新世纪英语高一Unit2课文（速）

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Michelangelo
Michelangelo was an Italian artist about 500 years ago. Today he is still remembered as a great sculptor, painter, and architect.
Michelangelo, who came from a poor family, was trained at an early age like any other craftsman in Italy. At thirteen, he started to work and learn in a workshop which belonged to one of the leading masters of the time. In the workshop Michelangelo was able to learn all the skills of sculpture. But he wasn’t satisfied, and went out to study the work of the great masters of the past. Michelangelo worked hard to master one problem after another. By the time he was thirty, he was generally regarded as one of the outstanding sculptors of the age.
In 1508, Michelangelo was given a task —— to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. At first, he did all he could to turn down this job, saying that he was not really a painter, but a sculptor. But finally he was made to accept it. He then shut himself up