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For the past five years, Paula Smith, a 1)_________(history) of science, 2)____________(devote) herself to re-creating long-forgotten techniques. While doing research for her new book, she came 3)________ a 16th-century French manuscript(手稿)4)__________(consist) of nearly 1,000 sets of instructions, 5)__________ subjects from tool making to finding the best sand.
Reconstructing the work of the craftsmen(工匠)who 6)_______(live) centuries ago can reveal 7)_________ they viewed the world, 8)___________ objects filled their homes, and what went on in the workshops. The work has also brought insights for museums, Smith says. One must know how one object 9)_________(make), in order to preserve it. What's more, reconstructions might be the only way to know what treasures looked like before time 10)________(wear) them down.
Scholars have seen this idea in practice with ancient Greek and Roman statues. These sculptures were painted a rainbow of 11)_________(strike) colours. We can't appreciate these kinds of details 12)________seeing works of art as they 13. __________(original) appeared
Smith has put the manuscript's ideas 14. ________ practice. “If we can rediscover the values of hands-on experience and craftwork,” Smith says, “we can marry the best of our modern insights with the 15)__________(handy) of our ancestors.”
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Norwegian playwright and author Jon Fosse has just been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature for his “16)__________(innovate) plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”.
The Swedish Academy 17)________(credit) Fosse as “one of the most widely performed playwrights in the world”, 18)__________ the 64-year-old originally made his name as a novelist, beginning with Red, Black in 1983. He 19)_________(write) many works of prose and poetry since. His literary works, 20)__________(span) a variety of genres(体裁), comprises about 40 plays and 21)_________ wealth of novels, poetry collections, essays, children’s books and translations.
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