上海市实脸学校2020学年度第二学期期末考试高二英语复习卷 II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A10% Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, used one word that best fits each blank. A poet, painter, and architect, as well as a sculptor, Michelangelo Buonarroti famously said, “T saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free”. He was considered the greatest artist of his time and is still seen as one of the greatest of all time. And one of his marvelous works stretches across the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which ____1____(get) the annual checkup right now. For a whole month each year, from 5:30 to midnight, when all the tourists are gone, a team from the Vatican comes in to clean up, check for damage and report on the health of some of The world's most treasured art. It’s a painstaking process: scaffolding must be erected and taken down each night and ____2____not be attached to the walls to avoid damaging the paintings. One of the biggest problems of the Sistine Chapel is humidity. 25,000 visitors a day posed a risk for the paintings. When we visit the Sistine Chapel, we bring in humidity and we heat the environment like a bulb, 80-watt bulb. To combat humidity, there are 30 hidden sensors ____3____ (measure) temperature, air circulation and the number of visitors in the chapel. The famous frescoes painted in this chapel are over 500 years. Back then, there was no artificial lighting. And being the pope's private chapel, far fewer people came through here as well. So cleaning and restoration wasn't really a priority then. Today, with new technology and lighting, not only ____4____(be) there better cleaning but it also has revealed to restorers the true colors used by Michelangelo. After a cleaning and restoration in the 1990s the world was shocked ____5____(discover) that Michelangelo actually used vivid greens, purples and reds because for centuries it was assumed that he painted in dark, subdued tones. But that was only the accumulation of dirt and grime. ____6____you're in the Sistine Chapel, look out for little black marks, squares and triangles on some of the paintings. They're called witnesses, deliberately ____7____(leave) as evidence for future restorers to give an idea of just how dark the paintings were before. ____8____(make) sure the colors stay vibrant, a color team measures any changes to tone by taking pictures of the frescoes with a multi-wavelength camera ____9____is then analyzed by a computer. Dr, Fabio Morresi is in charge of color analysis, t4We can see the color of every single pixel and compare it throughout the years. It's important because we can detect any changes even before they are visible _____10_____the human eye. " 【答案】1. is getting 2. can 3. measuring 4. is 5. to discover 6. Next time 7. left 8. To make 9 ... ...
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