笑一样是个谜，因此最后一段的意思是她还有一些秘密等待人们去揭开。

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