He was a student in Florence, where he studied painting, sculpture, and design. He began a lot of the paintings, but he didn’t ----41----many of them. His ----42----of the Mona Lisa is the most famous portrait in the ----43---- . Leonardo was ----44----in many things. He wanted to know about everything that he saw. He ----45----the human body. He thought that the sun didn’t go ----46----the earth. He wrote music. He designed a flying machine 400 years before the first one ----47---- . Many people didn’t understand his ----48---- . It is difficult to think that one man can do so much.

41.A)buy                    B)realize                   C)occur                     D)finish

42.A)picture               B)member                C)poem                     D)information           

43.A)city                    B)country                 C)world                     D)village

44.A)interested          B)educated               C)emotional               D)conscious

45.A)encouraged       B)examined              C)permitted               D)celebrated

46.A)toward              B)after                       C)behind                   D)round  

47.A)relaxed              B)flew                      C)met                        D)refused

48.A)choices              B)scenes                   C)ideas                      D)viewers

A businessman went to see his doctor because he could not ----49----at night. The doctor ----50----him carefully and said to him, “Your ----51----is that you need to learn to relax. Have you any hobbies?” He said, “No, I don’t have any ----52----for hobbies.” “Well,” the doctor answered, “that is your main problem, you see. You don’t have time for anything ----53----your work. Why don’t you ----54----to paint pictures?” The businessman said, “I will try.” The next day he telephoned the doctor and said, “That was very good ----55---- . Thank you. I’ve painted fifteen ----56----since I see you.”

49.A)sleep                  B)walk                     C)watch                     D)write

50.A)affected             B)lent                       C)cured                      D)examined

51.A)flight                 B)goal                      C)problem                  D)choice

52.A)pressure            B)time                      C)interest                    D)illness

53.A)with                  B)since                     C)except                     D)about

54.A)seem                 B)learn                     C)win                          D)refuse

55.A)company          B)secretary               C)struggle                   D)idea

56.A)pictures            B)abilities                 C)channels                 D)feelings

Miss Jones works in an airport. Before women ----57----to a plane, she ----58----them and their ----59----to stop them taking ----60----things on to the plane. Some people take ----61----on to planes to shoot with, and some take ----62----to throw. Sometimes  women say, “I am in a ----63---- ! There is no time to look in my bags! My bus was     ----64----!”but Miss Jones never lets them get on to the plane without searching them.

57.A)fix                      B)cover                    C)mind                      D)get

58.A)search                B)complete              C)influence                D)recall

59.A)ends                   B)mistakes               C)bags                       D)movies   

60.A)dead                   B)dangerous            C)brief                       D)even

61.A)guns                   B)medals                 C)envelops                D)cases

62.A)members            B)persons                C)bombs                    D)records

63.A)healthy               B)hurry                    C)final                      D)relaxed

64.A)recent                 B)useful                  C)weak                      D)late

George liked the sea, so he lived in a house at the ----65---- . His parents and a lot of his other ----66----lived near him. George’s chairs were very hard, so they were not very ----67----to sit on. ----68----one day his mother complained about this, saying, “I wish you had some softer chairs, George.” But his father laughed and answered, “George is a ----69----man: he has hard chairs because he has to ----70----people        ----71----too long when they come to visit him! When he wants a soft chair, he can    ----72----it from our house.”

65.A)seaside               B)mountain              C)plain                     D)desert

66.A)details                B)experiments          C)apartments            D)relatives

67.A)stupid                 B)dangerous            C)comfortable          D)basic

68.A)Finally               B)Perfectly               C)Probably               D)Successfully

69.A)careless              B)rich                       C)relaxed                  D)clever

70.A)improve             B)meet                      C)fit                          D)produce

71.A)win                    B)allow                     C)stay                       D)realize

72.A)call                    B)borrow                   C)enjoy                    D)feel