In the 15th century, there lived a young man who had a very lively and curious mind. He filled
dozens of notebooks with designs for marvelous inventions, including helicopters, snorkels,
parachutes, machine guns, submarines and flying machines. It was to be another four hundred years
before these inventions were thought up or built by someone else. The name of this young man with
an amazing imagination was Leonardo da Vinci.
Leonardo is best remembered for two of his paintings. They are “The Last Supper” and the
“Mona Lisa.” Both of these paintings were unusual in their day because the people in them look
very natural and real. Leonardo spent much of his time wandering about the cities of Rome,
Florence and Milan, watching people and drawing them in his notebooks. As a result, his paintings
look very lifelike.
Leonardo liked everything he did to be perfect. He often failed to finish paintings because he
decided they were not good enough and started another project instead. In fact, on his deathbed his
last words were that he had failed God and man by not striving harder after perfection! Leonardo
has not left many paintings for us to enjoy and appreciate. What a pity this is!
【題組】29. Why did Leonardo think he had “failed God and man”?
(A) Because Leonardo liked to start a new project.
(B) Because Leonardo often failed to finish paintings.
(C) Because Leonardo had created many beautiful paintings.
(D) Because Leonardo did not live up to his own high standards.
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