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【题目】Have you ever tasted or perhaps heard of sugar painting? As fewer people choose to make this kind of painting, the traditional Chinese folk craft might have become a 【1】(distance)memory in some ways.【2】, a 38-year old craftsman, Li Jianzhong, is committed to【3】(keep)the art of sugar painting alive.

Li worked as a miner for more than ten years. After 【4】mine closed down, Li turned to housing decoration, until he 【5】(force) to give that up due to a finger injury. Earlier this year, he discovered sugar painting, something he really had an interest in and a strong desire to learn.

Since there was no sugar painting craftsman in his village, he studied by 【6】(he) through large quantities of videos and information on the internet. Li loved painting when he was young, and he found it easy【7】(learn) the skill in sugar painting. He soon mastered the skill and could make a 【8】(vary) of sugar paintings. A sugar painting is made with melted brown or white sugar. Craftsmen 【9】(normal) paint animals and flowers on a stone board with the syrup(糖浆). When the sugar cools down, 【10】appears is a piece of sugar art.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】distant

【2】However

【3】keeping

【4】the

【5】was forced

【6】himself

【7】to learn

【8】variety

【9】normally

【10】what

【解析】本文介绍传统的中国民间工艺——糖画以及它的传人Li Jianzhong。

【1】形容词修饰名词，故填distant。

【2】根据第二句中的fewer people choose to make this kind of painting和第三句中的is committed to可知第二、三句之间是转折关系，因为有逗号，故填However。注意大写开头。

【3】固定搭配：be committed to致力于---，其中to是介词，后面用动名词作宾语，故填keeping 。

【4】此处特指Li所在的矿井关闭之后，他转向房子装修。根据句意可知此处用定冠词the。

【5】句意：由于伤了一个手指，他被迫放弃房子装修。根据句意可知此处用一般过去时态的被动语态，故填was forced 。

【6】句意：他通过大量的网上视频和信息自学。可知此处用反身代词，故填himself。

【7】此处是动词不定式做真正的宾语，故填to learn。

【8】固定搭配：a variety of各种各样的，故填variety。

【9】副词修饰动词，故填normally。

【10】此处是what引导的主语从句，其双重作用。