《2025年学霸题中题八年级英语上册译林版》

Ⅳ. 任务型阅读(每小题 1 分,共 10 分)
阅读并根据下面的短文,在表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。
The puppet(木偶) play has a history of thousands of years and it is liked by many Chinese people. Puppets are usually dressed in traditional costumes. They can do many movements, such as dancing with long sleeves and practicing writing.
Such puppets are from the hands of puppet makers like Wang Maowei, who is from Xiaoyi, Shanxi Province. Wang Maowei, a 42-year-old artist, is good at making stick puppets. “I fell in love with puppet-making as a teenager and decided to make it a lifelong career,” he says. Recently, Wang has noticed that today's people don't want to sit for more than two hours watching a puppet play as people did before. He realises that it is important to keep up with the times and be creative to make the puppets better.
With his hard work, the puppets gain new life. Traditionally, stick puppets are made of wood and they are heavy to hold. Wang uses newspapers and a kind of cardboard to make the puppets lighter. Therefore, the puppets can be controlled more easily. The noses, eyes and mouths of the puppets can move more quickly now. In the past, homemade pigments(颜料) such as charcoal are used to decorate the puppets. Nowadays, puppet makers can use lots of paints to ensure the colourful “make-up” of the puppets.
After these improvements, the well-designed puppets can not only do movements, but also perform bianlian or face-changing, a traditional Chinese opera trick. It is the balance of traditional puppet-making and modern art. “It costs time and energy to make a good puppet. However, all efforts pay off when I see how much the people love the new puppet play,” he says.

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答案： 1. introduction 2. popular 3. wear 4. like 5. less 6. keeping 7. wood 8. easier 9. decorating 10. modern