Looking for someplace to fall in love? Then look no further than Florence—if you want to fall in love with art, that is! Europe’s art capital has more masterpieces per square kilometer than any other place. World-renowned artists Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci lived and worked in Florence.

Walk the streets and admire the centuries old architectural wonders. Gaze at some of the world’s best paintings. Window-shop at the city’s fancy shops. The hardest thing will be deciding what to do first!

The art of Florence lies not just outside its buildings but inside them, too. Visit the Academia museum to see Michelangelo’s statue of David. A crowd always surrounds the beautiful, 4-meter-tall statue.

Michelangelo carved it when he was just 26. Unlike most sculptors, he did not make a model of his statue first. He did not draw on the marble to show where to carve, either. He worked freehand. He believed that he was freeing the figure that God had put into the marble.

Continue your museum tour with the Uffizi gallery. It has the greatest collection of Italian painting anywhere. The paintings are displayed from oldest to newest. You can see how art changed through the centuries. Paintings in Middle Ages looked flat. Once the Renaissance began, paintings began to look 3-D and more lifelike.

Had enough art? Take some time to earn about the beginnings of modern science in the Science Museum. Here you'll get an over view of technical innovations from the year 1000 to 1900. You can see early clocks, maps, telescopes and scientific experiments.

Next, move into modern times and take a look in some of the city's shops. Florence is a great palace to shop and has been since Renaissance times. Visit the market in the streets around San Lorenzo. You can find some great deals--but bargain hard.

1. The passage is mainly about_____________.

A. the right place that you can fall in love

B. some of the world's famous arts in Florence

C. the interesting places to go in Italy

D. the art capital in Europe

2. We can infer from the passage that___________.

A. many famous artists have lived and worked in Florence

B. artists used to make models to carve statues before Michelangelo

C. the city is home to Michelangelo's famous statue of David

D. you cannot only see the oldest paintings but also the newest in this city

3. The underlined word "world-renowned" in Paragraph 1 means __________.

A. well-known all over the world

B. strange to people all over the world

C. new discovered in the world

D. popular all over the world

4. If you want to discover the beginning of science, you should go to_______________.

A. the Accademia museum B. the Uffize Gallery　 C. Science Museum　 D. San Lorenzo

5. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Florence is a great place to shop in modern times.

B. Art around almost every corner makes Florence a special place~

C. Paintings began to look more lifelike since Renaissance began.

D. The beginning of modern science was around year 1000.