【特色训练】高中英语外研版选修8Module2TheRenaissance5.doc

本单元阅读特色训练 正反阅读 1. 阅读短文，阅读短文并用动词的适当形式填空。[来源:学科网ZXXK] The Renaissance was a cultural movement that ___1___ (follow) the Middle Ages and preceded the Reformation, ___2___(span) roughly the 14th through the 16th century. As a cultural movement, it ___3___(encompass) a revival of learning ___4___(base) on classical sources and humanism, arts, classics, and Christianity rather than an entire historical age. Renaissance__5___(mean) ‘rebirth’ in French and during this time Europe ___6___(leave) behind the mindset of the Middle Ages and ___7____(create) the beginnings of the modern world. It was a搑ebirth?of certain classical ideas that had long been __8___(lose) to Western Europe. It was thesi 搑ebirth?of cultu
re and knowledge; it __9___(be) a significant change from the ignorance of the Middle Ages. Renaissance’s influences can __10___(see) clearly in the works of such renaissance men as Machiavelli, Leonardo DaVinci, Copernicus and Galileo to name a few. 答案： 1. followed 2. spanning 3. encompassed 4. based 5. means 6. left 7. created 8. lost 9. was 10. be seen 2. 阅读下面短文，修改文章划线部分的错误[来源:Zxxk.Com] During the Renaissance, people began to adapt a more humanistic attitude to life. The painters tried to paint people and nature as they really are. One of the most important discoveries during this period was how to draw things in perspectively.[来源:Zxxk.Com] If the rules of perspective was not been discovered, no one would have able to paint such realistic pictures. In the late 19th century, Europe changed a great deal, from a most agricultural society to a mostly industrial one, leaded to a new painting styles — Impressionism. The Impressionists were eager to show that light and shadow fell on objects at different times of day. They had to paint quickly. Although controversial when creating, the impressionists paintings are accepted as the beginning of “modern art”, because they encouraged artists to look at his environment in new