Directions: In this passage there are seven blanks. You’re required to select one word from a list of choices given in a word bank. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. You may not use any of the words more than once. A. creative B. expectation C. intellectual D. astronomy E. negative F. profound G. illustrations H. countless I. architecture J. explorers Leonardo da Vinci was born in the small town of Vinci near Florence on the 15 th of April 1452. He was the illegitimate son of a peasant girl and a local lawyer. He lived with his father’s family and had a comfortable childhood. As a young boy, Leonardo was said to have developed a (1) _______ love of nature. Leonardo’s upbringing was very traditional, but the world around him was changing rapidly. (2) _____ were discovering that there were new places on the continent of Europe and there were big development in (3) _____. The Feudal System was declining, while commerce and capitalism was arising, in turn there was an (4) _____ revolution based on the revival of classical art, (5) _____ , and Florence then since become known as the cradle of civilization. His whole (6) _____ life was based on the need to understand the world around him in order to recreate it. Throughout of his life, Leonardo produced thousands of drawings of plants, people, machinery and architecture. Today , over 7,000 pages from his notebooks survive, some of them are quick sketches , others have very detailed illustrations, but (7) _____ more have been lost.