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Directions: Fill in the gaps in the sentences with the adjectives derived from the nouns in brackets according to the model
Model: The epitaph on the tomb of the greatest artist in history summarizes his life (simplicity) simply 'll Divino Michelangelo."
T est 73
The epitaph on the tomb of the greatest artist in histo
ry summarizes his life (simplicity) ...: "II Divino
Michelangelo."
Indeed, Michelangelo Buonarroti was held to be di
vine by his contemporaries — it was the only way to ex-
Dlain his (tremendousness)...genius. Even though Le
onardo's Mona Lisa arguably ranks as the millennium's most
recognizable painting, Michelangelo's (totality) _ body
of work — his sculptures, paintings, and frescoes — is
unequalled.
Michelangelo's (popularity)...fame may rest on the
sculpture masterpiece David and the Sistme Chapel ceil
ing, but the Italian artist had a (length) ...and (vari-
ant) ... career. He was born in 1475 in the village of
Caprese and grew up in Florence, which was the art capital of the early Renaissance. His early success came as a sculptor, but he also excelled at painting, architecture and
even poetry. The (fame) ...dome on the top of Saint
Peter's Basilica in Vatican City is a Michelangelo design.
Michelangelo seemed to thrive on challenge and diffi
culty in his work. David, perhaps the most famous sculp
ture in the world, was completed using a block of discard
ed marble. The artist spent four years (flatness) ...on
his back (height)...on a scaffold in the Sistine Chapel
to complete the masterpiece painting on the ceiling. Although ceiling paintings were usually considered unimportant and were reserved for figures because of their distance from the viewer, Michelangelo produced biblical scenes ol power and subtlety on the chapel ceiling.
Michelangelo's best work offers a combination of de
tail and (exquisiteness) ...beauty that is unmatched
according to art historians. His attention to the (technique,
...aspects of human anatomy, especially the male nude
is (brilliancy) ...and (influence) ....
The artist's work is also (intellect) ...stimulating
grounded in mythology, religion, and other reference
(Wideness) ...considered the greatest artist of his owr
time, Michelangelo is still seen as a key to the flowering
of the Renaissance and is the standard against which a!
(subsequence)...artists are measured.
Test 79
The Internet is the computer-based worldwide infor
mation network. The Internet is composed of a larg.
number of smaller interconnected networks. These net
works may link tens, hundreds, or thousands of comput
ers, enabling them to share information with each other
and to share various resources, such as (power) ...su-
percomputers and databases of information. The Internet
has made it (possibility)...for people all over the world
to (effectiveness) ...and rather (cheapness) ...com
municate with each other.
Unlike (tradition) ...broadcasting media, such as
radio and television, the Internet is a decentralized system. Each connected individual can communicate with anyone else on the Internet, can publish ideas, and can sell products.
The Internet has brought new opportunity for businesses to offer goods and services online. In the future, it
may have an (equality)...dramatic impact on (height)
...education as more universities offer Internet-based
courses.
In 1989 English computer scientist Timothy Berners-
Lee introduced the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee (ini
tials) ...designed the WWW to aid communication be
tween physicists who were working in different parts of the
world for the European Laboratory for Particle Physics.
As it grew, however, the WWW revolutionized the use
of the Internet. During the early 1990s (increase) ...
large numbers of users who were not part of the scientific
or (academy) ...communities began to use the Inter
net, due in large part to the ability of the WWW to (easi
ness) ...handle multimedia documents. One survey
found that there were 61 million Internet users worldwide at the end of 1996, 148 million at the end of 1998, and an
(estimate)...320 million in 2000. Analysts estimate that
more than 700 million people will use the Internet in 2001.
T est 80 [
In the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century the
church suffered an (enormity) ...blow to its authority.
One man was at the heart of that split: German theologian Martin Luther.
Luther, who was born in 1483, succeeded perhaps
because he attacked the (notoriety)...corruption of the
medieval Catholic Church from the inside. A priest, Luther began questioning some of Catholicism's main tenets after becoming a professor of theology at the University of Wittenberg in 1508.
Although many others had condemned the corruption
of the papacy and the church before, Luther focused his
disputes (direction)...on certain church doctrines.
(Basis)...among these was his belief that only God,
not the Catholic Church, could grant redemption from
sin. This conflicted (straightness) ...with the church's
policy of selling indulgences. The indulgence was a (mon
etarist) ...payment that promised the soul's release from
punishment after death for sins committed during a per
son's lifetime. It was a (popularity) ...and (success)
...way for the church to raise money. In 1517 Luther
(publicity) ...attacked this and other church practices
that had become corrupted in his Disputation on the Power
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