We live right here. Look! The house on the other side of the street is my uncle’s. His house is ______ ours.
A. in front ofB. next toC. behindD. opposite
— Lily, can you help me ______? — Sure. Where’s the brush?
A. paint the door B. move the boxes C. mail the letters D. turn off the light
—I always forget what I want to buy when I go to the market.
—Well, you can make a ______ of things you want to buy.
A. habit B. wishC. listD. pack
We know ______ about the new teacher except that she just came back from the US. We hope to know her better.
A. everything B. nothing C. something D. anything
If you buy ________ MP4 player in our store, you can get a watch for ________ free.
A. a; / B. an; the C. an; / D. the; the
Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Italy. He is best k 1. as an artist today. One of his famous paintings is called Mona Lisa. However, Leonardo had many other natural abilities. He was Also a great inventor. Many of his i 2. have become important in modern day life.
A 3. Leonardo hated war, he invented many different machines used for war. His most special invention was the machine gun, which was produced and u 4. in war many years later.
By watching the way birds fly, Leonardo tried to find out the secret of f 5. . Among his drawing we can see several objects. We c 6. them as modern flying machines.
Leonardo s 7. many hours thinking about how to make good use of time. He developed ideas for labor-saving(节约劳动力) machines like cutting machines.
Leonardo was a strange man. He didn't eat any meat, which was u 8. in those times. He never published(发表) his ideas and scientific discoveries. He usually used mirror writing, which looks like writing in a m 9. , starting from the right side of the page and moving to the left.
We have very little of his work today. Leonardo f 10. 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 he was one of the cleverest men the world has ever known.