Mona Lisa, the mysterious woman in Leonardo da Vinci's 16th century masterpiece, had just given birth to her second son when she sat for the painting, a French art expert said on Tuesday. The discovery was made by a team of Canadian scientists who used special infrared(紅外線) and three-dimensional（三維的）technology to study the paint layers on the work, which now sits in the Louvre museum in Paris.
Bruno Mottin of the French Museums' Center for Research and Restoration said that on very close examination of the painting it became clear that the Mona Lisa's dress was covered in a thin transparent gauze veil.（透明面紗）
"This type of gauze dress was typical of the kind worn in early 16th century Italy by women who were pregnant or who had just given birth. This is something that had never been seen up to now because the painting was always judged to be dark and difficult to examine," he told a news conference.
"We can now say that this painting by Leonardo da Vinci was painted in memory of  the birth of the second son of Mona Lisa, which helps us to date it more precisely to around 1503."The young woman with the ambiguous half smile has been identified as Lisa Gherardini, wife of Florentine merchant Francesco de Giocondo. She had five children.
"People always wrote that Mona Lisa had allowed her hair to hang freely over her shoulders. This greatly surprised historians because letting your hair hang freely during the Renaissance was typical of young girls and women of poor virtue (美德)," he said.
The team had hoped to discover more details about Leonardo’s painting techniques, which the artist used to create a hazy (朦朧的) effect. But scientist John Taylor said the team had been disappointed by the lack of brush stroke（筆觸）detail on the painting.
【小題1】According to the latest research, Mona Lisa was __________.

A．a(chǎn) woman of poor virtue B．da Vinci’s second wife
C．a(chǎn) woman who was pregnant D．the wife of Florentine merchant
【小題2】We can infer from the test that ___________.
A．The research has been carried out in France
B．Mona Lisa was painted in 1503 at the latest
C．In da Vinci’s time women could only wear short hair
D．the most difficulty is to identify the paint layers
【小題3】What is probably the best title for the test?
A．Mona Lisa ,the Mysterious Woman
B．Mona Lisa was a New Mother
C．Great Discovery in Painting
D．Leonardo’s Painting Technique
【小題4】The information reported in the text was first got from _______________.
A．a(chǎn) newspaper B．the Internet
C．a(chǎn) news conference D．the museum


【小題1】D
【小題2】A
【小題3】B
【小題4】C

解析試題分析：文章介紹對(duì)蒙娜麗莎肖像畫(huà)的最新發(fā)現(xiàn)，原來(lái)蒙娜麗莎是佛羅倫薩商人的妻子，畫(huà)這幅畫(huà)的時(shí)候，她剛剛生了第二個(gè)兒子，是個(gè)新媽媽?zhuān)@幅畫(huà)是為了慶祝第二個(gè)兒子的出生。
【小題1】細(xì)節(jié)題：從文章倒數(shù)第三段的句子：The young woman with the ambiguous half smile has been identified as Lisa Gherardini, wife of Florentine merchant Francesco de Giocondo.可知蒙娜麗莎是佛羅倫薩商人的妻子，選D
【小題2】推理題：從文章第二段的句子：Bruno Mottin of the French Museums' Center for Research and Restoration said that on very close examination of the painting it became clear that the Mona Lisa's dress was covered in a thin transparent gauze veil.可以推斷出這個(gè)研究一直在法國(guó)進(jìn)行的，選A
【小題3】標(biāo)題確定題：從第一段的句子：Mona Lisa, the mysterious woman in Leonardo da Vinci's 16th century masterpiece, had just given birth to her second son when she sat for the painting, a French art expert said on Tuesday.可知當(dāng)時(shí)蒙娜麗莎剛剛生了她第二個(gè)兒子，可知蒙娜麗莎是個(gè)新媽媽?zhuān)xB
【小題4】細(xì)節(jié)題：從文章第三段的句子：This is something that had never been seen up to now because the painting was always judged to be dark and difficult to examine," he told a news conference.可知文章中報(bào)道的信息最初是在新聞發(fā)布會(huì)上得到的，選C
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