三、词汇运用。
When I opened my great - grandmother's diary, her 1.
words
(word) painted a completely different world. Back in Suzhou in the 1950s, people 2.
travelled
(travel) by bicycle along narrow streets lined with tea houses. The air smelled 3.
fresher
(fresh) than it does today, and the only "screen" they knew was the silk embroidery frame (丝绸刺绣架).
Last summer, I took a train 4.
to visit
(visit) her hometown. Modern skyscrapers (摩天大楼) now stand by the old canals (运河). 5.
Traditional
(tradition) markets have disappeared, but 6.
colourful
(colour) billboards light up the nights. A local shopkeeper sighed, "Progress is good, but we must protect 7.
our
(we) culture too."
To dig deeper, I 8.
have read
(read) some historical books in the library recently. One book describes how Suzhou's 9.
artists
(art) creatively blended (融合) old crafts with new technology. 10.
Slowly
(slow), I began to see the city from two angles (角度): a rushing metropolis (大都会) and a poetic water town.