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【完形填空】Cloze: The Last Weaver
Lin Yuehua, a 63-year-old weaver in a village near Dali, could (1) each of the twelve wooden parts of her loom in the local shorthand her grandmother had taught her.
On a wet morning in March 2021, she found a stranger at her door (2) a digital recorder.
The visitor, Gao Peng, a 29-year-old musicologist from Kunming, had driven 340 kilometres (3) a hunch that a sound was about to disappear.
At first, Lin was (4) to let him in because she believed that recording a craft could cause its death.
But Gao, patient and honest, explained that he wanted to (5) the noise, not the cloth.
"Six hundred households wove here in 1985," he said. "Now the (6) suggest fewer than nine."
She let him sit near the loom for three days while her shuttle made its low, viscous rhythm, a breeze of dust (7) with every stretch of the warp.
By 2015, the village had begun to (8) as factories in the east could print any costume in minutes and cheap cotton arrived in vast bundles.
Her son, Lin Qiang, 38, had gone to Shenzhen to work on an assembly line and urged her (9) to stop.
Then came the deception. In 2019, a city boutique leased the village's name and sold synthetic fibre as (10) craft, but Lin refused to endorse the proposal.
Choices
(1) A. call B. name C. label D. title
(2) A. carrying B. holding C. taking D. bringing
(3) A. in B. on C. with D. by
(4) A. hesitant B. unwilling C. reluctant D. eager
(5) A. conserve B. preserve C. save D. protect
(6) A. numbers B. data C. statistics D. figures
(7) A. rose B. rising C. raised D. raising
(8) A. decline B. slide C. fall D. drop
(9) A. constantly B. continually C. consistently D. continuously
(10) A. true B. genuine C. authentic D. real