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(2023上·重庆·高三重庆市育才中学校联考阶段练习)阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Science fiction, or sci-fi, has 1 (explosive) grown in popularity since the 21st century. Its impact on media, art, pop culture, film and technology has consolidated sci-fi as 2 unique storytelling genre.
Before the 2000s, Chinese science fiction was a lesser-known and community-oriented genre. Few works were translated, and the western world took no interest 3 it. But the once subgenre has become internationally recognized, mainly because of Ken Liu, a writer, 4 (translate) and computer scientist. Liu has done more work than anyone else to translate Chinese sci-fi. After he translated The Three-Body Problem, it became the first contemporary Chinese sci-fi novel in English. 5 (publish) in 2014, it proved to be a raging success.
Writing in Chinese is, of course, different from writing in English. The meanings and references used in Chinese sci-fi are unique to the genre. In the works Liu translated, multiple footnotes are used 6 (describe) the complexity western readers can’t understand, and they explain why a word or sentence 7 (write) in a certain way. The cultures and languages within China each have their own subtle differences, giving translated works a foreign and distinct feel 8 no western novel can match.
The use of traditional and cultural objects, words and places in Chinese science fiction makes the genre a cultural and 9 (history) analysis of China. After reading The Three-Body Problem, for example, western readers discover some differences and 10 (similarity) between western and Asian cultures.
(2024上·黑龙江哈尔滨·高三哈尔滨三中校考期末)阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Art is a way to beautify lifeless urban spaces. We’ve seen examples of street artists working to improve urban scenery — by using new 11 (equip), or creating fantastic wall paintings.
But these are only the beginning. For Italian artist Peeta,