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2023届高考英语总复习每日拔高练 第15练【语法填空】

artists draw with pens and brushes, but few "paint" with knives. Wang Jing, a

woman from Shenyang city in northeast China's Liaoning Province, ①_______ (engage) in

this novel art form for 27 years.

In 1995, Wang was inspired by an ②________ (accident) cut by a knife on a piece of red

paper, which left a white line. Using knives and paper, she then completed a painting of a pair

of peacocks that later became ③_______ source of motivation for her 27-year efforts.

Unlike traditional paintings, onto which colors are "added," "knife painters" apply varied

pressure on the paper in different ④_______ (direction) to create different colors and tones.

The novel art form was known to few people just after Wang ⑤_______ (create) it. Even

Wang herself was not expecting to make ⑥________ something big at the beginning. But

thanks ⑦________ her huge enthusiasm for the art form, she has persisted with it for the past

27 years.

Wang has completed hundreds of paintings about Chinese culture, figures, landscape,

flowers and birds. Her favorite is a 2.8-meter-long painting ⑧______ pictures 20 lifelike

egrets(白鹭).

"Painting on paper with knives is a delicate art and each line in the painting is as thin as a

hair," said Wang, ⑨_______ (add) that once the marks are left on the paper, they cannot be

covered, so it requires the painter to be ⑩_________ (complete) absorbed in the work. Wang

said, "I will continue working in the craft and put the art on the map."

2.I loved art from a young age. However, I grew up in the countryside where there were

not many ①____ (opportunity). But I was fortunate since my father was teaching at a high

school. I spent my childhood playing in the schoolyard, reading at my father's office and ②

_____ (draw)in the classrooms. There was nothing much ③______ (play)with, but he had a

lot of chalks. I would draw on the blackboard and later, the playground ④_____ (become)my

canvas.

At my elementary school, art classes were very simple, so I taught myself. I would look

at picture stories, posters, and sometimes advertisements and make copies of ⑤______ (they).

The turning point came when I was about 10 years old. My father took me to visit ⑥_____

artist, who was my father's art teacher and told me, "You can't just be copying. You should

observe real objects, real things and draw from life."

As he was talking, he drew a profile(侧影) of my father, ⑦______ looked totally like

my father and I was ⑧_____ (surprise). I learned my first lesson in art from that

experience—to draw from ⑨_____ (observe). In the mid-1990s, my paintings ⑩______

(exhibit)in the Dallas Fort Worth area and I started gaining recognition and awards.

a sacred thing ①_______ (love) by Chinese people, the dragon is inclusive in all

kinds of traditional Chinese art, like sculpture, painting and embroidery(刺绣). With various

meanings, the dragon appears in buildings, porcelains and decorations, and everything you

can imagine may ②_______ (decorate) with dragon elements. All those art works reflect

Chinese aesthetics(美学), and Chinese people's ③______ (wise) and love for the dragon.

The dragon is a popular object of drawings and there ④_______ (be) many famous

paintings about the dragon. Ink wash painting is ⑤________ unique style of Chinese

painting, especially in ancient China. Therefore, famous dragon paintings which are ⑥

_______ great value are that style, and the painted dragon is called the ink dragon.

The Nine Dragons Painting is a scroll(画卷) of a dimension of 46.3 cm×1496.4 cm ⑦

_______ it shows nine dragons with different facial and body looks, soaring in waters and

mists. The painting is marked with dragons features and perfectly demonstrates how ⑧

_______ (power) dragons are. The scroll painting, ⑨_______ creator is Chen Rong, is now

collected in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Chen Rong is a painter in the thirteenth

century and good at ⑩________ (paint) various dragons. Many other painters, such as Cao

Buxing and Zhang Zengyao, are also famous for their dragon paintings.