Tom does well in sports, but he isn't good at (play) chess and he is tired of (watch) soap operas. He prefers (go) out to play sports to (watch) TV even though on a rainy day. One day his mother asked him to go shopping with her. He told his mother that he would rather (watch) sports shows than (do) some shopping. He asked his father to teach him how (play) chess well. But his father is busy (repair) his car.

— _________, but I might be a little late.

— ______. What a great experience we had!

    Who1some of the most famous pictures in the world? Who knew more about the human body than most2of the time? There is an answer3all these questions—Leonardo Da Vinci(达·芬奇).

    Leonardo may have been the greatest genius(天才)4have ever known. He lived in Italy around the year 1,500, but many of his inventions seem modern to us today. For example, one of his notebooks has drawings of a helicopter. Of course, he couldn't 5a helicopter with the things he had. But scientists say his idea would have worked.

    But Leonardo6an inventor. He was one of the greatest artists of his day. By the time he was twenty years old, he was called a master(大师)painter, and as he got older he became7more famous. Sometimes he drew a hand in ten different ways8he was ready to paint.

    Many of Leonardo's wonderful paintings are still with9today. You may know one of his most famous works—the10woman known as Mona Lisa.

— No, you _____. You _____ do it later.

    Pablo Picasso was born in Spain in 1881. His father was a painter and art teacher who gave his son the first lesson in drawing. He won a prize— "Science and Charity" for his first important painting when he was only fifteen. He studied in several cities in Spain. But there was no one to teach him all that he wanted to know. When he was nineteen, he visited Paris.

    Paris was then the center of the world for artists. Everything that was new and exciting in the world of paintings seemed to happen there. When he was twenty-three, Picasso moved there to live and lived in France for the rest of his life.

When he was over ninety, this great painter still lived his life like a young man. He was still looking for new ideas and new ways to use his artistic materials.

    When he died in 1973, he was ninety-one years old.