2017中考英语阅读理解A（安徽中考）

2012中考英语阅读理解A（安徽中考）

【2012.安徽】A

Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15， 1452 in Italy. He is best known as an artist today. One of his famous paintings is called Mono Lisa. However， Leonardo had many other natural abilities. He was also a great inventor. Many of his inventions have become important in modem day life.     

Although Leonardo hated war， he invented many different machines used for war. His most special invention was the machine gun， which was produced and used in war many yean later.

By watching the way birds fly， Leonardo tried to find out the secret of flying. Among his sketches (素描) we can see several objects. We consider them as modem flying machines.

Leonardo spent many hours thinking about how to make good use of time. He developed ideas for labor-saving machines like cutting machines.

Leonardo was a strange man. He didn‘t eat any meat， which was very unusual in those times. He never published(发表) his ideas and scientific discoveries. He usually used mirror writing， which looks like writing in a mirror， starting from the right side of the page and moving to the left.

We have very little of his work today. Leonardo finished only a few of his paintings. He left many unfinished because he thought they were not perfect. No one in his life time knew how great Leonardo was. We now believe， however， that be was one of the cleverest men the world has ever known.

76. According to the passage，Leonardo is not only an artist bus also_______.

A. an inventor B. an engineer C. a writer D. a musician

77. ______was Leonardo‘s most special invention.

A. The mirror writing　　B. The cutting machine

C. The machine gun 　　D. The flying machine

78. Leonardo was strange， for example，________.

A. he didn‘t eat any vegetables                  B. be usually used mirror writing

C. he liked to publish his discoveries              D. he enjoyed drawing flying machines

79. Leonardo invented some machines to_____________.

A. stop the war 　　B. help paint pictures

C. watch the birds  　　D. make good use of time

80. From the passage， we can learn that Leonardo was very_______.

A. humorous 　　B. serious　　C. clever 　　 D. lonely

【答案】

76-80ACBDC