CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH / ADVANCED / CAE / USE OF ENGLISH / word formation

For questions 1- 8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line.

Leonardo da Vinci

 

The artist Leonardo da Vinci embodies both modern intellect and the combination of (1) ... expression in art and science: a thinker, a poet and a wizard, Leonardo da Vinci is an artist whose fascination is still (2) ... today. While studying his art in its (3) ... variety, we find in his very caprices, to use Edgar Quinet's motto with a slight modification, "the laws of the Italian Renaissance and the geometry of universal beauty". Outside a small number of his finishe compositions: The Last Supper, Saint Anne, the Mona Lisa, his painted and sculpted works were left to us in (4) … fragments. We must turn to his drawings to understand all the (5) ... of his heart
and all the (6) ... of his great imagination. There are two specific periods of human life that fixed Leonardo da Vinci's attention: (7) ... and old age; childhood and (8) ... had less interest for him. He has left us a whole series of adolescent types, some dreamy some ardent. In modern art, I can think of no creations so free, superb, spontaneous, in a word, divine to oppose to the marvels of antiquity.

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[answer="SUPERIOR" label="SUPER"]

[answer="UNRIVALLED" label="RIVALRY"]

[answer="INCOMPARABLE" label="COMPARE"]

[answer="MARVELLOUS" label="MARVEL"]

[answer="TENDERNESS" label="TENDER"]

[answer="WEALTH" label="WELL"]

[answer="ADOLESCENCE" label="ADOLESCENT"]

[answer="MATURITY" label="MATURE"]

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