四、短文填空
Last summer vacation, my family took a trip to an art village in Yunnan Province. The most special experience during the trip was meeting Li Wei, a slashie—both a painter and a writer. His small studio stood at the quiet end of the village, looking 1. ______ (
simpler
) than the colourful shops nearby, but in fact, you would find it exciting 2. ______ (
once/after/when
) you stepped inside. The walls were covered with beautiful watercolour paintings, each with handwritten poems beside them.
As curious 3. ______ (
tourists
), we watched Li Wei at work. He mixed colours by himself and created a painting of the local mountains 4. ______ (
carefully
) at the wooden desk. “I found that painting and writing match each other,” he explained while working. “The paintings show what words cannot express, and the poems tell what the brush cannot paint.” His style is unusual and 5. ______ (
sets
) his artworks apart from others'.
To my surprise, Li Wei was not 6. ______ (
an
) artist in the past. He worked 7. ______ (
as
) a hotel manager in Beijing for ten years. One day, he decided 8. ______ (
to give
) up his job to do what he really loved. Now his “painting-poems” become famous in the art community.
9. ______ (
Meeting
) this talented slashie taught me an important lesson—We don't have to put 10. ______ (
ourselves
) into just one role. Sometimes, when we mix different skills, we can make something special.
