Passage 39 Telling Chinese stories through leaves
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叶画艺术展上,一位叶画手工艺人上台发言。阅读发言稿,完成题目。
Hello, everyone! There is no better tool than our hands. One wonderful creation is the leaf painting. The leaf painting has a 1 of more than 2,000 years in China. Making leaf paintings is very complicated. First I need to choose fine 2 from mountains. Then, I go through over 60 3 with the leaves, such as cutting and drying. It takes about two to three months to finish all of these steps.

At the age of 12, I first learned about the leaf painting. Later I spent more than one year making the leaf painting about the famous painting Along the River During the Qingming Festival. I 4 it on ten leaves. Every time I make a leaf painting, I always learn the history of the painting first to make the work more 5. I want to tell stories through my leaf painting works.
✍ 思维新题
根据发言稿内容,选词填空。
()1. A. shape B. colour C. history
()2. A. flowers B. leaves C. insects
()3. A. steps B. years C. metres
()4. A. stuck B. drew C. wrote down
()5. A. difficult B. true C. expensive
日积月累
more than 超过
complicated /'kɑːmplɪkeɪtɪd/ 复杂的
At the age of 12, I first learned about the leaf painting.
我12岁时第一次了解到叶画。
I want to tell stories through my leaf painting works.
我想通过我的叶画作品来讲述故事。

1. C 由空后的“...more than 2,000 years in China.”可推知,此处指叶画有超过2 000年的历史。
2. B 由下文“Then, I go through over 60...with the leaves...”可推知,手工艺人首先挑选的是叶子。
3. A 由下文“...such as cutting and drying. It takes about two to three months to finish all of these steps.”可推知,此处指对叶子进行60多个步骤的处理。
4. B 结合上下文可知,此处表示在叶子上作画。
5. B 由上文“Every time I make a leaf painting, I always learn the history of the painting first...”及下文“I want to tell stories through my leaf painting works.”可推知,“我”总是先学习这幅画的历史,以便让作品更加真实,“我”想通过“我”的叶画作品来讲述故事。