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时文语法填空专练(十五)
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Photographer spends years documenting Chinese grotto art
Photographer Ren Shichen ___1__ (have) a profound __2__ (fascinate) with statuary art for many years. China has ample supply __3__ (satisfy) his interest, as its grotto ruins, mainly ___4___ (distribute) on the ancient Silk Road, have hundreds or even thousands of years of history.
Grotto art is a ___5___ (treasure) ancient culture, and Chinese grottoes are no ___6___ (except). They were usually dug in mountain peaks or steep rocks, and can ___7___ (find)in Gansu, Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi and Sichuan provinces as well __8___Chongqing municipality and Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
Ren has spent the last dozen years __9___ (capture)the artworks, and used portrait technique to make these statues more vivid and lifelike. Mainly ___10___ (focus)on the remains of grottoes on the ancient Silk Road, he has captured more than 200 grotto sites in over 20 provinces.
(二)
Maker of special blend spends decade on technique
Li Xingchang __1___ (repeated) stirred leaves in an iron pan at a temperature of several hundred degrees day after day for years. A decade later, Li's mother, Kuang Zhiying, who taught him all about tea, finally smiled after sipping from a cup.
"It's been hard ___2___ (do)the same thing for a decade, but it has paid off," says Li, ___3___ eighth-generation inheritor of his family's Pu'er tea business.
In 2022, traditional Chinese tea-making techniques were involved by the UNESCO in its ___4___ (represent) list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity. Pu'er tea-making is one of the 44 techniques ___5___(include).
Li is the first national-level inheritor of gongcha, or Pu'er "tribute tea", which was __6__ (exclusive)enjoyed by royal families during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
"The process of stirring is key ___7___ the taste of this 'tribute tea'," Li, 70, says, ____8____ (add) that he has to adjust the interval time of each toss, lasting either a few seconds or even half a second,